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“I wanted to go home, where I felt safe. It occurred to me, as we continued our journey in silence, that when the first refugees from Earth had arrived on Giant—and, for that matter, on Io—they must have felt much the same.”

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

September 8, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

When I finished The Mimicking of Known Successes a couple weeks ago I knew I wasn’t in love with that book, but that I wanted to continue reading the series to see how Malka Older built out her world and dug into her sapphic Watson & Holmes stand-ins because I had become quite attached to Mossa and Pleiti. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles begins the same way as its predecessor in that we get a prologue from Mossa’s point of view and then the rest […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, diaspora, Malka Older, read harder challenge, Sherlock Retellings, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, diaspora, Malka Older, read harder challenge, Sherlock Retellings, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti ·
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“Because being of utility was more than I had expected, and yet one still does not want to be used. Of use, but not used.”

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

August 27, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Mimicking of Known Successes can be quickly described as what if Sherlock Holmes, but sapphic and in a sci-fi future where the Earth is uninhabitable and humans have colonized Jupiter?   Malka Ann Older’s resume is a wide combination of things, and it feeds directly into the kind of book that The Mimicking of Known Successes is. We have here a book that examines what happens next when final resources are used to leave Earth, but the goal is to go back. Pleiti is our […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Malka Ann Older, Malka Older, Migrant, novella, queernorm, read harder challenge, Sherlock Retellings

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Malka Ann Older, Malka Older, Migrant, novella, queernorm, read harder challenge, Sherlock Retellings ·
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An open letter to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

February 2, 2020 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

Mr. Abdul-Jabbar and Ms. Waterhouse, Thank you for hearing my plea for more volumes in your wonderful Mycroft Holmes series. As I noted in my review of the first two novels, these books bring me such pure joy that as soon as I put one down, I regret having read so quickly. On top of that, this latest novel had me thinking that surely someone must be contemplating a movie or television series so I can enjoy the stories again in another dimension. To that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anna Waterhouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, cbr12, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, KimMiE", mystery, sherlock holmes inspired, Sherlock Retellings

KimMiE"'s CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anna Waterhouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, cbr12, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, KimMiE", mystery, sherlock holmes inspired, Sherlock Retellings ·
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Book Club Discussion Post: Any Sherlock Retelling

September 20, 2019 by faintingviolet 14 Comments

The time is here for our most free-form book club yet. Our goal here is to discuss any Sherlock Holmes retellings or adaptations you have read (doesn’t have to be in the past month or two) and how they reflect on both the larger mythos of Sherlock and what it takes to tell a good story based on another. For those of you returning or who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome, you don’t have […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, retellings, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Retellings

Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, retellings, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Retellings ·
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