Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Holmes and Watson and… Mary Russell?

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

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This is the first installment in Laurie R. King’s series retelling of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The series is set after Holmes’ supposed retirement from detective work, and begins when Mary Russell, a teenage orphan who lives on the farm next to Holmes’ retirement pad, literally runs into Holmes on the moor.  Over time, Mary becomes Holmes’ defacto apprentice, and this first novel is really concerned with laying the groundwork for the series (Wikipedia tells me there are 17 books after this first installment, which […]

“The Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.”

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This book.  Man, this book is exactly what I needed this past insanely crappy week.  It’s a 4.5 star book, but I needed it so much I can’t give it anything less than a 5 right now.  This is the first in a trilogy about Charlotte Holmes, a self-styled private investigator in Victorian London.  It is fabulous.  I adore the original Sherlock Holmes stories.  They helped get me through a summer of studying for the Bar Exam.  I was so obsessed that during my lunch […]



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