geex2
GenXer who recently moved from the US to Australia. I love classics, mysteries, lit fic, true crime, memoir, but I'm very much a mood reader and what I read changes from time to time.
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The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery
E.C.R. Lorac
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Today is the last Monday of my teaching career. I retire on Thursday of this week. I am looking forward to all the new reading time I will have. I have been a teacher for 32 years, and I am ready to begin the next adventure. While I am not young, I still feel like I have some good time left (I am 58). I am going to start a Substack on books, board games, movies, and anything that catches my interest. I will also be writing a novel. I spent the last two weekends setting up my home office (it looks great!). To say that I am excited would be an understatement (although I am not sure if I will really notice until the first day of school next year. My wife has one more year to go, and seeing her leave for the classroom in the morning will be weird.)
I would love to hear what June celebrations you are looking forward to. I don't care how big or small it might be. I just want to have a chance to share in your joy, too!
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The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery
E.C.R. Lorac
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Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
Agatha Christie
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Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
Agatha Christie
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Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
Agatha Christie
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Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)
Agatha Christie
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Interesting book. It was not written as well as many crime novels, and the characters weren't fleshed out. The story kept going and kept me turning pages, and overall I think it was reasonably good and engaging. Very much a noir crime novel and not a whodunit mystery.
Warning: there is shocking anti-Semitism in this book. It was written in 1930, and we like to think of the Nazis as being bad and everyone else as having been good, but the reality was that there was a LOT of anti-Semitism (and other isms) at this time, all over. Including the UK, the US, and France. I think nostalgia can be unhealthy, so IMO it's good to see the reality of bigotry during that time so we don't imagine retreating into a time we think of as comfortable, because that time really was full of a lot of problems - some the same as we have now, some different, some the same but even worse. If you read books written a long time ago, you will see the ugly parts of the past.
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This was a great selection from the British Library Crime Classics. Published in 1949, it is very much a postwar England novel, and austerity and rationing play a big part in this story. It is not really a whodunit as you don't know what the crime is, or for sure if there was one, for the majority of the book. It's just clear that something suspicious is happening, and someone is missing. It has a great atmosphere, and the tension builds into a really exciting ending. The characters are great - many based on real people in the author's life. I like the main character's cousin and cousin's husband very much. The setting - including both time and place - is well handled. Really fun.
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Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)
Georges Simenon
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Still Waters
E.C.R. Lorac
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geex2 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi y'all! This year is apparently the year of me trying new genres. And I actually read a Whodunit. The ending dissapointed be but I had a blast actually guessing and engaging with the book.
So I am wondering if you could give me ither Whodunit books.
The idea is that it's kinda like "Knives out" if anyone saw those movie. So an esemble of characters in one setting (a house, a village, etc.), where a murder happens and we follow along with the characters and unravel things at the same time.
Preferably I would like it without a supernatural twist, however I would also take a Whodunit that is established as fantasy. I just don't want to be suprised by it.
I am open for absolutly everything.
Thank you in advance ♡♡
71geex2 commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
So I'm off work today and in bed sick 🤒 so of course that means reading and adding a crap ton more books to my tbr. But! I got to thinking about the much talked about topic/question of "how many books do you read at a time?"
I have always serially been in the middle of at least 3 books at a time. It used to be one audio, one physical, and one ebook. But now, things are out of control. If I have a Libby hold come up, I now start those too. So it could get up to 4 or 5 at a time 🤦🏻♀️
I find myself thinking of dnf'ing faster to get to a different book or just because I'm taking awhile to get through it. It may be spoiling my attention span and/or making me bored with reads that I normally wouldn't be?
So what's your guys' experience and opinions with reading multiple books at a time? Has anyone done this religiously and then gone back to focusing on 1 book at a time? I will at least always have an audiobook and regular book because I listen to audios at work but... I'm just experiencing some reading fatigue I think 😮💨
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