Agatha Christie Vlog 🔎

Added: 2026-05-08

[00:00:04]Hello, welcome to new vlog. I'm really excited about this vlog because I'm going to be reading an Agatha Christie book. I've read, I think two Agatha Christie books before, possibly three. I know for sure Murder on the Orient Express and then The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which between those two I really liked The Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best. And then I might have read another one, but I can't remember which one it was. I enjoyed both of those, but I just haven't read any more and I can't believe I haven't. Lauren from Lauren Jean, Paris from Paris May Reads and then Caitlin from Proud and Paperback have a new Agatha Christie book club and the first book they're doing is And Then There Were None. I was really excited to join that to give me an excuse to read Agatha Christie now. So, by the time I have this vlog up, it will already be over, but I know they're doing a live discussion of it. I probably will not be able to watch the live like at the time that it's happening because I will honestly probably be asleep because I go to sleep when my baby goes to sleep, so I can get any bit of sleep, but I will end up watching that later cuz I'm really excited to see what they say about the book. I have it here. I got it from the library. I was really excited because I've always been curious about this one because I feel like out of all of her books, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like this was the one that people talk about the most. So, I'm kind of surprised I haven't read it. I am really looking forward to getting into it. I'm curious if it's going to be more like thrillerish than mystery. I mean, I guess it is a mystery, of course. Agatha Christie writes mysteries, but like compared to other mystery books that I read, I'm wondering if this one's going to be not scary, but like a little bit more intense. I'm curious about that. I feel like that's going to impact how I feel about the book. This one is really popular. I'm kind of excited to be not starting with this one cuz again, I've read a couple of her books, but like really getting into Agatha Christie with this one. It's been probably five or six years since I read one of her books. I'm also excited because I really wanted to listen to the audio because I knew if I'm going to get this book done >> [laughter] >> in a good amount of time, then I need to listen to it. So, on Spotify they have this audiobook and it's only 6 hours, which is perfect because I'll definitely be able to finish it this week. And I started listening to it this morning and figured out it's narrated by Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey. So, that makes it even better. Like I was so excited to see that and he's already doing an amazing job with it. But, I will say I don't know if it's cuz I'm exhausted today, but I think at least the for the beginning of the book, I'm going to need to physically read it because I've already listened to two or three chapters. I think two chapters and I'm having a hard time like keeping track of of what's going on and who's who because there's a lot of characters and I don't know if I would still be having a lot of trouble if I was physically reading it, but I was like I at least need to read the beginning of it physically, I think to just get acclimated to the story and know what's going on because I couldn't really tell you right now. I've known of the book, so I kind of know what's happening. I just read the back of it.

[00:02:55]Honestly, reading the back of it has helped me more than listening to the first few chapters. There are 10 strangers that have gotten a mysterious letter to be invited to this island and that's where I'm having trouble because there's 10 characters that we have just gotten introduced to and I don't know any of them. [laughter] Where I am in the book right now where I was listening, they have I think they've all gotten there. That's all I've listened to so far. I'm going to physically read the first little bit and then maybe I can tell you a little more. Again, I don't know if it's because I'm so tired today that my brain cannot process the audiobook right now and I just like really need to focus on this by physically reading it or what's going on. I still really want to listen to it though because like I said, he's doing a fantastic job with it, so I might have to like do a little bit of both. I'm really excited to get into this and to read an Agatha Christie book and we will see if I can solve the mystery. I highly doubt it. I'm also really excited to see like if I really love Agatha Christie because The Murder on the Orient Express when I read it, I think I gave it four stars. I liked it okay. Loved The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and I love mystery so much, so I feel like I need to give her a really good chance to see do I love Agatha Christie. So, hopefully I'll find that out with this book.

[00:04:16]>> [music] >> Okay, I finally read like physically read the first chapter of And Then There Were None and I'm like halfway through the second chapter. I understand this now. So, it was definitely like a me problem of I was having a really hard time focusing on the audio. Now that I have read the first chapter, it was basically just an introduction of each of the 10, I think. Yeah, 10 characters that got invited to this island. I'm not trying too hard to remember who's who because I feel like as I read, I'll learn them more, but it did definitely help to physically read that beginning part because I was like, I don't even remember half of this from when I was listening to it. I do think I want to like physically finish reading the second chapter too and then I'll get back in to the audiobook because I am excited to listen to it since Dan Stevens narrated it and also I'm running out of time. Like I only have like three or four days left until Monday, which is when the live show is. They're going to be discussing this book. I need to finish it and I'll be able to finish it quicker if I listen to it. So, I'll probably, I don't know, do a little bit of listening and a little bit of reading, but it's a really quick audiobook cuz I think it's like 6 hours.

