In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…
Permanent Reading List:
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -The Adventure of the Abbey Grange — I have to say...I figured out some of what went on in this story, there was one almost too obvious clue that nearly drove me bonkers (the wine glasses!) yet there was still a rather surprising end to this story.
...I must admit, Watson, that you have some power of selection which atones for much which I deplore in your narratives. Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations. You slur over work of the utmost finesse and delicacy in order to dwell upon sensational details which may excite, but cannot possibly instruct, the reader.”
“Why do you not write them yourself?” I said, with some bitterness.
“I will, my dear Watson, I will. At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a text-book which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume.
I am reading:
Nova by Samuel Delany- Struggling with the fiction again...as usual.
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys- Finished with the China essays...now the sea essays are next.
Yes Chef: A Memoir by Marcus Samuelsson with Veronica Chambers— Here’s another book by a chef that I just started...maybe I am trying to get the information to do some serious cooking.