I probably should see the film huh?
This was a decent read given it's a novelization of a film and for the most part I think it works OK. It's a fairly quick and undemanding read and has some nice moments.
I'm sure the film is better though!
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This is my second read of this one and I had the loose concept of how the murder was done and the key points still in my head from last time I read it.
While it's great to see Adriana Oliver and essentially get some insight into how Agatha herself felt about her work near the end of her life, the writing here isn't as vibrant as her earlier work. What Elephants Can Remember appears to be is taking some of her notes on a story that she was working on and padding it out into a novel by having the various people monologue at either Poirot or Oliver (or each other).
I think even without having read it before, it's very likely that you'll get the jist of the murder about half way through. It's a shame that it's such a poorly written novel as the murder could have …
This is my second read of this one and I had the loose concept of how the murder was done and the key points still in my head from last time I read it.
While it's great to see Adriana Oliver and essentially get some insight into how Agatha herself felt about her work near the end of her life, the writing here isn't as vibrant as her earlier work. What Elephants Can Remember appears to be is taking some of her notes on a story that she was working on and padding it out into a novel by having the various people monologue at either Poirot or Oliver (or each other).
I think even without having read it before, it's very likely that you'll get the jist of the murder about half way through. It's a shame that it's such a poorly written novel as the murder could have been quite clever if she had have gotten to it earlier. As it is though, it's a bit of a miss.
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It's been a little while since I read the first book and so I'm not sure quite how I would have felt about this one straight off the back of the last. I had a lot of "Oh yeah, that was a thing" moments.
This really feels like a season of an anime.... But a lot of it feels like filler. I'll read the last one (a not overly surprising ending but very cliff hangery).
Handsome, wry, and witty despite his impeccable manners, and the dedicated black sheep of his conservative, wealthy Australian family, Rowland …
It was probably a mistake to read a novel about a virus sweeping across the land even at the end of 2021.
This is a rather dark and strange tale and I really struggled to get through it. No one is very likable. In parts it's quite hard to follow, but at times I suspect that it's a choice rather than a failure.
In a retirement village, Joyce is asked a question by member (well leader, let's be honest) of the Thursday Murder Club Elizabeth about how long it would take to bleed out from a certain wound. They meet in the jigsaw room every Thursday hence the name. There she meets the tough as nails but heart of gold Ron and the ex-psychologist Ibrahim.
Together they solve cold cases. But when a murder occurs related to their retirement village it uncovers secrets that end up closer to home.
Mechanically the story alternates between Joyce's journal entries and a third person view but it does have a fairly decent pace.
The characters a very likeable and have very distinct approaches, Elizabeth has many contacts and is very observant (with a history that's very hush hush), Ron is rough around the edges, Ibrahim is more for the analysis (and I suppose the little grey …
In a retirement village, Joyce is asked a question by member (well leader, let's be honest) of the Thursday Murder Club Elizabeth about how long it would take to bleed out from a certain wound. They meet in the jigsaw room every Thursday hence the name. There she meets the tough as nails but heart of gold Ron and the ex-psychologist Ibrahim.
Together they solve cold cases. But when a murder occurs related to their retirement village it uncovers secrets that end up closer to home.
Mechanically the story alternates between Joyce's journal entries and a third person view but it does have a fairly decent pace.
The characters a very likeable and have very distinct approaches, Elizabeth has many contacts and is very observant (with a history that's very hush hush), Ron is rough around the edges, Ibrahim is more for the analysis (and I suppose the little grey cells style) and Joyce acts as our entry into the club but is one of those people who really wants everyone to like her but not in a painful way.
And with Donna and Chris in the story you also get some police procedural thrown in for good measure.
There's a lot of mysteries in here that get uncovered, though it's not one of those tales that you're expected to be able to solve it before the characters do. The ride however is an intriguing one and looking forward to what the sequel presents.
This one drops you straight into it and it's a rather fast read... it's a somewhat disappointing finish as it ends on a rather big cliff hanger which isn't resolved until you pick up All Flesh is Grass. But it's also slightly confusing as it picks up from other media (some audiobooks and a comic). But it's fairly manageable (at least without the comic).
The story itself is about death and the Doctor's relationship with it. It's hard to know exactly how I'll feel about this one until picking up All Flesh is Grass, so maybe I'll have to come back and re-review this.
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Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 …
Most of the chapters relate the background and fight to get the Palace Letters released, I've now made it to the section where the letters have been released and what they reveal and it paints Kerr in a very poor light. He's constantly seeking approval from the palace, despises Whitlam ideologically and seems to think that the position of G-G is something that it never has been and will never be again.
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