A Goodreads quote on Books, one of my favorite things!

Do you remember the movie, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I remember that Elizabeth Taylor starred in that movie with Richard Burton, and i think she was nominated for an Oscar there (i have to google to know for sure) but if she was, indeed, she didnt win because i remember she got the Oscar for Butterfield 8, where she played a lady of the night.

Virginia Woolf is of course, an author.  And i liked this particular verse ...

Books are the mirrors of the soul. 

Virginia Woolf

May 4, 1928: On this day, Virginia Woolf declared she found her fame "vulgar and a nuisance."

Reading habits ... what do you read?

What do you read?
You dont read?  what!!!
Of course you do, you got to this blog, didnt you....

maybe the question is, how many hours do you spend reading?

It takes a special interest for me to read non-fiction, that is, biographies and other historical ones.  The lives of the Kennedys - for example.  My mom adored Jackie O. so we bought all sorts of stuff for her on Jackie O. - magazines, books, fanzines, photobooks.  I moved beyond that and read not only about her life, but also of the Kennedys.  That was a very interesting read.

Then, there are the technical books.  Having a Master's degree in Finance and almost master's degree in Mathematics (i was shy 9 units to a master's degree) meant tons of books in Finance, lots of Accounting books, lots of Mathematics and Statistical books (yeah, i had a Bachelor's degree in Stat).  I also read books on computers (i was in IT for a lot of years, and i am a very good analyst, if i do say so myself.).  The technical books can be fun, if you will still use it.  I especially like security features, because i love hackers.

I also read historical stuff - on say the gold rush to the West.  The Oklahoma homestead rush.  Fascinating times.  And let us not miss historical stuff on Europe.

Makes for nice background when one starts reading fiction. You can feel the background when you say read a Regency Romance  or say a Highland story.... if have a feel of the background.  Lots of women read Romance - we all start early .... in High School.

I also read philosophical stuff - you know,  Confucious, Sun Tzu (Art of War) - my Chinese guys, 

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid  - (i call 'em my Greek guys), 

Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal (also a Math guy), Jean-Paul Sartre (who i associate with one of my good friends who has passed away) ... my French guys.  

My American guys are younger like Bertrand Russell, America being much younger.  

and many more books (i come from a family of readers - both maternal and paternal sides)

And i read fun things (dont you?).  One of my sisters read Tintin... and well, i have little to poor resistance reading comics or cartoons so i went on and read them.  I read Johnny Hart (BC) and Charles Schultz (Peanuts), then i added Tintin and the Captain, and the colatura singer whose name escapres me at the moment ... and the parrot's "Blistering Barnacles" recital.  Then she - my sister brought home a Calvin and Hobbes and i now have the Complete Calvin and Hobbes. It makes for wonderful reading, and if one is feeling a little down, a few pages of Calvin will do the trick and uplift one's spirits. My mom liked Archie comics so we had that too.  Also on Casper, Wendy, Spooky (the ghost with the doiby) and Poil, and Hot Stuff. 

For scary, well - enough authors do the scary ..... Kay Hooper has a bunch of them, and we (well, some of my books belong to the family) well, have the Russia's best Ghost Stories.  There is the graphic novels of  John Constantine (no, not the Keanu Reeves version, but the Brit guy who sells parts of his soul to the guy downstairs). There are other scary books but i normally reserve reading them in daylight.

Then there is science fiction and fantasy.

I think i read all the TOS books until the Vulcan stories, including those adapted by James Blish (adapted from the episodes, that is), the Log series.  I have read a few of Picard's adventures but most of them copy TOS adventures so i simply got tired of reading them.  I read a few Star Wars.  Then all of Isaac Asimov's books, which includes the Robot and Foundation series.... and tons more.  If you have one you want to recommend, lemme know.

Then fantasy.  There's Tolkien who i love.  I mean how could you not love someone who developed the Elven and Dwarven languages.... the guy who wrote the epic Silmarillion - of Turin and the dark blade.  The Sundering of the Elves.  Such drama! 

