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#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a Zoo animal Elephants can Remember: Is it good?

I know, I know: my choice to this #MurderEveryMonday is probably again too obvious, but it also gives me the opportunity to talk about this book. Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag.

Agatha Christie was 82 years old when she wrote Elephants Can Remember. This is the last novel she wrote with Poirot as the detective and it was published in November of 1972. Poirot’s Early Cases (1974) and Curtain (1975), both published afterwords, were written in the 1920s and 1930s, for the short stories, and for the last case of Poirot in the 1940s, the book being kept unpublished in a bank vault.

Even at the time of publication, the book received some less kind reviews, with some pointing out inconsistencies about times and ages, which quite frankly could (and should) have been avoided by the editors and publisher of the book. Still, many today consider this a lesser work, but I find several reasons to like it.

The book starts with Mrs. Ariadne Oliver going to a literary luncheon. Oliver is the alter-ego of Agatha Christie: she likes apples, she is always trying hair styles, writes crime fiction, and complains about her Finn detective, lamenting inventing him, since she doesn’t know anything about Finland. It’s always a delight to have her as a character in a book. In the first chapter, Mrs. Oliver tell us about her problems with making speeches, the questions people always ask her, the letters she receives from her readers, and how she tries to deal with all of this. And I found this a delight because it seems clear we’re given a glimpse of something Christie also struggled with and knew first hand.

At that lunch, a woman asks Mrs. Oliver if she is the godmother of Celia Ravenscroft and after corroboration, the woman continues: “Did her mother kill her father or was it the father who killed the mother?”.

And I still remember, when I first read this book (which is more than I can say for so many other books), I was as puzzled as Mrs. Oliver. I mean, why would it matter if it was the father or the mother? Why would it be so important to know? But this also tell us something about the beliefs and obsessions of the people in the past (in this case, in the 1970s). I think Agatha Christie was more observant than a talkative person, and because of that she noticed things more. And I love her books have these snippets she took from her observations: it can be something she heard someone saying, or it can be something being discussed in a newspaper, some new advance in science, something she remembers her family doing when she was a child, etc.

This is also a book about a murder in the past and deals with the people’s memory (the elephants), sometimes people remember certain things, but not others, or they remember things differently. And it’s Poirot job to make sense of all this.

I didn’t re-read this one for some time now, but I remember liking it. And now that I’ve talked about what I liked about it, I’ll be re-reading it again shortly. So, tell me, did you read Elephants Can Remember? Did you like it or not? And why?

Find Your Safe Space: Gentle Support for Overwhelming Moments

https://angelblessings11.com/2026/05/05/find-your-safe-space-gentle-support-for-overwhelming-moments/

🇫🇷 L'homme en rouge de Julian Barnes

Partant du portrait de Samuel Pozzi, célèbre gynécologue et chirurgien français de la "belle époque", peint par Sargent en 1881, Julian Barnes offre un livre dense qui présente la vie parisienne de la fin du XIXème siècle jusqu'à la grande guerre.

Outre le Comte de Montesquiou, un homosexuel notoire et un des nombreux dandys, qui caractérisent l'époque qui est es omniprésent, on croise pêle-mêle Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... pour n'en citer que quelques-uns...

Ce n'est pas un roman mais plutôt une série de petits articles (il n'y a pas de chapitres ni de sous-titres) qui relatent des aspects de la vie de la "bonne" société à Paris à cette époque.

C'est une lecture qui m'a paru par moment assez ardue du fait qu'il n'y a pas vraiment de structure mais qui est intéressante malgré tout.

Samuel Pozzi est ce qu'on appelle un "Don Juan" et n'inspire ni sympathie, ni antipathie... En fait, il m'a laissé assez indifférent pour dire la vérité.

Une lecture à réserver à ceux que l'époque intéresse, époque qui n'avait pas grand chose de "belle" d'ailleurs, contrairement au nom donné à cette période de l'histoire de France. C'est quand même à cette période qu'a lieu l'affaire Dreyfus, les assassinats de Jaurès et de Carnot.

