The Whimsy Bookworm: A Book Blog from India

If you haven't read any Agatha Christie book before....STOP RIGHT NOW! Go pick up a book by her this very second.  I love/adore her work and her books are comforting and soothing reads for me. I pick up a Christie book when I feel like reading nothing else.  If you've never read a Christie book before I'd suggest start with a non- Marple and non-Poirot book...just so you can sample her writing without having to get to know her very famous characters. If you want Poirot and Marple, start with the first in the series if you can help it. If not, honestly, you can start with any book. You don't need to read these books in order.  My favourite Poirot book is probably...Death on the Nile, Sad Cypress, Five Little Pigs, Murder on the Orient Express, Dumb Witness,,,I'd recommend any of these.  Miss Marple favourites include..Body in the Library, Mirror Cracked from Side to Side, A Murder is announced and Nemesis.  I love Agatha Chri...

Up until this year, I had read only one book by Agatha Christie- Then There Were None. I love her though...I have seen all the ITV episodes of both Poirot and Miss Marple, I cannot recommend these TV shows enough. They are very true to text and don't really deviate from  the stories in the books. Especially the Poirot ones are pretty much the books come alive. You can watch all the Miss Marple episodes HERE . Yes, you can thank me later... preferably with chocolates or something! ;) So, anyway, since I had watched all these episodes, I thought why read the books? Especially since these are detective stories and if you know who the killer is why read the books? Well, that doesn't apply to these books. As great as the TV series is, and it is BRILLIANT, the books still deserved to be read and I am so glad I am finally getting to them. I am choosing books whose stories I like best and some of them that weren't made into episodes as well as the stand alone books. The Agatha...