Ivy Compton-Burnett admitted in old age that she could no longer read the novels of Jane Austen, which she loved, because she knew them so well that they could no longer hold her attention. Much the same thing happened to me with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories: I read them so often as […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:30AM on June 20, 2016