This is sad and melancholy and was hard to read. I'm glad I randomly read it because I wanted to finish off a hardcover anthology and not because I was reading all the Poirot stories in order, because if I was reading them in order and got to this as the very last one, I would now be very depressed. Instead, I have plenty of jolly Poirot mysteries to enjoy in the future still.| The Edge of the Precipice
My husband got me this book for my birthday, and it is a visual treat! Oodles and oodles of drawings and paintings by Tolkien, mainly related to Middle-earth, but not entirely. And each one has a note from his son Christopher explaining what the picture is, when it was done, where it was published before, and so on. | The Edge of the Precipice