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All About Agatha Christie

A Very Special Anniversary (!!) Episode: Rankings & Other Musings

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We officially turned one year old! Come celebrate with us by engaging in a granular evaluation of the state of our novel rankings thus far, with many a blast from the past! (Mary Cavendish and Jane Wilkinson will be pleased.... Anne Bedingfeld, not so much. Sorry Anne.) Plus our thoughts on this crazy little projects of ours, including what makes Christie so gosh-darn special. Honestly, we could talk about that any time, but a birthday is an excellent excuse.

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0:00.0

Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking.

0:10.0

Every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie.

0:15.6

I'm Catherine Brobeck and I'm Kemper Donovan and this episode is really special to us because guess what we've been doing this for a year that seems insane

0:29.8

Shocking yeah, but we've been doing this for a year and so what we wanted to do was to talk about a few things.

0:38.8

One of which was that intro part about reading and ranking

0:44.9

because we took a while to get into the swing of things,

0:51.4

I think.

0:51.9

You'll agree, Camper agree with the rankings yes I mean the

0:55.4

rankings was always the more I think fanciful part of our Agatha Christie project

1:01.4

because the idea of and whenever we would discuss it with

1:05.4

anyone I would always feel the need to make this disclaimer of obviously

1:09.3

ranking something as subjective as the experience of reading a bunch of books by one author is

1:15.2

ridiculous sort of a project, but I've done the way we hoped it will lead to further

1:20.8

fruitful conversation about said books,

1:23.0

not that we think we're providing

1:24.9

ironclad answers as to which book is better

1:28.2

than others.

1:29.2

And I think that is true.

1:31.2

I think the rankings portion of our episodes I think it's there that we get at the heart of

1:37.5

what works and what doesn't and why and how. Yeah. So I'm glad that we're doing it, but it was a little wonky.

1:45.3

Well, it still is and it will still be going forward. Yeah. It's relative, right? Like

1:50.9

ranking is a relative thing, so it was hard to get our

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