[00:05:21]That's basically all I have to say about this now because I've only read, like I said, one and a half chapters and I'm curious what's going to happen. I know like what I've heard of this book and what I read on the back, all of these people just start dying off. So, we're trying to figure out who the murderer is and then like how these characters are maybe going to connect because none of them know each other from what we know so far. They all got invited to this island, so they're trying to figure out why. I know it's because I watched this before I read the read this book, but all I can think about is Glass Onion, which is like the second Knives Out movie because it's the same kind of concept of they got invited to that island, I guess it was, and people started dying. I think that's kind of funny that like I'm keep comparing this to that movie when that movie is probably created based on this book. I just watched it first. So, I'm going to try to stop comparing that because this happened first. But, it's been so long since I watched that movie anyway, so I don't even remember what happened or what the ending was. I also think it will be fun. I saw there is an adaptation of this, maybe a BBC one or Masterpiece and I thought that would be fun to maybe watch that after I read this. So, we'll see if I end up doing that. I definitely need to get back into this. I don't know if I'm enjoying it because I'm so like I'm just 20 pages in. So, when I am a little bit further, I will let you all know what I'm thinking of it because I'm sure I'll have more thoughts on it.

[00:06:44]>> [music] >> I have an update on this book and I really needed to talk to you all about it before I finish it because I'm almost halfway through. I'm on page 90 right now and there's less than 300 pages in this book. I am loving this so much. It is so fun. I don't know. Honestly, is that the word to describe it? I'm not sure. Murder is happening on this island, so that's actually not fun, but it's fun to try to figure out what is happening. I think the last time I talked to you all about this book, I just figured out what was happening. We get introduced to all of the people on the island going to be on the island and I'm really into it because I have no clue who is behind all of this. I feel like it has to be someone in this group of people because, you know, no one else is there, but another part of me is like it doesn't seem like it could be any of them. It's also interesting too because within the first few chapters, like they get to the island and they're all having dinner together and then like a voice comes on like a recording and they hear each of them being accused of murdering someone and it seems like they all have possibly murdered someone or like in some way, even if it's not exactly murder, like they may have let things happen. It seems like they all have some kind of dark secret, them contributing to somebody losing their life. Other than that, they really don't like they don't know each other. They haven't met who invited them all there, at least I don't think so. Like clearly maybe they have. And it is a fairly short book, but regardless, like I feel like this is a book that I could just sit and read within like two sittings if I had the time to. Also, I was like kind of listening to it and I really liked the audiobook, but I've also just really been loving physically reading it, so I've been doing that more. I really, really love this. Possibly my favorite of hers that I've read so far. Again, I've only read two others. I have a feeling that I will not figure out who is doing all of this and who set this up. It is really interesting, like I said, because they all seem to like not be as innocent as you would think at first like in regards to just an innocent person that like wouldn't hurt anybody.

[00:09:02]I just keep getting excited to read it anytime that I have time to. I feel like I'm like so into it and like reading it so fast too that I might not even be able to update you all until the very end. Maybe I'll try to do it again like right before the end to see if I have any guesses on maybe who it could be, which I'm not going to spoil anything.

[00:09:20]This is convincing me that I do like Agatha Christie's books, so it gets me really excited to read more of them. I was reading this just now and I forgot to say I also think it's really interesting that there is no detective in this. All of the books that I've read by her, which I keep saying that like there's like I've read 10 or something.

[00:09:38]There's always like a detective.

[00:09:40]I think the two that well, one of them that I read was Hercule Poirot and then the other one I actually think there was not a detective now that I'm thinking about it. But, like in a mystery book you assume there's going to be a detective, at least I do. So, with there not being one in this one, I just thought that was really interesting. And honestly, like I feel like up to maybe halfway, I was waiting for a detective to show up. But of course there's not because they're on an island and there's only 10 people there. So it's almost like they're trying to figure it out amongst themselves. Also, one more thing that I wanted to talk about. At the beginning of the book, there's an author's note.

[00:10:15]This is I guess from her autobiography.

[00:10:18]I know.

[00:10:19]Basically, she's saying that she wrote this book because the idea was so difficult to execute. So she was really like fascinated by that, which honestly maybe I'll just it's a tiny little paragraph. I'll just read it real quick.

