Mastress Alita’s January sipdown challenge Tea #9: A tea paired with a hobby
I went the lazy route and went with a bookish tea, a Sherlock tea! Though now that I’m realizing, I don’t think “the Woman” was actually part of Sherlock’s books? Oops. Anyway, one of my hobbies is reading and I couldn’t think of any other teas that could possibly represent a hobby… this is an interesting blend, though faded now. Fruity, smoky.
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Irene Adler is in the books (A Scandal in Bohemia), but she’s a client, if i’m remembering correctly, and the mistress of the King of Bohemia and former opera singer. It’s been about 8 years since I read through the complete Sherlock Holmes, so i’m not certain what happens about the missing photograph, But she’s definitely in the books!
oh cool, totally forgot about that, read it a while ago. :D
hehe.. I also found custom adagio fandom blends for this challenge :)
There’s a spinoff/pastiche series written by Carole Nelson Douglas that features Irene Adler and her easily scandalized companion/ladies maid. The first one is “Good Night, Mr. Holmes.” Been a while since I’ve read them…but there they are on my bookshelf, now begging for a revisit!
(The scandal in Bohemia is resurrected in that series.)
I just looked the Carole Nelson series up, I had never heard of them before. I have about half the OG sherlock books to get through yet!
My favorite of the tribute series features Holmes in his golden years along with Mary Russell, a young American—Laurie R. King is the author and it begins with “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.” Not all of them are stellar, but there are some real winners in the series—Mycroft is in many of them, as is Mrs. Hudson, the housekeeper.
Irene Adler is in the books (A Scandal in Bohemia), but she’s a client, if i’m remembering correctly, and the mistress of the King of Bohemia and former opera singer. It’s been about 8 years since I read through the complete Sherlock Holmes, so i’m not certain what happens about the missing photograph, But she’s definitely in the books!
oh cool, totally forgot about that, read it a while ago. :D
hehe.. I also found custom adagio fandom blends for this challenge :)
There’s a spinoff/pastiche series written by Carole Nelson Douglas that features Irene Adler and her easily scandalized companion/ladies maid. The first one is “Good Night, Mr. Holmes.” Been a while since I’ve read them…but there they are on my bookshelf, now begging for a revisit!
(The scandal in Bohemia is resurrected in that series.)
I just looked the Carole Nelson series up, I had never heard of them before. I have about half the OG sherlock books to get through yet!
My favorite of the tribute series features Holmes in his golden years along with Mary Russell, a young American—Laurie R. King is the author and it begins with “The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.” Not all of them are stellar, but there are some real winners in the series—Mycroft is in many of them, as is Mrs. Hudson, the housekeeper.