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A Study in Sherlock: A Study in Scarlet
I’m reading through the Sherlock Holmes stories for the first time, and posting my thoughts on each story as I read it. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25796513@N08/ / CC BY 2.0 Title: A Study in Scarlet, from The Complete Sherlock Holmes Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes novel ever [...]
Cover Attraction: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Usually I don’t own the books I feature for Cover Attraction, but I’m so excited about this book I’m making an exception (and I may do so again in the future). This book was hard for me to get; after fighting gift-card wielding customers at Barnes & Noble, only to find it sold out not [...]
A few books at Christmas.
I say “at” Christmas because only one of these was a gift. I did receive a gift card for Barnes & Noble, so technically the gifts will happen this weekend. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories – A gift from my mother. This is a beautiful two-volume set containing all of the [...]
Winter Reading Plans
I don’t normally plan out my reading, except to frantically catch up on reading challenges, but this Winter I’m in the mood to do some comfort reading. So I’ve decided to just choose a couple of themes this snowy season: Cozy Mysteries I’ve never read mysteries much before, just one novel with Jane Austen as [...]