Shōgun [#books #reviews]

by James Clavell

Rating: 9/10

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
Mariko

The Big Bad Fox [#books #reviews]

(Le grand méchant renard) by Benjamin Renner

Rating: 9/10

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [#books #reviews]

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rating: 7/10

At lenght did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came [...].

(Page 21)

Towards Zero [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Superintendent Battle
← Cards on the Table

Rating: 8.5/10

When you read the account of a murder―or say, a fiction story based on murder, you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story.
It's Zero Hour.
[...]
It's Zero Hour now.
Superintendent Battle

(Page 223)

The Moving Finger [#books #review]

by Agatha Christie

Miss Marple
← The Body in the Library
A Murder is Announced →

Rating: 8.5/10

God doesn't really need to punish us [...]. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.
Jerry Burton

(Page 88)

L'Allegria [#books #review]

by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Rating: 8/10

M'illumino
d'immenso

I illuminate (myself)
with immensity

(English translation found HERE)

Five Little Pigs [#books #review]

by Agatha Christie

Poirot
← Evil Under the Sun
? →

Rating: 8.5/10

Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.

[incipit]