The time is here for our most free-form book club yet. Our goal here is to discuss any Sherlock Holmes retellings or adaptations you have read (doesn’t have to be in the past month or two) and how they reflect on both the larger mythos of Sherlock and what it takes to tell a good story based on another. For those of you returning or who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome, you don’t have […]
A classic for a reason!
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
I was kind of quietly dreading this one, mostly because my last year’s bingo classic was such a flop for me. Call me pleasantly surprised, though – I genuinely enjoyed this! I’d actually never read a Sherlock Holmes book (though I did own the Wishbone version of Hound of the Baskervilles on VHS) and had always kind of assumed that modern adaptations (Guy Ritchie, Steven Moffat) had taken creative liberties with an older character. Nope! Those are some OG Sherlock brass balls. I clearly didn’t read this […]
Classic and a remix, and I’m not sure about either
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Seduction by Eva Chase
CBR11Bingo Classic and Remix squares. I had never read anything by Arthur Conan Doyle before this. I have to say, I was a little disappointed. The first half of the book was about what I expected- introductions of characters, segue in to the mystery to be solved, Holmes solves a case that no one else can. I think most of the English-speaking world has some familiarity with Sherlock Holmes, whether through book, movie, television show or references in other pop culture. I wasn’t expecting the […]
Better late than never for CBR? (Bingo Square: Classics)
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
I read A Study in Scarlet a few weeks ago to prepare for Cannonball Read and… forgot to review. So here’s my quick review before I dive into the discussion posts because I don’t want to be influenced. I’d read this before as a kid, when I went through a big Sherlock Holmes binge and read as many of the stories as I could get my hands on before I eventually got rather bored. Reading this now as an adult, I remember why I got bored–this one […]
Book Club Discussion Post: A Study in Scarlet
Are you ready to talk about the world of Sherlock Holmes and the first novel length work he was featured in, A Study in Scarlet? Then you have found your way to the right place! For those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. The topics are numbered, and we ask that you refer to them below by that number to help people find the conversation topics they are looking for. If […]
An army doctor walks into a bar. . .
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
CBR11bingo: Classics Have you ever gotten super into a television show in its second or third season, so you went back to watch it from the beginning so you could see what you missed, and then realized, “Huh. If I’d actually tried watching this from the pilot episode, I might not have been so interested”? (I’m looking at you, X-Files.) A Study in Scarlet is sort of like that. Few works of literary fiction have spawned as many retellings, homages, and–dare I say–fantasies (and now […]
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