Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #87 was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Hercule Poirot novel by Agatha Christie. Another book that I can’t really review because really? What can you say about a master like Christie? I think what I like best about Poirot is not just that so much of what he detects is based on observation, but that he has a real soft spot for
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Book #67 was Hell at the Breech, by Tom Franklin. Overall, not a bad historical novel. Doesn’t especially have a happy ending. And it’s no To Kill A Mockingbird, despite what some of the reviews say. Took me a while to get through this one. I guess I wasn’t real excited to read it. As a side note, I packed away all of my unread
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Book number 12 was Lemony Snicket’s fourth book, The Miserable Mill. More of the same. I feel like I’m starting to get a little bogged down in them, so I think that after I finish the next one, I’m going to start alternating them with some other audio books. I think I’m coming down with Baudelaire overload. Page count: 3,485/15,000
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My commute for work is approximately 80 minutes a day. Because of this, I’ve been partaking in audio books to pass the time. Which has led to book number 4 being the first book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events — The Bad Beginning. One of the first things you hear in this book is that there is no happy ending, there is
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