Agatha Christie Poirot:
The Greatest Detective in the World
by Mark Aldridge
William Morrow
11/12/2020
488 pages
Nonfiction / Books about books
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After listening to all of Hercule Poirot short stories and novels, I decided to conclude my experience with Agatha Christie Poirot:
The Greatest Detective in the World.
📚 Wow, 2020 has been starting crazy on the reading scene. I have been reading a lot, according to my standards.
📚 Besides The Classics Club, I have been doing the Japanese Literature Challenge (until March), I joined the #Pondathon (a reading competition: I earn points for my #Xiaolong team based on the number of pages I read and the number of books I finish), and the Murakami online Book Club.
Oh and of course at the beginning of January was Bout of Books. It was a busy week, so I didn’t read as much as I wanted, but still it worked fine.
📚 The biggest news for me is that so far, I have managed to review all the books I have been reading this month, and even started catching up on books read last year.
Posting again for the Sunday Post has been very helpful for that, as I post there small reviews when a much longer review is really unnecessary.
I also enjoy doing a Book Journal section in this weekly Sunday Post: I update it every day, recapitulating what I read the night before. Looks like more and more of you have been enjoying this section of my post as well. This helps me keep track and be more consistent.
📚 There were lots of posts in the blogosphere related to the previous decade. In case you missed them, I have a post on my favorite books and one on my favorite book covers of the past decade.
📚 Also, as I am reading a difficult Orthodox theology book, I have been again reposting book notes after a couple of chapters or so on my Orthodox blog.
I suddenly remembered I had lots of Orthodox notes and quotations on a very old book blog, so I’m going to republish these on my new Orthodox blog the coming months.
So here are the titles I read in January:
11 books:
8 in print
= with 1,862 pages, an average of 60 pages/day
3 in audio
= 11H37, an average of 22 minutes
5 in literary fiction:
What a wonderful experience to read Soseki’s whole trilogy in the same month
4 in mystery:
1 in children:
1 in nonfiction:
It feels so good to see all these links under the books I read THIS month!
Classics Club: 15/50 (from October 2019-until September 2024)
Japanese Literature Challenge: 4 books read
Total of books read in 2020 = 11/110
Number of books added to my TBR this past month= 9 (less than 10, I deserve some applaud, lol)
Besides the books above listed, this month I also reviewed:
The open giveaways are on my homepage
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The Ten Most Recent Additions to my 2020 bookshelf
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How was YOUR month of January?
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Perfect Little Children
by Sophie Hannah
William Morrow/HarperCollins
2/4/2020
Thriller/Suspense
336 pages
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Sophie Hannah is I believe the only author who’s received the official permission to write new episodes with the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (who by the way, celebrates this year the 100 anniversary of his creation!). I have read two of these, and her fourth is coming up in August 2020: The Killings at Kingfisher Hill. She has been writing many other mysteries, independently from this series. Perfect Little Children is her latest, and a new chance for us to enjoy Hannah’s writing skills.
Words And Peace 