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My Reading Journal 2
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
Sunday, 17 May 2026
Saturday, 16 May 2026
New Book - An Unholy Alliance - Matthew Bartholomew 2 - by Susanna Gregory (Pages 1 - 49)
First Published: January 1, 1996
It is the year 1350. Isabel Watkins, a prostitute, is walking home in Cambridge when she is attacked. On the other side of the city there is a man who waits for St Mary's Church to be locked. then he climbs to the tower where the chest where the important documents of the college are stored. He lifts the locks and opens the chest.
Saturday, 9 May 2026
Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman 8 - The End (Pages 327 - end)
RATING: VERY GOOD
Agatha wrote her autobiography for years to be published posthumously. She wrote this allegedly from 2 April 1950 - 11 October 1965. It was published in November 1977.
Friday, 8 May 2026
Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman 6 (Pages 242 - 260)
When the Second World War broke up, Agatha returned to a wartime hospital pharmacy. This time it was the Univeristy College Hospital. During World War II, University College Hospital (UCH) in London served as a critical medical facility in the heart of the Blitz, treating hundreds of casualties, including over 200 from a single rocket attack on Tottenham Court Road. Despite severe damage risks—including a 2,500-pound bomb removed from nearby in 1941—it continued operating under intense conditions.
Thursday, 7 May 2026
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman 4 (Pages 72 - 124)
During the war Archie's commander was Hugh Trenchard. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard (3 February 1873 – 10 February 1956) was a British military officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force. With the outbreak of First World War, Trenchard was appointed Officer Commanding the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps.
Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman 3 (Pages 61 - 72)
After the outbreak of the Great War, Agatha volunteered as a the Voluntary Air Detachment at the Red Cross. She worked in the hospital dispensary, where she gained extensive knowledge of poisons, which became a staple of her detective novels.
Monday, 4 May 2026
Sunday, 3 May 2026
New Book - Agatha Christie: A very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (Pages 1 - 21)
First Published: September 8, 2022
This is a biography of Agatha Christie. The book starts by explaining that Agatha Christie was raised in Torquay, Devon, and the house where she grew up and was so vital in her life was called Ashfield. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses.
Detectives Victorianas - El hombre que tenía nueve vidas (The Man With Nine Lives) by Hugh C Weir - Facts
The author of this story is Hugh C Weir. Hugh C. Weir was born on May 1, 1884 in Vergennes, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Under Suspicion (1918), Graft (1915) and What Shall We Do with Him? (1919). He died on March 16, 1934 in New York City.












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