Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Here is a list of the books that Agatha Christie wrote over her life:

Gee, there’s a few!lol

List Of Agatha Christie Books – When you write ;

Jessica MajewskiFebruary 20, 2022

Reading Time: 7 min

I am personally interested in finding the books that she wrote under her pseudonym, Mary Westmacott

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“The Duchess Who Wasn’t” Day

On this day, take every opportunity possible to slip a well-known phrase into the conversation: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Which is interesting because it’s also International Bat Night “Day” lol. Personally, I think Bats are gorgeous and as some have said “The Farmers of the Sky”.

Anyway, August 27 is “The Duchess Who Wasn’t” day, which celebrates the life of Irish author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Only living until 42 years of age, The Duchess was the name she often used to remain anonymous. She has at least 57 works attributed to her name and could have many, many more pieces of writing published, as much of her earliest work was released anonymously.

I would love to be known as something when I die. What would you like to be known by? I really enjoy the sound of “The Goddess” Hahahaha.

Beatrix Potter Day <3

The 28th of July, is/was Beatrix Potter birthday. As probably my most favourite children’s author, I want too celebrate her. I have more than likely done this on previous years as well.

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children’s books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children

Wikipedia – Beatrix Potter

The Beatrix Potter Society – UK

It is kind of odd to think that Beatrix Potter was born in a completely different century, as well as died in one. Her books are still loved by so many.

When I was younger I loved Beatrix Potter, and I really loved the Beatrix Potter Ballet movie. I was obsessed. I’ve got it on DVD and my cousin even found a vinyl record of the soundtrack. That Owl still freaking scares me by the way. I also played Mrs Tittlemouse, in a ballet production when I was a child. Mrs. Tittlemouse made her debut in 1909 in Potter’s The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies where she rescued the six children of Benjamin and Flopsy Bunny from Mr. McGregor’s grasp and was rewarded for her heroism with a quantity of rabbit wool at Christmas.

Happy Birthday Tolkien!

The 3rd of January is the best authors ever birthday! J.R.R Tolkien!

Technically for Australia, by the time this is posted it will be Jan 4th…But hey, this is my blog and I’ll write when I want too.

So JRR Tolkien’s birthday is January 4th.

Thank you Sir, for leaving us with an entire new world of Magicness … ess, and some of the most beautiful writing on the earth!

Happy “Birthday” Louisa May Alcott

Did you know?

Alcott wrote several novels under her real name and also penned works under a pseudonym.

Her very first novel, The Inheritance—written when she was 17—wasn’t published until 150 years after she wrote it, when two researchers discovered it in a library in 1997.

Little Women is partly autobiographical. Alcott used many of the events of her own life as fodder for her writing of this and her other novels. In fact, most scholars believe that the character of Jo March closely resembles Louisa May Alcott. It is not unusual for authors to take incidents from their own lives and use them in their fiction.

Celebrate the Birthday of Louisa May Alcott Lisa Fink, 11.24.19

Louisa May Alcott grew up in the company of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, and Henry David Thoreau.

Louisa May Alcott died of a stroke in 1888. Her health had flagged for decades prior. It was believed that when she volunteered as a nurse after the American Civil War began. She contracted typhoid from unsanitary hospital conditions and was sent home, her health never being the same again. She would write in her journal that she frequently suffered from exhaustion, headaches, nerve issues, and digestive pain. Some modern researchers have found her ailments later in life, may have pointed to symptoms of lupus.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisa-May-Alcott

Picture from Mental Floss

Many Happy Birthday Ms Potter <3

Again, if Ms Potter had been living she would have been 155 today. So, the chances of her being so here, are limited. However that’s not the point.

We can celebrate probably the most well known Children’s Author (that didn’t turn into a complete raving lunatic).

When I was a littler, in my younger years, I did ballet. We did a Beatrix Ballet Concert, and I was Mrs Tittlemouse and I was very good, may I say. I was very proper and lady like =D

I don’t have a favourite or most disliked Potter character. I do though find Peter Rabbit overrated, lol. There are so many good characters in Potter’s world. Just ignore the whole “Potter was the JKRowling of her day” Ugh.

Happy Birthday JRR Tolkien

I have to say I wish that JRR Tolkien was alive today…and not in a terrifying Zombie, completely full-formed.

Fans WorldWide toast JRR Tolkien twelfty seventh birthday

I love what JRR Tolkien honoured us with and sharing with us, his beautiful magical world. Do we deserve this beautiful world? Probably not, but he shared it with us anyway.

I am not really a Potterhead and I really only love Aslan in Narnia. I like both those series, but there is something just that little bit more to Tolkien’s world for me, personally.

Do you all have a favourite “World”

 

 

A Blog Award!

I was actually nominated for a Blog!

Thank you to Hot Shot Headlines for this nomination!

The Rules: Liebster Award

• Thank the person who nominated you.
• Answer the 11 questions they gave you.
• Nominate 11 blogs.
• Give them 11 questions to answer.

The Questions I Was Asked:

• Are you excited for any particular movie this fall / winter?

I cannot WAIT for the new Thor movie. I have seen all of the Marvel movies and I love how they’ve all interconnected. This one looks like it just full of awesome stuff the whole time. I can’t wait to see what Dr Strange does either. I didn’t expect to love the Dr Strange, but it’s probably one of my favourites and now I can’t wait to see what he does in this movie!

