So day 1 of challenge to read an hour a
day was a success. I managed to squeeze in about a half hour through
out the day in all my little down times and then another full half an
hour last night before bed. Now I'm a good chapter and a half
further in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes than I was the day
before, rather than just moving forward by a couple of pages at a
time like I had been. I'm finding that I love GoodReads free ebook
feature. Its making it easy for me to read on the go because I do
have my Iphone at pretty much all times so I can take advantages of
all those random wait times that tend to come up in the course of a
day.
Overall I'm finding myself to be a fan
of Sherlock Holmes. Somehow I made it through my entire adolescence
without reading through even a small piece of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle's work and I'm now realizing what I was missing out on. I've
been a fan of the Sherlock movies featuring Robert Downy Jr. and I
recently got into the show Elementary, but I had never really thought
to seek out the original stories themselves. They really are a great
read for pretty much any reading group. Each individual is a nice
quick read and basically entirely self contained. But they have that
element of surprise which most mystery tales ironically lack. If I
manage to stick to my challenge and get through this volume I'll
have to seek out all the Sherlock tales. Happy Reading!
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