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I'm still on my Agatha Christie kick. This month it was Murder in Mesopotamia, which is set on an archaeological dig in Iraq. I'm pretty sure it's one I never read before, nor have I seen the David Suchet episode. Christie was interested in archaeology and participated in digs, so it had some interesting details about the work and day-to-day life of archaeologists in that era. It featured a different narrator than most Poirot books: a woman hired as nurse to the eventual victim about a week before her death. The nurse was both opinionated and unreliable, which was a fun combo in some regards since you could see how her prejudices for or against certain characters were affecting her judgement and blinding her to some of the realities of the case, but unpleasant when her opinions involved racism against the local Arab workers at the dig, which they frequently did.

As for the mystery itself, perhaps the easiest explanation of my feelings is that I enjoyed the setup, but not the solution. One hopes for a satisfying answer to all three of the questions of Who, Why, and How, and the ending was so improbable on one of those counts that it destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the classic Christie twists and turns and it's a light, fast read, so I wouldn't describe it as wasted time.

And here are some of the fics I enjoyed in July!( MDZS, Beyond Evil, K-pop RPF )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in June:( Beyond Evil, Word of Honor, and SHINee RPF )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in June:( Beyond Evil, The Old Guard, ATEEZ 'Bouncy' MV )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in March:( MDZS/CQL, Beyond Evil, 1000 Stars, Nirvana in Fire, Yuri on Ice, K-pop RPF )

Happy New Year! Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in December:( MDZS/CQL, Beyond Evil, Kinnporsche, K-pop RPF )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in August:( 4 MDZS/CQL, 5 Kinnporsche, and 1 each of Beyond Evil, Bad Buddy, Good Manager, and Chinese Actor RPF )

Posting a day early as I'm going out of town and not sure how much internet access I'll have tomorrow. Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in June. For some reason I had zero attention span for longer works this month, so these are almost all short and smutty oneshots. 🤷‍♀️ However, I did binge three new dramas, and explored the AO3 tag a bit for all of them. ( MDZS/CQL, Word of Honor, Beyond Evil, Mr. Queen, Bad Buddy, Kinnporsche )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in April:( 6 MDZS/CQL, 1 Beyond Evil, 1 Word of Honor, 1 RPF )

I was out of town for quite awhile in the middle of the month and didn't get much reading done during that time, but luckily found some good stuff at the beginning and end to make up for it. Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in March:( MDZS/CQL, Beyond Evil, Yuri on Ice, MCU, RPF )