{"id":22324,"date":"2004-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/21\/poirot-mysteries\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T06:00:00","slug":"poirot-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/21\/poirot-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Poirot Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I finished &#8220;Murder on the Orient Express&#8221; the other night. It turns out that I was really really near the end of the ebook (probably about half a normap paper page) when I put it down for the night. The next day I was at the bookstore and perusing the book, trying to skim quickly and find out how far I really was. I then realized I was close to the end, but not exactly sure how close. Later that night, I opened the ebook, read about three &#8220;pages&#8221; and was done. \ud83d\ude42 With the desktop version of MS Reader, you can see the page number and total pages. With the PocketPC version, you don&#8217;t see the total pages, which is why I didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I thought it was a terrific book, and have now started on the first Poirot mystery, &#8220;The Mysterious Affair at Styles&#8221;. I am going to try to read the books in the order that Agatha Christie wrote them. Unfortunately, some of them are not available in digital format, so I may skip a couple. Next on the list will be &#8220;The Murder of Roger Ackroyd&#8221;, which I am eager to read because of a few recommendations from friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I finished &#8220;Murder on the Orient Express&#8221; the other night. It turns out that I was really really near the end of the ebook (probably about half a normap paper page) when I put it down for the night. The next day I was at the bookstore and perusing the book, trying to skim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/21\/poirot-mysteries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poirot Mysteries<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5O4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}