There is Neil Gaiman - who wrote about the Endless ... including Dream, or ... the Sandman and Death, the goth girl.  The Price (my favortie short story)

I like Anne Bishop - who wrote about the Jewels and the Others

And then there are detective stories.  I like Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey - and i have read all i can get my hands on.  I have read all of Dame Agatha Christie's books (and i also like the Doc Who story about her) and of course, Sir Conan Doyle's Complete Sherlock Holmes. I can still name the title of the story or tell the story given the title......

and tons more......contemporary authors .... 

if you have a suggestion, do comment and let me know

or simply, if you want to discuss a book, comment away

yes, you guessed it.  i read very fast. indeed. 

A Goodreads quote .... do you want to live forever?

Well do you?  There are ways to do so

you can mutate into Wolverine - and have fantastic healing powers such that aging is not a problem

imagine those telomeres ....... really fantastic

You cant mutate into a Time Lord, so if you have any ambitions about being Doc ...(insert number here), the first you have to find where they hid their planet.  It wasnt destroyed after all.... or was it.

the other way, more simple - at least to my mind - is to write - and leave footprints in the ether of digital wizardly.  i have bits and pieces scattered in the internet.

i already have a published poem in the Library of Congress - and unless an entity bombs the repository, that's like living forever, ..... aint it?  And i want to write more

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. 

Ray Bradbury

September 2, 1932: Science fiction master Ray Bradbury was a 12-year-old boy when he walked into a carnival tent and met Mr. Electrico—a moment that he credits with making him want to be a writer. The performer tapped him with an electrified sword and shouted: "Live forever!"

Goodreads quotes - on books

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. 


Toni Morrison
Happy 83rd birthday, Toni Morrison! The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner writes rich, sweeping novels, about the black experience in America. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford—'Toni' comes from her baptismal name, 'Anthony.'

A Goodread quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

 

Ursula K. Le Guin

October 21, 1929: Happy 84th birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! The pioneering fantasy writer's parents were also respected writers. Her mother, Theodora Kroeber, wrote a popular book about Ishi, then thought to be the last member of the Native American Yahi tribe.

I read a lot of books written by her.  Her EarthSea tales, i especially like the left hand of darkness ....Love indeed has to change, all the time.  It must grow, less it stagnate.

have a good weekend everyone and Happy Birthday to Ofie Templo tomorrow

i am going to relax Spock's way and hopefully get over this feeling like my body wants to get sick....

am going on another spate of reading.... :)


happy birthday Ofie Martin Templo

TGIF

i know this feeling well, and everyone i know celebrates it
have a good weekend

for me the weekend looms very quietly, a time to rest (the way Spock would, not the way Kirk would, in classic Trek), hopefully a time to cook -

i was planning on sinigang na something - bangus (milkfish) or baboy (pork)

i have kangkong, sili, and will get labanos (radish), and maybe some gabi (i dont quite remember the English term for this)

i know my doc would prefer it were boneless bangus instead of pork, bangus belly would be good but my cardio told me it isnt all that good, being omega-3 NOT omega-6 unlike wild salmon, which is omega-6.

 yes, i get these gems everytime i have my checkup.

i am also planning on shrimp omelets

this is just an egg omelet with garlic (i love garlic, freshly pound into bits), patola, onions (i prefer the red ones), and shrimps, which i prefer to cut up into pieces so one can taste the shrimp all over the omelet.

yum. so i hope i dont feel too tired ,,,, and that someone comes over to assist me

i have to do the usual, wash clothes (throw them into the washer, yep, even the expensive ones), and i segregate as one should. and i change the bed linens, and clean my room and bath.  *sigh*

then i have to shop and buy some water pipes for my PT ... this is to relax the muscles

and if i am lucky, i get to eat tapadera.  lovely beef- which i really really love, with potatoes and onion rings.

and my fave activity. read.  i am re-reading my clancy books, at least the Jack Ryan ones.

