I went to my Murder on Mondays Mystery book group tonight for the discussion of Agatha Christie’s books, The Body in the Library and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. After our discussion we were supposed to have a trivia contest for a chance to win eight Agatha Christie books from this collection. Aren’t they nice? I think those would look good in the Bookgirl library. Hee.

I was dreading the contest actually as I hadn’t really read anything about Agatha Christie and most of the members weren’t too keen on the trivia idea either so our book group leader took pity on us and decided to just have a drawing instead and guess what? I won, Evil Under the Sun, a Hercule Poirot mystery. Yay me!

We also chose the books for the next two months and I’m so happy that we chose books I’ve already read and that I liked a lot. In July we’ll discuss Stil Life by Louise Penny and in August we’ll discuss Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason.

Of course I couldn’t leave with a little something else for me and I got the latest issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. I really enjoyed the last issue I bought. So a very fun evening indeed.

I was supposed to meet up with friends this weekend but all three of my dates got cancelled so that was a bummer but that meant that I had a chance to catch up on a bit of reading.

I read a bit more of Don Quixote and am now up to page 98. So now Sancho Panza has been introduced and I’ve read of the fight with the windmills and the burning of the books. These are all things I already knew about so I cannot even imagine what is ahead of me in the book. Many more pages to go!

I did finish The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and wow was I blown away by the big reveal. I had no clue who the culprit was. I will have a review later on but if you like mysteries don’t miss this one.

The latest edition of BookForum arrived in my mailbox on Saturday and even though I have another older edition still waiting to be read I started in on this one because they had a good article on books to film. Click here to see what some of the critics chose as the best adaptations.

Oh and I didn’t make it to the library after all but I’ll try to get out there this week and see what’s on the new bookshelf. Hope everyone has a great start to the week.