lezreadalot 's review for:

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.0

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“Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

REREAD 2024. 4.5 stars. Yet again, I find myself raising my rating for one of these books, even though this is the... 8th time that I've reread it? (All of my rereads definitely haven't been logged on Goodreads.) Maybe I'm becoming more lenient in my ratings, or maybe something about these stories just hit harder as I grow older. I just get swept away by all this wonderful nostalgia when I read these books, and I'm so so enthralled by the main characters and their friendship. The actual mysteries aren't super amazing, but the stories that they tell... I just love them. This collection had a couple of my absolute favourites. "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" and "The Final Problem", of course, are so dear to my heart. No matter what, I always shed a tear.

Listened to the audiobook as read by Charlton Griffin. Excellent as always. His Holmes voice is THE Holmes voice to me.

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Not Stephen Fry crying as he reads the final lines of 'The Final Problem'.