The Chronological Sherlock Holmes Challenge

Duration: 1 January 2017 to 21 April 2018

Host: Noonlight Reads
Challenge Rules and Sign-Up Page

The Challenge: Read all 56 short stories and four novels of Sherlock Holmes in chronological order.

For Christmas this year my wife bought me a complete anthology of the Sherlock Holmes tales, almost all of which I have never read. Sad, I know! So, I searched online a bit to find the best order to read the stories or whether I just plunge into the book the way it's laid out. I stumbled upon the Chronological Sherlock Holmes Challenge.

The host blog Noonlight Reads laid out a nice timeline to schedule a purposeful and breathable way to read all of the stories and be able to discuss them weekly. I like her approach, and I think it will certainly aid in my reading goal.

Be sure to visit the links above and see more about the challenge.

I'm looking forward to seeing this one through to its completion.

2016 Blog in Review

Hi there.

I took a 2016 leave of absence from the blog, but I read so many new books. Ironic, no?

Granted, most of those were books read to or with our son, but it impressed my GoodReads challenge for 2016.

I'm very likely to take a leave of absence for 2017 as well. This will be the third year in a row of being a tax preparer on top of my regular full-time job and in addition to home life, so reading and writing about reading will likely be a low priority. It's still something I very much want to do, but at some point things will have to ease up somewhere in my life for that to happen.

Or I need to re-prioritize things that I do in my spare time.

I mean, do I really need to stare at my phone for 2 hours after the kid goes to bed before I go to bed?

Anyway, my wife got me some very interesting books to read for Christmas, 2 of them sort of by request and one that I didn't even know existed that she surprised me with. I'm looking forward to those and also increasing our son's reading list. We read over 100 books together last year, plus he started school this fall. I can't wait for us to start going back to the library again and restarting our regular routine of book-borrowing and reading. 

Have a great 2017!