Goodreads quote from Harper Lee

i rather like this quote, and i love the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and of course, the black-and-white movie starring Gregory Peck as the Atticus Finch.  If you will remember, Atticus had 2 kids, Scout and Jeremy, and there was also their wonderful neighbor Boo - Boo Radley.  Read the book, and watch the movie.  A great classic.  Atticus defended the black guy. I remember Calpurnia, the housekeeper of the Finches.

Remembering all that, and that today the USA has a black president, Barack Obama.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.


Harper Lee
July 11, 1960: Southern writer Harper Lee's enduring classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published 53 years ago today.

btw, i have read the book a couple of times, but the last read was about 10 years ago.
A mockingbird has a beautiful voice, it can also imitate other birds.

A Colossal Thought

Are you a reader? I am.  I read lots of stuff, i think i have mentioned before, from the sublime to the ridiculous, all of them interesting.

i  read for the fun of it, and i come by this love of reading from both sides of the family.  My Mom's family are readers and they have tons of books.  Unfortunately though, the floods in the Sampaloc area during those times have destroyed some of them.  From my Dad's side are all prodigious readers, and all the family have libraries.  Some of those books have been given away.

i must have read over a 1000 books, and i havent included the romance books i read in High School, or numerous Peanuts, and my collection of Calvin and Hobbes.

i try and read all of Neil Gaiman's, and i have a favorite one.

i have books on Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, and Descartes. I also have books on Lemony Snicket ... and whodunnits galore (Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, The Cat Who series by Lilian Braun..... and more).

i tend to love fantasy and sci-fi so I have Tolkien, Asimov, StarTrek (TOS, of course), Ray Bradbury, Clarke, and one of the books i love is by Madeleine L'Engle. She wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet .... as a cover of one of those books is supposedly a seraphim.  Yes, and the art work -- see the link --- depicted reminds me of that.

you do remember what seraphims are, right?

Click here for an interesting peek at surreal-wildlife-paintings-by-tiffany-bozic/?src=footer

What? Wicked people dont read?

i just had to share this.  i was going over my list of wicked people - that is, the truly wicked, or the now turned wicked and i find that indeed, they have lost their time for reading.  So, think about the people you know - at least those you find wicked, and well, do they still have time for reading?

i thought about the quote, maybe it is because people who have no time to read also have no time to reflect - on their actions - and without an examination of the things we've done, well .... we would have the tendency to backslide ... and think ... it is such a little sin.  unfortunately, there is no such thing as a little sin.

remember, even what we say .... but that quote is for another day.  *smile*

you will live longer. 

Wicked people never have time for reading. 
It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. 


Lemony Snicket
February 28, 1970: A most unfortunate day. Novelist Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, was once born in the benighted city of San Francisco and is now a dismal 43 years old.

Quote about my library

My library is an archive of longings. 

Susan Sontag
The author of On Photography was born on this day in 1933.

Silence is Golden

One of Goodreads quote of the day ....
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.



Khalil Gibran
The author of The Prophet was born on this day in 1883.

How many books have you read?

If you were asked how many books have you read, would you be able to answer?  with what degree of accuracy?

would you be able to list them down?  books should be differentiated from magazines or newspapers because their format and content differ, and particularly, the reasons for reading them.

i tend to read by authors, once i have discovered that i like an author's certain style.
for example, in grade school, i read all the fairy tales i could find, even if some of them were grim.  The Little Mermaid of Hans Christian Andersen fame is not a sweet or cute story.  The Little Mermaid dies, only to be born as one of the Daughters of the Air ... or the Little Match Girl, she too dies in the end.  The Disney story of the little mermaid is, of course, very upbeat, but not true to the book.  For example, i've read almost all of Neil Gaiman's books (that i can find, even his graphic novels) .... even philosophy books (St. Augustine, Descartes....)

whether good or bad, i can sometimes be a purist as i tend to prefer the original versions than revised ones.
you can read my post entitled "on a diet of books".

at any rate, when i tried listing the books i've read ... it is about a 1000 now although it is badly understated.  it doesnt cover the manuals i have read, textbooks i've read, or simply books whose titles i cant remember. i dont even remember the titles of some of the children's books i've read lately.

no adult should stop reading children's books because these books have a flavor all their own.

at any rate, see how 30,000 books look like ....

