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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Not ALL Girls' Best Friend! My #bookreview for "The Hope Keeper" by Heather Webb, on my #bookblog now. Thanks #Sourcebooks Landmark for the #NetGalley ARC of this sparkly #biographical #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/05/08/not-all-girls-best-friend/

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Not ALL Girls' Best Friend! My #bookreview for "The Hope Keeper" by Heather Webb, on my #bookblog now. Thanks #Sourcebooks Landmark for the #NetGalley ARC of this sparkly #biographical #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/05/08/not-all-girls-best-friend/

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Not ALL Girls' Best Friend! My #bookreview for "The Hope Keeper" by Heather Webb, on my #bookblog now. Thanks #Sourcebooks Landmark for the #NetGalley ARC of this sparkly #biographical #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/05/08/not-all-girls-best-friend/

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Not ALL Girls' Best Friend! My #bookreview for "The Hope Keeper" by Heather Webb, on my #bookblog now. Thanks #Sourcebooks Landmark for the #NetGalley ARC of this sparkly #biographical #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/05/08/not-all-girls-best-friend/

#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Not ALL Girls' Best Friend! My #bookreview for "The Hope Keeper" by Heather Webb, on my #bookblog now. Thanks #Sourcebooks Landmark for the #NetGalley ARC of this sparkly #biographical #womensfiction novel. #histficreadingchallenge #2026NewReleaseChallenge

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/05/08/not-all-girls-best-friend/

The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel "Mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayal in the ancient Egyptian world" Sale: $30 to $1.99 by Margaret George Rating: 4.5/5 (1,524 Reviews) #Historical #Fiction #Biographical #Ancient #Egypt #Cleopatra #BookSky

The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A No...

‘There’s nothing like boredom to make you write’: A rare interview with the elusive Agatha Christie – BBC.com

‘There’s nothing like boredom to make you write’: A rare interview with the elusive Agatha Christie

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By Greg McKevitt

Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries have captivated audiences for more than a century, but, 50 years after her death, she remains an enigma. A rarely heard BBC interview from 1955 reveals some of the secrets of a writer who was as complex as her plots.

Dame Agatha Christie was brilliant at hiding in plain sight. She presented herself as a genial older lady in a fur coat who loved gardening, good food, family and dogs, but behind that cosy exterior she delighted in plotting best-selling stories of poisonings, betrayals and blood. And she offered few clues to the inner workings of her ingenious mind.

Christie was chronically shy, but in 1955 she was persuaded to give a rare interview in her London flat for a BBC radio profile. In it she revealed how an unconventional childhood fired her imagination, why writing plays was easier than writing novels, and how she could finish a book in three months.  

Born Agatha Miller into a prosperous family in 1890, she was mostly home-schooled. When asked why she took up writing, Christie said: “I put it all down to the fact that I never had any education. Perhaps I’d better qualify that by admitting I did eventually go to school in Paris when I was 16 or thereabouts. But until then, apart from being taught a little arithmetic, I’d had no lessons to speak of at all.”

WATCH: ‘Three months seems to be quite a reasonable time to complete a book’.

Editor’s Note: The audio file from BBC is in the article online. If you wish to hear. Below is the same audio file as loaded January 14, 2026, onto YouTube. –DrWeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF8X9fVeigI

Christie described her childhood as “gloriously idle”, but she had a voracious appetite for reading. “I found myself making up stories and acting the different parts, and there’s nothing like boredom to make you write. So by the time I was 16 or 17, I’d written quite a number of short stories and one long, dreary novel.” She said she finished writing her first published novel at the age of 21. After several rejections, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published in 1920, introducing her most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. 

The poisoning murder method that she chose for the story came straight from her personal experience during World War One. While her first husband Archie Christie was deployed in France, she worked on the home front as a volunteer nurse in a hospital for wounded soldiers. She became an assistant in the hospital pharmacy, which gave her an understanding of medicines and toxins. In her stories, poison is used in 41 murders, attempted murders and suicides.

The real work is done in thinking out the development of your story – Agatha Christie

Christie’s typical formula begins with a closed circle of suspects from the same social world, and a murder that generates clues leading to a climactic confrontation. At the centre is a private detective, such as Poirot or Miss Marple, who unravels the mystery and reveals the truth to the group in a dramatic final scene. This structure, familiar yet endlessly adaptable, is part of what makes Christie’s work so enduring.

In 1926, she published The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a book that cemented her professional reputation even as her personal life unravelled that year. Her beloved mother died, and Archie confessed he had fallen in love with another woman. He asked for a divorce. Struggling with grief and writer’s block, Christie herself became the subject of a mystery. On a cold December night, her crashed car was found at a desolate Surrey beauty spot, balanced precariously over a chalk quarry. Police found her fur coat and driving licence in the car, but there was no sign of her.

One of Britain’s biggest ever missing-person searches was launched. The story had all the makings of a tabloid sensation: the celebrated crime novelist who had disappeared leaving a trail of tantalising clues, the seven-year-old daughter left behind, and the handsome husband entangled with a younger lover. Even Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got involved, hiring a psychic to connect with Agatha via one of her gloves.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘There’s nothing like boredom to make you write’: A rare interview with the elusive Agatha Christie

The House of the Dead: Or, Prison Life in Siberia "I know no better book in all modern literature." —Leo Tolstoy Sale: $6.99 to $1.99 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Rating: 4.2/5 (388 Reviews) #Dostoevsky #Prison #Classic #Literature #Biographical #Russian #Reading #Books #BookSky

The House of the Dead: Or, Pri...

