Reading around

Sherry has declared this Boys' Week at Semicolon, and she's kicking it off by listing Nine Series for Nine Year Old Boys. She's inviting discussion.

Over at OpinionJournal this weekend, author P.D. James listed five best crime novels. Who knew I had anything in common with P.D. James? She also finds "particular charm in books written before or during World War II" and goes on to prove her point by having only one recently written book on her list.

And Mark Mossa tells us about a new Sherlock Holmes novel.