Media Roll Call
May. 19th, 2013 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mindsplinters15) Haunted America by Michael Norman & Beth Scott - Meh, it was okay. You can tell they were originally journalists. It's dry and short and skips over any kind of in-depth research in their attempt to present ghost stories as "just the facts".
16) The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie - My first Miss Marple. I wasn't sure which one to start with and this one had the word library in the title so... I picked it up. I don't know. My logic astounds even me sometimes. It was a fun read, though. Rather light and fast. I can't say that I'm particularly sold on the idea of Marple as a detective savant, though. She's clever enough and observant enough but she lacks something that I can't put my finger on. Perhaps it was just this book. I was enormously amused, though, at the little boy who was such a fan of crime fiction that he boasted autographs from Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie. So charming, that.
16) The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie - My first Miss Marple. I wasn't sure which one to start with and this one had the word library in the title so... I picked it up. I don't know. My logic astounds even me sometimes. It was a fun read, though. Rather light and fast. I can't say that I'm particularly sold on the idea of Marple as a detective savant, though. She's clever enough and observant enough but she lacks something that I can't put my finger on. Perhaps it was just this book. I was enormously amused, though, at the little boy who was such a fan of crime fiction that he boasted autographs from Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie. So charming, that.
