April 10th

[skylockee]

So today is my sister's birthday. :D She turned seventeen today, what a good age that was! We're all going to Kingston later this evening, one of our stops is a bookstore. Any good Holmes-ish books I should be on the look out for

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[moonmaid]

Mmm, younger!Brett=teh sexy. ^_^

I highly recommend The West End Horror by Nicholas Meyer, as it has a fair amount of slashy subtext. Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula is, so far as I have read (about a fourth of it so far) one of the slashiest things ever, and kind of camp-tastic.

Happy birthday to your sister! I had a friendship start to deteriorate about this time a couple of years ago, as well. Something in the air in springtime, perhaps? The bottom line is that some people just suck and should be beaten about the head with baseball bats, both for justice and alliteration. ^_^

[skylockee]

Ah, I've heard of Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula being slashy, but I don't think I've heard of "The West End Horror" yet. I'll definitely be bringing one or both of these books home if I find them. :D

Awh, there really must be something in the air around springtime where people finally start showing their true colours. (though I was good friends with this person for a number of years). But anyway! It's good to see we've both managed to recover from the idiots. :D

We should start a club where we all go out one night a week and beat the hell out of those who annoy us. *grin*

[howahoai]

...well,judging from the facts u gave,to be objective,it's difficult for anyone to be in sympathy with u,no offence,but all i feel is u hate her(?)with ur whole heart now,:( which is not a good thing for a lovely girl,(parden me)i don't mean to preach,but would u mind if i speack straightly my opinion 'bout errr a destroied thing valued seriously oonce?:)considering i kno little 'bout ut friendship,is it a betray or something,i just give my general conception of the cognate things.usually,im the kinda "i put my way behind me un' never look back" person,coz it simplely makes me sick,we all have irrevertable memories,regratable,miserable,unspeakable,u kno,but at most,they r mere memories,un' u cannot afford to change them,instead,u can do nothing but perserve them or even burry them in ur heart if u'd rather,so why not preserve beautiful things always if somehow u have to preserve one thing and another

[skylockee]

Well, not that I was looking for sympathy, but you are quite off in your analysis of this whole situation

[howahoai]

LOL!that's it isn't it?--making a theory without enough datas--when u *assume* something u make ur ass out XD let's cave these into our minds un' never make the same mistake.XD
though im glad u told me more facts 'bout urs,which reoriented my view of u.:)
actuall,someone was worrying she would stain herself with hate then when told that she wanna beat the moron to death...ect ect. now that she seemed have completely overcome the rubbish un' even braved it while learning experience from it,someon really worried in vain,:)
i appreciate brave people,un' u r right,keep them as a warn of clock.

[redconverse]

This time of year always kinda breaks my brain because it's around my old best friend's birthday. I think she stopped talking to me in the summer or fall of '04, though.

We'd been best friends since middle school, and I even wound up moving out to Seattle with her after a while... We really were inseparable, to the point where classmates would totally try and slash us (ha!) and all through middle/high school we'd totally deadpan that we'd grow old and die together, a bunch of spinsters.

Then she just started hating me. And I never knew why. She stopped talking to me, became avoidant... Once when I stopped by the old apartment, she'd ripped my face out of all these group photos... Ugh. I think it'd hurt a lot less if I knew what I did, but maybe not!

I'm glad you're doing better, though (I am too!) and yay for birthdays. I'm reading Shadows Over Baker Street, but that'd really only be good if you like HP Lovecraft, too.

[skylockee]

Ah! Spring is the time for heartbreak it seems. My friend and I sound a lot like you and your old friend - completely inseparable and slashed like mad. At school if we were apart, people would ask us where the other was. As if we had tabs on each other all the time. XD

I think I would have gone mad in your situation though. Not knowing a thing you did wrong and just having someone hate you. *shudders* I would have completely gone insane.

But yay for us both feeling better! :D We're strong people, damnit!

Ohh, HP Lovecraft. A ..cross over? Oh dear. Why wasn't I told of this?

[redconverse]

Well, if it's any consolation, I did go a bit mad, ha! Not to get emo, but it kind of made me pretty weird about trusting people, and even weirder about my self-worth (right after, I wound up staying with a alcoholic for almost two years, because at least I knew he was all dependent on me. I became a bit of a boozer, too, heh). But I eventually knocked some sense into myself with those issues. :P

And yesss! It's... well, some of the stories are pretty great, but some are a little "meh." The Neil Gaiman one is really good, and there's another with Watson and Murray I like. :3

[skylockee]

Ahh, luckily at the time of my friend mishaps I was living with my parents. My mom -not to mention my dad- would have slapped me silly if I became an alcoholic. XD My dad has told me that the moment I started smoking he'd kick me out of the house without a word of warning. Not that I'd smoke anyway, nasty habit, it is.

Oh! :3 I'm so going to have to pick that book up now. I'm going to buy every single Holmes book in that bookstore, I swear. XD

[sherlock2040]

I went through a similar thing for two years at my last place of work, the only way I can describe the girl in question is with the word 'cunt', but even that doesn't come close.

Happy birthday to your sister! My brother turned 17 this year as well :-)

As for Holmes books...:
'In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes' by Michael Harrison
'Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorised Biography' by Nick Renison
'Elementary My Dear Watson' by Graham Nowin
'The Real World of Sherlock Holmes' by Peter Costello
'Conan Doyle: Detective' by Peter Costello

Non-Holmes:
'Mr Clive & Mr Page' by Neil Bartlett
'Boswell's London Journals'
'Gormenghast Trilogy'

I'm sure I could recommend more but this would become a very long post!

[skylockee]

It's almost reassuring that there are other people in the world who have gone through this sort of thing, but on the other hand it's sad that people have to go through such a thing as well.

But, we all come out stronger people because of it. :D

Oh my, that is quite a booklist! *writes them all down* I can imagine how long the comment would become if you wrote down each book that you would suggest. XD

[sherlock2040]

The comment would just go on and on and on and on... XD

[skylockee]

It would separate into two different comments! I'm sure LJ has a word limit. XD