33. Sherlock Holmes: The Patchwork Devil by Cavan ScottI am fascinated by Sherlock Holmes as a cultural phenomenon, so have been vaguely intending to read one of the current run being put out by Titan for a while. Cavan Scott is a local writer and had a signing event for this at the local Forbidden Planet, so I decided this was as as good a time ( Read more... )

22. The Origins of European Dissent by RI Moore
I've been putting this off till I am un-brain-fogged enough to discuss the ideas within. Not going to happen ( Read more... )

12. The Final Problem and Other Stories by Arthur Conan DoyleOnce again I was blown away by the loveliness of Doyle's prose. A great deal of fun ( Read more... )

33. The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie BrownThe woman in the title is Gudrid, who appears in the Greenland and Vinland sagas, who travelled from Iceland to Greenland and Vinland, and later in life made a pilgrimage to Rome ( Read more... )

3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Radio Times was giving these away to go with the BBC's rebooted Sherlock ( Read more... )

52. Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles by Kim NewmanI've been looking forward to this since it came out. It's more or less the Sherlock Holmes universe from the point of view of Watson's opposite number in the Professor Moriarty enterprise, Colonel Moran, with a whole lot of other elements from early genre fiction thrown in. And ( Read more... )

While I'm thinking about it, this week's Sherlock is the first I've not enjoyed that much.  I'm sure it was of similar quality to the rest of the series, but the only Sherlock Holmes story I really enjoyed as a child and read lots of times was The Hound of the Baskervilles.  I do understand that Gatiss & co. are only loosely basing this series on ( Read more... )