“The woman opposite him was a mere girl-twenty at a guess. I think what I liked most about Murder on the Orient Express was the panache/sass with which Christie writes her stories and portrays her characters, such as the character described below, On the plus side, this book counts towards THREE challenges! It counts towards my Mount TBR Reading Challenge (9/25) and counts as the first book for both the Back to the Classics Challenge (1/9) and The Classics Club (1/85)!
I’ve always wondered how some people are able to read 100+ books in a year (and I may be wrong), but reading novels like this where you fly through the pages could have something to do with it! I would definitely love to go back and read some more of Christie’s works, but I doubt I will unless I participate in some sort of mystery challenge. And it’s not like I spent the day in my room reading, I was out and about getting my haircut and running errands! It was very easy to read and I enjoyed the characters. Each piece serving as references that make him the natural choice to lead the new Orient Express project.It has been a long time since I read a (non-young adult fiction) book in a day, but this novel certainly sucked me in.
Further, you will find Wagon-Lit by Joseph Kessel, Prose on the Trans-Siberian Railway by the poet Blaise Cendrars, and biographies of artists of the new century such as the art collector Peggy Guggenheim, the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and even a collection of Agatha Christie novels. In his library, you can read stories by Paul Morand, Henry Miller and Ernest Hemingway. Passionate about history and fascinated by revolutionary artistic movements, whether it be the Italian Renaissance to the Viennese Secession, or Art Nouveau to Art Deco, the architect began his career with the creation of sceneography for Daum and Hermès, in collaboration with the American designer Hilton McConnico.įor the last 20 years, Maxime d’Angeac has taken on prestigious restoration and decoration projects, such as the Maison Guerlain on the Champs-Elysées, breathing new life into all the apartments, castles and private villas that are entrusted to him.ĭ’Angeac is an architect with a passion for literature, and a collector of old books, including treatises on architecture and industrial history, with his interests extending into travel novels.
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