Wow:

have I only read/finished one book in the last week?  I know I started The Indian Bride on the bus one night, and have spent a few hours before bed with something else, but still...
In any case, I DID finish Graham Moore's The Sherlockian. I'll be honest, I was disappointed.  It sounded cool (where I read about it, God knows - maybe another Harvard Bookstore newsletter), and the cover was appealing (worse, though, is the library's version, which has this enormous shiny - literally, reflects the light - red silhouette of a man in a deerstalker, and it actually hurts my eyes when the light bounces off the cover and into them just right/wrong).  It was fine - would have been decent plane reading if it had been available before my trip - but boring as sin.  And the two stories, of Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker trying to solve a murder, and a contemporary Irregular trying to solve the murder of a man who supposedly found A.C.D.'s diary from the same year, don't mesh all that well.  I am sure it is incredibly hard to do the whole two-time-periods-in-the-same-book thing, but I think they need to sort of twine around each other, not just run parallel.  And these stories don't, in my opinion.  And, really, the whole conceit of looking back in time was just waaaaay over-played - I mean, okay, a joke about how A.C.D. feels bad that Bram Stoker's silly novel about undead creatures and "Count Something-or-Other" will never amount to anything?  I get that it's not inaccurate, but it's certainly not funny either.  WE ALL GET IT.  I guess that was how I felt about a lot of the book - we get it.  It is, seriously, elementary.  Oh, well - as always, I should say (and do believe) that it's wicked easy for those that can't to criticise.  I am sure it's a delightful book, and that I couldn't do any better.  Etc.  Did make me want to go read more A.C.D. in general, and Holmes in particular.  Also learn more about Oscar Wilde.