#WhatcanIdo Wednesdays
|January 7, 2025|
In an attempt to compromise between saying nothing and saying everything (with fury and outrage), I’m going to post once a week: a series of citizen responses on Facebook and Instagram, Wednesdays. Some live videos, some recorded, others graphics, individual or with others. Because this is a community, and in 2025, we need to be responsible members.
I hope you are far away from the wildfires
Hundreds of miles, yes. And since we’ve had rain here on the Central Coast, we’re not terribly vulnerable at the moment.
Thanks for your concern,
Laurie
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I would love to see Russell and Holmes in Egypt during the twenties solving a mystery. And of course the cousins from Justice Hall and are they still working for Mycroft Justice Hall was one of the best books I have read and a disturbing one. I thought about all the young men in WW I killed. Because of this book I read several others on WW I and discovered so much.
Yes, WWI is unexplored ground, especially for those of us who went through the US educational system, which more or less skips from the Civil War to WWII. Thanks for your note, and I hope you enjoy the other Russell tales!
Laurie King
Hundreds of miles, yes. And since we’ve had rain here on the Central Coast, we’re not terribly vulnerable at the moment.
Thanks for your concern,
Laurie
I would love to read your take on some of the current (gah!) events, but all your links require me to sign in first. I don’t have any accounts in those social media and don’t intend to, so I’m finding a workaround.
Hmm, I thought one could look at Facebook without being a member, they must have changed that. Sorry!
Laurie
For anyone in a similar situation (same here, btw, no cause could ever get me to sign up with any of those big-tech “social” media sites): get yourself the browser extension called “Behind the overlay.” (There are probably others, but this one works well.) When you scroll on Facebook or Instagram and then suddenly there’s a window popping up that asks you to create an account, just click on that extension’s icon and that darn window vanishes.
Just to be clear: it’ll only allow you to see everything, not post.
Thanks; I’ll give that a try.
Met you on Facebook after the National Airport tragedy 1/29/2025. Appreciate your voice. Let’s build community.
Let’s!
Laurie
Love your books, and I am glad to reenter the world of Mary Russell after a long absence. Sometimes technology is so cool. Love that you live in Watsonville where I was born. So happy there is a new book, Knave of Diamonds. This is my new goal book. Hope you will do the other suits as well. Thank you for everything. Sincerely Hidden
Hah–that would be a funny addition to the series, with 52 possible titles!
Laurie
I just discovered your books in my local library and finished reading The Beekeepers Apprentice. Excellent work. I very much enjoyed reading it. Thank you.
I apologize, because I asked you this once before (albeit quite a few years ago) on another platform, and you answered. However, I cannot remember what platform it was. Once I managed to get back onto the one I thought it was, it turned out it wasn’t. Thus, I am asking again:
Can you please refresh my memory about the interchange between Holmes and Russell where he tells her he fell in love with her the first time he saw her, she responds that she was dressed as a boy, and he replies with something like “Yes, and don’t think that didn’t give me pause.” I would be grateful to know which book this is in, and if you happen to recall it, the exact wording. But I would be more than happy to look it up myself if only I knew which book to search in for that passage. I will appreciate your repeated response.
In other news, I just finished *Knave of Diamonds* and enjoyed it very much. I’m in conversation about it with the person who recommended the first book to me 30 — how can that be? — years ago. That brought up the question about Holmes’s comment. I still regard it as perfect.
I think it may be from the closing scenes of Monstrous Regiment of Woman…?
Laurie
Just finished “God of the Hive.” Your game plan for the book (alternating chapters) was perfect. I loved the ending and Russell’s choice. You are a very good writer indeed.
Thank you, it was a book I really enjoyed writing–and I’m glad you enjoyed reading!
May your summer be full of stories,
Laurie
Dear Ms. King,
I suffer from a propensity to binge – tv series, books, etc. I just finished Garment of Shadows. I can’t express how much I am enjoying this series! If I didn’t have to work a regular job I could imagine myself sitting with my kindle and tea pot and ignoring the world outside until I’d read every word you’ve written. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
So glad to offer you a distraction, and I do agree how difficult it is to have an actual job.
Enjoy!
Laurie King