This Sunday, we have some Lightning Reviews! These reviews are shorter than our standard reviews. They work well for novellas or when you finish a book and realize you might not have much to say! In this edition, we have a biography of Agatha Christie, a fun-sounding contemporary romance, and the first book in a romantic suspense series.
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life is a relatively new release and yet it reads like a biography from the 1970’s or 1980’s. There’s a lot of fat shaming. The Edwardian period is heavily sentimentalized. Several parts of the story are imagined in a dreamy, poetic manner. The author sides with Christie on all fronts, minimizing her racism and anti-Semitism (as was typical of her era, Christie disliked Italians as well, which is also minimized) and justifying … Continue reading Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson
