Amalgamated (Coming Home #2)
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Escape with Leo and Zak in outback Australia as they discover it sometimes takes time, distance, and...
Contemporary MM Romance Small Town Novella
Untitled Goose Game
Video Game Watch
Set in an idyllic English village, players control a goose that can honk, run, flap its wings, and...
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
Book
This is the story of England's most famous, and notorious, king. Henry was a charismatic, ardent...
A Long Long Way
Book
Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties...
Doctor Who - Series 7 (New Season 7)
TV Season Watch
The seventh series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who aired from 1...
When the lights go out
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Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She...
Nintendo Switch Online
Games and Productivity
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The Nintendo Switch Online app is designed to help enhance your online gameplay experience on...
Betrayal at Baldur's Gate
Tabletop Game
Description from the publisher: The shadow of Bhaal has come over Baldur's Gate, summoning...
ClareR (5681 KP) rated The Anniversary in Books
May 15, 2023
It’s a very introspective book, lots of descriptions of places, people, scenes and above all, feelings. JB has a lot of feelings, although she appears to be in a state of shock for a majority of the novel. I mean, her husband falls off the ship they’re celebrating their anniversary on. Not an ideal situation!
And then the truth starts to come out about the reality of their marriage.
The word “marmite” has been bandied around quite a lot regarding this book, and I’ve come down on the “like it” side. It’s certainly a book that gave me a lot to think about - even when I wasn’t reading it!
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Valley of Fear in Books
Apr 13, 2024
The Hound of the Baskervilles (natch)
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Red-Headed League
The Final Problem
.. and a few others whose name I cannot currently recall.
None of them, however, were this one.
Like "The Hound...", this was a later-written story, but is also set before Holmes encounter with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. And like "A Study in Scarlet", it's also very much split into distinct sections: the first section in which Holmes and Watson are called to the English countryside to investigate a murder (or is it suicide?), and the a whole other section set in the United States of America filling in the backgrounds of the principal actor of the first section.
Being new to me, also, I have to say I did wonder - until the reveal! - just how this whole section (and the mention of the Pinkerton Detective Agency) fitted into the first part.
Perhaps because of its novelty (to me), I also fairly enjoyed this.