Books

A FOR ANYTHING
Damon Knight
© 1959 Zenith Books, Inc
© 1965 Damon Knight

The Big Four
Agatha Christie, 1927

Hastings narrates a rather weird Poirot mystery. I am beginning to wonder why Hastings hung out with Poirot at all, since Poirot treats Hastings arrogantly at times.

Hercule Poirot’s associate, Captain Hastings narrates the book The Mysterious Affair At Styles.

There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
Random House, 2025
ISBN 9780593983751

The Great Geppy
William Pène du Bois
© 1940, by the author
The Viking Press, Inc

If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, William R. Forstchen
Skyhorse, 2012, ISBN 978-1616085469

Ancient Sea Reptiles
Darren Naish
Smithsonian Book, 2023
ISBN 9781588347275

Appears to have originally been published in UK by Natural History Museum, London.

An investigation into the origins of the famous fortune cookie saying All progress occurs because people dare to be different led me to a dead end, and I missed these important points.

I got a fortune cookie slip of paper (twice!) that read:

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

I’ve been watching Agatha Christie’s Poirot on the “BritBox” streaming service. I found The Mystery of the Blue Train episode (Series 10, episode 1) both intriguing and puzzling.

So, I read the book, which my lovely wife gave me for Christmas!