Book Review: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Just finished this collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. I started reading this because Aaron and I are currently reading The Sherlockian our loud together, and I wanted to review some of the cases and writing style of Doyle because it had been awhile since I'd read Sherlock Holmes, and The Sherlockian quotes a lot from the cases.

When I was a kid the power went out a lot at our house because we lived kind of far out in the country. When that happened my dad always pulled out a flash light and read Sherlock Holmes to us, so the four stars might be mostly nostalgia. But the book is still a fun quick read. It's suspenseful in that you want to find out "who done it", even though I still think that the story itself never leaves enough clues to allow you figure it out on your own anyway. Still fun...still worth four stars. :)

Oh, and by the way...I can not wait for the movie to come out in December! The first Sherlock Holmes movie is, if not my number one favorite movie of all time, than for sure in the top three. (And it really possible could be my favorite, but I'd have to think about it a little longer.)