Books
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
2 stars
I was surprised to run across this book, as I thought I’d read all of Agatha Christie’s mysteries. Unfortunately, I wasn’t too thrilled. The romance was rushed and unbelievable. The casual racism was period-appropriate, I guess, but still bothered me.
Friday afternoon was our first warm day of the year. The kids wanted to pull out their wading pool. When I was distracted with the chickens, Kid #1 turned on the hose for the first time this season. An hour or two later, I came inside & wondered what the sound of rushing water was.
Yep. The pipe had frozen over the winter & burst when she turned on the faucet.
3 inches of water in the basement. Water poured down the walls. It dripped from the ceiling.
It soaked our boxes of books.
I spent the next hour hauling boxes out to the porch to triage the damage. About a dozen books went straight into the freezer in an attempt to save them. Another 20 or so got dried with a towel & then left to sit on the porch. 2 or 3 of those are pretty much unusable, but I think I rescued the others. They don’t necessarily look pretty, but you can still read them. I haven’t had the time to really look at the frozen ones yet.
I guess this is a good time to get around to building those bookshelves so that we no longer have to store hundreds of our beloved friends in boxes.
Ok, we all LOVE this book. It’s fun to read & I haven’t heard kiddo #1 laugh so hard in a long time. It’s a cute twist on reading fairy tales that I don’t mind reading multiple times in one day.
mom rating: [rating=5]
What do you like about it? “ALL of it!!!!”
kid rating: [rating=5]