L'ouvrage est illustré de nombreuses reproductions de chromos "Félix Potin" que l'on trouvait dans les tablettes de chocolat et aussi de la reproduction de quelques tableaux présentant de quelques uns de ces personnages rencontrés au fil des pages.

🇬🇧 The Man in the red Coat by Julian Barnes

Starting from the portrait of Samuel Pozzi, famous French gynecologist and surgeon of the "belle époque", painted by Sargent in 1881, Julian Barnes offers a dense book which presents Parisian life from the end of the 19th century until the Great War.

Besides Pozzi, we meet a large gallery of personalities from those years and among them the Comte of Montesquiou, a notorious homosexual and a real dandy, like the many we could have meet then. Sarah Bernhardt, Flaubert, Daudet, Wilde, ... to name just a few... are also present in the book.

The Man in the red Coat is not a novel, nor a biography but a small articles (there are no chapters or subtitles) which relate aspects of the life of "good" society in Paris at that time.

I must admit, I had some difficulties sometimes to get into the book for that reason. Nevertheless, it is an interesting reading for readers interested in art, science and history.

Samuel Pozzi is what we call a "Don Juan" and inspired me neither sympathy nor antipathy... In fact, he left me indifferent indeed.

A portrait of a era in Paris, called the "Belle époque", which is already funny to call it "belle" as during this period, the Dreyfus affair took place as the assassination of Jaurès and President Carnot.

The work is illustrated with numerous reproductions of the "Félix Potin" images that could be found in chocolate bars and also with the reproduction of some paintings presenting some of the characters encountered throughout the pages.

#mardiLecture #Lectures #Readings

#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a series sleuth

For today’s #MurderEvryMonday I decided to start with Miss Marple, here with The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and A Crime is Announced (a favorite).

Then, we continue with Lord Peter Wimsey (also a favorite). The Portuguese edition being the short story collection Lord Peter Views the Body.

And finally a depiction of Father Brown.

It’s quite interesting to see how characters are depicted in book covers and how/if they differ from our own imagination.

If you want to know more about #MurderEveryMonday check Kate Jackson’s blog, see the next themes, and share your covers using the hashtag.

#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction cover with a village on

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday I’m sharing a cover of a book I want to read, Murder before Evensong, the first in the Canon Clement series, and a book I’ve read before (one of my 2023 favorite reads). Serpents in Eden is a short story collection with both known crime fiction authors and others less known, with extra points for the introduction by Martin Edwards. By the way, if you want to read the 1948 article The Guilty Vicarage – Notes on the detective story, by an addict by W. H. Auden, you can do so here.

Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Happy World Book Day 2026!

As a celebration of World Book Day, I finished creating itens in Wikidata for all the books and editions by Dean Street Press that I have by Elizabeth Fair. There’s a seventh one, but it seems it is more difficult to get.

This is also part of #EveryBookItsReader Wikimedia campaign, which I talked here before (you can still join in). I’m linking here the rest of the itens I created, so if you know more info about them, please go there and add it and/or correct if you see something wrong.

Landscape in Sunlight – The work and the edition

The Native Heath – The work and the edition

Seaview House – The work and the edition

The Mingham Air – The work and the edition

The Marble Staircase – The work and the edition

Elizabeth Fair has already a page on Wikipedia, if you want to improve it.

Poetry Reading in Honor of Sibylla Schwarz

Lettura poetica per Sibylla Schwarz

#Sibyl #poetry #readings #youtubeshorts #youtube #translation #books #graphicnovel #baroque #germanliterature #videolessons

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sffsU8ljenc&is=GAufgLkDvYK2bQMD

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

I share air quality readings at airports, planes, ground transportation, a convention center, and my hotel during a trip to Puerto Rico.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2022/05/air-quality-readings

#travel #safety #AirQuality #readings #IAQ #plane #airport #bus #ConventionCenter #hotel #flying

#MurderEveryMonday A special edition

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday is a title with a word that starts with the letter Q. I’m hoping I can use the title in Portuguese for this one, because it is the perfect excuse to tell you about a special edition, that is not much known.

The book chosen is The Floating Admiral, which title was translated to Portuguese as Quem Matou o Almirante?