[00:10:31]I had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me. 10 people had to die without it becoming ridiculous or the murderer being obvious. I wrote the book after a tremendous amount of planning and I was pleased with what I had made of it. It was clear, straightforward, baffling, and yet had a perfectly reasonable explanation. In fact, it had to have an epilogue in order to explain it. It was well received and reviewed, but the person who was really pleased with it was myself for I knew better than any critic how difficult it had been. And I thought that was really cool that she basically really loved writing this book because it was so hard to write and she was just really proud of it and proud of herself. So I really liked that, too. But I think that was all I had to say about that. Um I was just reading it and remembered that there was no detective and I wanted to tell you all about that. I'm going to get back to playing with my baby and reading it.

[00:11:27]I'm pausing reading this for a second just to talk about where I am because I'm on page 211. I have like 30 pages left, I think. Oh, not even 30 pages, like 20 pages and we're down to the last two people. This whole entire book I have went back and forth on who this could be because I feel like every single one of these characters could have done it. I like I don't know what's going to happen. Now that we're down to two, I'm like it has to be one of them, right? But I don't see how it could be one of them. But I could also see how it could be either of them. I don't know.

[00:11:57]I'm just so confused because I'm not confused, but like I'm just kind of on the edge of my seat trying to figure out which one of them it could be now because now they're down to two. So we're about to be at one. Also, I'm like I have no clue why whoever it is would be doing this to all of them. Ah, I just I'm really excited to see how this is going to wrap up and who it's going to be. I feel like I'm not going to solve it. But I'm going to stop talking now because I feel like I'm about to finish this book and then I'll let you all know not how it ended, but how I felt at the end and if I feel like it was a good ending. I'm going to go try to finish this book now and will let you all know my thoughts at the end.

[00:12:33]>> [music] >> It's a little bit later now and I finished And Then There Were None. Wow, I feel like that is what I have to say about it. I did not guess who it was.

[00:12:43]That is for sure. And like you all saw, I was down to the last two people and did not know what was going to happen and I didn't get it right. I will say I probably guessed almost all of them at different times. There were a few that like I wasn't really suspicious of, but there were a handful that I went back and forth about. I didn't fully guess it and you should have seen me reading the epilogue because I read the epilogue and then I said, "Who was it?" I was still like I didn't know who had done it. But then like you read the epilogue and then there's like a letter after the epilogue, which is I guess technically still the epilogue. So then I read the letter and figured it out, of course.

[00:13:24]She definitely got Like the more that I read of the book, the creepier it got. I was okay, I guess the whole time, but then especially the epilogue was the creepiest. Creepiest part of the book. I was actually reading the last two or three chapters at my parents' house today and I was kind of glad that I was reading it there because >> [laughter] >> I again was getting a little bit creeped out. I feel like out of the three books that I've read by her, this one was the most like thrillerish one and less I don't know if like any of them are technically cozy, but I guess the creepiest. I don't know. Which I'm giving it four and a half stars because of that. Like this is just literally my taste in books or like preference, I guess. I don't like creepy things. I like at all. So I feel like it was just enough to not be too much for me, but then like it was on the edge of like I almost didn't enjoy that part. So yeah, this is just like a preference.

[00:14:23]Other than that, like five stars. It was amazing. She did a great job putting this whole mystery together.

[00:14:30]So yeah, I knocked it down half of a star just because of my taste in books.

[00:14:35]Agatha Christie is a great author. I definitely figured that out in this book, but if I read more by her, I'm hoping that those books are a little bit more like my taste in mysteries. Like cuz I'm just so on the end of like cozy mystery. This is technically not really a cozy mystery.

[00:14:53]So I need any other books that I read by her to be less creepy to me. And also because of that fact that I was a little bit creeped out, I don't think I'm going to watch the mini series or a movie because it might be too much for me to handle to actually like physically see it. So yeah, I'm not not going to watch anything. I did already watch Lauren, Caitlin, and Paris's live where they talked about this book because it's already been a couple days. I didn't get the book finished and again, I would have been asleep if I had to finish it in time. But I watched it after the fact and that was really good. I really liked hearing what they had to say about the book and then like other people. I do feel like this was a success. I figured out I do like Agatha Christie. Now I'm wondering, I'm just curious how her other books are if they are like a little bit less on the creepy side, which I think they are because I don't remember especially the Murder on the Orient Express. That didn't feel creepy to me when I read it, I don't think. I do feel like I officially like Agatha Christie now. I want to read more books by her, but I'm going to wrap this vlog up now. If you have read this book, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it and what you thought about the ending, which without giving spoilers, but what did you think of the book and like how it ended? And were you happy with the ending or did you figure it out? And then if you have a favorite Agatha Christie book that you really love that you think I would enjoy, then let me know because I just need to make a list of her books now that I need to read. If you made it this far into the video, I really appreciate you being here and I thank you for watching and I will see you next time.