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d eventually we decided to just be consistent every birthday was included but only the deaths of significant figures we included the premiere of every movie but only the pilot episodes of television shows even then some dates were overwhelmed with material there is so much going on in may it borders on ridiculous and still had empty spots in others i can honestly say we clashed over very little except for louise brealey the actress who plays molly hooper in the bbc series leah was adamant that she be included and i was equally adamant that she shouldn t be molly hooper isn t canon i argued not because i didn t like molly hooper i do very much but because i saw the door opening on writing a bunch of entries for other non canonical characters suddenly i was metaphorically standing on top of st bart s screaming that the book was never going to get done i forget how we compromised on this one but ms brealey is in the book march 27 q3 as you began mapping out events and dates how did you go about filling gaps how did you do research for specific dates since apart from birthdays dates are not always that readily available leah we started out with the william s baring gould chronology even though it has some issues it s the one most people are familiar with and it s also very easy to find online i would then back that up with zeisler whom i often like better or use dakin s a sherlock holmes commentary in which he plays referee between chronologists another good source for that is brad keefauver s online sherlock holmes timeline where you can see what the major players think in one place after that i went through leslie s klinger s annotated page by page to make a list of canon events historical events people works of art places crimes actors etc some of them had dates already the battle of maiwand for example others took some more digging my favorite resources were online newspaper archives the oxford dictionary of national biography and ancestry com you would not believe what you can get out of ancestry if you think creatively and are willing to do hours of sorting towards the very end we still had some dates without entries and for those i turned to chris redmond who was able to very quickly find sherlockian connections for each one when you do work like this you should never think that you are all sufficient sometimes you need fresh eyes and fresh minds and the sherlockian community is full of people who are willing and eager to offer both jaime hope prayer and leah s exceptional research skills when we finished our initial calendar i remember there being only a small handful of dates that had nothing to mark them in some ways those dates became very easy to fill as they were a very specific and narrow target we were able to think in terms of just that date instead of mapping out a specific group of material actors or premiere dates for example in its entirety sometimes we had to think outside the sherlockian box for material events that weren t necessarily tied directly to sherlock holmes but had interesting links instead in the end i d say there is still one date in the entire book where the entry is only somewhat tenuously sherlockian it was a tough date but i won t say which one in case you haven t spotted it i haven t lpg q4 can you talk about some of your favorite discoveries some a ha moments that might have sent holmes leaping over his couch or waking up watson in the middle of the night leah my very favorites were dates that took a good deal of detective work for example i found herbert greenhough smith s birthday on ancestry in an online record of cambridge alumni another was daniel rudge one of the inventors of the rudge whitworth bicycle which left those famous tire tracks in the adventure of the priory school he was very elusive but i finally managed to track him down and obtain his vital records via mail jaime ah waking watson up in the middle of the night there s a fine sherlockian tradition i m not sure this revelation is worth waking up someone in the middle of the night i rarely think things are like watson i treasure my sleep but i was astounded at how often sherlockian actors crossover and how their lives overlap there are watsons who have played the character two three four times or more to different actors playing the great detective or an actor would play holmes in one series and watson or moriarty in another most of all i enjoyed learning how the actors personal lives would intersect not just that jeremy brett and edward hardwicke were friends off screen but that jeremy brett and robert stephens knew each other before they had even heard of sherlock holmes or that brett s former brother in law daniel massey appeared in granada s adaptation of the problem of thor bridge or that his former father in law raymond massey also once played sherlock holmes i think a lot about jeremy brett obviously q5 i know that leah marks the year s end with her annual twelfth night giveaway and i suspect that like me jaime does not let november 3 go by without a grateful nod to the memory of jeremy brett are there other dates that you personally celebrate as devoted sherlockians leah i love doing this because it gives me a chance to share holmes with my kids we celebrate holmes birthday reichenbach day conan doyle s birthday and watson s birthday always with cake and sometimes with action figures and movies jaime the master s birthday january 6 of course the perfect occasion to raise a glass to sherlock holmes for all he has done and for all those whom he has saved my non sherlockian friends are baffled that i take the time to celebrate holmes s birthday they want to know if i celebrate the birthdays of harry potter bilbo baggins or hamlet i tell them of course not they weren t real of course in addition to jeremy brett s birthday we included the day of his death september 12 1995 in the book i adore jeremy brett and this was a particularly difficult entry to write when it was done i remember i told leah you d be proud of me i only cried a little bit q6 given the immortal partnership of holmes and watson it seems wonderful that you chose to write this book as a team as friends and colleagues could you each say a few words about what the other brought to the project any stories you would like to share leah not only did jaime bring her superior literary and media skills she also brought a sense of balance and proportion to the whole thing i don t know how to stop pretty much without jaime the entries would be longer there would be about one hundred more of them and the book might not be done plus jaime is such a wonderful person and so great to talk to i think that working on and occasionally suffering through this book cemented our friendship jaime if i had walked into a shop and asked for a co author custom built to my specifications i still wouldn t have received a better co author than leah she is a tireless researcher a gifted writer and really just one of my very best friends i was always astounded when she would look at a topic and see a 3 000 word essay where i had only seen a 150 word entry she has a way of cutting right to the heart of things which i ll never be able to do in all my days about a month after wessex press accepted our book for publication i found out i was pregnant with my daughter i was worried about telling leah i thought for sure that she would be annoyed worried about the future of the book and concerned about working