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Puzzle: Poirot!
May. 29th, 2024 11:52 amSilly me! I forgot to post a photo of my Poirot puzzle which I completed over the holiday weekend. It has many (most?) clues/characters/symbols of Poirot stories. 1000 pieces.
May. 29th, 2024
I love the ocean. I don't go often but it's a great setting, symbol, inspiration.
It's not difficult to make it MURDER.
Title: By the ocean
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Prompt: Amatorculist
Length: 500
Summary: Miss Marple makes a friend by the ocean.
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It's not difficult to make it MURDER.
Title: By the ocean
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Prompt: Amatorculist
Length: 500
Summary: Miss Marple makes a friend by the ocean.
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Book Bingo: May 2024
May. 29th, 2024 09:14 pm
Author you've never read before: Chocolate: sweet science and dark secrets of the world's favorite treat by Kay Frydenborg. A very straightforward TEEN-level non-fiction book about chocolate. It has inspired me to be more contentious in my chocolate purchasing.
Under 100 pages: Until August by Gabriel García Márquez [translated by Anne McLean; edited by Cristóbal Pera]. This is a novella that the author didn't think worthy of publishing before he died but his children have decided otherwise. It's about a woman who makes an annual pilgrimage to an island to clean her mother's grave. She has affairs each year. It was tedious for the first 2/3 until you get to the end and realize What It's All About. And then it's brilliant.
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love-- an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known
Thriller or Suspense: Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham. I mentioned this before. The best amnesia story I've ever read.
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