The story was written by the members of The Detection Club and in a round-robin format, meaning each author would write a chapter to continue the story without knowing how it would go. The publishers of the Colecção Vampiro, a book collection I’ve been talking about in this blog, decided to published this book when the collection reached 500 volumes in March of 1989. But besides the regular edition that follows the design of the other volumes in the collection, they also decided to publish a special limited and numbered edition in a totally different design. This is bigger book, it’s a paperback, but has a dust jacket with the title and the logo (the bat) of the collection embossed in. It is also printed in a much better and thicker paper. Both volumes have a list of all the titles published in the collection up to number 500 and their date of publication (I’m always forgetting this resource!).

#BookLook #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #readings #TheDetectionClub

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice was first published on 28th of January of 1813 and is one of my (and so many others) favorite novels of all time. If you never read it, do not go thinking it is a love story. Well, it’s kind of, but it’s so much more: It’s a comedy of manners and social criticism.

“I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least I do not know.“
Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra on the 29th of January of 1823

Elizabeth Bennet is one of my favourite characters: she is intelligent, witty, has no problems to recognise she was mistaken, but also she embodies women independence and resistance. We can see this when she decides to walk to Netherfield, instead of waiting for the carriage, to check on her sister or, when in Rosings, Elizabeth is playing the piano and says to Mr. Darcy:

“My fingers,” said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault—because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution.”

There are many editions of Pride & Prejudice, some with introductions or annotated that give more insights on the text, but if you want to read it right now, head over to Project Gutenberg that has the edition with the illustrations by Hugh Thomson. You can read it or download it here.

#BookLook #books #ClassicBooks #JaneAusten #Policiais #PrideAndPrejudice #readings

#MurderEveryMonday Crime Fiction Novel made into a film

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday I’m choosing two of my favourite book adaptations into a film:

• Witness for the Prosecution by Billy Wilder (with Marlene Dietrich) from 1957
• And Then There Were None by Rene Clair from 1945

Check Kate’s blog to know more about the hashtag and share your covers.

#BookLook #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #livros #MurderEveryMonday #Policiais #readings

Happy #PublicDomain Day 2026 – Crime Fiction Edition

We celebrate Public Domain Day every 1st of January. Although copyright is important, Public Domain is paramount for creativity and access: not only Public Domain constitutes an important pool from where new authors can create new works, but also is an opportunity to publish long forgotten works. I’m considering the copyright term as life + 70 years, since that is the copyright term in Portugal and in most of European countries.

Cyril Alington (1872- 1955) – List of works at Wikipedia

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883 – 1955) – List of works at Wikipedia

Benjamin Hawkins Dean (1892 – 1955) – List of works at GADetection

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) – List of works at Wikipedia

Horace Annesley Vachell (1861 – 1955) – List of works at GADetection

Jean Fiolle (1884 – 1955) – One only crime fiction work, reference at Wikipedia (in French)

W. H. Eemlandt (1889 – 1955) – List of works at Wikipedia (in Dutch)

#BookLook #books #CrimeFiction #livros #publicDomain #readings

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition)

http://www.redbook.io/

#HackerNews #Readings #in #Database #Systems #DatabaseSystems #5thEdition #TechBooks #HackerNews

It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: Anthony Trollope’s Christmas Stories #PublicDomain #Books

You know I have been reading the Barset Novels (loving them) and I have also read recently The Fixed Period (loved it), so my recommendation for this weekend is again works by Anthony Trollope that I intend to read and you can also read right here, right now.

According with the The Trollope Society, Anthony Trollope has eight stories related to Christmas and I’m making a list here and try to find them online so you can also read them.

• Catherine Carmichael; Or Three Years Running
  I only found this story in a pdf format which is not very good to read on a mobile or ereader so last year I transformed the pdf into an epub, corrected the typos, and made it available here, where you can read it on the browser or choose to download the epub format.

