ACD Canon Reread!

[luthienberen]

Following a chat with mightymads we thought it would be fun to do a simultaneous reread of the Canon Sherlock Holmes stories and post our thoughts for wider discussion to the victorian221b community. :)

We would like to welcome anyone who has the time to join us on this fun journey through canon. There is no need to be an expert in canon or the Victorian period, a love for the books is all that is required!

The intention is to begin with the first set of stories twelve collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. We would (probably) then read one of the novels before beginning the next collection of short stories.

Currently, the timeline is:

• 2 stories a week


• Discussion in the community (feel free to post your own entry to victorian221b or to discuss in the comments to a post!)


• Join in whenever you can!


• Start tomorrow (Friday 3rd July 2020) with A Scandal in Bohemia

Hope to see you there and in the meantime: happy reading and discussing to all!

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Delighted to see an interest in the stories.

We'll let the members of sherlock60 know, as some of them may wish to join your enterprise.

If anyone is interested, over the years there have been some interesting discussions and 60 word ficlets posted to that community. We'd be delighted if anyone wished to add their own to the collection. To give you an idea those for A Scandal in Bohemia can be found here SCAN

[mightymads]

Thank you for mentioning sherlock60! It will be good to check what already was discussed and try to point out something that yet wasn’t :)

[luthienberen]

Thank you smallhobbit! Thanks also for referencing the discussions & fic on sherlock60, that will be an excellent resource to aid talk over here :-)

[recently_folded]

For those who don't have copies easily to hand, you can read them online or download a variety of formats like pdf, epub, mobi from https://sherlock-holm.es/ or https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69.

Unfortunately, that first source is using geo-locking to forbid US readers from accessing the Case-Book, which is still under copyright here. I didn't try it, but I suspect a good VPN might get around that. Gutenberg doesn't have those stories either, but the Australian Gutenberg does have that collection online (html) at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100291h.html

[mightymads]

Thanks so much for the links, RF!

[luthienberen]

Thank you recently_folded!