Month: April 2019
Min Jin Lee: Pachinko (Allison Hiroto Audio)
Why on God’s green earth does the audio version of every other book written by an Asian or Latina woman and putting women’s histories front and center have to be read by a woman with a super-high voice and a style of narration dripping with saccharine???? This is beginning to drive me nuts — particularly […]
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Happy Easter & Passover
… to everybody here on BookLikes. Have a wonderful weekend, whichever holiday you’re celebrating! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1874686/happy-easter-passover
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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Nile
“Death on the Nile” Light Reading a play that you’ve never seen performed is a bit of an awkward experience, because you have to imagine pretty much every interpretative thing that makes a play come alive when acted, from the stage setting to the actors’ vocal inflections, behaviour and the clothes they wear. In this […]
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Calling all Agathytes: Death on the Nile in May
Reblogged from Moonlight Reader Themis, BrokenTune & I are planning to revisit Death on the Nile next month, around May 18th! Death on the Nile is a particularly delicious Christie puzzle mystery, with lots of delightful side plots, some romantic intrigue, a bit of espionage, and appearances both by Monsieur Poirot, our favorite Belgian, and the enigmatic Colonel […]
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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Nile – Reading Progress Update: 58 of 104 Pages
Got to the end of Act II, Scene 1 — now off to bed. Quite apposite, probably, in light of the fact that the first shot has just been fired … and the shooter has been packed off to bed, too. Basically, this is a very condensed version of Death on the Nile — all […]
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Terry Pratchett: Mort
Wizard’s, um, Death’s Apprentice Hmm. I suspect like other early Discworld books (particularly Equal Rites), I’m going to come to like this one considerably better upon a reread. Going by first impressions, it begins with a hefty shower of sparkle, and both dialogue and plot hit high points whenever either of the two female leads […]
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Members of the Detection Club: The Floating Admiral
Upon revisiting, much more fun than the first time around. Well, this was a reread for me and I said I was going to “tag along” with MR’s, BT’s and Lillelara’s buddy read — turns out I ended up whizzing through it because I liked it so much better this time around than when I […]
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