Sherlock Holmes Post 2

Recently I've been reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's compilation of Sherlock Holmes stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In this novel the famous detective goes through a series of adventures each one with a different case. Over the week I've read two adventures, "The Red Headed League" a weird story about a master criminal who forms a league and has a bank teller to join so they can distract him from his day job and rob the very bank he works in, of course Holmes stops the man before he can rob the bank, but the proceedings are so interesting you won't mind when the inevitable happens; the inevitable being Holmes figuring everything out. In the second adventure "A Case of Identity" where a women's lover disappears and she vows to never marry again. It turns out the lover was made up by the women's stepfather so she would never leave his residence and he could continue to profit off of her inheritance from her actual father. I look forward to reading the future adventures even if they're in old english and very hard to read.

Sherlock Holmes and The Road

I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. In writing craft and style it is without question the best book i've ever read. I can easily see why it won a pulitzer prize the words flow effortlessly through a plot that's nothing more than a father and son at the end of the world. At the end when the father dies I felt myseld affected like no other book has ever done to me before. It was sad, but I could believe it and feel for the boy who know travels with strangers on the earth so far away from what we know. After reading such a sad book, I needed to read something funny. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle fits that bill. I've gotten through the first adventure about a woman, Irene Adler, who black mails the soon-to-be King of Bohemia, with a picture of herself with him so she could sabotage his marriage. Holmes a cocaine addict is hilarious and genius at the same time, making it obvious why Doyle got death threats when he killed off this great character. Holmes is an amazing character making the book an important if sometimes breezy ride through the mind of Britain and Scotland Yards best.

End of Quarter Blog

This quarter I was able to accomplish something that has eluded me in the past. I read the books and I thoroughly enjoyed each one. I read three books one about a baseball team, one about a serial killer, and one about an imaginary journalist who ingests a cornucopia of narcotics in the Las Vegas sun. I read over each of my blogs and I thought each one was very good. They explained the book well, but not too well. Each included why I liked or disliked each one. Also something good was that each book was from a different genre, I read a biography, a classic and a mystery. Each one met the length requirement and weren't too long as to bore anyone who might think of reading the book. I definitely see some room for improvement, I saw that some of my blogs were confusing and made little sense. In the future I have to be more clear and concise. It also wouldn't hurt to include a quote once and a while. Each blog would also benefit if I could connect the book to other books I've read in the past. I think the fact I was able to read three books and understand each one is also an achievement, because in the past I have not taken the time to enjoy each book. I hope the success I'm having now will continue in the upcoming quarter.