Wrapped up Christie Month #Sunday Salon

Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.

How’s the weather?

We finally got our break from excessive heat days, just in time for the fall equinox. I’m loving the cooler days and nights! Everything is still green here but I’m finding ways to get golds, oranges, and warm browns in my life — from clothing to markers in my sketchbook.

What are you reading?

I’m nearly finished with I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern — such a fascinating book to read with all of the AI news floating about. Speaking of which, Stern posted her recent interview with Mark Zuckerberg this week — no surprise that the topic of AI was raised:

I’m about half-way through The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair, a novel that is set in post-War London where the characters are dealing with rationing and trauma. I haven’t read many novels in this setting, so it’s illuminating.

I planned my reading for the autumn months and I’m very excited about the ten books that I came up with for my Top Ten Tuesday post.

As I have for several years, I devoted four posts this month to Agatha Christie and her works and times. Her birthday is the 15th of the month and September feels like a good time to read and watch Golden Age mysteries (especially in years when it’s a little cooler). Here are the ways that I explored mysteries this year:

Review of Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Review of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Review and comparison of two TV adaptations of Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Review of the recent TV adaptation of Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

What are you watching?

I watched the recent TV adaptation of Towards Zero, an Agatha Christie novel. Part of the fun, for me, was researching the film locations. How would you like to stay in this hotel? Check the link for a great country house, too.

By Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12345762

What are you doing?

I spent a good part of this week doing follow-up to our book club’s annual book selection meeting. The schedule has been made, facilitators assigned to each book, and the room is reserved. We’re ready for another great year of reading!

Comments

Wrapped up Christie Month #Sunday Salon — 7 Comments

Jinjer on September 27, 2026 at 2:42 am said:

That book about AI sounds interesting and so does all your bookclub plotting and planning!

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Olivia on September 27, 2026 at 4:46 am said:

Yes, I would like to stay in that hotel. 😁 I really dislike the oligarchs, but I may see what Zuckerberg has to say on the subject. Thanks for sharing the link.

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jeanie on September 27, 2026 at 8:04 am said:

I love the golden age mysteries and I’m so glad many are being reprinted. I just came across a bunch of Dorothy L. Sayers books and now I think I need to reread some Lord Peter! I watched “Sparkling Cyanide” the other night, which was quite delightful.

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Erin @ Cracker Crumb Life on September 27, 2026 at 9:07 am said:

I would stay there. Lol. And I need to watch Towards Zero!

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Tina on September 27, 2026 at 9:35 am said:

That hotel looks fantastic – I’d love a getaway there.
The A.I. thing is mindboggling and I try and avoid any of the “suggestions” that pop up on my searches.

Nice reading on Agatha Christe!

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Deb Nance at Readerbuzz on September 27, 2026 at 9:45 am said:

I definitely want to read I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to do (Almost) Everything. I’m glad to see how much you are enjoying it. We get only a little autumn here, so this year I am adding some fall color to my blog.

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KentmereQuill on September 30, 2026 at 9:57 pm said:

The cooler days arriving right at the fall equinox feels like the season actually read the calendar — we had the same luck here, and I’ve been spending the evenings outside with a book instead of hiding from the heat. Did Christie Month end up changing which novel you’d recommend to a first-timer? I write about prompt engineering tools and workflows on my prompt engineering blog at https://ai-homed.org/, so I notice how much planning goes into a themed reading month like yours.

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