I started off watching the Miss Marple DVD series, that my mum so dearly loves, as a skeptic, but now I'm watching one every other slow Sunday afternoon. What can I say? They're delightful! So when I went to the public library and found Miss Marple Omnibus, I set myself up to late night reading in bed for the last couple of days. I've read two of the four and I think I'll stop there because I want to get as much as a variety of reading done (one of my goals this Summer). Agatha Christie's writing style is so easy to read and her books are definitely page turners. Her words paint in the ways of her time so well - I always feel like tea and biscuits after a session. The DVDs are done very well too (they were a TV series) and Joan Hickson is the perfect Miss Marple. All that insistence for propriety and luxury in Miss Marple's circles mixed with the jarring surprise of a gruesome murder(s) make Agatha Christie's stories addictive. I wonder what Christie was like in real life? I read somewhere that she was definitely an interesting person. I could imagine - a female author in that time writing about murders and suddenly disappearing one day forever! Definitely someone whose biography to look up.
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