Unusual topics you are obsessed with
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Surprisingly not familiar with his work.
The Golden Ages of piracy and fighting sail. A large section of my library is devoted to the topics. Archaeology, including maritime, is another favourite obsession.
I'm always interested in learning more about North Korea. It's such a closed-off state, completely anachronistic in today's world, and yet it persists. (At the expense of most of its people, of course.)
My surname is Holmes. When I was a little girl, age 8 going on 9, my father told me that Sherlock was my great great grandfather and that his son Sherwin had fled to Australia to escape his father’s fame. Because of this I started reading the Holmes short stories and really enjoyed them. My father told me the truth before school restarted. I remember being disappointed.
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My Sherlock shelf
I used to be pretty heavy into Christian apologetics, but now a lot of the presentations are so extensive I no longer have the patience to sit through them. So instead, I watch smaller clips, and offer my thoughts that way.
I have a Holmes fixation myself, going back to high school, but I'm not sure exactly where it came from. My grandmother was a HUGE fan of mysteries and we watched a lot of detective shows together, so she may have introduced me.
I read some of the Holmes short stories as a kid, but I think most of them went over my head. I did like mysteries too though, so I would read books aimed at younger kids like "The Three Investigators" and "The Ghost Squad". I also tried reading books by Dean Koontz, Mary Higgins Clark, and even Stephen King, but was easily frustrated and gave up.
Yeah, I haven't read many modern authors, although I still enjoy watching shows like "Only Murders in the Building" and "Murder at the End of the World". I grew up on Nancy Drew though.
My aunt had some of the old Hardy Boys hardcovers when I was young. I remember being surprised at the time, that both series of books had been ghostwritten.
Still funMy interest in mysteries, begins and ends with Encyclopedia Brown.
The author did a other similar series more adult oriented.
I just don't think it would be the same.
It was framed as short stories being retold between an investigator and a detective.
In addition to Sherlock, I'm hooked on Agatha Raisin, Midsomer Murders, Murdoch Mysteries, Miss Scarlet and the Duke... you get the picture.
I'm just a bookaholic and have gone through so many phases of reading and fascinating on numerous topics both real and fictional.
Sadly this has been somewhat stopped by a mini stroke I had around 2 years ago that had a detrimental effect on my short term memory, meaning I now have difficulty remembering things I have read or heard.
However my long term memory is intact -so far, and I still retain a wealth of knowledge on all kinds of stuff, mostly useless to 90% of the population!!
Sadly this has been somewhat stopped by a mini stroke I had around 2 years ago that had a detrimental effect on my short term memory, meaning I now have difficulty remembering things I have read or heard.
However my long term memory is intact -so far, and I still retain a wealth of knowledge on all kinds of stuff, mostly useless to 90% of the population!!
Best kind of information sometimes
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Myths, Plagues and Battles, on the 12th Floor of The Times
A group of Times employees are reading their way through Emily Wilson’s translation of the “Iliad,” the epic poem attributed to Homer.