True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)
Author: Ernest Hemingway
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/true-at-first-light-a-fictional-memoir-b000fc0vuw/
#Biographical, #ErnestHemingway

In his #book on #DavidRicardo, #NatDyer is careful not to commit the “Ricardian Vice.” His book is very empirical. It’s full of fascinating #biographical details about #Ricardo and other influential figures in #economics, and lots of engaging history. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/10/by-d...

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📚 Bad Bad Girl by: Gish Jen

My mother had died, but still I heard her voice...

Gish’s mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is born in 1924 to a wealthy Shanghai family whose girls are expected to restrain themselves. Her beloved nursemaid far more loving to than her real mother is torn from her even as she is constantly reprimanded: Bad bad girl! You don’t kno...

https://bookblabla.com/book/bad-bad-girl

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #womenfiction #biographical

Anarchy by Winfried Scharlau (PDF)
Author: Winfried Scharlau
File Type: PDF
Download at https://sci-books.com/anarchy-3842340923/
#Biographical, #WinfriedScharlau

An Honest Liar

Topics: #Con, #Psychic, #FaithHealer, #Magician, #Skeptic

An Honest Liar is a #biographical #featurefilm #documentary, The film documents the life of former #magician, #escapeartist, and #skeptical educator #JamesRandi, in particular the investigations through which he publicly exposed #psychics, #faithhealers, and #conartists.

https://archive.org/details/an-honest-liar

This is probably the right time & place to mention there is such a thing as #intersex - #biological speaking. Some years ago I was asked to make a #graphicnarrative of the #truestory of someone who spoke up. A #heartwrenching #biographical #tale that got nominated for the best #shortstory #comic of the #benelux.

#creativecommons. It can be reprinted/published free for non-profit WITHOUT changes & WITH proper credits. #lgbtq #rights #trans #nonbinary

Full read🇳🇱🇬🇧👉️
https://gemmaplum.nl/business/portfolio/real-comics/

#biographical #fiction #books based on the true love story of Hollywood movie star Carole Lombard ❤️ and the Valentino of the radio, singer and composer
Russ Columbo.

The Best New #LGBTQIA+ #Comics and #GraphicNovels

From #YA #romance to #paranormal #fantasy to #biographical #nonfiction, you’ll find a variety of #queer identities and #genres in this list.

https://bookriot.com/the-best-new-lgbtqia-comics-and-graphic-novels/

#Biographical profile

Biden's Decision | FRONTLINE

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/bidens-decision/

Lot's of interesting details on #Oppenheimer, #ChristopherNolan's upcoming #biopic (#July21), the biggest for me is that #Nolan got #Universal to give the #film a 100 day #theatrical #release #window!

The claim this #movie will save #Hollywood is hyperbole, but I agree that the combination of a #biographical #blockbuster and "extended" release is a major change.

When I was young, #movies might be in #theaters 4-6 months.

Amazing #technology!

https://youtu.be/8OlmCEAcA4I

https://youtu.be/8bFWQFUSPO4

There's still time to register for today's #webinar on "Linking #Data #Infrastructures for #Chinese #Biographical Research" in #CIUT's webinar series "Mapping migration and the history of 'foreign influences' on Chinese education". With Sun Huei-min (Taiwan), Ke Hao-Ren (Taiwan), Cecile Armand (France), Nora Van den Bosch (France) and Michael Fuller (USA). Organized by Queenie Lam and Tilman Schalmey. Programme: https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/ext/zimk_digest/CIUT_Webinar_Linking_DATABASES_070623.pdf – Registration: https://uni-trier.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvc-CvqjgrEtx3nNLGHmohUwAwap2St3C8#/registration

🎸🎤"I'm gonna be forty soon, and nobody's gonna remember me."📻

#Elvis
2022.

#Drama #AustinButler #screenplay #musical #film #moviescene #Hollywood #TomHanks #biographical #glamour #iconic #tragic #frame #scene #OscarNoms

@CommonMugwort yep, I get what you're saying, totally! And I agree. I hold myself to a pretty tough standard in that regard when I'm writing because of my subject matter and the responsibility I feel towards #biographical #histfic, but I confess to being a promiscuous reader with much lower standards. *shifty-eyes*

#history #historicalfiction #reading #books #bookstodon #publishing

“The Documentation series is a decades-long practice incorporating #biographical materials, #drawings, objects, words, and #photographs into kaleidoscopic installations. The works are self-reflective and intensely personal, and include obiects from my past preserved by my mother and myself. Lavered around bold central images, the objects offer contemplative and humanizing #narratives of my past and present #relationships in ways that invite each viewer to look deeply.” #brettCook #visualArt

I am pleased to share with you that #Stefanholubekschaum and I will be presenting theoretical and empirical explorations on the relationship between #consensus, #conformity and #socialintegration at @isa_sociology congess in #Melbourne next year.

We will draw on data collected in collaboration with our colleagues at #sofigöttingen/#fgz_risc.

Together we conducted 90 #biographical #narrative #interviews in five regions in #Germany with members of different #milieus.
#isawcs23

@sociology

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
Spartacus. Stanley Kubrick. 1960.

#SaturdayofAdventure #action #Spartacus #StanleyKubrick #KirkDouglas #classicmovie #TonyCurtis #drama #LaurenceOlivier #motionpicture #PeterUstinov #photography #CharlesLaughton #movie #Roma #slavery #biographical #history #epicmovie #adventures #adaptation #HowardFast

#Interdisciplinary reflections on #biographical accounts in #sociology and #history - interesting #methodological piece comparing research practice, anonymization, and archiving in oral history and biographical methods in sociology. New in Current Sociology, by Jakub Gałęźiowski & Kaja Kaźmierska

https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221132752