MORIARTY DISCUSSION

Hey there, Novel Spirits!  If there is one thing to be said for all the rainy weather we've been having, it's that it is perfect for curling up with a good book.

We had a new segment of our book club this meeting: Boss (formerly known as Taz) read a book called "Biscuit."  He is reading really well, and seems to be enjoying it more and more.  Funny story, that I think I shared with everyone at the meeting - Boss has been having "book club" with his stuffed animals and nutcrackers.  He gets them out and lines them up and then picks out a story to read with them.  See what a good influence we've been, Novel Spirits!

I think this may be the first book, with the possible exception of Huck Finn, that the whole group has been in agreement about the rating of the book.  Everyone gave the book 4 out of 5 stars.  There were two big "beefs" that everyone had with the book.  No one liked that the narrator, who we had known through the book as "Chase," killed Jones.  Indy pointed out that Jones didn't have to die, since Moriarty was moving on to America.  My theory was that while everyone might know that "Chase" shot Jones, Jones was the only one who had worked out that Chase was Moriarty because everyone else thought that Moriarty was dead.  I don't think anyone suspected that Chase would turn out to be Moriarty.  Diesel commented that she really liked that the twist was unexpected, unlike some books where you see it coming a mile away.  Most people expected that Sherlock would turn up at some point, or even Moriarty, but no one suspected Chase.  More than one Novel Spirit suspected that Jones may turn out to be Sherlock.

Indy pointed out that this was the first book in which she has looked up words in quite a while.  One of the words were "hurdy gurdy," which is an instrument pictured below:

I can't recall now the other words, but feel free to add them in the comments, Indy or anyone with a better memory than me!  The other beef, that possibly only I had, with the book was that it made out that Sherlock was not as intelligent as the criminals, Moriarty and Devereaux.

Overall, the book was an easy, entertaining read that I believe we all enjoyed, with the exception of that one part.

I've already started The Reason I Jump, and I'm pumped for our next meeting!