I wrote this little review a while back but since I’m rereading it and just recommended it to someone, I thought I’d better share again. It is also unexpectedly funny. I laugh out loud and read bits of it to my husband.
Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie Mallowan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This engaging memoir covers Agatha Christie’s time on archaeological digs with her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan. Having just read They Came to Baghdad, I was struck by how many of the heroine’s realizations of what archaeology teaches us were already familiar because they were Christie’s own. Her love of the ordinary people and their lives comes through strong and clear. This is a wonderful look at the Middle East in a time gone by from a unique perspective. I can’t recommend this highly enough.
Happy Christmas!
I’ve read 3 of the 5 Favia de Luce Mysteries. Other books seem so bland after a taste of that “Sweetness.”
Went to see “The Devastation of Smaug” in 3-D. I’m sure J.R.R. is turning over in his grave. The 3-D was OK, but the rest was garbage. Special effects relegated this section of “The Hobbit” to the background, as the story got in the way of the decapitation of Orcs. It’s like Tolkien does “Grand Theft Auto.”
Poor Bilbo merely provided occasional comic relief or the means of moving the dwarfs from one blood bath to the next.
I wonder what Joseph Pearce would say about the cinema representation, which left no room for the story, let alone Divine Providence.
It’s interesting how Hollywood has turned the Hunger Games Trilogy into a “quadrilogy.” The bottom line sets the course.
Wishing you a joyful Christmas-Epiphany Season.
God bless,
Don
I enjoyed The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. It is the same time period definitely. 🙂
Hi Julie,
Have you looked at the Flavia de Luce mysteries? Flavia in some few ways resembles Miss Marple.
Wishing you a Happy Christmas.
God Bless,
Don