Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Maitland McDonagh?!?

Last week I stopped at the bookstore in our town, From My Shelf Books, and purchased three books:

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a box set with two volumes contained within.
• The New Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, edited by Dick Riley and Pam McAllister, which includes “witty synopses of all the novels, plays and short story collections (without revealing the whodunits), Christie’s own comments on the stories, feature articles on themes in her work, a Christie mystery map, puzzles and poems.”
• Movie Lust by Maitland McDonagh, seniors movies editor and FlickChick columnist for tvguide.com and part of the Lust series from Sasquatch Books.

I already have read A Study In Scarlet, The Sign of the Four and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as part of The Baker Street Challenge. I am going to continue to read the novels and stories by the order in which they were written and and not by the order they are in the two volumes. Yes, as I mentioned Sunday, I am one of those people who cannot read series out of order, no matter if the series has become popular in later portions of the series. I want to know the full development of the main character(s) portrayed, from conception to, in some cases, death.

As for the other two books, they are more for perusing from time to time. I picked up the Christie book, naturally because of my interest in her work and participation, starting last year in the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, and the Movie Lust book because well, I love movies and any time I can get recommendations on what next to choose from Netflix, I will.

Speaking of Netflix, next up for us is The Hurt Locker, for which at first the queue said “Long wait” but now it’s on its way:

And I want to recommend a movie to y’all, which even though I haven’t seen Twilight, I only can imagine that this one is better than that:

The badge above is one of three new badges I’m using this week for my themed days, with the first one introduced Monday for Motivation Monday, and the last one to be introduced this Friday for Flashback Friday.