• Christmas At Thompson Hall
• Christmas Day At Kirkby Cottage
• The Mistletoe Bough
• The Two Generals
• The Two Heroines of Plumplington
• The Widow’s Mite
  These six works can be found at Standard Ebooks. You can download the whole ebook here or go through the table of contents and choose the stories you want to read directly on the browser. The only story that is not a short story is The Two Heroines… that has around 100 pages

• Not if I Know it
  I couldn’t find this short available online without restrictions, I will be continuing my search and update this post accordingly. If you know where we can find it online and accessible by anyone, do add it in the comments. Trollope’s works are in public domain.

The book in the photo does not have three of the stories: Catherine Carmichael; The Two Heroines of Plumplington; The Widow’s Mite.

#AmReading #AnthonyTrollope #BookLook #books #ChristmasBooks #ChristmasShortStories #livros #publicDomain #readings #ShortStories

Jane Austen 250th Anniversary

Today marks 250 years from Jane Austen‘s birth. She one of my all time favourite writers. Because her work is in public domain you can read all her books right now from Project Gutenberg. If you want to read them in order of publication, you can follow this post on this blog.

Happy birthday, Jane!

#BookLook #books #JaneAusten #livros #publicDomain #readings

Dive into a story where complex emotions and high-stakes careers collide! 🩺 Dee Bostic's novel, Love, Lies & Lab Coats, beautifully explores themes of connection and resilience—lessons we teach kids every day.

We recommend this for parents who appreciate strong character development and emotional depth.

Check out the book: https://www.deebostic.com/book/

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Dive into a story where complex emotions and high-stakes careers collide! 🩺 Dee Bostic's novel, Love, Lies & Lab Coats, beautifully explores themes of connection and resilience—lessons we teach kids every day.

We recommend this for parents who appreciate strong character development and emotional depth.

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Dive into a story where complex emotions and high-stakes careers collide! 🩺 Dee Bostic's novel, Love, Lies & Lab Coats, beautifully explores themes of connection and resilience—lessons we teach kids every day.

We recommend this for parents who appreciate strong character development and emotional depth.

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Dive into a story where complex emotions and high-stakes careers collide! 🩺 Dee Bostic's novel, Love, Lies & Lab Coats, beautifully explores themes of connection and resilience—lessons we teach kids every day.

We recommend this for parents who appreciate strong character development and emotional depth.

Check out the book: https://www.deebostic.com/book/

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Dive into a story where complex emotions and high-stakes careers collide! 🩺 Dee Bostic's novel, Love, Lies & Lab Coats, beautifully explores themes of connection and resilience—lessons we teach kids every day.

We recommend this for parents who appreciate strong character development and emotional depth.

Check out the book: https://www.deebostic.com/book/

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U.S. Geological Survey [#USGS] Geomagnetic Variometer Data - Capitalizing On Seismic Infrastructure
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250185 <-- shared paper
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#geomagnetic #geomagnetism #USGS #USA #CONUS #seismology #seismograph #measurement #spatialanalysis #spatial #stations #SeismographicNetwork #magneticfield #readings #spatiotemporal #magnetometer #collabration #spaceweather #risk #hazard #colocation #magneticstorm #earthquake #interdisciplinary #research #sampling #multidisciplinary #fielddata #mapping #GIS #cohosted #corrleation #sampling #fedscience #fedservice #publicgood
#USGS

U.S. Geological Survey [#USGS] Geomagnetic Variometer Data - Capitalizing On Seismic Infrastructure
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250185 <-- shared paper
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#geomagnetic #geomagnetism #USGS #USA #CONUS #seismology #seismograph #measurement #spatialanalysis #spatial #stations #SeismographicNetwork #magneticfield #readings #spatiotemporal #magnetometer #collabration #spaceweather #risk #hazard #colocation #magneticstorm #earthquake #interdisciplinary #research #sampling #multidisciplinary #fielddata #mapping #GIS #cohosted #corrleation #sampling #fedscience #fedservice #publicgood
#USGS

U.S. Geological Survey [#USGS] Geomagnetic Variometer Data - Capitalizing On Seismic Infrastructure
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250185 <-- shared paper
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#geomagnetic #geomagnetism #USGS #USA #CONUS #seismology #seismograph #measurement #spatialanalysis #spatial #stations #SeismographicNetwork #magneticfield #readings #spatiotemporal #magnetometer #collabration #spaceweather #risk #hazard #colocation #magneticstorm #earthquake #interdisciplinary #research #sampling #multidisciplinary #fielddata #mapping #GIS #cohosted #corrleation #sampling #fedscience #fedservice #publicgood
#USGS

