![]() ![]() ![]() One, Two, Buckle My Shoe features the wonderful Inspector Japp who is called in when Mr Morely’s body is found and soon discovers that his secretary Gladys Neville was called away to visit a sick aunt on a false pretext, the telegram she received was a hoax. ![]() Apart from her there is the mysterious Greek Amberiotis and the brilliant banker Alistair Blunt. With Poirot’s teeth fixed he leaves the house and passes Mrs Sainsbury Seale who loses the buckle of her shoe when exiting the car, she goes into the house. ![]() There are the two dentists, Mr Morely who is shot dead, initially a possible suicide and Mr Reilly who has a drink problem but appears to have an affable nature. The Queen of Crime surpasses herself on the sheer ingenuity of the mystery in this book, one which I don’t remember reading before, with a closed house murder set at the dentist’s office.Īs well as an inspired setting of a dentist practice with only one entrance where everyone is admitted by the slightly goofy doorman with a penchant for American detective stories the author also provides us with a good selection of easily identifiable characters. ![]()
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Yet before reading this book, I knew only the barest facts about her: that she was gifted at x-ray crystallography, that Watson & Crick's DNA model would have been impossible (or really, terribly inaccurate) without her, and that her results were used by them in a questionable and poorly acknowledged manner. ![]() When asked to name women in science, Rosalind Franklin is always high on my list. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Macon's publisher, Julian, comes to visit, he finds himself attracted to Rose. When he becomes incapacitated due to a fall involving his disturbed dog and one of his crazy inventions, Macon returns to the family home to stay with his eccentric siblings, sister Rose and brothers Porter and Charles, whose odd habits include alphabetizing the groceries in the kitchen cabinets and ignoring the ringing telephone. ![]() He and his wife, Sarah, separately lost in grief, find their marriage disintegrating until she eventually moves out. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot revolves around Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides whose son has been killed in a shooting at a fast-food restaurant. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis, for which Davis won an Academy Award. The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1985 and the Ambassador Book Award for Fiction in 1986. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers who want to try Murakami but dislike magical realism should start with either this one or Norwegian Wood.Ĭolorless Tsukuru Tazaki follows the story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man whose name means “to make.” In some ways it’s a coming-of-age story, but it’s a Murakami-esque coming-of-age story complete with loose ends and unresolved questions. I say “seeming” because the book is only simple on the surface. It has great depth below the surface. This novel is more along the lines of Norwegian Wood than his “traditional” works in its seeming simplicity (for a Murakami novel) and lack of magical elements. It’s no secret that I love Murakmi’s work (you can check out our featured author post on Murakami here). Published in: 2013 (English translation 2014) Keep reading to see what I thought, although those of you who know me well can probably guess.Ĭolorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami ![]() Today’s book has been sitting on my TBR shelf at home for a while so it’s about time. I’m finally back on track! After close to a month of reading very little literary fiction and too much “escapist” fare, I finally got around to reading a book that I can actually review for this blog. ![]() |