Spent today trawling through used bookshops. It actually wasn't how I was planning on spending my day, but I didn't really have a plan when I left the house, only that I was going to get some lunch and then, I dunno, go to Barnes and Noble? But then I went to a used bookshop I'd never been to instead! And then I went to four others after that ( Read more... )

( 11. The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, edited by John Joseph Adams )

The list of books I've read this month and some small thoughts on each of them. I hope to be doing this for each month this year.

( 1. The Mating Season, by PG Wodehouse )

Two-thirds of the way through The Return of Jeeves and I love it so much! I was ambivalent at first at the prospect of reading a Jeeves book without Bertie, but it has definitely won me over. Not to say that I don't miss Bertie, because I do, but the cast of characters are really entertaining in that Wodehousian way ( Read more... )

The good thing that came out of seeing the Sherlock Holmes movie is that it persuaded me to give the books another chance. I'd read Hound of the Baskervilles ages ago while visiting my aunt and uncle, but it didn't impress me much and I never picked up another Sherlock Holmes story after. Now, though, I have zoomed through Barnes and Noble's volume ( Read more... )