NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

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Another Holmes, another pick.

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Mollyanna

A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle

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The first Sherlock Holmes (#SeriesLive2024) and how can you go wrong. Doyle does an excellent job setting up the relationship between Holmes and Watson (and subsequently their relationship with Scotland Yard), as well as giving us an intriguing mystery. The second half of the book doesn‘t work quite as well, but it serves its purpose. Looking forward to reading the canon with #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

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TheSpineView Fantastic! 23h

Cuilin Wonderful 🫶 22h

dabbe Yay! 🤩🤩🤩 19h

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kelli7990

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho | Arthur Conan Doyle

Look at what Audible said to me. I will get back to listening to this book again but I have another book I‘m listening to right now. I‘m not in a hurry to finish these stories. There‘s a lot of stories in here and I want to take my time. If I do all of them at once, it will be too much and I like reading other books in between reading the stories.

#noplacelikeholmes

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Read4life

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My May Challenges & Buddy Reads.
#Roll100 #SeasonalCozies #BookSpin #DoubleSpin #readyourebooks #TBRtarot #ReadOrDonate #SUNDAYBUDDYREAD #childrensclassicread2024 #NoPlaceLikeHolmes #NancyDrewBR #LittensLoveRomance
Not pictured: #BobWhiteBuddies (I‘ll add it)

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Librarybelle Lovely organized graphic! 3d

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 3d

MsLeah8417 What is #Roll100 ? 3d

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CSeydel @MsLeah8417 Here‘s the most recent post: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2726941 3d

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 3d

Read4life @MsLeah8417 it‘s a low key, fun challenge to read books on your shelves (physical, digital and audiobooks). You make a list of 100 books, ebooks and/or audiobooks that you‘d like to read. @PuddleJumper rolls 3 numbers each month. You then try to read 1, 2 or all 3 of the rolled books from your list. You can always read any book from your list anytime so you don‘t have to wait for it to be rolled. If a completed # is rolled, you can either replace 3d

Read4life It with another title, consider it a completed number for the month or read the book a number above or below the rolled one. Again, it‘s all fun and just an enjoyable way to tackle your TBR. Hope this helps, @MsLeah8417 If you‘d like to join, just go to the link @CSeydel posted above and tell @PuddleJumper you‘d like to be added to the tag list. 🤓 (edited) 3d

julieclair Great list. Happy reading! 2d

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dabbe

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

Hi, Sherlockians! We are two short stories away before beginning THE MEMOIRS OF SH. As we prepare to flesh out the discussion dates, we have a quick survey that would assist us in our planning. We'd like to have the dates out to you in a few days, so if you could fill out the survey no later than this Tuesday, 5/7, we'd greatly appreciate it.
Link: https://forms.gle/Av7aA39ct76SS21s6

Have a lovely week! 🤗

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dabbe

The Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Collection: 150 enigmas for you to solve, inspired by the world's greatest detective | John Watson

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin

Last post today, Sherlockians. I found a website that has fun word puzzles for every single SH story, and I've shared a few with you already. I decided to just give you the entire website so that you can visit if/when you want to. Every story has THREE different types of puzzles. If you're a word puzzle person, this site is for you! 🤩
Click here: https://www.beaconsociety.com/the-puzzles-of-sherlock-holmes.html

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kelli7990 Yay! I love word puzzles. 6d

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dabbe

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes @Cuilin

Interesting discussion today, Sherlockians! If you haven't already joined in, please do so--this story was a hoot! 😂

Next up, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet.“ Below is information on this story, including a summary (spoiler alert!). Next discussion with @Cuilin: in 2 weeks on 5/18 due to Mother's Day next week.

Click here for the link: https://bit.ly/3UpU5Wo

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dabbe

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin
#TheAdventureOfTheNobleBachelor
#Discussion

What did y'all think? 🤩

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IndoorDame I think this is the first time Sherlock and I agree that no crime was committed and everyone should run along home 😂 6d

Librarybelle True, @IndoorDame ! 6d

dabbe @IndoorDame Unless you want to charge Hatty Doran with bigamy! 😀 6d

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IndoorDame @dabbe oooh, we totally could! But it seems petty since she didn‘t steal money from either husband (and running off with your own fortune is the sort of thing that calls for recriminations against marrying someone just for the money) 6d

dabbe @IndoorDame Agree 💯. Hatty and Frank deserve each other. 😂 6d

dabbe A couple of things I found to be a hoot in this one:
•When Lestrade is so proud of the clue he found, Holmes looks at it, and Lestrade SHRIEKS, “You're looking at the wrong side!“
•When Simon dares to say to Holmes that the cases he's solved so far were from the lower classes, Sherlock replies that he is “descending“ in Simon's case and that his last client “of the sort was a king.“ 6d

kelli7990 I liked this story. 6d

CogsOfEncouragement @dabbe Yes, Wrong side!?! - so funny. And when Simon is quite struck that he is not the highest client Holmes has aided. (HOW embarrassing lol)

I also thought is was silly for Simon to come for help from Holmes but then say “I am afraid it will take wiser heads than yours or mine“ and then amusing when Holmes says it was an honor of Simon to put his head on the level with Simon's.

