It has been a while since the last book review. Instead of grinding through through the past years worth, I’ll just drop the bookends.

With out a doubt, Holmes Coming by Kenneth Johnson was my favorite book over the past year. I would like to say its a Sherlock Holmes style story set in modern day San Francisco, but it is actually THE ACTUAL Sherlock Holmes in modern day San Francisco!

An at first side eyed “gimmick” brings Sherlock into play again. Acting and reacting as he should to todays problems. 

This book really caught me. I powered through this like I havent done in a long time. 

Released in 2022 by Blackstone Publishing, this easy reading mystery/thriller keeps you intreagued and laughing out loud all at the same time. 

Sure you gotta let a few oddities and plot points slip past, but over all I 100% loved this book and definitly recommend this for a good fun read.

But then we get to the other end of the spectrum. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman.

I picked this one up because I liked his series of the Thrusday Murder Club books. 

And yes, those books, all of them, get off to quite slow starts, but end up picking up speed and finishing off good.

We Solve Murders does not follow suit. A slog to read to say the least. I could not retain anything about this one what so ever. I had to go back and re-read everything so many times I must have completely read it 3x over, and still have no idea what it or anyone in it was about. 

Not at any point in the 2024 release did any form of excitement or increased pace even remotely happen. I think  the writer, the characters and reader were heavily sedated for the entire project. Hard pass this one. 

I have been doing some re-reading of old books and relistening to old albums that I have had stashed away, so I am going to assume some of those will be up for review in the future. 

Not sure how reviewing 30-40-50 year old books and records will go over, but this is Timelapsed, so we probably find out.