Tag: Murder on the Orient Express

• Continental Breakfast for Two, si’l vous plait…

  If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be? “Only in England is the coffee so atrocious. On the Continent they understand how important it is for the digestion that it should be properly made.”  The Big Four, Hercule Poirot on English coffee Before I retired from teaching middle school English,…

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  July 24, 2026

  Essay

  Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, books, British, continental breakfast, cozy mystery, croissant, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2832, David Suchet, England, English, fiction, food, Hercule Poirot, literature, Miss Marple, Murder on the Orient Express, mystery, novel, reading, Sunday roast, tea, teacher, teaching, writing

• Read ‘Em or Weep: A Cautionary Tale

  All over the country grade school, middle school, and high school students are scrambling to finish their summer reading assignments and projects. Some have put off reading a 300-page book to the very last minute and now finishing it in time to complete the assignment seems a daunting task. In the coming week, which is…

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  August 23, 2015

  Essay

  Agatha Christie, Aristotle, Catherine Called Birdy, Catholic, Cuba, England, foreign language, French, Gary Schmidt, Hemingway, Hercule Poirot, Karen Cushman, library, Louisiana, Mary Poppins, Maryland, Medieval era, Montgomery County, Murder on the Orient Express, Port Sulphur, procrastination, Shakespeare, Spanish, sports, sports camp, Steinbeck, summer reading, summer slump, terrazzo, The Old Man and the Sea, The Pearl, The Wednesday Wars, vacation