Reading: A Murder Is Announced, by Agatha Christie. (This sad little copy came from either Goodwill or a library book sale.) I've become a bit obsessed with Agatha Christie lately. I've only read about four of her books so far, but I'm always collecting more. Over the past couple of weeks, I've got hooked on the ITV Marple series. I'm sort of doing things backwards because I'm watching the shows before I read the books. That can be a problem with mystery novels! But it can't be helped...the show is too good to stop watching and there's no way I can read each Marple book before I watch the corresponding episode. Oh, well! I watched the adaptation of this book about a week ago and I'm still really enjoying the book itself. :) Let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions of your favorite Agatha Christie novels. I'm keeping a list of ones I want to read, but soon I think it will just be all of them. :)
Knitting: Next month I'm going to have an opportunity to sell some handknits, so I'm trying to get a few baby and children's hats knitted before then. (Though honestly, I'm not sure people are going to be looking to buy wool hats in June.) This is just a simple children's beanie knit with leftovers from my Lady Marple cardigan. And I just realized how ironic and appropriate that is, given the book that I'm reading!
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Oh. My. Gosh. I love the ITV Marple series. It's amazing. The cast (pretty much every British talent shows up at some point - usually before they became "big"), the costumes, the stories. All so good. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're the one who reminded me that I wanted to try Marple! :) The guest stars are awesome...I love picking out familiar faces.
DeleteSadly, I've seen none of the Miss Marple episodes! For the short month we had Netflix I did get pretty hooked on Poirot, though. He's awesome, and like Rissi mentioned with Miss Marple, you see a lot of familiar face before they got really famous. :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, as for book recommendations, I love anything with Poirot. I've been meaning to read some Tommy and Tuppence mysteries as well (I've only read one of those so far, and it was a while ago, so I don't remember it very well) but haven't gotten much of a chance.
Poirot is AMAZING! XD
DeleteI'm loving the Marple episodes! My only qualm is that so far, they added in a few lesbian romances that are not in the books. It's getting a little ridiculous at this point!
DeleteI've seen a couple of random Poirot episodes, and two of the Agatha Christie books I've read were Poirot ones. I'm sure he'll grow on me, but for now I feel partial to Miss Marple. (Probably because she's a knitter, ha!)