Signed Books Arrived Today

YIPPPEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! My signed copies of The Passage and The Twelve arrived today. So exciting!!!! A big THANK YOU to my friend Evil, who handled all the details and another BIG THANK YOU to Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego for not only shipping the books out but also making sure my name was spelled correctly.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth be told I was ‘forced’ to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I’ve seen the movies and the TV shows. I’m a big fan of the BBC series but I was fearful that the book would be dull and boring. It was written over a hundred years ago. I was very wrong. Sherlock Holmes is as relevant today as he was a hundred years ago.

“It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of ours cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am, bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trails which I have figured, but rather to those incidents which may been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province.” – The Copper Beeches, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

I think the key to the continued success of Sherlock Holmes are the trivial events. While originally published in the 1890’s, the story of Sherlock Holmes is still relevant and interesting because Doyle primarily focuses on people and their issues. No matter how much the world has changed, people and the things that motivate them are still the same. I think that this is why Sherlock can be in a movie set in the 1890’s or in a TV show set in present day England because the key to Sherlock is not so much the setting but the people that make up the plot. 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was a truly an enjoyable read. I am going to add all the Sherlock Holmes stories to my reading list.

Moved to the East Coast

Last week I moved to the east coast. It's an adjustment. I am still trying to figure out what I'm doing but I feel less crazy and I finally started to re-read The Passage. I hope to have more reviews up in the coming days.