Book Reading.......

[disneydream06]

Finished up Book No. 26 this morning. :)
I read "4:50 From Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
It's a reread from about 5 years ago. It was next on my Nook collection of Miss Marple books, so I thought, why not. :)
The book is quite different from the movie that it's based on. Same dead bodies, but a few different characters.


Book List 2016:
1. Schooled in Revenge by Jesse Lasky
2. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
3. Kicking and Dreaming by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross
4. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5. A Kingdom Keepers Adventure: The Syndrome:Finders Keepers Losers Sleepers by Ridley Pearson
6. The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
7. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
8. Before Tomorrowland by Jeff Jensen/Jonathan Case/Brad Bird/Damon Lindelof
9. Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
10. Dean and Me(A Love Story) by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan
11. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
12. Detective Strongoak and The Case of the Dead Elf by Terry Newman
13. Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
14. The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice by M. G. Lord
15. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
16. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
17. The Return: Disney Lands by Ridley Pearson
18. The Return: Legacy of Secrets by Ridley Pearson
19. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen by Serena Valentino
20. If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) by Betty White
21. Confirmed Diagnosis by Mary King
22. The Book of Deacon by Joseph R. Lallo
23. Cyndi Lauper A Memoir by Cyndi Lauper with Jancee Dunn
24. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
25. Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
26. 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie

Comments

[owlstorm_9]

kinda thought i heard that title before.....always gotta tinker with the story when they film it. can't leave it so predictable !

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Sounds like they tinkered a LOT with the Margaret Rutherford movies. :p I think I read that two of them weren't even Miss Marple stories. lol...

[owlstorm_9]

That's Hollywood for ya!!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL.....

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

Um. The book came first - no?

You must spend all your time reading.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Oh no, but I have tried to give more time to it.
Like when I go to the movies, like I did last evening, I have learned to take my nook along with me and read before the show starts. :)

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

I read 4.50 years ago. Doesn't it start with a little old lady called Elspeth McGillicuddy? Or something like that!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

That's the one. :) Riding on a train and witnesses a murder on a passing train. :o

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

You do sure love your Christie books.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I do. Been a fan for awhile. :)

[techgirl-on-ij.livejournal.com]

Oh, I need to re-read Agatha Christie! I loved her books when I was a teenager.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

She's a total classic. :)

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

That is one of my very favorite Dame Agatha books!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Ranks right up there for me too. :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

onwards to nr 27!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I am on page 45, which should be like page 85 because I had been on page 40 and then set it aside for awhile, so I decided to just start over. LOL........

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL that's a way to read a book too of course

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

No chance to do any reading last night. :(

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

were they keeping you busy?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I had to help watch a couple of crazy/pain in the ass patients. Skipped my break even. :o I am such a martyr. lol........

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

LOLLLLLLLLLL

*there there*

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I skipped my break again this past Thursday night. Ugh...

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

URGH!! Now why on earth do you keep doing that?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Usually it's to make sure I have enough time in the morning to finish my job.
Unlike the evening shift, I prefer to get my tasks done and not leave them for the next shift.

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

you're too kind

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

The newer generation has no work ethic.
The other night I was getting report from the evening aide and a surgical came back. I went to the room to help settle it, and the evening aide left. DUDE, technically your shift didn't get done for another 30 minutes. ARGH..........
A couple of days later, we had a patient show up right when I could have given report, but I went to help with that one and didn't leave right away. Meanwhile the day aides just stood around waiting for me to come give report. UGH.......

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

URGH!! Those youngsters..... :(

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

So frustrating.
And we have very few patients right now, so I am floating off my station to other places. UGH.......

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

now don't you float off like a balloon now

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

That would probably be more fun. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

haha I don't doubt that

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I have always wanted to ride one of those big balloons, but it's not cheap. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

ride? Ride a balloon?????

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

You know those big hot air balloons that you ride in a basket underneath them? :)

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

oh yessssssssssss!!
I heard it's rather cold up there

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I suppose it could be. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Oh not -could-

it IS!!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I still think it would be really "cool" to do.
But I better start saving my pennies. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

haha love the pun


You better. Those rides don't come cheap

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL.....

Yeah, they are so not cheap, and the weather has to be just right or they don't even take off. :o

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Well.. you don't want to end up .. God-knows-where.. now do you?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL...........
I could be like Dorothy and end up in Oz. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

hahaha OMG Jon!! make sure to take red sparkly shoes with you!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Would my pink ones be close enough? LOL.......

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i think they would

but what if they're not and they won't bring you home when you click them?

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I had better practice walking in them some more. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

you should!! But being able to walk in them doesn't assure they have what it takes to bring you home with a click

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

And they are pink, not red. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I doubt they would work

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Well, I have always wanted to be the Wicked Witch and not Dorothy. LOL...........

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

haha shall I grab some water? :ppp

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooo :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

*giggles*** you'll melt you know

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I am going to have to get a REALLY big umbrella. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

and I'ld suggest to add a water resisting suit that reaches way up to your neck

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I will have to have a rubber dress, huh?
LOL...............

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

*bursts out in laughter*



hahahahahaha

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Green rubber, so attractive.
NOT..... :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

haha I had to go back and have a look how on earth we gotten to the subject of green rubber. haha
It did sound so kinky LOLLLLLLLLLLLL

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

.. and thinking about possible subject the two of us can have...

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Kind of scary, huh? LOL...

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

IT IS !!! YESSSSSSSS

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

LOL..................

[britalone.livejournal.com]

I dare say the films of the Agatha Christie books and the books themselves are quite different. I don't know why that has to be, the books are good enough as they are.
Reading is my favourite occupation.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I think when it comes to the Margaret Rutherford movies, they wanted to get as much Miss Marple in the story as they could. In the books she's portrayed as a feeble old lady.

[britalone.livejournal.com]

Margaret Rutherford was a hoot! My favourite Miss Marple is Joan Hickson. When she was on stage, Agatha Christie actually wrote to her and said she hoped she would play Miss Marple!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Margaret Rutherford is my favorite Miss Marple of all, but I really do like Geraldine McEwan from the tv shows. :)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I just started a Robert Parker "Spenser" novel called "Walking Shadow" that I somehow missed. It's from 1994.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Spencer as in Spencer for Hire?