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  🧡 One Fine Day reminded me of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway . Besides the fact that the whole story covers only one single day, it ...

  🔫 This is the fifth Miss Marple mystery novel from the series that I have re-read for my Agatha Christie Perpetual Challenge . The main i...

  🚤 I don't know why, but to me, living in a boat feel somehow romantic. Though in reality I would probably reject the idea, reading a...

🟢 Judging only by this book's title and the particular cover I used for the post, you would think this as a charming slice-of-life nove...

🥂 Beginning a new series is always an exciting reading experience. It is doubly so when the debut proved to be a success, just like this on...

  💙 I still find it quite hard to believe that Bramton Wick was Elizabeth Fair's debut novel. It doesn't feel amateurish the way s...

  🌾 The 24th instalment of Lorac's Robert Macdonald series, which combines murder mystery and the charm of farming village in the Engli...

✒️ Have you ever imagined what would happened if Agatha Christie were to deal with a real murder? Would she be as shrewd as the detectives s...

🎭 While I have read a few Patricia Wentworth before, I have yet to start her Miss Silver series. And this time, I prefer to start from the...

🐫 While espionage and political stories don't usually fascinate me much, in term of crime/murder mysteries (my favorite is closed-circl...

🏨 This is my first introduction to the inimitable Elizabeth Taylor, and also the third book for my personal project: #Reading1971, which is...

  🌳 My third and last read for #1961Club is another Mary-Stewart-success. The Ivy Tree is a slow-paced psychological thriller about double...

🎪 My second read for #1961Club is a far cry from my first; this one is a typical Golden Age murder mystery, introducing Superintendent Litt...

☕ Although I'm a fan of simple but ingenious murder mysteries - such as what Agatha Christie had often delivered - every now and then I ...

  🧵 I always love reading historical fictions about cathedral. Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth has started it all; I have read i...

🚲 Having read the first in Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire series: High Rising , I tried to enjoy the third one, still about the Morlan...

🧁 Mr . Fortune is a laidback country doctor called Reginald "Reggie" Fortune, who was left in charge of his father's medical...

📰 From the first four (based on publication dates) murder mysteries of Miss Jane Marple, I think this one is my favorite. Miss Marple is le...