Sigrid Brown February 2022

[Sigrid]

I got The Hound of The Baskervilles: A Graphic Novel for Christmas this year and as soon as I saw it, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. But I waited until February to crack it. It wasn’t a book I wanted to read a page at a time, but all at once while under a blanket with a cup of tea and, maybe, as the winter afternoon darkened into evening, a glass of whiskey with ice. It’s the kind of book that’s just nice to hold in your hands, a paperback with nice stiff, smooth paper and colorful pictures and a glossy inset image of Sherlock Holmes on the cover that’s fun to run your finger over. Of course, there’s the most important thing, the prospect of an exciting story … My experience with this little treasure did not disappoint. Maybe, in the illustrations, illustrator Dave Shephard’s Sherlock Holmes was a little too debonair and ordinary-looking, a little too chisel-faced Cary Grant, for my taste—for some reason, I want him to look a little weirder—but other than that, the illustrations are wonderful, full of energy and darkness, and text is used to great effect. The great sweeping strokes used to paint the wild moor are especially nice, and a similar technique—half- or whole-page depictions with just dots of text—used to bring alive the cavernous secrets of Baskerville Hall were equally effective, and made me desperate to pass a night in a creaky old creepy English house in the country. Hot chocolate would also be an appropriate accompaniment to this treat of a book.

[Ann]

Sigrid: what a treat you saved for yourself - a graphic novel does make you want to devour it all in one sitting rather than setting aside to read chapter by chapter with breaks in between.

Sigrid wrote: "I got The Hound of The Baskervilles: A Graphic Novel for Christmas this year and as soon as I saw it, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. But I waited until February to crack it. It wasn’t a boo..."

[Sigrid]

Yes! It was the loveliest afternoon

[Susie]

I'll be honest. I've never read a graphic novel. But if I ever do, I think I would like this one!

[Sigrid]

It took me a long time to be convinced about graphic novels. But now I love them! This one I especially liked because it was fun to see how someone else visualizes this classic story and I got to experience it in a new way.

[Kathy]

Sorry I've gotten behind on posting my reading list. Here's my February reads:

The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man
The Man Who Died Twice
The Girl Who Died
The Little Shop of Found Things

I'm currently reading A Good Day for Chardonnay and really enjoying it as I did the first book in the series. Thank you everyone for the great recommendations. I'm really enjoying the reads.

[Ann]

Nice list Kathy!
These three are two I've read and enjoyed and one I look forward to. (Repo Man) Glad to hear you enjoyed the two group reads. The Thursday Murder Club books have been a delight.

Kathy wrote: "Sorry I've gotten behind on posting my reading list. Here's my February reads:
The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man
The Man Who Died Twice
The Girl Who Died..."

[Kathy]

I really have been enjoying them and I’m on a wait list at the library for some of the others on the list.

Kathy