U.S. Geological Survey [#USGS] Geomagnetic Variometer Data - Capitalizing On Seismic Infrastructure
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250185 <-- shared paper
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#geomagnetic #geomagnetism #USGS #USA #CONUS #seismology #seismograph #measurement #spatialanalysis #spatial #stations #SeismographicNetwork #magneticfield #readings #spatiotemporal #magnetometer #collabration #spaceweather #risk #hazard #colocation #magneticstorm #earthquake #interdisciplinary #research #sampling #multidisciplinary #fielddata #mapping #GIS #cohosted #corrleation #sampling #fedscience #fedservice #publicgood
#USGS

U.S. Geological Survey [#USGS] Geomagnetic Variometer Data - Capitalizing On Seismic Infrastructure
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https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250185 <-- shared paper
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#geomagnetic #geomagnetism #USGS #USA #CONUS #seismology #seismograph #measurement #spatialanalysis #spatial #stations #SeismographicNetwork #magneticfield #readings #spatiotemporal #magnetometer #collabration #spaceweather #risk #hazard #colocation #magneticstorm #earthquake #interdisciplinary #research #sampling #multidisciplinary #fielddata #mapping #GIS #cohosted #corrleation #sampling #fedscience #fedservice #publicgood
#USGS

#MurderEveryMonday “the man” or “the woman” in the title

Today’s #MurderEveryMonday theme is “the men” or “the woman” in the title. I went through the Portuguese collection Vampiro to find all the titles. We have more men than women. I’m considering the titles in Portuguese, and when different I will write the original title. Also all the titles in Portuguese have “the man” (o homem) or “the woman” (a mulher) as you can see from the photos, but when translating the Portuguese titles into English we must change the order of the words, so it makes sense.

• The powerful man – Michael Spillane (original title: The Deep)
• The man in the bed number 10 – Mary R. Rinehart (original title: The man in lower 10) – read it and liked it
• The sinister man – Edgar Wallace – read and liked it
• Maigret and the man from the bench – Georges Simenon (Maigret et L’Homme du banc) – favourite cover by the artist Lima de Freitas, not sure if I read this one, but usually like Simenon and recommend
• The shadow man – Dashiell Hammett (original title: The thin man)
• Maigret and the man with two women – Georges Simenon (original title: Liberty Bar)
• Maigret and the solitary men – Georges Simenon (original title: Maigret et L’Homme tout seul)

The man in the brown suit and The man in lower 10 were the first titles I remember could do for today’s hashtag. This book by Agatha Christie is not her usually murder mystery, but it is more on the side of adventure novels and I also like she borrowed from her trip with the British Empire Expedition.

There is less “the woman” in the collection.

• Maigret and the vanished woman – Georges Simenon (original title: Chez les flamands)
• The quiet woman – Harry Carmichael (I have read this author as Hartley Howard and liked it, I’m curious about this one. Real name: Leopold Ognall)
• The phantom woman – William Irish (original title: The phantom lady. Read this one a long time ago and liked it)
• The woman that was not missed – Dorothy Simpson (original title: Dead and gone. Can’t remember if I ever read Simpson, although the name rings a bell).

Back to your covers. If you want to participate in #MurderEveryMonday check Kate’s post here.

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#MurderEveryMonday Cover with a bus

For today’s #MurderEveryMonday cover of a crime fiction book with a bus, I didn’t have many covers, but thought London would never disappoint and it didn’t!

The Portuguese edition is At Betram’s Hotel, a Miss Marple book by Agatha Christie, which I love and have been re-reading over the years. The title is translated to Portuguese as “Mystery in Luxury Hotel” and in this one Miss Marple goes to Bertram’s, an hotel she stayed in when she was 14 years old with her aunt and uncle. Bertram’s seems to have stopped in time. Again, Miss Marple gathers her down to earth wisdom and acute observation to solve the mystery.

