Dear Agatha
I've spent over 25 with Agatha Christie books, and I love them all. Some are better than others, but all of them have parts of Agatha in them. She's a curious author that doesn't leave out her opinions on everyday life, whether it's how difficult it is to get good servants, or how tragic it was that girls in the 70's wore woolen stockings in the summer with their miniskirts and unwashed hair, and that very clearly, the stockings were unwashed, too.
I didn't notice her breadcrumbs of opinions at first, but I'm not the biggest fan of fiction. English class was better spent on writing than reading, and I undoubtedly missed all of those conversations based on what the author meant by such-and-such passage. Agatha doesn't throw a whole lot of innuendo in her writing, thankfully. Sure, there's clues to the murder (and even more red herrings), but if someone has a personality type, she'll tell you about it in black and white.
Agatha wrote over five decades, and there are so many societal comments that I have to look at what year the book was written in so that I can get a good frame of reference as to which Agatha wrote the book.
So now you're caught up. As to why I'm writing the blog, it's because I want to have a conversation with Agatha. The first time I read some of the novels, I would get caught on some of her commentary, thinking it was interesting. Now that I'm reading some of them for the second or third time, I want to flesh out some of the insights she wrote through her characters' comments.
This is as much for me as it is for anyone who found Agatha particularly interesting, and this is as close to a conversation with Agatha as I'll get.
I have a few books that I've annotated already that can be put into posts, but the one I'm currently reading is "Murder with mirrors," so I'll start with that. I hope this is as much fun for you as it is for me :)
***I should note that while I'll be adding excerpts of the book, it's not my intention to give away whodunit. There will be excerpts in quotes with page numbers relative to the book I purchased, though.
I didn't notice her breadcrumbs of opinions at first, but I'm not the biggest fan of fiction. English class was better spent on writing than reading, and I undoubtedly missed all of those conversations based on what the author meant by such-and-such passage. Agatha doesn't throw a whole lot of innuendo in her writing, thankfully. Sure, there's clues to the murder (and even more red herrings), but if someone has a personality type, she'll tell you about it in black and white.
Agatha wrote over five decades, and there are so many societal comments that I have to look at what year the book was written in so that I can get a good frame of reference as to which Agatha wrote the book.
So now you're caught up. As to why I'm writing the blog, it's because I want to have a conversation with Agatha. The first time I read some of the novels, I would get caught on some of her commentary, thinking it was interesting. Now that I'm reading some of them for the second or third time, I want to flesh out some of the insights she wrote through her characters' comments.
This is as much for me as it is for anyone who found Agatha particularly interesting, and this is as close to a conversation with Agatha as I'll get.
I have a few books that I've annotated already that can be put into posts, but the one I'm currently reading is "Murder with mirrors," so I'll start with that. I hope this is as much fun for you as it is for me :)
***I should note that while I'll be adding excerpts of the book, it's not my intention to give away whodunit. There will be excerpts in quotes with page numbers relative to the book I purchased, though.
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