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paulasimoes , 12 days ago to bookstodon group Portuguese

Não me esqueci do aniversário da Dorothy L. Sayers no dia 13 de Junho, escolhendo estes 4 livros, mas o dia ficou complicado e acabei por não partilhar. Copywriter em publicidade, foi fundadora e presidente do The Detection Club, e é uma das minhas autoras de policiais favoritas.

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O livro Square Haunting Verde sobre uma mesa de madeira. O livro parte de um local onde várias escritoras para falar sobre elas, incluindo Sayers.
Um livro com capa roxa em cima de uma mesa de madeira. O livro reúne as críticas que Sayers publicava em jornais sobre os policiais que iam sendo publicados
O livro Mutual Admiration Society sobre um clube de escrita fundado em 1912 por Sayers e mais cinco mulheres, quando estudavam em Oxford.

paulasimoes , 22 days ago to bookstodon group

A recent #BookHaul

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paulasimoes , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

Two recent buys. I've read some Graham Greene's books many years ago and like them (translated, in a time when it was not easy to get books in English). This one was published in USA as "Orient Express" and I believe it was because of it that Murder in the Orient Express by Agatha Christie was titled "Murder in the Calais Coach" there to avoid confusion (it seems the books are totally different).
The other book is a recent title from a Portuguese writer. The title can be translated as Crime in the Village and uses the Portuguese village Piódão as the setting This village is part of the historic villages of Portugal and the houses are made of schist, so it is quite beautiful, as we can see from the (real) photo from the cover.

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paulasimoes , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

The #TBR tin has spoken.
Next read for fiction:
Great tales of detection has 19 short stories selected and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers. This collection was originally published in 1936, but it's still easy to find this more "recent" edition from Everyman.
Sayers edited several short stories collections and besides the interesting stories, she also wrote insightful introductions about the history and development of the genre.
I'll be using an Oxford related bookmark.
Next read for non-fiction:
Howdunit is a collection of essays about the genre and the work of detective, crime, thrillers authors. The articles are all from the past and present members of The Detection Club, organised and edited by Martin Edwards.
Bookmark from the Portuguese edition of The Floating Admiral, also a The Detection Club work.

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paulasimoes , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

No Sun and quite cold: the weather decided I should be in an armchair with a blanket, reading. The book is "Poirot: the greatest detective in the world" by Mark Aldridge (check my previous post if you want to see the cover). Two chapters to finishing it.
The #book is protected by a crochet cover I made myself. Wasn't sure, but it works really well. It was quite simple: 21 granny squares sewed together ☺️

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paulasimoes , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

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, #ColecçãoVampiro, 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

paulasimoes , 3 months ago to bookstodon group

A quick post, after a big distance trip, to show a second hand #BookHaul
Found these delights at Bookshop Bivar in Lisbon, and if you're in Portugal and looking for second hand books in English, this is the bookstore to go. They also send by post to other places in Portugal.

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paulasimoes , 3 months ago to bookstodon group

Books I always have on the go

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/books-i-always-have-on-the-go/

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