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A couple of days back I finally finished about another book.
No. 16 was Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran.
The author took excerpts from Agatha Christie's notebooks where she kept plot information for books she was writing or thought about writing, and compared it to the finished products.
It was very interesting on a historical level to see the developement of her books.
However, it was kind of difficult, at times, trying to follow her "shorthand" notes. It didn't help either not being familiar with some of the stories.
I was kind of saddened to learn that Ms. Christie wasn't a fan of, or was it the critics that weren't, of some of my favorite movies made from her stories. They were the movies starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Also, that only one of the movies was based on a Miss Marple story. Two were based on stories that were actually Hercule Poirot, and the last one was made up. :o

Grade: B

Book List 2014:

1. A Rite of Swords by Morgan Rice
2. Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
3. The Garner Files A Memoir by James Garner and Jon Winokur
4. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
5. Treatment of Choice by Mary King
6. Blue Moon by Laurel K. Hamilton
7. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors
and Stagehands at Ford's Theater by Thomas A. Bogar
8. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
9, Hitler's Alpine Headquarters by James Wilson
10. Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
11. Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
12. Goosebumps Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine
13. Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
14. Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die! by R. L. Stine
15. Moon River and Me by Andy Williams
16. Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran