New game to play on my last night in London: train passing or live percussion? The trick is to listen for cymbals. πŸ’‚πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

Now that I’ve finished listening to Stephen Fry’s audiobook of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, I’m dreaming of an adaptation of His Last Bow starring Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton. πŸ“šπŸΏπŸ––πŸ»

Finished reading: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle πŸ“š

I like that in this one, Conan Doyle gets weird and gives us a sci fi story that feels like it’s referencing Murders in the Rue Morgue.

πŸ’¬πŸ“š “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

πŸ”–πŸ“š Read A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline by Ellen O’Connell Whittet (Literary Hub).

…the line at a well-stocked bookstore in a prosperous coastal city is not the same thing as a reading culture, and we should be careful not to mistake one for the other.

Finished reading: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle πŸ“šπŸŽ§

Continuing the Stephen Fry Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection.

Finished reading: Seven Days in June A Novel by Tia Williams πŸ“š

Gorgeous. The depiction of Eva’s migraines and the way her daughter Audre talked about being the daughter of a sick mother cracked me open. I have such gratitude to Tia Williams for writing this.