Three Blind Mice and Other Stories [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Rating: 8.5/10

Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice
See how they run
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer’s wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a sight in your life

Epigraph

Crooked House [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Rating: 8.5/10

Even if he hasn’t made a mistake, it won’t matter—so long as the right person killed him.
Sophia

Anne of Avonlea [#books #reviews]

by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables
← Anne of Green Gables
Anne of the Island →

Rating: 9/10

"I'm nervous about a good many things," said Anne, "but I don't think there is much fear that I won't be able to talk."
And, to do her justice, there wasn't.

(Page 413)

Sparkling Cyanide [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Rating: 7/10

Iris Marle was thinking about her sister, Rosemary.
For nearly a year she had deliberately tried to put the thought of Rosemary away from her. She hadn't wanted to remember.

[incipit]

All Systems Red [#books #reviews]

by Martha Wells

The Murderbot Diaries
Artificial Condition →

Rating: 9/10

I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.

[incipit]

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]

N or M? [#books #review]

by Agatha Christie

Tommy & Tuppence
← Partners in Crime
By the Pricking of My Thumbs →

Rating: 8.5/10

Tommy Beresford removed his overcoat in the hall of the flat. He hung it up with some care, taking time over it. His hat went carefully on the next peg.

[incipit]

Richard II [#books #review]

by William Shakespeare

Henriad
Henry IV, Part 1 →

Rating: 7/10

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Richard

Norwegian Wood

by Murakami Haruki

Rating: 8/10

What makes us most normal is knowing that we're not normal.
Reiko

The protagonist/narrator, Tōru Watanabe, remembers the time of his youth, about the end of Sixties, when he wasn't able to find his path, and let himself live, cultivating a few of strange friendships, unconscious of being accomplishing the hard transition to adulthood.

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Voto: 10/10

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Today is the 200th anniversary of the first pubblication of the masterpiece known as Pride and Prejudice. To celebrate I joined in december to an italian Reading Group (HERE) with an audio version of the book, read by an amazing italian actress, Paola Cortellesi.

Elizabeth Bennet has four sisters, an intrusive mother, a resigned father, a remarkable pride and a certain inclination for prejudices, despite the esteem that she herself has for her intellect. Fitzwilliam Darcy has only one sister, a huge patrimony, an immense pride and some prejudice, too, expecially about people of a inferior rank than his. What ever could happen if this two characters eventually meet each other? ;)