JK Rowling on Twitter

@Datun I hadn't read any of the series but dived straight into TIBH. I'm loving it, especially the twitter and forum exchanges. I'll go back and start reading the series from the beginning once I've finished this one.
(also, I'm convinced JKR posts on MN)

This is very true re the tv series. I have a crush on Holiday Grainger though so am happy to watch it anyway!

There's a magnificent passage in (I think) Troubled Blood where a female character rails against the fact that women are always blamed when men do wrong.

It's because they didn't read either of the books, and so are totally unaware. All they know is that a couple of journalists claimed that Troubled Blood is transphobic, and they're just parroting that. Clearly, JK has lost zero sales here. None of them could even be bothered to borrow her previous Cormoran Strike books to look for things to be offended about. What they do, is fixate on ways to find the Harry Potter books and even the films problematic.

It's like they haven't read any books since HP. Don't get me wrong, I loved the series myself - I remember counting down the days to the release of each next book! - but there are other books. If JK had taken completely the opposite position to the one she has, and diametrically disagreed with me, I quite simply wouldn't have cared about it to the degree the trans activists do.

In fact, my absolutely favourite author actually does diametrically disagree with GC feminism and tweets a bit about trans rights. I still read her books, and the series is still in pride of place on my bookshelf. And the release date for the next book of hers is in my diary!

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Sorry that was same to buying rather than borrowing so I can reread. Slow typer so cross posted

Same, I am rereading IBH already. The mystery (and all the other parts) is fantastic the first time, and then seeing all the intricate plotting is even more enjoyable the second time around now that I know the ending. She's insanely clever.

I get them on Audible, Robert Glenister reads them to me. 😀

The review I've seen basically says she knows these idiots better than they know themselves and she wrote it before she had a crap load of the trouble she had.

Basically they are acting perfectly in line with her expectations and human observations.

So i doubt her faith in humanity is dented. More that she has faith that she has the measure of these dickhead. And thats reassuring as she has the insight to understand how they are also unrepresentative. Just loudmouthed.

You won't regret it Datun!

I've just bought The cuckoos calling!

Have to say I think each book in the Strike series is better than the last. I just finished IBH yesterday and my first instinct on completing it was to start reading again from the beginning, which I haven't been so tempted to do with the previous ones.

In terms of the sheer hours of pleasure you can get for spending £25 it's incredibly hard to beat.

*That was on Twitter.

JKR answered someone who asked about the Strike books that it's best to read them in the published order to appreciate the relationship between Cormoran and Robin. She said to maybe buy the first as profits went to a charity (can't remember which one now) but borrow the rest from the library. She went even higher in my estimation if that's even possible.

I was mesmerised by Troubled Blood; I particularly love a cold case in crime fiction. Rowling writes about manipulative relationships supremely well.

It must be infuriating for those squealing "transphobe" to see this translated into precisely zero negative effect on her mega-sales.

Great. Thanks for the tip.

My word she's magnificent isn't she.

The Cuckoo's Calling is next on my reading list.

The TV series are the bare bones of the books and I don't think having watched them spoils what else the books offer.

They mob lost their heads over a description of a serial killer in the 70's possibly wearing a woman's coat one one occasion because transphobia, but never mention the actual trans character in a previous book who is written as a sympathetic character.

It's also very strange that all this supposedly blatant anti- semitism and racism in Harry Potter has only just been noticed since JKR has been convicted of wrongthink 🤔

Have to admit, IBH is my least favourite of the series so far. There's something very ungrounded about it, which is possibly deliberate when it's such an 'online' book. ----

Two blindingly good summaries!

I am saving ink black heart for my holidays in a couple of weeks, but I am rather jealous of the people who are about to start the whole series from the start!

Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm are my favourites so far.