Hello, sherlock60 community!

[alafaye]

I am alafaye and I am the volunteer mod for our next round, number 6!

I've read some of the stories on and off throughout my years upon this Earth, but it was with this community, during round 4, that I read them entirely without pause. I was unable to participate as much as I wanted to during round 5, owing to some offline events, but when I heard that we would be ending the rounds, I was sad since I now have Sundays off. I volunteered and here we are.

I've been in some kind of fandom since I was in middle school and I've since expanded to many others (too many to list). Sherlock Holmes has always been one of my first loves, however, and I've never left it. (I will endeavor to not let my fannish ideas color my posts here, but do forgive if they leak in without my permission, the sneaky things.) I eagerly look forward reading the stories with you during this next round and shall do my best to not muck it up too badly here as this will our first round here.

We do have a few things to consider before we start next week, August 20th.

-What order shall we read them in?
-And would you like for me to guide a discussion of the story or did you have something new in mind that we could do for our Sunday reading?

Let me know in the comments and I'll let everyone know what our plan will be on Friday if all are amiable.

Until then dear ones.

Comments

[scfrankles]

So exciting to see your first post on DW! ^___^

Just essentially repeating my comment from LJ, for the benefit of DW Sherlock60 members:

Regarding order: I do remember Small Hobbit having an intriguing idea - going in alphabetical order by client. Something to ponder perhaps...? But going alphabetically by title, or going in chronological order would be great too.

[smallhobbit]

Delighted to see the beginnings of round 6 on DW as well as LJ.

[mafief]

I wanted to let you know that I'm planning on participating. I will default to whatever the group chooses for order and discussion for Sunday readings since I'm not entirely sure what has traditionally been done in this group.

[tripleransom]

I'm going to try my darndest to participate this round.

Chronological order would be great, but if you mean internal chronology, has anyone ever been able to figure that one out?
If you mean chronological by publication date, that's probably the most doable, seems to me. But I'll go with whatever the consensus is.

[alafaye]

It is exciting!

That is an intriguing idea. That would be... Hmm. Definitely something to keep in mind!

[alafaye]

\o/

[alafaye]

As this is round six and I think there's been a few different ways, I don't think we have a traditional order! There will be a list put on our profile and I'll put up reminder posts a few days before so there will be plenty of notice.

Glad to see you participating!

[alafaye]

Woohoo!

Continuity wasn't ACD's strong suit, was it?

We shall see what the community votes most for!

Glad to see you participating.

[smallhobbit]

From memory Round 4 was chronological by publication date, Round 5 took one version of the internal chronology (of which there are many). My own theory is Watson did date everything correctly but due to his doctor's handwriting no-one could read what he'd written.

[sanguinity]

I'm partial to chronologies that keep Wisteria Lodge in 1892, myself. Mostly because I want to milk every last bit of crack out of the chronology possible.