Reading Wednesday

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I am on a Miss Marple kick. The first one is to blame...

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries 12 stories, 12 authors, 12 times Miss Marple cracked the case. In a few, Miss Marple seems curiously long-lived. It's a bit odd to think of a lady referred to as Victorian still on the go and globetrotting in the 1970s or later, but that seems to be the case in several of these episodes. (I realize Miss Marple's age fluctuated a bit in the original stories, but it did seem to me that she was established as being of a pre-1900 vintage...) On the whole, very fun.

The Murder At the Vicarage
The Body In The Library
Sleeping Murder
A Murder Is Announced
The Moving Finger all by Agatha Christie - Finished the first four, working on the last one now. Despite having watched Marple, I had not read any of the books before.

Time's Monster by Priya Satia - Only just through the introduction, but if the rest of the book is as trenchant as the intro, this will be a corker. Satia is looking at the links between history, construction of conscience, and empire.

Finally, no cookbooks this week (I've got a bunch queued up though, so watch out next week!) but look what the library had:

Pretty and fun as DK books tend to be. It seems like a decent intro to any of the topics, but I imagine if you were interested in any one in particular, you'd need to find out more elsewhere.