I mean, I guess I could. After I finished Welcome to Night Vale, I read A Study and Scarlet and The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle's first two Sherlock Holmes novels. But there are a ton of reviews for those two novels Out There, probably, and so I don't feel the need to add my voice to the discussion. Anyway, they're so old and talked about that I definitely would not have anything new to say about them. And so my words on them are: They were good. I would recommend them to lovers of classics, lovers of mysteries, and lovers of anything to do with Sherlock Holmes who have not yet read the original stories. A Study in Scarlet involves a particularly amusing description of Utah and Mormons, and if you know more about Utah and Mormons than Conan Doyle clearly did, you will probably be amused.
Currently I am reading Hild by Nicola Griffith, which is proving to be a pleasant battle. It's a challenge to keep straight the ancient family trees and ancient geography and ancient politics that go on in it, but I think I've finally figured it all (or mostly) out, and it's absolutely delightful. There has truly never been a more beautifully done historical fiction novel. Anyway. More on that when I've finished it.
What's after Hild? I plan to read some more Sherlock Holmes--I have the first volume of the full Barnes & Noble/Pengiun Classics/whatever that thingy is collection. Next in the volume will be the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which is a collection of short stories slightly longer than the first two novels. I probably won't review that either, for the reasons stated in paragraph two up there...
But after that will be The Lazarus Gate by Mark A. Latham--more historical fiction, this time with a slightly steampunky/scifi theme, it appears.
And I have a huge stack of books to be read, but I shall not list them all, as you will find out what they are in the coming months. Years. Oh dear. I really do have a lot of books.
'Appy spring; I'll be back when I've finished Hild!