2021 Reading Log: May (+ Writing Update)
Completed reads for May:
- Zadig or Destiny, by Voltaire
- The White Bull, by Voltaire
- Story of a Good Brahmin, by Voltaire
- Plato’s Dream, by Voltaire
- The Simple Soul, by Voltaire
- The Man of Forty Crowns, by Voltaire
- Jeannot and Colin, by Voltaire
- The Two Genies, by Voltaire
- The Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
- The Princess of Babylon, by Voltaire
- Candide, by Voltaire
- The Pilgrimage to Parnassus, by Anonymous
- The Return from Parnassus, by Anonymous
- The Return from Parnassus: Or the Scourge of Simony, by Anonymous
- Virgin Planet, by Poul Anderson
- The Field Bazaar, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- How Watson Learned the Trick, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Lost Special, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Man with the Watches, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Crown Diamond (Play), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Tall Man (Plot Outline), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Two Collaborators, by J.M. Barrie
- To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Poem), by Arthur Guiterman
- To an Undiscerning Critic (Poem), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Man Who Was Wanted, by Arthur Whitaker
- The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes (Play), by William Gillette
- Sherlock Holmes (Play), by William Gillette
- The Speckled Band (Play), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- My Evening with Sherlock Holmes, by J.M. Barrie
- The Late Sherlock Holmes, by J.M. Barrie
- And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
Zadig, The White Bull, Story of a Good Brahmin, The Simple Soul (L’Ingenu), and The Princess of Babylon were contained in Zadig and Other Romances, translators Woolf and Jackson. I list the stories separately because I read them alongside other Voltaire stories, which were read individually.
The binge through the Holmesian Apocrypha was also a matter of following up individual works, rather than reading a collection. I would like to take this opportunity to note that The Lost Special is a truly magnificent story, and deserves to be better known. It would make my top five, if I were to include it in my earlier ranking of the Holmesian Canon.
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The month of May saw some decent progress on Old Phuul, with two further Chapters completed, and a further one started. The manuscript currently sits at a tad over 36,000 words.
