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Reading Wednesday
Jul. 3rd, 2024 08:40 pmHallowe’en Party
Guessed part but not all of the who; got the why.
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
I’d already been spoilered (if one can call it that when the book is 50 years old) so part of the fun was seeing how Agatha did it rather than trying to work out whodunnit. It does show in spots that it was written earlier than the last of the Poirot books Christie wrote in her lifetime. I can’t help feeling she authorized publication when she did because she knew after Elephants Can Remember that it was time – and also that she had fully expected to be dead before it came out, so no one could remonstrate with her about the points Poirot makes about how he had played fair.
And now everyone can heave a sigh of relief, for I have gotten the Christie out of my system for the foreseeable future. On to other things…
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
Someone told me a while back that translated books are nearly always worthwhile, because they have to have been good in the first place to be translated. That certainly held true for this little gem, which is a love letter (in equal parts) to Kyoto, food, and love. And best of all, there’s another book – will be looking for The Restaurant of Lost Recipes when it comes out in October.
Guessed part but not all of the who; got the why.
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
I’d already been spoilered (if one can call it that when the book is 50 years old) so part of the fun was seeing how Agatha did it rather than trying to work out whodunnit. It does show in spots that it was written earlier than the last of the Poirot books Christie wrote in her lifetime. I can’t help feeling she authorized publication when she did because she knew after Elephants Can Remember that it was time – and also that she had fully expected to be dead before it came out, so no one could remonstrate with her about the points Poirot makes about how he had played fair.
And now everyone can heave a sigh of relief, for I have gotten the Christie out of my system for the foreseeable future. On to other things…
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
Someone told me a while back that translated books are nearly always worthwhile, because they have to have been good in the first place to be translated. That certainly held true for this little gem, which is a love letter (in equal parts) to Kyoto, food, and love. And best of all, there’s another book – will be looking for The Restaurant of Lost Recipes when it comes out in October.
