Denise's Reading Blog: January 2021

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie-Notes & Highlights

I got this cheap online for Ale to read.

Ale and I saw this movie after we finished reading the book together. I thought it was perfect!

This is the second book in our Sister Book Club.

Chapter 1

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a sine qua non...

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Essential condition Something absolutely necessary

Chapter 2

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superlatively

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Of highest quality or degree

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Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards, more than one of those present remembered that moment.

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I think Anthony Marston's name fits his personality because of how he showed off in his car before they went to the island by boat.

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There was something magical about an island-the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world-an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return.

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I think this is foreshadowing.

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"Very vague woman-and practically unreadable handwriting.

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Lol me

Chapter 3

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Adroitly

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In a clever or skillful way

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verisimilitude...

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Appearance of being true

Chapter 5

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asphyxiation

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Choking

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pious

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Religious

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parsons.

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Member of clergy

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Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island... To go back to the mainland, back to his little house, back to all the troubles and worries. Through the open window he could hear the waves breaking on the rocks-a little louder now than earlier in the evening. Wind was getting up, too. He thought: "Peaceful sound. Peaceful place..." He thought: "Best of an island is once you get there-you can't go any further... you've come to the end of things..." He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island.

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veronal

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cyanide!"

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doggerel.

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Easy rhyme

Chapter 6

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ether?

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rheumaticky."

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cascara,

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Elliman's.

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draughts

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"Squally

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ruminating

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desultory

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chastisement

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solicitude!

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brazen

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balmy!

Chapter 7

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acquiesced.

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Allowed

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shuddering

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Violent shaking or vibration

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condone

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Overlook

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reproach

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Scold

Chapter 8

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dubiously:

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Hesitating

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Every time Vera thought of her she seemed to see a pale drowned face with seaweed entangled in the hair... A face that had once been pretty-impudently pretty perhaps-and which was now beyond the reach of pity or terror.

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Impudently = Disrespectful Also, such a treacherous way to describe someone’s face, Vera.

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placid

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Calm

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incredulously:

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Disbelief

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futile.

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Pointless

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furtive

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Secretive

Chapter 9

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perjury?"

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Lying after taking an oath

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rubber truncheon or

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cosh."

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A policeman baton

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exonerated

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Release from blame

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jubilant.

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Great happiness & triumph

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acquiescent.

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Accept without protest

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idiosyncrasy

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Physical reaction of person from food or drug

Chapter 10

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wry

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Mocking humor

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Lombard said: "Who do you plump for?" Without any hesitation Vera answered: "Dr. Armstrong."

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Interesting phrase here

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tenacious

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Determined

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surreptitiously,

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Kept secret cuz wouldn’t be accepted

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"The bathroom curtain? What the devil do you mean, Rogers?" "It's gone, sir, clean vanished. I was going round drawing all the curtains and the one in the lav-bathroom wasn't there any longer."

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I think Rogers was going to say lavatory instead of bathroom, but changed his mind at the end. Now, the question is, why did he change his mind. At this moment in the story everyone in the house is under suspicion and this small detail would be something to look at as evidence against Rogers.

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pall of fear

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You can also say this phrase like this: an air of fear. It means the same.

Chapter 11

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affably:

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Friendly

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ascertained,

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Make sure of

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untenanted.

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Unoccupied

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mackintosh.

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Waterproof coat

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coffee urn.

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They found him shortly afterwards.

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I felt bad when they found Rogers because he was so sweet and he even prepared the house last night for a possible killing.

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wiry strength.

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Lean, tough

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spinster.

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Old unmarried woman

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acquitted

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Discharged

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laconically:

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Few word response

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ploddingly,

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Slow-moving

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perseveringly:

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Continue even if difficult

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penal servitude

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Hard labor punishment

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sang-froid...

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Composure under dangerous circumstances

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It was as though a sharp little gimlet had run into the solid congealed mass of Emily Brent's brain.

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Like a screwdriver went into her brain.

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impious

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Disrespectful of god

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Some people thought so little of death that they actually took their own lives.

Chapter 12

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conclave."

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Private meeting

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suffused

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Gradually spread

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acquitted

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Discharge

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asphyxiation."

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Suffocation

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shrill.

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High-pitched

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Blore said in a satisfied voice: "Only place it could be. After he'd killed her, he opened the window and threw out the syringe and picked up the china figure from the table and followed on with that." There were no prints on the syringe. It had been carefully wiped.

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How did Blore know exactly where the syringe was?

Chapter 13

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dinning

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Remember something by repetition

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There was little pretence now-no formal veneer of conversation.

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Lies

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