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Book Review: 'Murder on the Orient Express' by Agatha Christie

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Book Blurb: The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the murder. Review: Murder on the Orient Express is a classic detective novel written by Agatha Christie. The plot is a perfectly formed one (it keeps the readers on the edge of the seat). This is the first Agatha Christie book I have ever read. Her writing is so engaging and that proves why she is one of the best authors in history.  Christie takes us on adventure alongside Poirot. Whenever someone reads crime mystery novels, everyone loves to guess who is the criminal, especially when you know that the culprit is definitely one among the suspects. This book leaves you puzzled and clueless but also amazed.  Poirot is probably the second most famous fictional detective after Sherlock Holmes. Poirot seems to be very different than Holmes. I need to read more books to understand him ver...

Quotes from books

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Few days after having written my first blog I found out how many people have read that. After seeing the numbers I felt so energetic and thought that I should write one blog everyday. I sat down with my laptop and started thinking a topic. Fifteen minutes gone, I was looking at the blank screen and blinking cursor. Thirty more minutes gone and nothing really changed. After few more minutes I closed my laptop and spent days thinking what to write.  I thought about writing poems or stories but then there was the issue of copyrights. I 'tried' reading articles explaining how one could get his digital works copyrighted. I dropped the idea because the process seemed complicated and confusing. And then conversations with my family and friends has led me to this topic. I love reading books. But there are some quotes or lines in books which makes a huge impact on the readers. There are so many such lines that have inspired many writers and readers. So I wanted to quote lines from two n...

Why I chose to write

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I was around ten years old when the idea of becoming a writer stuck my mind. I have always enjoyed poems and stories which I read in my English text books. There was and is something magical about literature that attracts me. I used to write short stories and poems and show it to my teachers who encouraged me to write more. But things changed after I moved to another school. I was preoccupied by the thought of being in a new atmosphere and having strangers around. Since then I have found it hard to concentrate on writing. But now everyone has abundant time to do whatever they want. Now, I really don't know why or how writing has become a part of me and my life. I like it and I do it. It feels like as though I am converting my dreams and thoughts into text. I also realized that stories and poems do not pop into your mind from nowhere. I realized that I have to become a voracious reader to excel in writing. All this can look clumsy since it's my first blog. But it's just the ...

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