with a pregnant co author i shouldn t have been concerned outside of my husband and me leah was probably the most excited for morrigan s arrival this story shouldn t surprise anyone who knows her but i ll always remember how grateful i was to her my deepest thanks to leah and jaime for their marvelous responses to my questions their joy in the subject of sherlock holmes in all its myriad facets is only matched by their very evident dedication to careful research and thoughtful writing they have given us a sublime book of days to stimulate the mind and imagination throughout the year such excellence of craft can touch the heart as well something expressed so movingly in the closing scene of the adventure of the six napoleons inspired by the words of inspector lestrade i would like to say thank you to these authors there is not a sherlockian among us from the oldest to the youngest who wouldn t be glad to shake you both by the hand buy the book the well read sherlockian leah on twitter leah on facebook better holmes gardens jaime on twitter jaime on facebook giveaway i am very pleased to offer 2 paperback copies of a curious collection of dates through the year with sherlock holmes which will go to two lucky winners of the giveaway linked below the winners will be chosen at random from the total entries follow the instructions to increase your number of entries the giveaway will be open for about one week and will end at 11 59 pm on sunday january 22 2017 open to residents of the u s canada and the u k 18 years of age and older entry form i will notify the winners by email if you are chosen as a winner please reply with your physical mailing address within 48 hours if i can t reach you by email the prize will go to another entrant good luck and thank you for participating following the lead of author leah guinn s practice at the well read sherlockian i shall provide footnotes in the adventure of the empty house empt holmes paraphrased a line from antony and cleopatra age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety act ii scene 2 when he said i trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety scott monty i hear of sherlock everywhere chose this quote to title his birthday post in 2008 and jaime n mahoney used it to delightful effect while musing on empt and the difficulty of holmes return to cap off her own return from hiatus in january 2015 see henry iv part 1 act ii scene 4 banish plump jack and banish all the world in the fictional 100 i emphasized how fluidly sherlock holmes has migrated beyond the page to engage with us in our everyday world this book reminds me that it is a two way street that he continually calls on us to pay him a visit and immerse ourselves in his world the way he saw it sherlock holmes ranks 9th on the fictional 100 tags book of days book reviews fictional 100 fictional characters jaime n mahoney leah guinn sherlock holmes sherlockians sir arthur conan doyle comments 4 comments categories book reviews fictional 100 characters giveaways interviews 13 ways of looking at the lifetime reading plan my list for 2017 9 jan the pleasure of choosing books for this 2017 challenge comes from perusing two different long lists of excellent books jane smiley s list and clifton fadiman s list these lists include classics and moderns from many genres fiction and nonfiction all with a wide geographic and cultural range together these lists constitute a rich universe of choices for michelle stockard miller s inventive perpetual challenge 13 ways of looking at the lifetime reading plan 13wlrp for this year i m making these picks vanity fair by william makepeace thackeray egilssaga snorri sturluson the saga of the people of laxardal author unknown vanity fair is a reread for me however i read it a long time ago and this novel in particular is notorious for improving with age my age that is pick a random sample of reader reviews online and you will likely find many people saying something like i didn t like this book at all the first time i read it but the second time around it is so brilliant i did happen to like it the first time but i m hoping to appreciate it in new ways this time to see more of what my youthful self might have overlooked i ll be reading the norton critical edition which has all of thackeray s original drawings which are brilliant in themselves vanity fair is on both smiley s and fadiman s reading lists thackeray s famous closing illustration showing two little girls putting dolls the characters back in the toy box from smiley s list i am also picking two icelandic sagas as the author of the greenlanders smiley clearly immersed herself in the saga world reproducing its tone and drama so effectively egilssaga and the saga of the people of laxardal are two of the most important sagas and i look forward to giving them a good close read and reviewing them over at my northern lights reading project devoted to scandinavian and icelandic literature and culture sign ups for the 2017 13wlrp challenge are at gather together and read join us tags lifetime reading novels sagas vanity fair comments 4 comments categories reading plans read your book shelf challenge the oz series by l frank baum 8 jan for dedicated readers and the book bloggers among us it is quite literally a challenge to put away the library card refrain from browsing online or in one s favorite bookshop and simply read what we have already collected over the years but often the question is where to begin michelle of the true book addict and gather together and read offers us a neat and easy method for choosing what to read next in her read your book shelf challenge she asks that we pick one of our shelves presumably bulging with books yet to be read pick one book from that shelf or pile start from that book and continue along the shelf until you have picked out a total of 12 books one to read each month in the coming year the order of reading is up to you read in order or pick at random check her challenge post for more details and sign ups here is what i came up with i picked a pile with these appealing books but you say there are only three books not twelve not to worry these are omnibus editions published by fall river press collecting all 15 of l frank baum s oz books i have wanted to read them in order and this challenge presents a lovely framework for doing so although i have read some of these beyond the wizard of oz most will be new to me and reading them in order certainly will be i watched the premiere of emerald city on nbc last friday and i will probably keep watching its game of thrones style take on dorothy the scarecrow glinda and the other cardinal witches so far it mixes story elements from the wonderful wizard of oz 1900 and from its sequel the marvelous land of oz 1904 which features the gender switching tip and the old witch mombi who had kept him her a prisoner i will read this book in january and then continue my adventures through the whole series meeting baum s imaginative cast of characters inhabiting the land of oz map of oz from baum s tik tok of oz 1914 illus john r neill tags dorothy gale emerald city l frank baum read your shelf the marvelous land of oz the wizard of oz comments 2 comments categories challenges fictional 100 characters reading plans older entries read more about the fictional 100 new kindle e book now has all 24 original illustrations also available in paperback a strongly recommended read and 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