Janet Morgan, the official biographer of Christie, uses correspondence between Agatha Christie and her literary agent, Edmund Cork, to argue Bertram’s seems to have been modelled after the Flemings Mayfair Hotel.

I also loved Gilbert’s book, with its writing and its setting in a law firm and an original way of hiding a corpse, that would never have crossed my mind.

#MurderEveryMonday is an hashtag created by Kate Jackson from Cross Examining Crime and anyone can participate via their social networks. Kate in on Twitter and Instagram, and you can find the themes of each Monday in her blog here. She recently opened up a Patreon, so if you can support her, you can go here and see the extras you can get.

Besides Twitter and Instagram, I also have been participating on my Mastodon and Bluesky, but I find those types of social are more ephemerous, so I thought I would try using this blog.

#AgathaChristie #BookLook #books #ColecçãoVampiro #CrimeFiction #MichaelGilbert #MurderEveryMonday #Policiais #readings

Halloween Reading at 10K Brewing

It is that time of year again for my Halloween Reading, and this year I’ll be at 10K Brewing in Anoka on Tuesday (today) October 28th at 7 pm. I will be hosting the event and reading some of my work. The event is free to attend and it is the perfect way to celebrate spooky season.

I’ll be joined by a host of other authors, who will be reading their stories and selling books as well. You can find that list right here. I implore you to check out all their material:

Catherine Lundoff

Troy Skoog 

Michael Merriam  

Joe Prosit

Adrienne Lee

Douglas Van Dyke JR

Each author will get about 10 minutes. After the event you’ll be able to ask them questions and buy their books. There will be beer and food to purchase. They have quite the pizza menu. To learn more about 10K Brewing you can hit it here. I’m very excited to be using their awesome establishment. I’m honored to have a new host for this event. Unfortunately, Alloy Brewing is no longer around. A big thank you to their kindness when they still existed.

I’ll be reading a variety of stuff, including some new poetry. Some of it is nonfiction, which is truly frightening. I love doing these events, and will be doing more of them in the future. Thank you for your continued support, and hope to see you there!

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Halloween Reading at 10K Brewing

It is that time of year again for my Halloween Reading, and this year I’ll be at 10K Brewing in Anoka on Tuesday (today) October 28th at 7 pm. I will be hosting the event and reading some of my work. The event is free to attend and it is the perfect way to celebrate spooky season.

I’ll be joined by a host of other authors, who will be reading their stories and selling books as well. You can find that list right here. I implore you to check out all their material:

Catherine Lundoff

Troy Skoog 

Michael Merriam  

Joe Prosit

Adrienne Lee

Douglas Van Dyke JR

Each author will get about 10 minutes. After the event you’ll be able to ask them questions and buy their books. There will be beer and food to purchase. They have quite the pizza menu. To learn more about 10K Brewing you can hit it here. I’m very excited to be using their awesome establishment. I’m honored to have a new host for this event. Unfortunately, Alloy Brewing is no longer around. A big thank you to their kindness when they still existed.

I’ll be reading a variety of stuff, including some new poetry. Some of it is nonfiction, which is truly frightening. I love doing these events, and will be doing more of them in the future. Thank you for your continued support, and hope to see you there!

#author #authorEvent #blogging #bookEvents #books #fiction #halloween #halloweenReadings #horror #monsters #patrickWMarsh #reading #readingEvents #readings #theGreenlandDiaries #writing

It’s Weekend, Let’s read: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

““Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.””

A favorite season asks for a favorite reading. The ‘ber months are indeed my favorites and I wouldn’t want to skip any of them.

You can read Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery right here, right now from Project Gutenberg.

Have a wonderful and nature colorful weekend!

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It’s Weekend, Let’s read: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

““Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.””

A favorite season asks for a favorite reading. The ‘ber months are indeed my favorites and I wouldn’t want to skip any of them.

You can read Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery right here, right now from Project Gutenberg.

Have a wonderful and nature colorful weekend!

#AnneOfGreenGables #bookCollection #BookLook #books #livros #publicDomain #readings

It’s Weekend, Let’s read: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

““Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.””

A favorite season asks for a favorite reading. The ‘ber months are indeed my favorites and I wouldn’t want to skip any of them.

