Tag: The Hound of the Baskervilles

• Book Review: Mystery in the Title (Miranda Abbott Mystery #2) by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson

  In a previous post, I reviewed I Only Read Murder by the Canadian Ferguson brothers, and made a not so subtle request for the sequel to read and review – albeit on its very publication date. The Fates (as in NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing, lol) smiled upon me, and I’ve just finished Mystery in…

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  October 31, 2024

  books, Essay

  book-review, books, cozy mystery, death, fiction, Hollywood, I Only Read Murder, Ian Ferguson, indie bookstore, literature, movie of the week, MOW, mystery, Mystery in the Title, NetGalley, novel, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, reading, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, vacation, Will Ferguson

• Girl Power

  It’s mid-third quarter of this school year and I am knee-deep teaching two novels set in England nearly six hundred years apart. The 7th grade is reading Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, the diary of a girl in medieval times during the reign of Edward I, covering the span of one year of her…

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  February 28, 2016

  Essay

  Britain, Catherine Called Birdy, Downton Abbey, Edward I, election year, England, girl power, Great Rebellion, Hillary Clinton, Karen Cushman, Lady Mary, law school, Lord Grantham, LSU, medieval times, middle ages, Newberry Honor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, teaching, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Victorian Era

• The Adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  It’s halfway through the second quarter of the school year and I’ve finally reached my favorite part of 8th grade literature, the beginning of an extended unit on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First we read his short story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, which serves as a warm-up to third quarter when we take…

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  December 6, 2015

  books, Essay

  8th grade, A Study in Scarlet, Africa, Agatha Christie, Belgian Congo, Body of Proof, Bones, C. Auguste Dupin, Columbo, Dr. House, Dr. Joseph Bell, Dr. Watson, Edgar Allen Poe, England, Heart of Darkness, Hercule Poirot, Joseph Conrad, literature, Monk, Perry Mason, Psych, Queen Victoria, Rizzoli and Isles, Scotland, Sean Spencer, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, teaching, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Great Mouse Detective, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mentalist, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mysteries of Laura, Victorian Era, Vienna, Walt Disney