@Librarybelle @IndoorDame 6d

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement I forgot about that last one, too! 😂 6d

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dabbe

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin
#TheAdventureOfTheNobleBachelor
#Discussion

What did y'all think? 🤩

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IndoorDame I think you could title this one Everyone Behaving Badly. Watson and the hapless inspector seem to me to come off the best, and our society couple the worst, but no one‘s behavior quite reaches noble, and Holmes‘ staging of the reveal is a bit self serving and distasteful. 6d

Librarybelle I‘m not sure anyone‘s behavior could be described as noble. St. Simon does remind me of the stereotypical nobility-type. 6d

dabbe Hatty's dad was abominable: getting rich then forbidding his daughter to marry Frank because he had no money, but hey, let's marry a lord for his title! Frank doesn't think Hatty can stay faithful unless they secretly marry so he can “feel sure of her.“ Plus he has her go through with the marriage to Simon when he magically appears at her wedding? Why couldn't they cause a scene at the church? They certainly did later! ⬇️ (edited) 6d

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dabbe Then Hatty wants to avoid everything and everybody: it's too “dreadful hard“ to tell Simon the truth, so let's just run away. Oh, and let's have Frank hide her wedding clothes because that'll solve everything. It takes SH to make them see the light, and then he thinks they can all get together for a happy supper? Yowza! 😂 6d

dabbe And ... no one seems to care what happens to Flora Miller. Lestrade thinks she killed Hatty, so is she left to still rot in jail? And even though Simon behaved “nobly“ by shaking Hatty's hand, he had no problem flinging it with Flora--just as any noble bachelor would do, right? 6d

Sace @dabbe Exactly! I need more story about Flora! 6d

CogsOfEncouragement @IndoorDame @Librarybelle @dabbe @sace I was surprised Watson was callous, saying Simon was not very gracious, while Holmes understood the hurt of losing a bride (okay & fortune lol). I saw Holmes as thoughtful providing an expensive dinner to allow Simon to get some closure in a private space. With upscale bottles of wine, for him to ease his pain as he heard the tale w/Holmes & Watson serving as buffer. And Yes, was Flora justified? 6d

IndoorDame @dabbe yes, I really hope someone gets her out of jail!!!!🤞🏼its maybe not strictly “nice” to crash your exes wedding to cause a scene, but I don‘t think we can justify the level punishment for her rudeness she‘d get for kidnapping and killing the new bride! 6d

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Holmes does show his softer side in this one, doesn't he? Excellent point! 🤩 6d

dabbe @IndoorDame @Sace I've read that Doyle was known for “forgetting“ plot lines throughout his stories, but in the same one? He totally leaves Flora out there to hang! 6d

Sace Did Doyle forget or was she just a run of the mill danseuse not worthy of anything more? (I just wanted an excuse to use danseuse in a sentence 😂) 5d

Aimeesue @Sace 😂😂😂 3d

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dabbe

Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes
@Cuilin
#TheAdventureOfTheNobleBachelor
#Discussion

What did y'all think? 🤩

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Cuilin I really enjoyed it with its soap opera, telenovela vibe about it!! 6d

IndoorDame @Cuilin same! 6d

Librarybelle That‘s a good way of describing it, @Cuilin ! 6d

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dabbe We have everyone pretty much behaving abominably and misreading one another, and then SH tries to have the proverbial happy ending like a Shakespearean comedy of errors, to a “soap opera,“ as @Cuilin stated so well. 6d

CogsOfEncouragement How many times have I read a story, where the whole of the problem could have been solved with one conversation??? It was good of Holmes to pressure Hatty to face Simon. It was the decent thing to do. And as someone also pointed out on another post - Flora did nothing to Hatty. Lestrande needed proof of that though lol. @Cuilin @IndoorDame @Librarybelle @dabbe 6d

kelli7990 I didn‘t laugh but I found one part of the story kind of funny. 6d

dabbe @kelli7990 Would you like to share which one? 🤩 6d

kelli7990 @dabbe I don‘t remember what scene it was. 6d

dabbe @kelli7990 No problem. If you found it funny, that's what matters. 🤗 6d

Cuilin @CogsOfEncouragement imagine if people would just talk and share information 🫢 5d

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