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Posts tagged mystery

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and me

I have to thank my 8th grade English teacher for introducing me to the great
detective and and his trusty companion. We were reading Hound of the Baskervilles (considered by many fans to be the best of the Holmes stories) and watched the 1939 film version starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce it in class. We [...]

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 under Uncategorized. Tags: Baker Street, Basil Rathbone, David Burke, detective, Dr. Watson, Edward Hardwicke, Granada, Jeremy Brett, movie, mystery, Nigel Bruce, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes, television, tv. Comments: 1

Paper Towns review

The other day I finished reading Paper Towns. Great book! As I posted on Twitter & Plurk, it was funny, sad, and deep, sometimes all at once.
I liked all the characters, which may or may not have been John Green’s purpose. The morale of the story is that people are people. We have a habit [...]

Posted on November 18th, 2008 under Uncategorized. Tags: book, book review, first person, John Green, mystery, Nerd Fighter, Paper Towns, teen, Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie. Comments: None