Not in my initial plans, but today I started to read an adaptation of Christie's "Murder On The Links", from 2019, fulfilling the "Any 9" prompt to this year's #MarchMysteryMadness . #Bookstodon In the cover we can see that the title is "Crime no campo de golfe", as this is the Portuguese edition on this comics adaptation

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

(#112343305123858004) "Murder at the Vicarage" is the #readchristie2024 #book for #April and #Marple's first novel. #bookstodon ![The first two translations to Continental Portuguese of this book gave it different titles: "Crime na Aldeia" (Crime in the Village) and "Encontro com um assassino" (Encounter with a murderer). This picture shows both, side by side.]()

(#111864530697984714) 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.

(#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)]()

(#111864530697984714) 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.

(#111774485756107142) Piracy Is Liberation: a story that started being told in 2001 and still going strong. On this picture, the cover of "book 12", published in January last year. Close to the beginning of the book, a two pages scenario that, taken out of context, you could read standalone and assume it refers to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Before that, in the "editorial", the author mentions the invasion in Ukraine, and ends up with the words "And I never intended for this story to be a documentary." Piracy Is Liberation: #bookstodon A picture capturing partially the cover of Piracy Is Liberation Book 012: Outer Enemy, from Mattias Elftorp

(#111686134616058895) No better way to start the #NewYear than with a #ComfortBookClub reading: this month being "Dear Mrs Bird", with the bonus that it is set (or at least starts) during #winter, fulfilling January's #SeasonalRead . #bookstodon A picture of Picador's paperback edition of AJ Pearce's debut novel "Dear Mrs Bird"

#RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub is the (lengthy hashtag for the) year long celebration of LM Montgomery's 150th birthday. #February's book for it is "Anne Of Avonlea", and this anniversary a good excuse to make me read the full #Anne series 😇 #bookstodon A picture of "Anne of Avonlea", the second book of the "Anne of Green Gables" book series, slightly in front od the eight books boxset it belongs to

(#112027763123111760) The #RaceWhoKnowsJosephBookClub book for #March is "Anne of the Island", the third book of the 'Anne of Green Gables' series, and one that was written in less of a rush than the second. So far, it is being better than the second but still less good than the first. While the second is forgettable, this one develops significantly Anne's life, and was the basis for many adaptations (which tended to skip all that comes from the second book). Let's see if my opinion of it doesn't change before I reach the end of if 😉 Oh, and as it happens, being a 'middle grade' book makes it eligible for #MiddleGradeMarch! #Bookstodon ![A picture of "Anne of the Island" (special collector's edition book), in front of a lightfire]()