A Murder is Announced [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Miss Marple
← The Moving Finger
They Do It with Mirrors →

Rating: 8.5/10

A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.

(Page 5)

Anne of Green Gables [#books #reviews]

by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea →

Rating: 9/10

She was sitting there waiting for something or somebody and, since sitting and waiting was the only thing to do just then, she sat and waited with all her might and main.

(Page 15, the first time we meet Anne)

The Rings of Power, Season 2 [#tvseries #review]

← Season 1
Season 3 →

Rating: 7.5/10

Perhaps the Elves need only remember that is not strength that overcomes darkness, but light.
Celebrimbor

(Episode 7)

The Rings of Power, Season 1 [#tvseries #review]

Season 2 →

Rating: 6.5/10

Not all who wonder or wander are lost.

The Harfoots' song This Wandering Day

Taken at the Flood [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Poirot
← The Hollow
Mrs McGinty's Dead →

Rating: 7/10

They were all, it seemed, under the sway of this absurd little man with the big moustaches.

(Page 265)

Vader's little princess [#books #reviews]

by Jeffrey Brown

Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son
← Darth Vader and Son
Goodnight Darth Vader →

Rating: 9/10

The Princess and Curdie [#books #reviews]

by George MacDonald

Princess Irene and Curdie
← The Princess and the Goblin

Rating: 8/10

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

(Page 13)

My Brilliant Friend [#books #reviews]

by Elena Ferrante

Neapolitan Novels
The Story of a New Name →

Rating: 9/10

Tutto era bello e pauroso, allora.

Everything was beautiful and scary, back then.

(Page 19)

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]

The Watcher [#books #reviews]

by Italo Calvino

Rating: 7/10

Death Comes as the End [#books #reviews]

by Agatha Christie

Rating: 9/10

She might be safer unknowing, but no human creature could be content to have it that way. She wanted to know.

(Page 231)

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]

Gray [#books #reviews]

by Leonie Swann

Rating: 9/10

The Tales of Beedle the Bard [#books #reviews]

by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Library

Rating: 7.5/10

There was once a kindly old wizard who used his magic generously and wisely for the benefit of his neighbours.

[incipit]

The Crocodile [#books #reviews]

by Maurizio De Giovanni

Rating: 8/10

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems [#books #reviews]

by T.S. Eliot

Rating: 6/10

There will be time, there will be time
[...]
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

(Page 5)

Pyramids [#books #reviews]

by Terry Pratchett

Discworld
← Wyrd Sisters
Guards! Guards! →

Rating: 8.5/10

And then the world went mad.
All right, madder.

(Page 199)

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)