FROM BOOK TO SERIES: MiISS MARPLE (vicarage)

 I have loved the Agatha Christie series which feture her charcters Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple ,..

I have also found several of the books on YouTube as well .... I tend to listen to them at bedtime or during my morning tea ....

Yes - there are a few of us Americans who enjoy a morning cup of tea instead of coffee .... although I like that too, I tend to take it with a lot of creamer and a tad too much sugar.

I have come to enjoy tea with brown sugar these days ... it gives a delightful taste and I tend to use only half of what I use of white, refined sugar.

Any way .... back to the books/series.

I have been able to find Hercule Piorot on cable quite often (currently on my local PBS station) and now I have found that they are also doing Miss Marple as well!!!

Oh paint me happy!

The current acress playing Miss Jane Marple is actually the second best Marple n my opionion ...

My list goes:I 

~Margaret Rutheford (the movies had a wonderful amusement to them)

~Geraldine McEwan (she has such a great face, it is quite expressive)

~Helen Hayes 

~Joan Hickman ... there's just something about her that just rubs me wrong ... but I know that several people think she is very good

I'm sure I've missed several others, such as the other one of the "Miss Marple" BBC series ... but its pretty obvious that they simply haven't made much of an impression.

This week's episode on PBS "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple" was The Murder At The Vicarage .... a wonderful episode!
I've seen this particular episode about 6 times, if not more.

But I have not read the book -- Agatha Christie ws never on my radar as a younger reader, as an adult I tend to have too much to do to just be able to sit and read ... even before bedtime - but I've found a way around it.

Audiobooks ... 

Only thing is ... in the t.v. episdoe - the one I've seen so often - it seemed as if Miss Marple was a friend of the vicar's wife, Griselda ...
But in the book, it begins with Griselda saying horrid things about Miss Marple from the very beginning!

A very interesting switch to have made ... 

but here's the link to the Librivox version of the book on YouTube: