And Then There Were None | 
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๐น I love a good space opera, so I‘ve been meaning to read Lois McMaster Bujold. Other authors who I have yet to read include Grady Hendrix, Riley Sager, and Samantha Shannon.
๐ผ โThe Black Echoโ by Michael Connelly. I know people who swear by this series, but I found myself bored and thinking about other books I could be reading instead.
๐บ Tagged! The book that made me a bibliophile for life!
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A local Michigan university is putting on this play. I‘m debating whether to go or not. It may not work out with my schedule.
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He sighed. He shook his head. He leaned forward.
โBut in that case,โ he said, โwho killed them?โ
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pickJuJuB had a f/u appointment for his eye surgery about 2 hours' drive from my home, so ... I could start and finish this one today.
Wow, I didn't guess the ending. I enjoyed all the twists and turns! I need to pick up more of Agatha's works!
#BlameItOnLitsy @Morr_Books you were right about this narrator!
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(JuJu's eye surgery is healing well. his next f/u is 3-6 months --- my baby boy is doing really well).
While chatting on Zoom, @Morr_Books recommended this narrator. I had Audible credits to spare, and I've been meaning to read more Agatha Christie, so it felt like fate!
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Aweee.. not book related but so awesome to be spotlighted. ๐ฅฐ๐
panThis has been on my fall tbr for forever and I finally got around to reading it this year. Let me just say, not worth it. It was downright BORING and I didn‘t even care enough to keep the characters straight. I also thought the ending kinda sucked
pickThis is up there among the true Christie masterpieces. It‘s one of her trickiest mysteries, and one of her scariest stories. I just loved visiting this island! I can‘t think of a better #bookspin for #scarathlon #skeletoncrew @Emilymdxn @TheAromaofBooks
pickThis was a low pick for me, against popular opinion. I don‘t know if it‘s because life is so chaotic & I don‘t have a lot of focus. Or if it‘s the unkind words that have remained (if you‘re going to change the name of the book, think about changing some of the words, I‘m sure there are plenty of synonyms that would still get Christie‘s point across). This was my first Christie novel too. Anyhow, I liked it but didn‘t love it. #bookspin #scarathon
This week on my book pod, my guests and I take a sweeping look at the mystery genre and Agatha Christie, paying special attention to the book that‘s widely considered to be the best mystery of all time, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Authors Kathleen Glasgow + Liz Lawson โ whose recent works THE AGATHAS + THE NIGHT IN QUESTION were inspired by Christie โ join me for a conversation about reading *and* writing in the genre. Listen at the link in my bio!
Incredible. Bravo to Agatha. Just wow. So well planned and executed. The ending was perfect with her signature amount of cleverness.
How have I not read this sooner!!
Also, who knew there was a video game?! I can very much understand why people are obsessed with this book and the murder mystery theme.
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A good book and a bubble bath ๐ ๐
Does anyone else annotate books while in the tub? Haha.
70 pages left loving this so far!! โ ๏ธ I have a guess at what's happening...... but I know I can't be right. No way.
Can't wait to finish it!
I love taking notes and trying to solve a classic mystery book.
Do you think there's any chance I'll solve it? Hahaha little to none is my bet.
Not after how much work Agatha put into just writing this!! Incredible feat.
Reading this for the FIRST time. How?
Just a mystery thriller classic. Whos read this?
pickGreat book for a quick plane ride. I let my fellow passengers know I would not be chatting on the flight.
pickThis is a second read-through for me and she STILL got me! This is such a fantastic example and upgrade of the locked room mystery. You think you know? You think you‘ve solved it? No you haven‘t. Ten people are lured to an isolated island where they are absolutely alone. Not one of them leaves the island aliveโฆso who did it? My insomnia was acting up, so I decided to do the audio. Didn‘t cure the insomnia but it did help me relax. โบ๏ธ๐๐งก๐
This one is a bit different from most Agatha Christie works - more a psichological thriller than a straightforward mistery - but is still one of her best.
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pickAgatha Christie was quoted: I had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me. Then people had to die without it becoming ridiculous or the murderer being obvious. I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning, and I was pleased with what I had of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had an epilogue in order to explain it.