Click here to see Colossal's tower-of-babel-built-with-30000-books/

The Hobbit is showing

i hope to watch when the theatre is no longer overcrowded.  it wont do to watch when it is still cramped, not with a cane and a bum leg so there.

HBO has been showing LOTR and i recently found this etsy shop who caters to Renaissance gowns or more popularly Elvish gowns.  So if you are into enacting LOTR, or want to be Arwen and have Aragorn of Arathorn as your husband of choice --- then this is the etsy shop to see.  Even just to fantasize.

i really like the celtic gown - link below.  LOTR fans will remember who Eowyn is.  She married the brother of Borromir - who was one of the 9 accompanying the Ring Bearer Frodo.  Points to anyone who remembers who he is?  answer is below

Click for a celtic gown- or what she calls Eowyn gown

but i'd rather think of Celtic queens or princesses, full of mysterious powers (Druids were part of the Celtic culture)


click here to view Galadriel's dress
this could also be Arwen's gown


click to view her version of Arwen Evenstar's wedding dress
the veil and the sash makes this gown Arwen Evenstar's wedding dress

click here to see the purple-goth-witch-medieval
this dress reminds me to medieval London, and witches














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Faramir.  Incidentally, the guy who played Faramir is more attractive than the guy who played Borromir.
but that is only my opion

The Elephant and the Dragon, published in 2007

by Robyn Meredith

Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics said this book is an exciting and journalistic account of one of the great economic stories of our time.

i got attracted to this book because i collect elephants.  and well, when i did a search on elephants, this book popped up (so did Agatha Christie's Elephants can Remember - a book i have read more than once) and i decided to purchase the book.i just got the book today!

although it is old, well relatively old, i think i will enjoy reading this book. i just hope to have the time.

Banned Books

 Click here for banned or frequently challenged 21st century books

sometimes i wonder why books are banned.  why?

a book encourages thinking, promotes knowledge

did you know that JKR's Harry Potter books - have been challenged and banned?

and for what -supposed Satanism, dealing with magic, and what have you...

and well, i did argue with a former priest about it

see, i dont remember if any fairy tale books have been banned but i dont think it will matter to me

my readings have never been censored, not even by my parents.  i read Playboy at a young age.  My Dad's only stipulation was that i read it somewhere else, not in his face.

i have read many books.  i continue to do so. my taste ranges from the classics to the modern graphic novels, Neil Gaiman's work is one of them.  As for classics, i have Voltaire, Socrates, St. Augustine and the "modern" classics like Huxley's "A Brave New World" - in the list of banned books, or Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird".  i love these 2 stories, in different ways and i cannot believe that these books have been banned repeatedly - particularly in this day and age.

To those of you who like movie tie-ins, Gregory Peck played the lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1960s classic film "To Kill a Mockingbird".  the story was about a black man accused of raping a white woman, Ella May (was her name i think). Atticus had 2 kids, a girl Scout and a boy Jem.  They had a black housekeeper named Calpurnia and a "weird" neighbor the kids called Boo Radley.  If you havent read it, you have to read it. now. go-and-buy a copy.  a digital copy is cheaper. but read it.  it focuses on brave and weak people and how people react in the face of shame.   it is about bias and prejudice and truths.  a good book never loses its shine, so yes, read it.

did you know that there is a very naughty book with the same title as Francis Hodgson Burnett's "My Secret Garden". i just googled the title, and i got another naughty book.  the book i was meant was written by a British bloke - whose name i dont remember anymore but the books were about his forays into his secret garden.

