Reading Wednesday
Apr. 24th, 2024 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grundyscribblingJust the one this week, but expect much more Poirot next week, as I just got several books in...
Lord Edgeware Dies - I'd cheated and watched the adaptation first, but there was still a bit of suspense. (They might have changed whodunnit for the adaptation.) Bit of casual anti-Semitism in the book that the adaptation sensibly left out, but I can't tell if that's Christie, or Christie being accurate about what folks in that time and place of that class would have been like on the subject. To be fair, there's a whiff of anti-Catholicism too. The Catholicism is at least somewhat relevant to the plot, whereas various background characters being Jewish or possibly Jewish hasn't a blessed thing to do with the price of tea in Chiswick.
I'm blocking out some time this weekend to catch up on reading. Besides all the new Poirot books, I picked up a couple books in Vermont that I haven't had time to so much as look at, and there's a few library books that need to be read and go back...
And I really need a spring reading icon.
Lord Edgeware Dies - I'd cheated and watched the adaptation first, but there was still a bit of suspense. (They might have changed whodunnit for the adaptation.) Bit of casual anti-Semitism in the book that the adaptation sensibly left out, but I can't tell if that's Christie, or Christie being accurate about what folks in that time and place of that class would have been like on the subject. To be fair, there's a whiff of anti-Catholicism too. The Catholicism is at least somewhat relevant to the plot, whereas various background characters being Jewish or possibly Jewish hasn't a blessed thing to do with the price of tea in Chiswick.
I'm blocking out some time this weekend to catch up on reading. Besides all the new Poirot books, I picked up a couple books in Vermont that I haven't had time to so much as look at, and there's a few library books that need to be read and go back...
And I really need a spring reading icon.
