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The books from the last 3 weeks have involved a tumble down an rabbit hole, some , and a touch of twee Irish with
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BuffaloCrisps OP ,
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The others from the last few weeks. Fell down a bit of an Agatha warren.

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darth_pernicious ,
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@BuffaloCrisps @bookstodon My copy of "By The Pricking of My Thumbs" has the save cover. It looked pretty old then when I got it second hand about 25 years ago. Tommy and Tuppence is a guilt pleasure of mine. 😀

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I’m an edition snob.

Not fancy ones, just certain ones. These tiny Agathas are one such edition, & today I added two more to the stack.
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luigirenna ,
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@Likewise @bookstodon I have the same thing for specific editions. I have a specific soft cover edition of all of Elric and Fahfrd & Grey Mouser books, chased one by one in thrift shops and off ebay

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there is definitely a satisfaction in having a certain edition, cover artists/art, same typography.

i wouldn't spend hundreds of dollars on one set but i have spent months and months of time. ;)

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Time for an !

I'm Jessa. The only social media that I feel comfortable with is Mastodon so here I am.

I'm fascinated by , particularly so I founded a community for women who love AI called https://femularity.ai. Would to connect with other AI explorers.

Happily married, mom, love , all things and the . Enjoy throwing dinner parties and listening to .

Happy to connect and find like-minded & kind people here.

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I'm halfway through "Agatha Christie's Poirot" by Mark Aldridge and it's being a delight (swipe for the cover). My preference goes to the context, discussing, and analysis Aldridge does for each work and adaptation, but the book is full of "extras" that add up to the arguments, like unpublished excerpts from Christie's autobiography, interviews, letters, reader reports, reactions at the time to the book's publication, visual and radio adaptations, some of which did not survive, but others that are still available, showing the rigorous and huge amount of work and research Aldridge must have put into this book.
The text is accompanied by book covers from editions through time and different countries. Some of these, depicting Poirot. As a reader that sometimes feels the adaptation doesn't portray the characters quiet as I imagined them, I do understand the resistance Christie had with depictions of Poirot. Still, I find it interesting to see how he was portrayed.
So, I thought I would share some of Portuguese book covers that depict Poirot. These are from the Portuguese collection, , that was quite important for the dissemination of the genre in Portugal. The collection has more than 700 volumes and it was published between 1947 and 2008.

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Six Portuguese editions of Poirot stories depicting Poirot in the cover

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