books I've read

Anne Hawn's books

Who Moved My Cheese?
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Scientific Secrets for Self-Control
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Vanishing
Exercises in Knitting
The Good Dream
The Very Best of Edgar Allan Poe
The Chosen
BT-Kids' Knits
Talking God
The Professor
The Christmas Files
The Finisher
Home Decor for 18-Inch Dolls: Create 10 Room Settings with Furniture and 15 Outfits with Accessories
Dracula and Other Stories
A New Song
Christy
All Quiet on the Western Front
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents


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I'm reading 150 Books

2019 Reading Challenge
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Books we've read

The Help
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Night Circus
The Golden Compass
11/22/63
The Little Lady Agency
Catch-22
The Good Father
A Discovery of Witches
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Fahrenheit 451
Frankenstein
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
A Christmas Carol
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Color Purple
Matched
Cloud Atlas
The Princess Bride
The Catcher in the Rye


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Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2)

The Red Headed League (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #2)The Red Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is one of the most memorable of Sherlock Holmes' cases.  A mad with bright red hair calls on Sherlock Holmes with a shocking story.  He has been encouraged by his assistant to apply for a vacancy in The Red Headed League.  All he has to do is to come and copy from the encyclopedia every day for a number of hours.  He can not leave for any reason.  Suddenly, the job disappears.  The sign is gone and the man who rented the business space is not the name of the person he dealt with.  What is going on?  Sherlock Holmes asks a series of questions and then he goes to visit the site of the copying as well as the houses or businesses on the street behind.

I am using these Sherlock Holmes stories to teach my granddaughter to "think outside the box."  She is homeschooled and I teach her Language Arts (among other things.)  I feel like classic mystery stories combine the vocabulary and structure as well as deductive reasoning.  They also are just plain fun.


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