#the beekeeper’s apprentice

[desdasiwrites]

– Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

#book quote of the day #laurie r. king #the beekeeper’s apprentice #mary russell and sherlock holmes #cozy mystery #autumn reads #book recommendations for fall

[littlelindarose]

I finished The Beekeepers Apprentice yesterday morning and immediately bought the next one. AND rented it on Kindle Unlimited while I wait for the physical copy to arrive. What is happening? I’m not a series girlie at all??????? I just love these two.

#books #booklover #booklr #sherlock holmes #mary russell #the beekeeper’s apprentice #laurie r. king

[gendzl]

I have got to stop going to this branch of the library—their used books are so cheap and so enticing...

#i found a new everyman's library copy of frankenstein. like. brand new. the ribbon is still tucked in the pages! and it was one dollar!!!! #i also got a pretty copy of wuthering heights (my next book club read!) and the beekeeper's apprentice and the first ritchie holmes movie #all for $2.25! which is why i keep going back. they're getting all of my money in drips and drabs. #but my bookshelves are so so pretty..... #¶

[runilareads]

Mary Russell - Florence Pugh Sherlock Holmes - Paul McGann Dr. John Watson - Bradley Walsh Mycroft Holmes - Joe McGann Mrs. Hudson - Phoebe Nicholls Inspector Lestrade - Ed Speleers Patricia Donleavy - Tuppence Middleton

#mary russell and sherlock holmes #the beekeepers apprentice #laurie r king #fan cast #sherlock holmes #mycroft holmes #inspector lestrade #john watson #dr john watson #florence pugh #paul mcgann #bradley walsh #joe mcgann #phoebe nicholls #ed speleers #tuppence middleton

[old-type-40]

FYI... For those who are fans of the Russell-Holmes series of novels this is a worthy addition even though much of the story involves events in the far past. And it is 30 years since The Beekeeper's Apprentice came out!

#mary russell #sherlock holmes #the lantern's dance #the beekeeper's apprentice #my favorites of the series are still beekeeper and o jerusalem #technically it's not part of the series but the novella in which holmes investigates the murder of a soldier in SF was good

[unshatters-your-teacup]

I have a lot of thoughts on the kind of books the Mary Russell series is and I’m not sure that I would start the series if I saw it for the first time now, but Laurie R. King was writing hurt/comfort scenes in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and A Monstrous Regiment of Woman that I still think about years after I read them the first time

#‘he did have a son once and someone had tried’ will haunt me forever lmao #the nightmare scene in the beekeepers apprentice was the blueprint

[inamemyselficarus]

All Sherlock Holmes-es are good Sherlock Holmes-es, but I must confess that I've flown through the first 5 books of Laurie R. King's Russell and Holmes Series and I think I'm more than half in love with this one specifically.

#mary russell #sherlock holmes #laurie r king #the beekeeper's apprentice

[sibyl-of-space]

I was just about to make a Post like "is there LITERALLY ANY Sherlock Holmes adaptation that doesn't feel the need to comment on A Scandal in Bohemia and completely miss the point in doing so" after getting pissy about a paragraph in The Beekeeper's Apprentice, and then I remembered that, as with any time I ask the question "is there any Sherlock Holmes adaptation that--" the answer is yes: DGS, Dai Gyakuten Saiban, AKA The Great Ace Attorney. The best Ace Attorney game, featuring the BEST interpretation of the character Sherlock Holmes ever written, once again provides a gleaming light in the darkness. The perfect Sherlock Holmes adaptation already exists. I can always return home to it

(for the record DGS does not even have an interpretation of Irene in it, drawing from a bunch of other stories instead, which is A POINT IN ITS FAVOR AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED)

#im enjoying the beekeeper's apprentice for the most part #it is effectively a postcanon fic and while the author and i disagree on some points of characterization #that is true of like. every fic ever #so i can deal #it's mostly quite good but a few things have made me salty most recently this #anyway im going to be sherlock holmes posting for a while sorry it happens

[bargainsleuthbooks]

#TheBeekeepersApprentice #MaryRussellandSherlockHolmes #1) by #LaurieRKing #BookReview #SherlockHolmes #Pastiche

