Ive been listening to Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry whenever an audiobook has been suitable to my situation for a while now. I'm halfway through The Blue Carbuncle at this point and I think it's my favorite so far. Don't get me wrong, Fry is great from the jump, I regularly have to remind myself that he is playing all the characters, as it were, but I didn't enjoy the first ... [counts]...8 near as much as this.

It's weird how little actual Doyle I have read. I may have read more pastiches and homages. I didn't mean to.

I have read a tiny amount of Doyle, and a shit-ton of pastiches and homages. I think my favorites are a toss-up between Laurie R. King's series and Carol Nelson Douglas's Irene Adler books.

I know I should fee guilty about it, but I really don't? I never read Tolkien either, and I loved the movies.

I've been resisting Laurie King, I don't remember why. Probably no reason. I get these irrational whims sometimes. I am intrigued by Carol Nelson Douglas.

I really like Goss's treatment of Sherlockiana in the Athena Club books.

Most of what I've read has been either for school or turned up in an anthology I got for another reason or in Ellery Wueen - they do a Holmes-themed issue every year and that adds up. I think I bought Kareem Abdul Jabbar's book but I haven't read it.

I liked The Affair of the Mysterious Letter a whole lot, which is I guess is a sci fi version of Holmes? And Elementary and Sherlock and the various movies are fun. And House.

Both Doyle and Tolkien are a little too dry and dated for me to enjoy. But I love their characters!

I'm impatient for story right now, anything page-turning, so I couldn't get into Evvie Drake Starts Over, although I loved her style. I'm going to try again when I'm in another mood.

Looking for something new to read right now, actually.

I'm finding The Future of Another Timeline super compelling if you like that sort of thing. It is irritating that I have to do things like sleep and work rather than read it.

I always love the idea of time travel, but I wind up getting confused repeatedly.

I'm not confused yet, but only about halfway through. The characters are wonderful, though. Riot geeks and suffragettes, basically a couple hundred years of intersectional feminism.

I just finished Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep which I somehow missed on release (I think my Seanan McGuire alerts missed the pseudonym). It was creepy! Definitely see why it fell under her Mira Grant name, but I definitely found it scarier than Feed, though only a horror wimp like me would probably say so.

Well, I've read both ... perhaps it's that in Feed they know what they're dealing with and how to live with it - it's their normal. In the other, the people don't realize what they're going to face and if there's any way to deal with it.

That's probably it.

Space Opera fans, anybody read the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers? I enjoyed the first one and LOVED the second one, but haven't read the third. The characterizations in the second one were extremely compelling, and reviews of the third make me think that might be gone so I'm waiting a while.