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Born.A.Reader
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Picked up this lovely edition of Sherlock Holmes at B&N last week. 🤎
#brown #coverlove
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

FlowerFairy Beautiful!!! 4mo
dabbe You're more than welcome to join our buddy read of SH at #NoPlaceLikeHolmes Beautiful edition! 🤎🤎🤎 #sherlocked 4mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Gorgeous 🤎 4mo
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Cuilin I love that cover also what @dabbe said 4mo
Born.A.Reader @dabbe I'd love to! I'll look it up today! Thanks! 4mo
Eggs Lovely édition ??? 4mo
dabbe @Born.A.Reader @Cuilin ... I added you to our list! 🤩🤗😀 4mo
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MaGoose
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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RamsFan1963
Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula | Loren D. Estleman
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
Day 33
#ABookADay2024

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Gissy
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Pickpick

I read this one during Christmas Day. Perfect for that day. I enjoyed it. What I like is Holmes analytical thought process to make a conclusion and discover who committed the crime or the crime activity. I will say that it was a cliché who done it but it was good. I also like how atmospheric, descriptive the author was.3/3.5 ⭐️
December 2023 #BookSpinBingo (#11) @TheAromaOfBooks
#ISpyBibgo (Christmas lights-well lamps😜 @Clwojick @TgeAromaOfBooks

mabell Ooo pretty photo and treats! 😍 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 10mo
Gissy @mabell Calories😳😂We called that pastry “quesitos”. It has cream cheese inside. We usually eat it warm so you can feel the cheese war, but not totally melted😋 10mo
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NikkiM5
Mehso-so

This was my first “Sherlock” book. Do not rely on me to solve any crimes 😬. I gave it a so-so because I‘m not a huge mystery fan.

#wintergames #USS #UglySweaterSquad
I have little detective skills, but I am proud of my point check in number: 13,758! 🥳

dabbe When I taught SH to my students, I discovered that a big trait in a detective story is that we are NOT supposed to be able to solve the crime; that's why the detective is so brilliant and usually odd. We're just the Joe Schmoes sitting on the couch, eating potato chips while the detective tells us how he easily solved the crime. And yes, we usually feel stupid afterwards. And #woohoo for your points! 💙❄️💙 10mo
AnnR Way to go! 👍📚🎉 10mo
NikkiM5 @dabbe were you looking at me through my window 🤣🤣🤣 10mo
dabbe @NikkiM5 Nope. I was looking in a mirror at myself! 🤩🤣😍 10mo
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dabbe
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This SH fan was not disappointed by this novel. Attention was given in keeping the writing style and our beloved Holmes and Watson as close to Doyle's intent as possible. Perhaps Sherlock is a bit more condescending to Watson, but Watson definitely holds his own and his skills as a doctor are needed almost as much as SH's detective skills. A Gothic keep where a supposed Black Thurrick-Krampus demon is running amok, this is a worthy holiday read.

AnnR I had not seen that cover before. Yikes!😮I listened to this one on audio and it took me a while to figure out one of the characters was saying Thurrick. 😄 (edited) 10mo
BookishMadHatter You have me intrigued. My TBR may have just gotten longer lol 10mo
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dabbe @AnnR 🤩🤣😍 10mo
dabbe @BookishMadHatter Yay! It was a fun read, and one whose ending I did not solve! 🤩😍😃 10mo
BookishMadHatter @dabbe should this series be read in order? 10mo
dabbe @BookishMadHatter Not at all. Just jump right in. If you've read some Sherlock's in the past to know their personalities, you'll have no problem. I am going to go back, though, and read them all! 🤩😍😃 10mo
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5feet.of.fury
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Pickpick

It‘s no Hound of the Baskervilles, but it‘s pretty good. Didn‘t know what to expect as it is a pastiche & I‘ve read limited amounts of the originals, but I am a fan. but it was festive & enjoyable, I think it was true to the characters & had some good twists & silly Sherlock Shenangians.

BookmarkTavern Sounds like a lot of fun! 11mo
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Catsandbooks 🍭❄️❤️ 11mo
bekakins Oooh!! I‘m currently plowing my way through the complete Sherlock Holmes so this looks like it might be a good read once I‘m done! 11mo
dabbe I'm almost done with it! 🤩😍😃 11mo
5feet.of.fury @dabbe nice! Interested to hear your thoughts on it! 11mo
Emilymdxn This sounds like a good Christmassy vibe! 11mo
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Bookwomble
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Pickpick

It took me a couple of chapters to get into, but this turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable Holmes pastiche. It combines elements of the Country House Murder, and Baskerville-esque popular folklore, satanic aristocratic forebears, conniving servants, ghostly apparitions, all set in a gothic frozen landscape. Great fun!
Lovegrove set his story in real Yorkshire geography, which was well researched, which added to the book's atmosphere. 4⭐

batsy This does sound very fun! 11mo
Bookwomble @batsy If you've read all the original Holmes stories, this is a worthwhile addition 🙂 11mo
dabbe Almost done! 🤩🤩🤩 11mo
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Bookwomble
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""Well," I said, letting out a breath I hadn't realised I was holding."
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To be fair, I'm enjoying this novel, but, really! ?

quietlycuriouskate Oh no, the unconscious breath-holding strikes again! 11mo
Bookwomble @quietlycuriouskate Thankfully, it was the only egregiously poor bit of writing! 11mo
julesG That sentence took me out of the story, too. 11mo
Bookwomble @julesG I wonder if, this sentence having become notorious, some authors use it for a laugh? 🤷🏻‍♂️ 11mo
julesG I hope so. 11mo
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Bookwomble
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Just started reading this one, and the characterisation of Holmes seems a bit off - rather too much asperity and condescension. Hopefully things will settle down. I see that this is included in the author's series of Holmes/Cthulhu mashups, so it will be interesting to see just how Lovecraftian it gets 🐙

Bookwomble There's also an intriguing passing reference to Wold Newton, the real life site of a 1795 meteor fall, which Philip José Farmer used to create his Wold Newton Universe, in which the extraordinary abilities of literary figures such as Holmes, Tarzan, Captain Nemo, Doc Savage and others is traced back to the mutagenic effects of the meteor on those exposed to its radiation, so, yes, in this universe, Holmes and Tarzan are related! 11mo
julesG HumbleBundle,com has a bundle with all of Lovegrove's Sherlock books on audio right now. 11mo
Bookwomble @julesG Thank you for the heads-up 😊 11mo
Bookwomble Update: The Lovecraft quotient was low. Still atmospheric in the style of The Hound of the Baskervilles. 11mo
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