Reading round-up: April 2025

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April was a fairly good month for reading:

Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple series): Agatha Christie

Monsieur Pamplemousse Takes the Cure (Monsieur Pamplemousse series book 4: Michael Bond

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything: Douglas Adams

 I'm really enjoying the Miss Marple books.  As you might expect there is an awful lot more detail in the actual stories themselves than can be fitted into the television series!  My favourite on-screen depiction of "Miss Marple" is Joan Hickson ~ I love the way she plays the character.  I confess that I also have a bit of a soft spot for Margaret Rutherford's version, even though it came across as a tad over-the-top.  Although I did watch the TV series adaptations with Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie, I can't say that I enjoyed them anywhere near as much as either Joan Hickson or even Margaret Rutherford.  I suppose we all have our favourite on-screen depictions of characters.  For me it will always be Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, in the same way that Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes and David Suchet is Poirot 😊

The Monsier Pamplemousse books are old favourites that I first read many years ago, borrowed, I suspect, from the library.  I can't remember now how I came across them again in the Kindle store but I'm glad that I decided to buy the first few books in the series.  I think I just have one more downloaded that I have yet to read, then no doubt I shall be popping back online to get some more, as I'm pretty sure that there are more than 5 books in the series 😏

The Douglas Adams books are in an omnibus edition: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete Trilogy in Five Parts.  I don't recall ever reading any Douglas Adams books, and to be honest I can't say that I remember watching the TV series either.  To be honest I've can't say that I've thoroughly enjoyed the three books I've read so far, but on the other hand I've not struggled with them like I did with Ted 🤷  Despite neither really liking nor disliking them, I will nevertheless finish the last two in this omnibus.

Confession time: the magazines from my various subscriptions have built up over the last year or two so, along with the gazzillions of yet-to-be-read books waiting patiently in my Kindle, I have a fair few mags piling up too 😳  I suspect the coming monthly round-ups will feature both books and a sprinkling of magazines, although with work in the garden now getting into full swing methinks there may well be a downturn in the amount of either that I can stay awake long enough to actually read 😄