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Partners in Crime, by Agatha Christie.

A short story collection linked by an overarching plot featuring Tommy & Tuppence Beresford, whom I am incredibly fond of - the format worked, better than it did in The Big Four. It was a really delightful partnership! Sometimes Tommy wins, and sometimes Tuppence wins, and sometimes you think Tuppence wins

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See the thing is I am such a newbie when it comes to reading fantasy!!! Fey on Telegraph Avenue would be amazing though. And like arrrgh Em I just

everyone at school was into Neil Gaiman when I was 14 in such a big way and I kind of just missed that bandwagon but

reading American Gods and Gaiman's evocation of polyphonic mythical traditions in an immigrant country just makes me like

understand why it would appeal to a bunch of schoolgirls in Singapore

AND ALSO I LOVE KALI SO MUCH

and I had no idea you liked Agatha Christie too!! CAN WE TALK ABOUT HER because I keep thinking I need to check out other stalwarts of the golden age of detective fiction, and then changing my mind because obviously what I need to do is read ALL THE AGATHA CHRISTIE EVER.

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Urban fantasy: oh my god, fey motorcycle AU sounds AMAZING. And yes yes exactly that, for me it comes down to - not history, exactly, but living history, a sense of the past being made in cities, and the lights strung across alleyways, and gods not resisting the future but bending with it. One of these days someone is going to write a novel about gods being priced out of all the rapidly-gentrifying districts there are in Singapore and altars glowing with lit joss sticks and hapless teenagers stumbling on roadside prayers and I will sob and sob and sob because it will be perfect. Have you read Winter's Bone? It's very much not urban fantasy (which you will know if you've watched the 2010 film) but there are some really interesting bits in there about myth and how it's created.

American Gods: I'm reading the author's extended version and I'm not sure that I wouldn't have preferred the shorter one, actually, because Anansi Boys was such a fun trip and American Gods doesn't - well, it's still wonderful but it sags in places. But when he