True to her word, this is an absolute gem!
pickSooooo, the author/publisher decided to change the references to a heinously racist song, including the book's title, for modern audiences, but leaving in other racist/anti-Semitic descriptions and remarks was deemed palatable?! Hypocritical to say the least. Other than that MAJOR problem, and some vague classism and sexism, prose was tightly plotted, well paced, good characterization of large cast, with a clever reveal I didn't see coming. 1/2
pickFirst time I read this one. I really liked it. So well how characters were described, the plot and that ending๐ฑI didn‘t expect it. So good. Fast pace. 4โญ๏ธ
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In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.
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Been awhile since I‘ve done one of these!
1. They‘re both gone unfortunately, but I‘d love to be friends with Terry Pratchett & Douglas Adams. My sense of humour to a T. Author that‘s alive? Probably Stephen King.
2. Mostly online now whether through online bookstores or sites like Litsy, GR, Storygraph, IG etc.
3. The tagged book is one of Dame Agatha‘s most mind bending stories.
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Thanks for the tag, @Eggs !
1. I‘d love to be friends with Jane Austen! Historian Lucy Worsley is a very close second.
2. NetGalley, as well as Litsy and the variety of librarian ads I receive from publishers.
3. I have to say my favorite Agatha Christie novel. I love this bookโฆand I am overdue for a reread
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pickWhy is this book on some banned school lists? Because of the original titles, which I won't type here. And even when the 3rd โacceptableโ title came out, the poem inside the book can still be construed as showing prejudice. Still. One of the best locked-room murder mysteries you'll ever read. My students LOVED it, and I enjoyed cracking open the case every year I taught it.
pickIt was difficult not to picture the actors from Clue while listening to this one. I know that I read it in 7th grade (as Ten Little Indians), but I retained very little from that reading and what I do remember is mixed up with a farcical radio play we wrote as a reading project. This might be the darkest Christie I've read so far. Despite mixed feelings about the epilogues and cringey feelings about the title's history, I quite like this mystery.
pickRandom but I was first drawn to this book because ATTWN is my favorite Spring Awakening song of the same title. Second #trappedonanisland book for September. I didn‘t realize it took place on an island when I put it on my list for this challenge ๐ I was following along with the Kindle version and was like nooo when that โbefore you goโ screen popped up before the epilogue. Then I was like ok good we get an explanation. I was about to be mad ๐
pickContinuing my Christie reread with an absolute classic. This is a well constructed psychological thriller, worthy of the hype. ๐คฉ
Happy birthday โค๏ธ Agatha Christie in Paris c1906/7
What‘s your favourite Christie book?
pickThis book was a ride, Miss Christie's brain is definitely an interesting place. I've read 10 books by her so far this year and this is the one that has definitely stuck with me the most. Last year I read Murder on the Orient Express and I thought that one had a twist ending but this book beats that one out.
Been doing more #audiopuzzling lately. My son picked out the Sleeping Beauty puzzle for the next one out of 3 Disney ones. I made a progress video for fun of the last one I finished ๐ https://bit.ly/3wTo51W
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1. I've always liked to read, but I wasn't really an avid reader until my late 20's. My goal used to be "read 3 books a year" and I NEVER met that goal. Then I read "And Then There Were None". Soooo I'm gonna say, Agatha Christie gave me my love for reading. She's a close personal friend of mine, duh.
2. Blake Crouch
3. Sadly no. I was part of a Silent Book Club before COVID. But it never picked back up.
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pickThe moral of this story was, stop going off alone with killer on the loose...geez....this was a fun read
๐And Then There We‘re None
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One of the true classics in the crime genre for me, and as far as I‘m concerned Agatha Christie‘s best book, And Then There Were None. What would you choose?
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so-soNot as exciting as I originally thought it would be. I understand some of the reviews saying it felt as though Agatha Christie didn't choose the murderer until after she had finished writing. I enjoy being able to pick up on clues along the way and solve the mystery too. In some parts it was difficult to remember all of the characters, their personalities were meshed together. Especially the men. Overall I give this book 2.5 stars.