• If you could go anywhere to see the fall foliage, where would you go, and why?

I would love to go England, I have been there during the Summer. However, I would love to see all of that green turn that beautiful yellow, brown and oranges. It would be fantastic.

• Is there a new TV show that you are excited to watch?

I can’t wait to see the new Will and Grace series!

• Do you have any Halloween traditions?

Since I live in Australia, we don’t really have Halloween here as a traditions, but it is definitely growing in popularity. The one that I really do love though is pretty much all of it honestly, haha! I just really love the whole spirit of Halloween. The themed parties, the costumes…I’m not really a scary movie type person though.

• Who are your three favorite authors, and why?

Jodi Picoult – I love how she writes about topics that are now and relevant. What I love the most though is the twist that she always has.

I might just write about two that I’ve written below about. My other two favourite authors are C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien. I love the fantasy and how well written they are. One way that I can tell that I am enjoying the book is I make believe myself as a character in the book. I enjoy the book that much I wish to be apart of the book as well. A little embarrassing to admit but true.

• Is there a particular author that you want to meet in person?

There is actually two authors that I would have loved to have met, but they are both dead now. I would have loved to have met C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien. While there are modern authors that I would want to meet in persons. These two authors have taken my imagination to places of happiness I never thought possible. It would have been amazing to be a fly on the wall of these authors!

• Design your perfect library / reading nook / reading spot.

Wow! This could be a whole post in itself.

• Do you use your local library?

Not only do I use my local Library, but I am now working at it also.

• Do you shop for books on Black Friday / Cyber Monday?

Once again, because I am not American we don’t really have in store Black Fridays and Cyber Monday. However, thanks to the wonder that is the Internet, we actually have now started to get Internet deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Which I always take advantage of!

• When you celebrate holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, etc., what book or books do you pack when you travel?

Oh this is a good question. I usually will take a favourite or two. I tend to not take many books, because not only is it kind of rude to read when you’re with your family. Especially at Christmas though I tend to always get a new book.

• What is your favorite book to read during the holiday season?

I enjoy reading any favourites that I might have lying around. As mentioned above those as well, I tend too read any new books that I may have purchased or received as a present. So I don’t really have a set book that I’ll read. I am hoping though to purchase a tablets, I think it’d be great when I visit my partners family over the holidays. They all live out in the middle of nowhere and all pretty much go to bed early. Last year I got food poisoning, luckily though my partner had downloaded some movies to this little laptop he has.

The next steps:

• Nominate 11 blogs.
• Give them 11 questions to answer.

1. What is your favourite online bookstore to visit
2. What is your favourite bookstore to physically visit?
3. Please share with us what you are reading at the moment.
4. Throw in a random question…If you could have any animal in the world, living or extinct…What animal would it be, and what name would you give it?
5. Let us know about Bloggers that you like to watch on YouTube…or BookTube.
6.  Who is your one of favourite “classic” author, and
7. Who is a favourite “modern” author.
8. Is there a series (book or tv) that everybody else loves that you just hate…Or just don’t get why people love it so much?
9. Is there a character in a book you can relate to and why?
10. If you could be in a character in any book or any movie or tv series, who and what would they be?
11. Random Fact about yourself.

The 11 Nominations:

Now usually I don’t really nominate and suggest that is people want to do it, to please to do it and link back too me. Please free as usual, just linking back to myself. I have nominated some people though, because I’ve had an increase in both followers and following…and I would like to get to know you all better. As always as well, please do not feel obligated to do it.

RedHeadedBookLover

Bookwitch

Miss Abigail 

Victorious Pages

Quirky and Peculiar

Life Lessons from around the dinner table

Tea and Tales

Musings from a tangled mind

Transempowerment 

Praying for Eyebrowz

Thoughts on Fantasy

An Interesting Perspective

I saw this article over the weekend and I thought that it was definitely an interesting perspective and kind of one I agree with (please read it first) and then discuss it.

Why I love J.K. Rowling (and wish she’d stop writing sequels)

I can completely understand how the writer has this point of view. It’s like the way that I feel with JRR Tolkien and his son writing books, and trying to continue the series. JRR Tolkien’s son books just do not have the same appeal too me as the ones that Tolkien wrote himself.

For me more personally as well I don’t like when she randomly comes out with “Oh no, the character is this, or the this character is that” Then the Potterheads gets on anyone’s case who doesn’t think of a character like that. That’s the thing that’s supposed to be about books and people’s imaginations, it’s all a very personal thing. I do respect that Rowling will speak out on important matters.

This or That? #92

This or That? #92

This week Bookmark Chronicles (and myself) would like to know:

If you’re in the bookstore looking for a new book to read, which of these would play the biggest role in whether or not you purchase a book:

Cover ~ Description ~ Author

(must choose just one)

Too be honest what would bring me over would probably be the author or the cover and if it catches my eyes…BUT…saying that, it would be the description for me whether or not I would purchase a book. A book can be pretty and the author might possibly be a favourite of mine, but if the description doesn’t catch me or bores me for one reason or another, I am probably not going to buy it.