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I‘m currently participating in the #noplacelikeholmes readalong hosted by @dabbe and @Cuilin . They‘re doing such a good job hosting this. Everyone is welcome. If you‘re interested, feel free to join in and participate in the discussions at any time. I‘ve been enjoying reading these stories in between reading other books. I think it would be too much if I tried to read all of the stories at once so I‘m taking my time.

I‘m ready for this week‘s discussion of the short story “The Adventure Of The Engineer‘s Thumb”.

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I did the word puzzles this week for the short story that I read for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I used my new stylus pen to write. I‘m not used to writing with it yet but I liked writing with it. I have a hand tremor. I‘ve had it my whole life and it makes handwriting difficult. It makes my handwriting kind of sloppy. Maybe using my stylus pen will help with my hand tremor. It seems like my hand tremor stops when I rest my hand on my leg.

I finished this week‘s short story for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. The one I just read was called “The Adventure Of The Speckled Band.”

I just finished listening to this week‘s short story “The Man With The Twisted Lip” for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I‘m ready for our discussion. I‘ve been liking these short stories. The short stories don‘t take that long to read. I can read other books for a while and then come back to reading these stories.

I finished listening to the short story The Five Orange Pips for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I didn‘t get to participate in the discussion of the story because I was busy over the weekend. I went to an IDD Awareness Day event on Saturday with my mom, brother and sister in law and then on Sunday, I spent the day downtown with my brother and sister in law sightseeing and then we ate dinner with my stepmom for her birthday.

I just finished reading the next short story in this short story collection from Sherlock Holmes. The one I just finished reading is called “The Boscombe Valley Mystery.” I worked more on a picture I‘m coloring while I listened to the story. These stories are short so they‘re perfect to listen to while I‘m coloring.

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I started and finished listening to the next short story “A Case Of Identity” that we‘re discussing this weekend for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. Now, I‘m ready to discuss it.

I saw this candle from Frostbeard Studio. I bought 2 candles from them recently but I might have to buy this one too. Their candles are single wick candles. I like single wick candles. If you like candles like I do then you should check out this bookish candle company called Frostbeard Studio. I plan to continue buying candles from them.

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For this weekend‘s short story “The Red Headed League”, I just completed the word search. For some of these things, I used Google to find the answers but this was fun to do. I liked changing out the highlighter colors for the words. Using the different colors on a word search looks really pretty. I did it digitally and it only took me a few minutes to do.

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I started and finished listening to The Red Headed League last night for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. The Red Headed League is the story we‘re going to discuss this weekend. Now, I‘m ready to participate in the discussion of the story.

I‘ve read the first 3 stories in the Sherlock Holmes short story collection for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong and I decided to listen to plot summaries of them on YouTube because I didn‘t understand anything that was going on. I don‘t know why I didn‘t think about doing this to begin with. I like the writing and the setting. I like Holmes & Watson. I just don‘t understand what‘s going on when I‘m reading the stories.

I was playing this free game on my iPad called Cryptogram where you have to solve word puzzles and all of the puzzles I solved tonight on this game have all been from Sherlock Holmes. I haven‘t read any of the short stories that these quotes are from. I thought it was interesting that the game kept having me solve Sherlock Holmes word puzzles and now, it‘s not doing that anymore. Does the game know I‘m reading Sherlock Holmes?

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Tonight, I started and finished A Scandal In Bohemia which is the next short story in this short story collection with Watson and Holmes. It was very short. It was only 3 chapters so now, I‘m ready for the discussion of this story for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. Feel free to join the readalong anytime if you‘re interested in reading Sherlock Holmes. He solves mysteries with his friend Watson. I think they work really well together.

I started playing a free game on my iPad called Cryptogram where I‘m trying to guess the phrases in each level and I had to guess this phrase. I don‘t remember Holmes saying this to Watson. I had to think about this for awhile and use 1 or 2 Hints to guess this phrase but I got it. I know Holmes and Watson are friends but what does Elementary mean in this phrase? Does it have something to do with elements?

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I‘m reading the second short story The Sign Of Four in the Sherlock Holmes short story collection for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. I can‘t think of a song for this book. This story is an English murder mystery with Holmes & Watson.

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Last night, I started the second story in this Sherlock Holmes short story collection that I‘m reading for the #noplacelikeholmes readalong. My opinion about the second story so far is that it‘s interesting. I‘m interested to find out what happens next.

I just finished the first short story in this book. I‘ll start the next short story but I want to read something else next.

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I saw this notification from Audible tonight and this is what it said when I tapped on it and held it. I‘m not going to be reading all of this at once. It‘ll be read in between other books because it‘s long and it‘s going to take awhile but also if I don‘t like this book then I can DNF it and move on to something else.

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I decided to start this book. This is a collection of short stories. I‘m not very far into this book but it‘s interesting. A long time ago, I tried reading Sherlock Holmes as an ebook and I didn‘t like it that way so I‘m going to try it on audio instead. I‘ll be reading this short story collection in between reading my Netgalley ARCs that I need to read.

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Happy #NWC Day, Littens!!! It's #SocialDistancingMay #SocialDistancingParty time!!! Since we are doing Novel Watching Crew today, It is Sherlock Holmes themed. Here is a crossword puzzle I found online. If you can't read it, try going to the website. https://darkandstormynightmysteries.com/wordpress/?p=274
Hope you have fun!!!

Sherlock always comes off as egotistical, but Benedict Cumberbatch's version feels especially #youandmebutmostlyme.🕵️🕵️🕵️
#musicalnewyear @Cinfhen @vivastory

Which door will you open?

I want to read Sherlock Holmes, I‘ve enjoyed all of the adaptations I‘ve seen, but never read the books. Anyone who‘s read them have an opinion they‘d like to share? I‘m open 👋🏾

Love this.

My carefully chosen well travelled collector's editions. I've brought these from London and Helsinki. My treasures. ❤

Some of the Holmes short stories we've been reading. Enjoyable, quick reads.
#Sherlocked #serialreader
#buddyread

#bestfriend reminds me of Sherlock & John! #melodicmay #day5

Yesterday I went for an #audiowalk with Sherlock Holmes

📚❤ #readathonstories @Liberty

Let's have some fun ?
Mine is "The Slander of the Violinist"

What's yours?

Mine is The Legend of the Insidious Librarian 😀😀
What's yours?

#17booklove Mysterious love. I got my days mixed up and did today's yesterday. Oops!

" half a dozen flying machines were doing hack work at the thousand foot level, looking like little black swallows against the green background. I daresay they were wondering what I was doing up in Cloudland."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Horror of the Heights, Strand Magazine, volume XLVI, 1913

Picked these beauties up at Barnes and Noble earlier today. Classics were buy two get one free! 📖🔎

New reminders set to keep me on track with my every day reading! #sherlockholmes #harrypotter #hpchapteraday

I assume I'm far from the only one, right? #Sherlocked

Book-related television? Is that okay? 😉 Who's with me tonight? #Sherlocked #Cumberbatched #BlameBenedict

Go home amazon you're drunk.

When I saw #fictionnonfictionpairings the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Remedy were what popped into my head, but the latter is mostly about Robert Koch and Tuberculosis. However, I picked the book up because of the mention of Arthur Conan Doyle, and I learned a bit more about Doyle, Koch, Tuberculosis, the history of medical practice and research....Worth a read, although I wish it'd been a bit shorter or less repetitive. #seasonsreadings2016

Favourite squad? Easy...Sherlock and Watson. #augustofbooks #day4 #bookishsquads #augustphotochallenge