Unpredictable Outcome - Book update 1

Sunday, January 11, 2009 - Book update 1

Greetings, Earthlings! I've decided to start giving you a little knowledge about me by way of what books I'm reading. If anyone finds it at all interesting, I'll try to keep it up. Hopefully it will be an incentive for me to read more and post regularly.

Random book on my shelf: Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Random book I like: Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

What I've been reading: Down the Long Hills by Louis L'Amour (finished it yesterday, in fact!)
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour (I'm going to read other authors soon, I'm sure. Finished this one, too.)

Non-fiction I've been reading: the assignments from my voice lesson. It's fairly interesting, really.

Something I want to/should read: more Sherlock Holmes! and probably more nonfiction.

So, any feedback? Questions? Reading suggestions? :) Oh, and let me know what you think of the form, too. I was going for something that covered the basics but wasn't too extensive (because that would take a long time to fill in).

You know, (about A Study in Scarlet) I've been surrounded by Sherlock Holmes imitations pretty much all my life, but never actually read the real thing. There's Baker Street, the Sherlock Holmes musical, which we had a tape of, that I listened to since I was young enough to mistake the song "Roof Space" for being about meat pies ("oh the view is thrillin'!") Then there are those old movies with Basil Rathbone, of which I've seen a couple. And - get this - I've read Sherlock Holmes fanfiction -- published fanfiction. But there's been a Sherlock Holmes TV show on PBS that my father and I have been watching, which intrigued me more than ever. Amazing actors. And now, I'm finally reading the first (I think) Sherlock Holmes book, and find it quite interesting. Took me long enough, huh?

Like I said, feedback is welcome.

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Monday, January 12, 2009 - Sherlock Holmes...

It's funny, I was just thinking a couple days ago about how much I used to love Sherlock Holmes, but I haven't read any in years. I really should go back and find out if he's as cool as I remember him being.

Oh, and it wasn't a cassette; it was a record. I bought a copy on CD after I moved out because that was one of the things I really missed listening to. (Side note: You're already doing better than I was on this, but consider the fact that when you move out all the music and movie that have always just been there, will no longer be there unless you have your own copy. Just sayin'.)

I like your form, and might even consider doing something similar on my blog. I will however refrain from recommending books because you never like the ones I recommend anyway. :-P

Drapes.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - Untitled Comment

I thought I'd drop by here, on the unlikely chance that someone had posted a comment, and lo and behold, someone had!

Yes, you really should read more Sherlock Holmes.

I thought I remembered it being a cassette. Did we record it so the record wouldn't wear out, maybe? (Re: side not - you have a point there, but as I have no prospects I don't think I need to worry about that quite yet. :-) )

It's not that I don't like the books you recommend! It's just that it takes me a few years to see the merit in them.

It would be cool if you did something like this. I don't even know most of the books you have.

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