Even "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger has been banned.  I really dont get it.

i give you the list, and hey, maybe it will spur you to read and find out if you agree with the people who challenge these books ......

i DO NOT LIKE censorship in any form.  i believe that censorship is the refuge of the weak.

On a diet of books

i come from a family of readers - the side -  of my father AND my mother

when i was in grade school, i had my close male cousin borrow books from the San Beda Grade School Library.   he would borrow the Hardy Boys for me. i would borrow Dana Girls, and Nancy Drew, among others 

but i was reading about Greek and Roman mythos at the same time.  i would sit by the dining table, reading.  we ate at the table in the kitchen so the dining room table was available for me. I can still name all the gods and goddesses - and their relative powers.

the legends of Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, and the like were very familiar to me.  i was grade what .... 3 or 4 maybe?

Lola Petra, my grandma, was a tad frustrated with me - no matter how near she was, i couldnt hear her when i was reading.  yes, i was that engrossed.  i love reading.  bookworm is an apt name for me.

in high school at PSHS-Diliman, i can remember reading Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Sherlock Holmes er Arthur Conan Doyle, and less i lie, i read all the romance books i could find.  Mills  & Boon was popular at the time. still is. 

Then my fantasy and sci-fi reading.  I read Asimov, Star Trek, Philip Dick, Ray Bradbury - who recently passed away and since i had very good lit teachers at Sayans - Agnes Vea and Helen Ladera immediately comes to mind i also read stuff like Anton Chekov,  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Voltaire, Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, Shakespeare - his poetry and plays. And less you think Filipino was neglected - Ms Alfonso took care of that.  I happen to like Florante at Laura and i can still recite a few stanzas - the more relevant ones... for example:  Pag-ibig anaki's aking nakilala

and well, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.  Although i read the Tagalog version, it really didnt register.  i had to read the English version to get the best appreciation.  So i did.  All exams were in Pilipino, but that was alright - the mind could handle the translation.

College reading was very different.  I was at scholar at the UP-Diliman, but i loved to read. I read everything i could lay my hands on - and i remember most is Marsh McLuhan's the medium is the message.  I had a good Enlish 4 teacher - i remember her face vividly, but i have to check my classcards (yes, i still have them) for her name

Rudyard Kipling - and my favorite - to this day - remains Rikki-tikki-tavi.

then i would read ... and recite poetry Shakespeare, Byron, Christopher Marlowe, 

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning - my favorite remains - How Do I love thee?

The years in between - my reading has not changed. I read almost anything, i think. and enjoy them. i love to read more than i love to watch. so maybe that is part of the reason i have read - and reread so many books. I love Tolkien. I love mysteries. I love sci-fi. i even read recipe books.

these days i read Neil Gaiman - the Sandman is a favorite but my favorite story remains an illustrated story about a black cat and the title is The Price. I do have his entire Sandman collection, and a few others. i think his illustrated books are lovely.

Graphic novels can be fun reading . I do have a lot of John Constantine - the blonde scruffy English bloke, not Keanu Reeves - though i like the actor. John Constantine novels are dark and hellish and scary. I am a member of a wonderful forum, but not really now. No longer active because circumstances drove me out. It was simpler to leave although i miss the guys and ladies there, except for one. She can have them all i suppose, like the ring.

i also read a lot of romance stuff. i rather like regency romance.  makes me wonder how they managed all the shenanigans in the various eras.  Well, women do love to read that stuff and besides, they make for excellent bedtime reading - nothing to think about.

But i love to read Calvin and Hobbes. I got the complete collection about 2 years ago and I have been reading them. One of my best birthday presents to myself. I read a few pages everyday. There are 3 volumes but i am still on the first volume.

Sigh.

Isaac Asimov

Someone told me that reading Asimov made one a nerd.
I happen to disagree.  You are free to object, or discuss in a comment.

I like Asimov. He is famous for his Foundation series, and his Robotic series. And yes, I have read most if not all his books.  Happenstance that they were available when i wanted to read them, and when i had time.

