L. D. Christianson

This is my first Read Christie 2025 review! Read Christie 2025 is a challenge from Agatha Christie Ltd. That assigns a Christie book to...

A note before I get into the meat of the post: Several of my subscribers reported not receiving a notification about last week's post,...

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've posted and I wanted to get one more post in before Christmas. It won't be a long one, but I...

A new Bundle of Thyme Column!

As you may have noticed if you get my notifications, this post was not published at my usual time. As an online college student, my...

The long awaited day has arrived! I've finally finished dealing with all my publishing issues, and White Marbles is ready for you to...

(Ok, “journey” would probably be a better word, but that’s cliché in the blog-o-sphere, not alliterative, and cannot be interpreted as a...

You might have noticed that it isn't Tuesday. But there's a blog post. What's going on? Some very exciting news, that's what! If you...

I suppose, technically, watching Star Wars with my dad was my first experience with sci-fi. Or maybe it was my Dora and the Purple Planet...

Well, this is ironic. In last week’s post, I defended Deep Space Nine  as “real” Star Trek  when many other reviewers didn’t see it that...

The large photo book is The Heart of Australia by Peter Jarver. When I was a kid, I had a video game called “Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.”...

In my Ostinato post, I discussed my reluctance to practice piano as a kid. Now I want to share another piano memory, this time about...

Intro & Recap In last week’s post, I spent a good bit of time looking at what an American hero is and why they have faded in recent...

Introduction I’ve had this idea for a while, but always shied away as I don’t want this blog to be seen as political in any way, and I...

A man at my church once shared a story that went like this: a Sunday school teacher asked “what is grey, has a fluffy tail, and eats...

This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love...

The last review in the series & an update about technical difficulties.

We have made it to our penultimate Queen, Margery Allingham. I had not heard of Allingham, at least not that I remember, until watching...

This is the third post in my Queens of Crime series. Reading Dorothy Sayers was a bit of an adventure for me, so I hope this review will...

I must begin my reviews of the Queens of Crime with the Queen herself, Agatha Christie. I’ve read and loved so many of her books, so I...