RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[quillpunk]

Time has continued ticking, and it is once more Wednesday.

What are you reading? 👀

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[olivermoss]

I read Turtles All The Way Down by John Green. I'd never read John Green before and tend to hate coming of age stories, but I really liked this. I was intrigued by hearing him talk about how there is this trope of detectives having OCD being a superpower, but he wanted to write someone with OCD as he experiences dealing with a mystery. Longer reaction at my journal

I have my first official DNF of the year: Cascade Killer by Rob Phillips. I picked it up because I like mysteries, or at least want to. I like Agatha Christie, but struggle to get into any other mystery writer. I DNF'd for two reasons. One is that this reeks of 'I took a creative writing class but didn't understand it properly' He does a lot of unusual word choices to describe things, but they are bad or baffling choices. Pieces of clothing are 'shards of clothing'. He refers to a bear as a bruin. Etc. Second, this POV character works for the Fish and Wildlife Service and he sees himself as a cop, a cop whose job is more dangerous than other cops. His ways of thinking about things was gross. I could be that his character goes on an arc through the book and he isn't a POS by the end, but unless I knew that for certain I wasn't going to hang around to find out.

Speaking of mysteries, I am currently on Mystery of The Blue Train by Agatha Christie, which is on my list of books to read this year. I've heard it's a highly regarded book of hers, but it's very slow to get going.

[goldentunes]

Ooh! I absolutely adore Agatha Christie and have read many of her works, including everything I thought she was most famous for, but I've never come across Mystery of The Blue Train before! Thank you for this, I shall check it out. I hope you enjoy it when you get round to it!

[olivermoss]

I forgot where I heard it mentioned, it was probably in a video about Ten Little Soldiers. I was surprised to see I had the audiobook and had only listened to a bit. The set up is very long, but I am going to get through it this time.

Crooked House and Orient Express are favorites of mine

[goldentunes]

Loved those two! Death On The Nile might be my number one. I also really liked The Murder of Roger Ackroyd but would probably respectfully disagree with everyone calling it her best.