May 14, 2004
Laurie King
About 100 people showed up tonight at the Friends of the Los Gatos Library's Friday Forum with author Laurie King. (She's up there in the front of the room in the purple scarf). I stopped at Border's on the way there and picked up a copy of her new book, The Game, which she signed for me.
The dedication in the book reads:
For the librarians everywhere, who spend their lives in battle against the forces of darkness.
and she spoke a lot about doing research at the McHenry Library at UCSC and how amazing the reference librarians were there. (Go Margaret!)
I read The BeeKeeper's Apprentice a couple of weeks ago and forgot to blog about it (bad!). It was fantastic -- its the story of Sherlock Holmes' very cool young female appentice! Laurie King has written 14 books so far, and is at work on the next one in that series which takes place in San Francisco (which is where Holmes and Mary stop after being in India in The Game). I'd also like to read Folly, which someone asked her some questions about tonight.
She was a great speaker and it was fun to go to a Friends of the Library event (plus it was a lovely night to be walking around town).