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   The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

   I’m sort of at a loss for words. Anything I want to say sounds silly, but let me just say this; this story renewed the love I have of reading. So often I read to just read. Not with this book though. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next and am sad that it’s done. It could be that it brought back all my childhood readings of Sherlock Holmes :-)

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   The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

   I had a lot of fun reading The Scarlet Pimpernel. Ever since reading “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation” by Lauren Willig I wondered what this book was about. About a year later my grandfather in law said he read TSP and enjoyed it, so I had to give it a chance. Glad I did.

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   drood

   I’m on page 304 of 775: I am going to give up on this book for the time being. I’m so tired of reading on just about every page how dependent Wilkie Collins is of laudanum/opium and how wonderful the drug is. I got it the first 10 times Mr. Simmons, I don’t need it repeated on every page. There are still 471 pages left and I am annoyed to know that this trend will continue. Shame too, the story line seemed to be a good one. Furthermore, why does the story get side-tracked so often? As far as I can tell from the 300+ pages I’ve already read, the bulk of the story up unto that point could have been told in about 200 pages if not less.

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