Welcome to The Year of Agatha!
We’re Audrey and Emily. This is a project we conceived via text message in 2015 while simultaneously watching episodes of Marple in our respective homes. Agatha Christie has been one of the best known and best loved masters of mystery for almost 100 years. Since we both admit to being occasionally teased, nay, mocked for our devotion to almost century-old British mysteries, we wanted to explore what it is that makes her stories connect just as much with millennials as they did with the post-WWI readers who were her contemporaries.
How does this work?
To get ready for the project, we read Agatha’s self-titled autobiography to learn a little more about her life and her personality. Over the course of 2016, we read all of Agatha’s mystery novels -- some we had to divide and conquer and some we teamed up on, like Hastings and Poirot (but with a less marked gap in intelligence.) We used this blog to document our thoughts on themes, plots and characters drawn from real life, whether Tommy & Tuppence are basically millennials, the number of times Hastings totally missed the boat, favorite side characters, the poor souls who find the bodies and whether they are similar to Law & Order cold-opens, and much more.
When should you tune in for all this goodness?
Be sure and follow @theyearofagatha on Instagram, Twitter, and The Year of Agatha on Facebook for fun photos of vintage books, author interviews, and other bookish tidbits!
So if you’re out there, thanks for joining us! Let us know when we’re reading one of your favorites, share your theories about the stories, and discuss how all the Girl on the Train fans have Agatha to thank.
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