Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King
Laurie R. Kingis an American author best known for her detective fiction...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 September 1952
CountryAlgeria
jamaica wife bedroom
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
great holmes interested kids less mary number russell sherlock
I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.
holmes sherlock whenever
Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
inn later slept
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
madness
Eccentricty had flowered into madness.
library made reader
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.
pride pieces poor
Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
war world eras
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
expression silent-films plot
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
aversion machinery exception
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
thinking knowing people
I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.
assumption possibility careless
Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.
sweet children home
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.
mean essence fire
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.