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I live and work in Adelaide South Australia, but I love travel, and am passionate about communities and networking. I am one of those lucky people whose work and leisure activities feed each other. Welcome to my page :-)
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Kerrie Smith
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04 Jul 2009
We are so accustomed to seeing David Suchet in the role of Hercule Poirot, that it is hard to remember the others. Suchet has worked so hard to match the image in the books that I always see him in my "mind's eye" as I read. He seems to be the "definitive" Poirot. So who were the others? My research suggests there have been at least 12. Wikipedia has a page about Poiro t, where the name came from etc. Here is how Hastings described him: He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carrie[..]
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03 Jul 2009
Last week's task was to pose 5-10 trivia questions , so I decided to make all mine related to Agatha Christie novels. Here are the answers. What was the title of the first Agatha Christie novel? (Hercule Poirot was first seen in this one) A: THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES In which novel did Miss Marple make her debut? A: THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE What is the name of Hercule Poirot's "foil"? A: Captain Arthur Hastings In which village does Miss Marple live? A: St. Mary Mead [..]
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This is a movie version of the review I posted earlier What do you think?
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In my experience of teaching history, Ancient Egypt was always a hit.
I once found a choose-your-own-adventure style of web site, where visitors could explore a newly found tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Looking back now, it was very text based, although it had graphics, but some students really loved it.
The Pew report titled [...]
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02 Jul 2009
This week's contribution to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books . This book is in my records from 1980. It was published in 1974. Edgar Lustgarten (1907-1978) was a British broadcaster and crime writer, who wrote some crime fiction, but most were accounts of true-life criminal cases. The Chalk Pit murder was the case of Thomas John Ley, an Australian politician who was convicted of murder in England. From 1922-25 Ley was Minister of Justice in New South Wales, and became known as the Ha[..]
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01 Jul 2009
Inspired by a widget I saw running on Cathy's blog at Kittling books that said she was a train, I thought I'd give it a go! Here is mine - not at all how I see myself! You Are A Spaceship You're so weird that you're practically out of this world. You are a total dreamer. You are obsessed with conquering the impossible. You are wild and adventurous. You love thrills of all sorts. You are a true sensation seeker. You are always looking for that next high. What Type[..]
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Five down - 1 to go! The winner's flag is in sight. So now I've read 5 of the 6 of the shortlisted nominations for CWA International Dagger. This is how they stand in my rankings: 4.9, Johan Theorin , ECHOES FROM THE DEAD , translated by Marlaine Delargy (Doubleday) 4.9, Karin Alvtegen , SHADOW , translated by McKinley Burnett, (Canongate) 4.8, Arnaldur Indrišason , ARCTIC CHILL , translated by Bernard Scudder and Victoria Cribb (Harvill Secker) 4.8, Jo Nesbų , TH[..]
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TEXT Publishing, Melbourne, 2009, written in Swedish 2007, translated into English by McKinley Burnett 2009, ISBN 978-1-921351-97-6, 311 pages Gerda Persson had lain dead for three days by the time the home help discovered her body. Her decision that at her death she would reveal to the person who most needed to know a secret she had been burdened with for 35 years sets in train a sequence of events that destroys lives. Thirty five years before a little boy had been left on the steps of the [..]
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It's becoming something of "tradition" at the middle of the calendar year to survey your reading landscape so far and come up with your best reads. I have a dozen and you will see they are a mixture of the old and the new: 5.0, PLAY DEAD, Richard Montanari 4.9, ECHOES FROM THE DEAD, Johan Theorin 4.9, SEARCH THE DARK, Charles Todd 4.9, A PALE HORSE, Charles Todd 4.8, ARCTIC CHILL, Arnaldur Indridason 4.8, THE REDEEMER, Jo Nesbo 4.8, THE CRUELLEST MONTH, Louise Penny 4.7,[..]
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30 Jun 2009
This week I've begun listening to LUCIFER'S SHADOW by David Hewson. And 40 minutes in, I'm finding it hard to work out what is going on! The reason? The narrator keeps reading with Italian accent overtones. I'm finding it difficult to distinguish characters from each other, and when he lapses occasionally into "real" English, my relief is enormous. There are at least two time periods, and even there I'm having trouble working out whose point of view I am hearing things from. I hope it gets bette[..]
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