I’ve been reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes very slowly but devotedly on the way to the bus (taking care not to bump into traffic poles anymore) , and I must say that it’s brilliant.  When I was much younger I’d come across the books in the library or on someone’s bookshelf and I’d always be supremely uninterested, writing it off as old, archaic fiction that couldn’t be very interesting or relevent.

Of course, younger!me was wrong.  Sherlock Holmes is cleverly written and extremely accessible to the modern reader, and most important, it’s really really fun.  There is such wit and humor in every story that it just compells one to keep on reading.  Those of you who were like younger! me and haven’t picked up a Sherlock Holmes story yet, I urge you to do so before seeing that movie with Robert Downey Jr (which is not very Sherlock Holmes-ey, actually).  You won’t regret it!  (Or if you do, there’s no accounting for taste? =P)