Book 12 + Icon bits
Book 12
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
I got a hankering to re-read this after someone posted a batch of icons of a filmed version in sexy_mood_music. It's a good story! I love the characters most of all. Jerry is so funny - when he goes to propose to Megan, his greeting is "Hullo catfish!" which makes me giggle every time. Um. But a real review! One that some might term... ~legit. Ha. Again (and I say this a lot, I fear), I am just not a big fan of first person narrative. But it didn't bother me here. It feels so much less like the author talking/author inserting herself/himself/self insert when the main character is not of the author's gender. There's a smaller tendency to move towards what in fic would be a Mary-Sue (and whatever the guy's name is). A lot of times the characters just don't feel real to me - they feel sort of like a shell. Anyway! Generally, I like Christie's first person. She does some very interesing things, and if you're read Endless Night (which I read alone at night and honestly it freaked me out just a little - to be fair, I was young XP) or The Murder of Roger Ackroyd then you know what I mean! Anyway, I quite liked the narrator here - Jerry Burton - and I really felt he had personality. It wasn't just overwhelming and he's not a phenomenal character or anything, but I did really like him. And oh, the love stories were so cute. I loved him and Megan and I thought Joanna and the doctor are a nice couple, too. I love this line (er... two): "Each man has his own ways of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise." That always makes me laugh, too. In terms of the mystery and the way the plot is structured, I was pretty happy with it. To me, it felt a little more like one of her short stories than a novel, but I'm not quite sure why. I didn't figure it out - actually, since I'm re-reading, I didn't even remember who the real killer was until the end. I do like first person in mysteries for that reason - you don't feel like anything's being held back. You feel like you're right there with the character, solving the case. I get a little perturbed when in a story, only the detective or somebody gets that final, vital clue, and we have to wait until the reveal. Okay, so I love the big reveal scenes, but I feel like I wasn't given a fair chance to solve it myself. Anyway, this is a good book and I really enjoyed re-reading it. I'm way behind on books. I'll have definitely read 50 by the end of the year (by my count, I'm already on 25 or so, way way more if you count comics and manga - I read the entire series of Boys Over Flowers this year), but probably not 50 non-required books.
Now! Icon things! My current 20in20 claims:
• disney2020: 20/20 here
• tv20in20: 0/20, due 30 June (I plan on working on that today)
• movie20in20: 20/20 here
• whedon20in20: 20/20 here
And that's nothing compared to what I signed up for next month. Because I'm crazy.
ALSO! Also also. Does anyone make icons/graphics/stuff but not have a community? I have umbrella_icon but it is lonely, and I really, really want either somebody to come join that one or start a new one with me - if you are interested, please please let me know! I will lahve you for Sandlot-forever! FOR-EH-VEHR. :3 It could be fun! And more than one person would be cool, too! 3 seems like a good number, ha.
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
I got a hankering to re-read this after someone posted a batch of icons of a filmed version in sexy_mood_music. It's a good story! I love the characters most of all. Jerry is so funny - when he goes to propose to Megan, his greeting is "Hullo catfish!" which makes me giggle every time. Um. But a real review! One that some might term... ~legit. Ha. Again (and I say this a lot, I fear), I am just not a big fan of first person narrative. But it didn't bother me here. It feels so much less like the author talking/author inserting herself/himself/self insert when the main character is not of the author's gender. There's a smaller tendency to move towards what in fic would be a Mary-Sue (and whatever the guy's name is). A lot of times the characters just don't feel real to me - they feel sort of like a shell. Anyway! Generally, I like Christie's first person. She does some very interesing things, and if you're read Endless Night (which I read alone at night and honestly it freaked me out just a little - to be fair, I was young XP) or The Murder of Roger Ackroyd then you know what I mean! Anyway, I quite liked the narrator here - Jerry Burton - and I really felt he had personality. It wasn't just overwhelming and he's not a phenomenal character or anything, but I did really like him. And oh, the love stories were so cute. I loved him and Megan and I thought Joanna and the doctor are a nice couple, too. I love this line (er... two): "Each man has his own ways of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise." That always makes me laugh, too. In terms of the mystery and the way the plot is structured, I was pretty happy with it. To me, it felt a little more like one of her short stories than a novel, but I'm not quite sure why. I didn't figure it out - actually, since I'm re-reading, I didn't even remember who the real killer was until the end. I do like first person in mysteries for that reason - you don't feel like anything's being held back. You feel like you're right there with the character, solving the case. I get a little perturbed when in a story, only the detective or somebody gets that final, vital clue, and we have to wait until the reveal. Okay, so I love the big reveal scenes, but I feel like I wasn't given a fair chance to solve it myself. Anyway, this is a good book and I really enjoyed re-reading it. I'm way behind on books. I'll have definitely read 50 by the end of the year (by my count, I'm already on 25 or so, way way more if you count comics and manga - I read the entire series of Boys Over Flowers this year), but probably not 50 non-required books.
Now! Icon things! My current 20in20 claims:
• disney2020: 20/20 here
• tv20in20: 0/20, due 30 June (I plan on working on that today)
• movie20in20: 20/20 here
• whedon20in20: 20/20 here
And that's nothing compared to what I signed up for next month. Because I'm crazy.
ALSO! Also also. Does anyone make icons/graphics/stuff but not have a community? I have umbrella_icon but it is lonely, and I really, really want either somebody to come join that one or start a new one with me - if you are interested, please please let me know! I will lahve you for Sandlot-forever! FOR-EH-VEHR. :3 It could be fun! And more than one person would be cool, too! 3 seems like a good number, ha.