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Moving Finger (Leslie and Greg)
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I loved the quirky descriptions of Megan Hunter in the first chapters, her undarned and poorly darned stockings and her disregard for appearances. I'm in chapter 8 now, and the way her behavior has been described lately is getting a bit odd though. Once all the mysteries are revealed, curious to see if all her behavior makes sense.
The only thing I wasn't fond of so far was the bufoonish depiction of Aimeé as she makes her "feminist" argument for women being allowed to work.
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Quite looking forward to her arrival now either over lunch or on the way home! The first part of the book was a lot of fun with some of the character introductions; then it settled into more of a standard Christie mystery. Miss Marple should kick the book back into gear! :)
Greg wrote: "Got to the beginning of chapter 10 in my audiobook on the way into work this morning. I'd almost forgotten that this was a Miss Marple book! She comes in quite late, doesn't she? ..."Indeed! It is almost as if Christie started off writing one of her stand-alone mysteries & then tacked on Miss Marple (perhaps at her publisher's insistence?).
Aimeé grated on me too -- but I wonder if that is intentional? Though there must have been lots of women with those ideas in the 30s & 40s...
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For sure Leslie! Though it wasn't so much the ideas as how she was portrayed that bothered me. I have a lot of empathy for women of the era that wanted to do meaningful work and were blocked from meaningful opportunities as she was blocked from studying medicine. I suspect that's why she threw herself into girl guides and other things as a sort of compensation, to occupy herself and to feel useful. I just wish the characterization was less buffoonish/cartoonish, that she was portrayed a little more sympathetically.
