Campaigns and Christie

[mellicious]

So, Warnock got reelected - whew. The idea of That Man (i.e., his opponent the football player) being in the Senate just made me shudder. (Plenty of football players are perfectly nice people. It's the part where some people presumably voted for him because of that - and despite his other issues - that bothers me.)


I haven't talked about reading yet, and I'm certainly capable of running on about that at some length. For now I'll just say that I have been reading Miss Marple, which I had never read before - I had read some Christie years ago but that was mostly the Poirot books. I guess I wasn't interested in reading about old people when I was young myself, but that's no longer the case and I'm enjoying Miss Marple. I read the first book a while back - that's The Murder at the Vicarage and I liked it but I had this sense I was missing something. I went on and read the second and third books, but what I finally figured out is that there are a bunch of short stories that were written first, which I guess accounts for my feeling that I was expected to know some of the characters ahead of time! And so I've gone back and I'm reading those, now.

(I don't know that Poirot is supposed to be all that young, either, but Miss Marple was always portrayed as a slightly-batty old lady, at least until Murder, She Wrote made her into a sort of icon. Now that I've read (some of) the books I see that that's just supposed to be people making assumptions.)

Comments

[oracne]

I have never re-visited Christie since reading her in my youth, and would be interested in your perspective on them.

YAY Warnock! An actual thoughtful and intelligent man who does his job as Senator, which seems rare as hen's teeth sometimes.

[wheresmyplan]

First, yes--thank goodness a bare majority of Georgians made the right choice. It shouldn't be this hard, but here we are.

Second: while I haven't ready any Christie, I do appreciate the way that the age of the protagonist interacts with the age of the reader. I've found myself revisiting things I read years earlier where maybe the older age of the protagonist kind of slid through my consciousness without sticking, but now that I'm in my mid-40s there are descriptions I read where I'm like "oh yes, that's what it's like to be in your mid-40s."