I've gone back to the beginning of one of my favorite #SherlockHolmes pastiche. #TheBeekeepersApprentice teams a young woman with the aging sleuth and it works well. #LaurieRKing #maryrussellandsherlockholmes #maryrussell #bookreview #audiobook

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes’s pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture,…

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#Book Review #Castle Shade #Dr. Watson #Historical Fiction #Historical Mystery #Laurie R. King #Mary Russell #Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #Mystery #Riviera Gold #Sherlock Holmes #The Beekeeper&039;s Apprentice #The Murder of Mary Russell

[sherlockholmesbracket]

The Sherlock Holmes who appears in Laurie R. King's novels (beginning with The Beekeeper's Apprentice) is a pretty solid depiction, apart from one decision that some people find to be a dealbreaker. (It'd be a different story if it was a Holmes&Watson bracket, though; poor Watson gets a pretty rough deal.)

Ok I'm not gonna find pictures for written media versions anymore. I'll find stuff when I set up the bracket I guess.

The aged detective, Sherlock Holmes!

#the beekeeper's apprentice #Sherlock Holmes #ultimate sherlock holmes

[azazel-dreams]

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The Mary Russell series in reading order:

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice 

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

A Letter of Mary

The Moor 

O Jerusalem 

Justice Hall 

The Game 

Locked Rooms 

The Language of Bees 

The God of the Hive 

Beekeeping for Beginners (novella)

Mrs Hudson’s Case (novella)

Pirate King 

Garment of Shadows 

Dreaming Spies 

Mary Russell's War (short stories)

The Marriage of Mary Russell (novella)

The Murder of Mary Russell

Island of the Mad 

Riviera Gold 

Castle Shade 

#The Beekeeper's Apprentice #Mary Russell #Sherlock Holmes #Laurie R King #books #book recommendations #pastiche #book reviews

[wiproaringreading]

Sherlock : Yeah I thought you were a boy. I went through a period of great consternation.

Russel : Oh?

Sherlock : Literally until just now when you said.

Russel : Oh well in that case forget I called you old. Forget all of it. I'll marry you instead of your marrying me.

Sherlock : That's what I've been saying. I have been hinting at it Russel.

#the beekeepers apprentice #it honestly should be abt a trans man. sherlock observed him. with his observation powers! him! #i know my heart will be broken. so i'll just say it's stupid girls seperate themself so far from

[littlelindarose]

Scans of my physical reading journal. I don't like to track when I'm currently reading something but I needed a place to keep track of my read dates, so I decided to keep a physical tracker as well so I can remember things. Also it makes me engage with the book a little more.

#books #booklover #booklr #reading #reading journal #the beekeeper’s apprentice #a monstrous regiment of women #laurie r. king #queens of geek #Jen wilde

[iscahmckrae]

Reading two brilliant books right now—one, imaginative and irreverent historical fiction, and the other, time travel romance. Just wanted to pop in here and share the first paragraph of each... because they're fun:

"So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed to have. That means nothing to you, obviously, because you live here, in the crappy world we do have. But it never should've turned out like this. And it's all my fault—well, me and to a lesser extent my father and, yeah, I guess a little bit Penelope." —paragraph one, ALL OUR WRONG TODAYS

"'Force... equals... mass... times... acceleration,' muttered Ada as she wrote in her notebook. Ada pondered that if you drop a hammer on your foot, it hurts more than dropping, say, a sock on your foot. The acceleration, or speeding up, is the same, but the mass, the solid oomph of a thing, is different. Oomph times zoom equals kaboom!" —paragraph one, The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, No. 1: The CASE of the MISSING MOONSTONE

Okay, okay... I need to share another two bits (not 25¢) from the time travel romance, because, as a writer, they are so delicious...

"Today, in the year 2016, humanity lives in a techno-utopian paradise of abundance, purpose, and wonder.

Except we don't. Of course we don't. We live in a world where, sure, there are iPhones and 3D printers and, I don't know, drone strikes or whatever. But it hardly looks like The Jetsons. Except it should. And it did. Until it didn't. But it would have, if I hadn't done what I did. Or, no, hold on, what I will have done.

I'm sorry, despite receiving the best education available to a citizen Tomorrow, the grammar of this situation is a bit com-plicated.

