Read-a-Thon ’09
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney, 217 pages. Even worse than the first one. I think I’ll stop reading them now.
Running Total: 11,813 pages
Previous Total: 4,910
Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton’s Polar-Bound Cat by Caroline Alexander — 146
Amusing, in a way. It’s a very light read and hardly informative. It could have been a really good and fun book but it flunked.
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie — 164
The poor woman was shot through the head but never fear for Poirot is here! Poirot is a interesting character, I like reading about him and I like the way he works and solves things, but he can be annoying sometimes, he doesn’t really care for justice he’s just here to solve the crime. But still, Agatha Christie writes very well and her plots (after reading five Poirot stories) are still new and interesting.
The Mirror Crack’d by Agtha Christie — 141
And now for some Miss Marple. This mystery is set in the same house where The Body in the Library starts, which I’ve never read but saw on TV once. They played What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw the next week and I was really freaked out.
Anyway. I don’t like Marple quite as well as Poirot. Marple has a different way of doing things. Poirot says, “There is a reason for such-n-such and when we find that reason everything will fall into place” whereas Marple is far more interested in, not what people do, but what they say. So, yes, I like Poirot better but Marple is interesting. I know that she isn’t about to be killed off but I can’t help but think that she could, so very easily, be bumped off.A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie — 109
Not Christie’s best work, duller and not as well thought out as the others.
Running Total: 5,470
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