<p>Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand sounds good to me. I haven’t read it. </p>
<p>And ignatius, this would probably be an opportune time for us to read a book that you only need to “brush up on,” because you will be very busy with A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations!</p>
<p>I’m in …</p>
<p>What SJCM said …</p>
<p>Okay, I think we have a quorum. The suggestion has been moved and seconded, and the motion is passed. Major Pettigrew it is. I’ll start a new thread.</p>
<p>I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!</p>
<p>Mary, Christmas greetings to you, too, and just want to thank you again for all you do as book club facilitator. I have enjoyed the discussions and learned so much, and more importantly discovered books I would have never read.</p>
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This is true for me too. I would like to join SJCM and thank you Mary for organizing and keeping this book club going. Thanks to all the posters too.</p>
<p>Happy Holidays to all!</p>
<p>Adding my thanks to Mary and to all…you really make me think about what I’m reading!</p>
<p>NPR - Who wrote the first detective novel ??? </p>
<p>[NPR</a> Media Player](<a href=“http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=132760328&m=132760301]NPR”>http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=132760328&m=132760301)</p>
<p>Or read about Sunday NY TIMES
<a href=“The Case of the First Mystery Novelist - The New York Times”>The Case of the First Mystery Novelist - The New York Times;
<p>“In 1975, however, the novelist and critic Julian Symons revealed in The Times of London a veritable hidden panel in the library of detective literature: a third novel that predates them both. It was “The Notting Hill Mystery,” an anonymous eight-part serial that ran in Once a Week magazine starting on Nov. 29, 1862. But the book itself presented something of a mystery”.</p>
<p>“Symons pointed out that nobody knew who the author — identified by the pseudonym Charles Felix when the novel was released in book form in 1865 — really was.”</p>
<p>"But reader, I know whodunit. " </p>
<p>(To find out who this author believes wrote the first “detective” novel - check out the article )
It’s a mystery … ;)</p>
<p>Fascinating! Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>Two CC Book Club Selections briefly intersected and I wasn’t quite sure whether to post under The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society thread or here under The Moonstone thread. Whatever … I wanted to post the brief passage somewhere. So …</p>
<p>I recently listened to the audio of *The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<a href=“CC%20June%20Summer%20Book%20Club%20Selection”>/i</a>. In a letter dated February 26, to Sidney from Juliet:</p>
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<p>I had to laugh - missed it when I first read the book, since I wasn’t as informed about Collins. ;)</p>
<p>Just to show that CC Book Club books continue to be worthy of discussion months later :)</p>
<p>I watched the Masterpiece Theatre *The Moonstone<a href=“1997”>/i</a> last night - found it at the library. Actually not bad, though not as good as the book, of course.</p>
<p>The movie follows the book quite closely and that pleased me. I thought the actors did a good job. The book seems to me to have a touch of dry humor that didn’t translate to the screen. Watch this BBC Production if you run across it and liked the book. I don’t know if I’d go so far as suggesting that you hunt for a copy. Still worth worth watching if you find it easily accessible.</p>
<p>I’ll have to keep my eyes open for a copy of the BBC production. Next week, I’ll be going to see the movie version of another one of our choices, The Help, (along with a few million other readers, I’m sure)!</p>
<p>Mary: The biggest discrepancy between movie and book (if I remember correctly) takes place the night of the theft - and that’s an important night. Godfrey assumes a more active role in the movie theft than in the book. Any student hoping to substitute movie in place of book does so at their peril.</p>
I thought this might be of interest to someone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-writer-who-liberated-the-mystery-story-from-drafty-castles/2015/11/16/20454102-8955-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html