After telling myself as I started the year that I wouldn’t be signing up for any more challenges beyond those I already have, I’m joining Kerrie from Mysteries in Paradise for her Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Carnival.
Kerrie hails from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (not New Zealand, as I previously indicated, chalk it up to my watching) and I know her from her main blog, Mysteries in Paradise. She started this challenge for herself back in September and now it’s blossomed into a carnival, which you too can join.
I read many Agatha Christie mysteries as a preteen and teenager. My mother introduced me to them, but to be honest, I can’t remember which ones I read and didn’t. I love Hercules Poirot, though, especially his final case which is detailed in Curtain, and also enjoyed the Miss Marple series. So when I read about Kerrie doing this many months ago, I can’t say that I was not tempted. I was, but then as life happens, it kept getting put on the backburner.
Now since I’m not off to a rip-roaring start here with reading (two books for this month so far), I thought it would be a great way to help me kickstart my year. Plus I am a big fan of Agatha Christie. So today, I picked up The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Dame Christie’s first and the one that introduced Poirot to the world. I can’t wait and most likely will start later tonight.
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As for the other challenges, I’m only almost finished with one, halfway through another and nowhere near to being done on the larger one (of course, in my defense, that one will take a few years. If you wonder about what I’m talking, click on my new page “Reading Challenges” on the far right sidebar to see.
Thirsty Thursday is a weekly post on the topic of reading, or the thirst for knowledge, in this case, the thirst to know who did it. 
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