This story takes place as a series of flashbacks recounted by an ageing John Watson. Many of the characters from the original Sherlock Holmes stories have died, and Watson is putting down one more that had not been told during Holmes’ lifetime. An art dealer comes to Holmes and Watson for help, and the two detectives are drawn into a second mystery when three key witness-suspects are killed, one apparently by Holmes himself. Holmes is arrested and put in prison, but eventually escapes to join […]
In which I geek out about the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and this spin-off book
4.5 stars On the 30th of April 2012, internet geek goddess Felicia Day recommended a new YouTube series called The Lizzie Bennet Diaries on her YouTube-series The Flog. As a huge fan of most things Austen (I just can’t with Mansfield Park, it’s so boring), and as someone very interested in modern adaptations of classical works, not to mention willing to trust Felicia Day as I monthly tune in to her Vaginal Fantasy book club, I decided to check this thing out. I didn’t really have a lot of experience with vlogs as a medium. With the […]