a bit more ACD for the list before the year runs out

[winterbadger]

I've finished reading some more Holmes.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (34)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (35)

The Hound I had read before (there was a version, with illustrations and annotation, that I seem to remember from school libraries that was, I think, my first introduction to SH), and it's cool. It was even more fun having seen the recent BBC remake with Bernard Cummberbund; I enjoy how the writers and producers of that remade series take some of the basic elements and create a whole new story with, essentially, the same characters.

I had thought that none of the short stories were new to me (we had all the books when I was a teenager, either at home or in one of the four libraries that we regularly plundered), but I'm almost positive that a couple of the tales in Adventures were totally new to me. Curious.

Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner
The Interpreter by Robert Moss
Boer Commando by Denneys Reitz
In the Skies of Nomonhan by Dimitar Nedialkov
The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas Desjardins
The Western Front: Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining Battles of World War I by Richard Holmes
Knights of the Cross; or, Krzyzacy by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

It was too tempting, I had to reply so I could use this icon, and point out it is Benedict Cumberbatch, not Bernard Cummberbund :0)

[winterbadger]

Indeed. :-) A cool icon. And I only took the opportunity to poke fun at Mr Cumberbatch's name because everyone seems to, including Mr Cumberbatch. :-)

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

who could resist with a name like that? ;0)

When we were children my brother and I used to make up names from David Hasslehoff's name. This would amuse us FOR HOURS. If we were young today I should imagine we'd find his name irresistible!