Bitter Tea and Mystery

Where I list what I read and my reactions.
Mystery is my genre, leaning towards
traditional mysteries and police procedurals.
Bitter hot tea is the perfect companion.

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Perplexing Plots: David Bordwell

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The subtitle of this book is "Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder." Bordwell was an influential film scholar; this bo...

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Short Story Wednesday: Two Hercule Poirot Short Stories

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Recently I read two short stories from Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie. The collection has 867 pages and was ...

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Sunday, October 19, 2025

Annual Book Sale 2025: My Husband's Books

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Every year in September we attend the Planned Parenthood book sale, which lasts ten days. This time we visited five times, as usual. My hu...

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Spin #42 for the Classics Club, October 2025

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The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty books from my classics list. On Sunday, October 19th, the C...

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: Rebecca Thorne

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I first saw this book when my son purchased it at the book sale. The copy he got was especially nice, with sprayed edges (in a nice turquo...

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Short Story Wednesday: The Literary Ghost, ed. Larry Dark

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Last week for Short Story Wednesday , I wrote about the first three stories in one of my husband's ghost story anthologies, The Liter...

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