{"id":13568,"date":"2008-10-06T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-10-06T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T21:12:27","slug":"the-beekeepers-apprentice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-beekeepers-apprentice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beekeeper&#039;s Apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0312427360&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:125px;height:240px;\" align=\"left\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>I&#8217;ve just finished reading <i>The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice<\/i> by Laurie R. King.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Russell\">Mary Russell<\/a> series.  I happened to start out by reading number 5 (&#8220;Oh, Jerusalem&#8221;), followed by 6 (&#8220;Justice Hall&#8221;), 2 (&#8220;A Monstrous Regiment of Women&#8221;), 4 (&#8220;The Moor&#8221;) and 3 (&#8220;A Letter of Mary&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d actually recommend reading number 5 before number 1 because the whole of the former is summarised on two pages in the latter (I expect the author didn&#8217;t at that time expect to write it up as a novel), but it&#8217;s then worth reading 1 and 2.<\/p>\n<p>I must say I really enjoyed this one &ndash; it feels like the author had good fun writing it.  It&#8217;s a much lighter and faster read than some of the later books.<\/p>\n<p>The whole series is a must-read for Sherlock Holmes aficionados!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading The Beekeeper&#8217;s Apprentice by Laurie R. King. It&#8217;s the first book in the Mary Russell series. I happened to start out by reading number 5 (&#8220;Oh, Jerusalem&#8221;), followed by 6 (&#8220;Justice Hall&#8221;), 2 (&#8220;A Monstrous Regiment of Women&#8221;), 4 (&#8220;The Moor&#8221;) and 3 (&#8220;A Letter of Mary&#8221;). I&#8217;d actually recommend reading number 5 before number 1 because the whole of the former is summarised on two pages in the latter (I expect the author didn&#8217;t at that time expect to write it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}