Part of the wonder of his books was his wonderful ability to look past things present,  tinker with it, and make it the future.

I remember Elijah Bailey, Danilaw, and the words psychohistory .... and the 3 Laws of Robotics
Any takers for a discussion of any of his books?

Agatha Christie books read over the years, and still to read

titles are in bold, comments in normal font, to be read in italics


This post will be updated as i remember the story, or as i re-read. and i discover/remember all the other agatha christie books

And Then There Were None
most of AG's novels are about death, and the methodology for such a death. these detail how each one met death, and what happened to the last person.  I always think of this book as the Ten Little Indians - an alternative title, i believe.  i rather like this book because it has people who have successfully done the deed and gone unpunished.  only a clever and devious mind can manage such a drama

Anne Beddingfeld 01 – The Man in the Brown Suit - to read
although i think i have read this at least one time in my life. but really the waters of the mind are terribly muddied

Bobby Jones 01 – Why Didn’t they Ask the Evans?
witnesses to a signature, or a will are important, And so Bobby Jones wonder why not Evans. A nice wonderful story of a robust Bobby, and a wonderful lady friend. I thought Bobby Jones was brave and, for the lack of a word, cute.

Charles Hayward 01 - Crooked House -  no Hercule
Ah.  Done re-reading.  
This is about a family living together under their rich father.  There are many side stories as AG usually has in "at home" mysteries.  the actual culprit was a bit of surprise for me.

Colonel Race 01 - Sparkling Cyanide - no Hercule
initially confused with another book, re-reading clarified which one this was.  So that i will remember next time, Anthony Browne and a dinner table should suffice.  Iris stands to inherit her sister Rosemary Barton's wealth.  George, her husband had died as a result of a bungled attempt to kill Iris.  Thanks to Race and Anthony, Iris is saved and the culprit caught.

Death Comes as the End
Done re-reading. As i surmised, this is one of AG's Egypt stories, an ancient setting - she uses the plot of the stepmother Nofret with vicious skill. i rather like Renisenb's musings on her past and future loves.  makes for contemporary thoughts.

Destination Unknown
I have not finished reading this book. It is currently lying face down in one of the book shelves...

Endless Night

i have to re-read this one stormy night.


Hercule Poirot 00 - The Casebook of Hercule Poirot
o many stories, but all of them good - if you like whodunnits

Hercule Poirot 01 - The Mysterious Affair At Styles
this was the first book of AG that featured Hercule.



Hercule Poirot 02 - Murder on the Links
between 2 holes, and golf, and murder


Hercule Poirot 03 - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Hercule Poirot 04 - The Big Four

Hercule Poirot 05 - Mystery of the Blue Train
Another story of a rich man (well, they say love of money is the root of all evil), an inheritance, a rich girl, a rich man's secretary. and if you will, there is a certain similarity to another story. a much


Hercule Poirot 06 - Peril at End House
Ah Madeline, Madeline. And a rich aviator. a shawl.

Hercule Poirot 07 - Lord Edgware Dies (Thirteen At Dinner)
And who

Hercule Poirot 08 - Murder on the Orient Express (Murder in Calais Coach)
Do you remember the movie? A star-filled movie. Richard Widmark was the guy killed.
A kidnapping leads to death, and death is returned. guilty says the jury of 12 individuals.

Hercule Poirot 09 - Three Act Tragedy (Murder In Three Acts)
Hercule Poirot 10 - Death in the Clouds (Death in the Air)
Hercule Poirot 11 - The ABC Murders (The Alphabet Murders)
I always thought one had to be British to understand the title. 

Hercule Poirot 12 - Murder in Mesopotamia
Hercule Poirot 13 - Cards on the Table
Hercule Poirot 14 - Dumb Witness (Poirot Loses a Client)
Hercule Poirot 15 - Death on the Nile
two lovers. a boat. and a beautiful rich girl who coveted what the poor little girl had.
the movie version had Mia Farrow i think and the guy - the guy was the one who played Manimal, remember that series?

