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Late Sherlockathon Post: Half-Blood Prince

This is totally late, my apologies. I ended up finishing my last Sherlockathon book right at buzzer, and so didn’t have the time post it right because it was bedtime. And then…things just happened. It is a new month now, and have new readathons, so I wanted to go ahead and finish up this series before starting on my next adventures.

I ended this readathon with Harry Potter and the…

Hunger Games: Sherlockathon cont.

Hello, and welcome to another post about Sherlockathon. Today I finished reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, for the prompt of The Woman: Irene Adler, “book written by a woman”. It has been awhile since my last read through of HG, and since I just recently read the prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I felt it was time to read it again.

I have a lot of thoughts about this…

[For some reason, my blog didn’t post on here yesterday, so I am doing a new post today.]

Because I am participating in a Sherlock themed readathon, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to finally read some Sherlock stories. Most of what I know about Sherlock Holmes comes from the SH films starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law and the BBC's Sherlock. Even though I have a complete Sherlock collection, I just never got around to reading them. Until now.

Today I managed to 4 stories: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, and A Case of Identity. I actually read Scandal in Bohemia before going to bed last night, but it was after midnight, so it counts.

A Scandal in Bohemia was chosen for The Sedentary: Mycroft Holmes, "read any book in only one room". All four stories were read in bed. The prompt for The Red-Headed League was The Scot: Mrs. Hudson, "read a book by a Scottish author or set in Scotland". The Boscombe Valley Mystery was chosen for The Narrator: Doctor John Watson, "a book with a first-person narrator". And finally, A Case of Identity was selected for The Consulting Detective: Sherlock Holmes, "book with a detective".

Of these four stories, I think my favorite was probably The Boscombe Valley Mystery. It just felt more intriguing than the others. While reading them, I was able to solve the cases before the answers were revealed, but I am not sure if that was because of the connections to the films or TV show, or if I had read these before and just forgot, or if they were just easy to figure out. One of the things that I like about Sherlock is that he is super observant, much like the psychic detective, Shawn Spencer. Shawn definitely has more silly antics that Sherlock, though I thought his disguises during A Scandal in Bohemia was amusing. I also liked the way he sort of played with his clients when they entered the room.

All in all, I did like reading these stories, but I think I prefer Agatha Christie's books over Sherlock's stories. Christie had more suspense and "oompf" in her stories, I felt. But, maybe I just haven't read enough of Sherlock.

I gave 3 stars A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, and A Case of Identity. 4 stars went to The Boscombe Valley Mystery.

Hello readers! Today I’m here to share with you my tentative TBR for the Sherlockathon, a readathon inspired by Sherlock Holmes that will begin on 19th October and will finish on November 15th, so you have still time to join us!

Here you can find the Twitter profile, and here the website with all the prompts.

If there are 2 books under a prompt, it’s just because I can’t decide, I’m a mood…