Goodreads

Just let me say how much I LOVE Goodreads!!!  After a hiatus of many months, I gave this readers advisory website another try as part of the DPL Learning program for self-paced tech training. This time, my experience has been totally different......maybe because I am reading and tracking my reading in a new way...and as part of a community of readers.

A few days ago I finished a book of "new" Sherlock Holmes stories by Donald Thomas entitled Sherlock Holmes and the ghosts of Bly: and other new adventures of the great detective.  It has been my lunchtime reading book.  You know--the one you keep at your desk and read in bits and pieces....So by the time I finally finished it, I was hungry for more Holmes.  So I posted a question on Goodreads asking for other books of Holmes stories by contemporary writers.  Lo and behold, I received an email alert of suggestions from other mystery buffs on Goodread, including excellent suggestions form Harvey.  Thanks to him, I have three new want-to-read titles on my list:  The HOUSE OF SILK by Anthony Horowitz, The BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE by Laurie R. King (featuring a female protege for Holmes named Mary Russell, and The SHERLOCKIAN by Graham Moore.  Even found a juvenile fiction series of tales starring Holmes' younger sister Enola.  Who'd have imagined such a thing......!  And here I was about to dust off my old copies of the Holmes canon as I prepared for my winter hibernation and reading binge that begins every year once snow flies.  While I will still dabble in the old faves, I am even more excited to be able to explore Holmes' London and environs from these new perspectives.  The game's afoot!!!!