Hercule Poirot 16 - Appointment With Death
one of those evil matriachs, AG reveals the workings on the Boyntons. who killed evil mama?
Hercule Poirot 17 - Murder for Christmas
Hercule Poirot 18 - Sad Cypress
Hercule Poirot 19 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Hercule Poirot 20 - Evil Under the Sun

Hercule Poirot 21 - Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect)
Hercule Poirot 22 - The Hollow (Murder After Hours)
Hercule Poirot 23 - Taken at the Flood
Hercule Poirot 24 - Mrs. McGinty's Dead
Hercule Poirot 25 - After the Funeral
Hercule Poirot 26 - Hickory Dickory Death
Hercule Poirot 27 - Dead Man's Folly
Hercule Poirot 28 - Cat Amond the Pigeons
Hercule Poirot 29 - The Clocks
Hercule Poirot 30 - Third Girl
Hercule Poirot 31 - Halloween Party
Hercule Poirot 32 - Elephants Can RememberThere is another title for this book, but i cannot remember. This is about 2 sisters, 1 man, a daughter, and madness. and the knowledge will decide a wedding.

Hercule Poirot 33 - Curtain (Poirot's Last Case)
Inspector Lejeune 01 - The Pale Horse
Inspector Narracott 01 - The Sittaford Mystery
Mary Westmacott - Burden
Miss Marple 00 - The Complete Short Stories
Miss Marple 01 - The Murder at the Vicarage
Miss Marple 03 - The Body in the Library
The husband of Ms. Marple's friend, Arthur - if i am not mistaken, finds a body in his library. The body is dressed somewhat sluttily, for the period, at least, and gossip abounds.

Miss Marple 04 - The Moving Finger
Miss Marple 05 - A Murder is Announced
Miss Marple 07 - They Do It With Mirrors
Miss Marple 08 - A Pocket Full of Rye
Miss Marple 09 - 450 From Paddington
Miss Marple 11 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Miss Marple 12 - A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple 13 - At Bertrams Hotel
Miss Marple 14 - Nemesis
For a little old lady, she certainly gets around. In this story, there is a rich old man, and where there is a rich man, there be bad intentions.



Miss Marple 15 - Sleeping Murder
 The advice is to let sleeping dogs lie, but when one insists on getting to the bottom of things, murder will out.

Ordeal by Innocence

Parker Pyne 01 - Parker Pyne Investigates
Passeger to Frankfurt
Plays 01 - Black Coffee
Plays 08 - Spider's Web
Plays 11 - The Unexpected Guest
Quin and Satterthwaite 01 - Mysterious Mr. Quin
Short Stories 01 - Poirot Investigates
Short Stories 06 - The Listerdale Mystery
Short Stories 08 - Murder in the Mews
Short Stories 09 - The Reggata Mystery and Other Stories
Short Stories 10 - The Labours of Hercules
One of my favorite stories. Each labor is a story. Hercule decides if he should come out of retirement. I truly rec this one.

Short Stories 12 - Three Blind Mice

Short Stories 14 - Adventure of Christmas Pudding
Short Stories 17 - Poirot's Early Cases
Short Stories 20 - The Harlequin Tea Set

Short Stories 22 - Surprise, Surprise

Superintendent Battle 01 - The Secret of Chimneys
One of my favorites. There is a very beautiful woman. And politics.

Superintendent Battle 02 - The Seven Dials Mystery
Superintendent Battle 03 - Towards Zero
Superintendent Battle 04 - Murder is Easy
I love Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. They are a very interesting couple, full of vivre -
and is stopped neither by their youth nor their old age.
Tommy and Tuppence 01 - The Secret Adversary
Tommy and Tuppence 02 - Partners in Crime
Tommy and Tuppence 03 - N or M
Tommy and Tuppence 04 - By the Pricking of my Thumbs
Tommy and Tuppence 05 - Postern of Fate
Victoria Jones 01 - They Came to Baghdad


I will update this post as i read or re-read.