(#111705284886440140) #January's #readchristie2024 is her first ever novel, and the first #Poirot: "The Mysterious Affair of Styles". Let's go! #fridayreads #bookstodon ![Picture of Harper's edition of "The Mysterious Affair of Styles" with the inclusion of the original (rejected) ending to the book (as recovered from Christie's notebooks)]()

(#112100073635968467) I decided to change my reading plans, and started reading Anne of Windy Poplars, fourth in the series. After a second book with an annoying use of ellipsis, the third had none. But this! On Windy Poplars the ellipsis return, with vengeance: you need to read up to page 24 to find the first page without ellipsis! ... #bookstodon #fridayreads "Anne of Windy Poplars", the Bantam Special Collector's Edition

(#112418986180237729) For this #FridayReads and for the seasonal prompt of #May, #animals, I keep reading through the Anne of Green Gables novels, now the 6th in the series, "Anne of Ingleside". I must confess that Montgomery's lack of effort in some instances frustrates me, to a point when, now in the sixth book (of eight), I found myself wishing for it to just end. Not a good sign! I've heard that for some people the 7th and 8th are the best of them, tho, so I am hopeful that things get better. #Bookstodon The Anne of Green Gables Novels #6 L. M. MONTGOMERY Anne of Ingleside Special Collector's Edition

The first #fridayreads of #February is #readchristie2024 's prompt for the month: "The Secret Adversary". The first Christie novel with #Tommy and #Tuppence, it also fulfills this month's #seasonalread prompt: #love . #bookstodon A picture of Agatha Christie's "The Secret Adversary" in its Portuguese edition on Colecção Vampiro. The series' tag line "Os mestres da literatura policial" can be read on the book cover and also the bookmark on it. On the background, a bookshelf full of books of the same collection.

(#112418986180237729) For this #FridayReads and for the seasonal prompt of #May, #animals, I keep reading through the Anne of Green Gables novels, now the 6th in the series, "Anne of Ingleside". I must confess that Montgomery's lack of effort in some instances frustrates me, to a point when, now in the sixth book (of eight), I found myself wishing for it to just end. Not a good sign! I've heard that for some people the 7th and 8th are the best of them, tho, so I am hopeful that things get better. #Bookstodon The Anne of Green Gables Novels #6 L. M. MONTGOMERY Anne of Ingleside Special Collector's Edition

(#112654385173613235) Still doing the #RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub challenge: my #FridayReads book this week is the eigth and last in the Anne of Green Gables Novels, "Rilla of Ingleside". I'm still not done with it, but I am already certain it one of the best of the lot (with the first). Quite different from the other, this is a war novel - and the only book written by a female Canadian author that has lived #WWI writing about it. ![A guy (me) seated on a chair, reading a book (Rilla of Ingleside).]()

(#112022583246628702) A new month? On a #Friday? It's time for #fridayreads, and since we're now in #March, it is also time to start the #MarchMysteryMadness! And of course, I am still doing #readchristie2024, this month's #book being "The Blue Train", which not only is a #mystery (duh!), but also fit for MMM's first prompt, "dressed to the nines". #bookstodon The first Portuguese edition of Agatha Christie's "The Mystery of the Blue Train"

(#112296496759579882) The #RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub book for #April and the 5th in the Anne of Green Gables novels is "Anne's House of Dreams", my choice for #FridayReads . It also fits quite perfectly to the monthly prompt for #nature. A picture of L. M. Montgomery's "Anne's House of Dreams"

(#112296496759579882) The #RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub book for #April and the 5th in the Anne of Green Gables novels is "Anne's House of Dreams", my choice for #FridayReads . It also fits quite perfectly to the monthly prompt for #nature. A picture of L. M. Montgomery's "Anne's House of Dreams"

(#112100073635968467) I decided to change my reading plans, and started reading Anne of Windy Poplars, fourth in the series. After a second book with an annoying use of ellipsis, the third had none. But this! On Windy Poplars the ellipsis return, with vengeance: you need to read up to page 24 to find the first page without ellipsis! ... #bookstodon #fridayreads "Anne of Windy Poplars", the Bantam Special Collector's Edition