You can read Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery right here, right now from Project Gutenberg.

Have a wonderful and nature colorful weekend!

#AnneOfGreenGables #bookCollection #BookLook #books #livros #publicDomain #readings

It’s Weekend, Let’s read: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

““Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.””

A favorite season asks for a favorite reading. The ‘ber months are indeed my favorites and I wouldn’t want to skip any of them.

You can read Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery right here, right now from Project Gutenberg.

Have a wonderful and nature colorful weekend!

#AnneOfGreenGables #bookCollection #BookLook #books #livros #publicDomain #readings

It’s Weekend, Let’s read: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

““Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it? Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill—several thrills? I’m going to decorate my room with them.””

A favorite season asks for a favorite reading. The ‘ber months are indeed my favorites and I wouldn’t want to skip any of them.

You can read Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery right here, right now from Project Gutenberg.

Have a wonderful and nature colorful weekend!

#AnneOfGreenGables #bookCollection #BookLook #books #livros #publicDomain #readings

Agatha Christie’s 135th Birthday

A post to mark the 135th birthday anniversary of Agatha Christie. If you want a peek at the official centenary book (pictured), I made a short video. I believe it’s possible to still find it second hand.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VCtWMNgkC44

#AgathaChristie #BookLook #books #CrimeFiction #readings

Happy publication day to Martin Edwards for Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Classic crime, puzzles, cluefinder, this book was so good!

#Books #Readings #ClassicCrime

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/bookreview-miss-winter-in-the-library-with-a-knife-by-martin-edwards-out-11-september/

Food and plants from books

Gina from Babs Beloved Books shared recently (on Instagram) a book haul and specifically the book The Anne of Green Gables Treasure. I remembered making one of the recipes of this book. Spoiler alert: the shortbread is delicious. Around the same time, I also made the raspberry cordial, but it’s not in this book, I must have found the recipe elsewhere online.

I’d never had shortbread or raspberry cordial before and at the time it was not something you could buy at the store in Portugal. This also made me think that sometimes I make recipes because I want to know how they taste.

That was the case of orange marmalade. The first time I read about it there was no mention of orange, but a character in A pocket full of rye by Agatha Christie takes a spoon of marmalade from a jar and spreads it on a toast. And this was strange for me, because here we slice the marmalade, it’s not easily spreadable. And we don’t make marmalade from oranges, but from quinces. And of course, Paddington also loves orange marmalade. Are there other literary references?

So I decided to give it a go and see how it would taste. I found several recipes online, but after making it some times I changed it a little bit. I use less sugar, but I sterilise the jars before and boiled them until vacuum after filling them. I also make it at the beginning of the year when oranges are not sweet. I shared the recipe on this blog before, if you want to take a look, but in Portuguese.

Another recipe is Madeira cake. I can’t recall a literary reference, but I read many United Kingdom authors, and this is a cake that was much used in 19th century in the UK. The fact is that it got my attention: Madeira is a Portuguese island and indeed has a tradicional cake, but nothing like this one. Searching a little more, I found that the cake is called Madeira because it used to be served with a glass of Madeira wine (which is indeed from Madeira island). I also shared the recipe before here (also in Portuguese), I can’t tell where I got it (maybe BBC Good Food?). I usually take recipes, make them a few times, and if they’re good than share them, but by that time, I really can’t tell where I got them and most of the times I’ve change them anyway (recipes do not have copyright, phew!).

Then there were sweet peas. I have heard about them and their strong scent, but never saw any. Mrs. Dalloway had them in bowls “tinged violet, snow white, pale—as if it were the evening and girls in muslin frocks came out to pick sweet peas and roses after the superb summer’s day”. So when I saw seeds in a store I decided to give them a grow, some came out and they do have a lovely scent.

Now, tell me: do you also make recipes or sow plants that you read about to know how they taste, look, or for their scent? If you shared them before, put the link in the comments so I can read them, or share the recipe in the comments.

#BookLook #books #fiction #MadeiraCake #OrangeMarmalade #readings #Recipes #RecipesFromBooks #SweetPeas #VirginiaWoolf