Maybe the first person is the wrong way to tell this story. Maybe if I take refuge in the third person I'll find some sort of distance or insight or at least peace of mind. It's worth a try."

—then, the next chapter spends the first two paragraphs written in the third person, but then...

"I'm sorry—I can't write like this. It's fake. It's safe.

The third person is comforting because it's in control, which feels really nice when relating events that were often so out of control. It's like a scientist describing a biological sample seen through a micro-scope. But I'm not the microscope. I'm the thing on the slide. And I'm not writing this to make myself comfortable. If I wanted comfort, I'd write fiction.

In fiction, you cohere all these evocative, telling details into a portrait of the world. But in everyday life, you hardly notice any of the little things. You can't. Your brain swoops past it all, especially when it's your own home, a place that feels barely separate from the inside of your mind or the outside of your body."

—I'm sorry..... I can't get over a book stopping and explaining why it is written how it us written! Authors that break the fourth wall! I just...

(reminds me of my favorite autobiography, The Making of an American by Jacob Riis)

And then having the chutzpah to declare itself nonfiction while being soft sci-fi. It just....

And the other..... the historical fiction... It is the adventures of Ada Byron (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley, nee Godwin (the world's first science fiction author) as teenage girls who form their own detective agency and go adventuring together!

Reading both of these at once is rapturous!

So, yeah........ #book recs !!!

#book reccs #the wollstonecraft detective agency #ada byron #mary shelley #jordan stratford #elan mastai #all our wrong todays #jacob riis #the making of an american #also getting whiffs of #the storytelling of the princess bride book #and the beekeeper's apprentice series #as well as lemony snicket

[runilareads]

Currently reading: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, 1)

"Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test." - Goodreads

#sherlock holmes #mary russell #laurie r king #the beekeepers apprentice #currently reading

[hungriestheidi]

sebchal beekeeper and his apprentice au? <3

send me an au and i’ll give you a ficlet about it

"Try not to think about being stung too much," he says, pumping the little hive with some smoke. It smells like nothing or maybe Charles has his nose clogged.

Considering the amount of stupid decisions he made since turning twenty six, a week ago (break up with his girlfriend, cancel his holiday with his family, quit his job and find a farm apprenticenship in fuck-know's-where, Switzerland), it wouldn't really be that wild to consider his body is starting to get sick.

He wasn't even thinking about getting stung, but now he is and he is panicking for a hot two or three minutes before Sebastian reaches forward, putting a hand around his wrist and squeezing gently.

"Have you done this before?" Sebastian asks. He'd put on his astronaut-esque bee outfit alongside Charles, helped him zip up and stay put while he taught him how to deal with the bees.

His response is shaking his head lightly. Sebastian let's out a breathy laugh.

"I could tell," he sounds amused by this entire thing as he continues to explain him bit by bit what to do.

It wasn't really his first idea when he started his day in the farm, but the guy delivering the honey had the most beautiful blue eyes, a full proper beard spreading around his jawline and a German accent that dripped all over Charles' ears like, well, honey. It was sweet, it was maddeningly addictive.

The plaid of his shirt was red and white and Charles made a comment about Bayern Munich. The stranger, Sebastian Vettel he had introduced himself as, gave him a grimace and then a laugh. "Eintracht Frankfurt, all the way." Then he invited him over for a 'lesson' in beekeeping, wagging his eyebrows, licking his lips and all.

Charles didn't actually expect a beekeeping class, more a beeline for his bedroom. But here he is, leaning over a beehive, surrounded by the buzzing of at least a dozen bees, peeking to follow Sebastian's finger as he points to the queen.

"Funny thing, eh?" Sebastian says, after explaining to him about the future queen being fed exclusively royal jelly, that's how they make it a queen.

"Yeah," Charles responds, looking up to find Sebastian staring at him. "Are you going to give me some more honey or...?"

"I would give you anything you asked," he pats Charles' lower back, hard enough to be felt through the layers of bee-protection and the tight shirt he was wearing underneath, "Anything, anytime." Sebastian throws him a wink and turns to the right, walking off to the next bee hive.

Charles doesn't know what to do with all of that, so he follows him and hopes for at least a jar of honey to make up for his troubles.

#fic asks #sebchal #63historian #<- i love your url lol