2009 Reading #4
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snurri1. Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left by Susan Braudy
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes only had the stories published in The Strand, which left these two out. Holmes stories are mostly interesting, I find, for the characters; the mysteries are rarely that absorbing, it's how Holmes and Watson interact with them, and the people involved, that keeps me reading. So I appreciate reading about how Holmes and Watson met, and the first explicit mention of Holmes' drug habit, but I could do without the long exposition on the Mormons that takes up a third of A Study in Scarlet. But I can't pretend I'm not a completist, and I'll be seeking out the rest of the Holmes stories before long.
2. The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
3. From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes.
4. A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes only had the stories published in The Strand, which left these two out. Holmes stories are mostly interesting, I find, for the characters; the mysteries are rarely that absorbing, it's how Holmes and Watson interact with them, and the people involved, that keeps me reading. So I appreciate reading about how Holmes and Watson met, and the first explicit mention of Holmes' drug habit, but I could do without the long exposition on the Mormons that takes up a third of A Study in Scarlet. But I can't pretend I'm not a completist, and I'll be seeking out the rest of the Holmes stories before long.