Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #6 out of 11 The Alienist has been on my TBR practically since I joined Goodreads ten years ago. I no longer remember whose review or what list prompted me to add this book. (But thank you, whoever you were! I really liked it!) I had this book on my TBR so long that it almost didn’t make it through several TBR purges. I distinctly remember being on the verge of deleting it at least twice, and then […]
About What One Would Expect for a Book Being Adapted Into a Series Starring Luke Evans
This is a re-read, although I wasn’t certain of that at first. The Alienist seemed like a book I might have read in the 1990s, but I had no recollection of it until I started reading it again, and by “reading” it, I mean, listening to the abridged audiobook ahead of TNT series set to debut next week. It wasn’t really until about a quarter of the way through before it really began to register that I’d read it before, and I found it about […]
One In A Crowd
The story itself is an odd hodgepodge of ideas, mixing cruel noblemen, Scottish Nationalism, mysterious deaths, and the possibility of supernatural forces at work (which in itself is a dubious idea in Sherlock’s world, given his firm adherence to practicality and logic).