Episode Five: Pastiches / "The Beekeeper's Apprentice"

In This Episode:
A very merry holiday to you! The guys discuss pastiches - good idea? bad idea? neutral idea? - and, in particular, the first of Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes pastiches: The Beekeeper's Apprentice.

Other highlights:
* Postertext giveaway!
* Holiday stories!
* Christmas music!
* Seriously, so much Christmas music (Christopher really loves Christmas.)
* Our ToB15 hopes

LISTEN:

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The Ep. 5 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOK:

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

ALSO MENTIONED:

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Solo by William Boyd
Colonel Sun by Robert Markham
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

ToB15 Hopes!
Drew:
* The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
* The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
* A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Christopher:
* 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
* We Were Liars by E. Lockart
* The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Christopher: Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage
Drew: Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child