Comments on: Two homes, Oxford and Santa Cruz

By: Barbara C

Barbara C — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:58:58 +0000

Welcome home, Mrs. King. I have been in England several times, which greatly enhanced my joy of reading your blogs while you were there. I didnâ€™t know about Calke Abbey, nor the open market, and would love to visit both some day. I am a new fan member to your web site and mostly a lurker at this point. However, I did write two fan letters recently in one week, and then after reading The Game, felt like Sunny Goodheart in my enthusiasm. (oh horrors – Iâ€™m usually somewhat reserved, but in the case of Laurie King, could possibly entertain ideas of joining Karen as a stalker, especially to the house in England – lol) Your blogs each day are great fun to read. Thanks for sharing everyday life and whatâ€™s going on in your writing, with us.

By: Bachi

Bachi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:04:58 +0000

Wow, This sounds like two different lives not just two homes!!!!

By: tangential1

tangential1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:08:51 +0000

It’s entirely redundant as I’m about the sixth person to say it, but welcome home I’m going to be in Oxford for a couple of days next month (we’re doing a tour through the old colleges to see the architecture, etc) so it was fun to hear about the covered market; I’ll definitely have to get over there!

And these fires are horrible. 840 of them I read in the paper yesterday. We haven’t had any actual fires here, but we are thoroughly surrounded and we’ve had brown skies for days. I woke up this morning to an entirely red sun…very creepy.

By: Strawberry Curls

Strawberry Curls — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:50:27 +0000

Welcome home. Your travel blog was such a treat to read, thanks so much for sharing your adventures. I have quite a few new things added to my “must see” list for the next trip to the U.K.

Thank goodness the fires are dying down, it has been a tough few weeks for Northern California.

Alice

By: vicki

vicki — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:10:24 +0000

Welcome home! And thanks for letting us vicariously enjoy your trip–it sounds like it was great fun.

Karen, I’m sure you’d be a very nice stalker. Maybe like the one who follows Thursday Next–Millon deFloss. I like that he violates stalker regulations so as to help Thursday in her investigations and adventures, then later turns historian to record her life and times.

By: KarenB

KarenB — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:57 +0000

Welcome home and thank you for the fascinating travelogue. Much clicking has been done on my computer trying to see maps, overview and photographs of where you have been.

I think I may have walked past your house in Oxford 13 summers ago on the way to dinner. If I only knew then what I know now, you could have been able to call the police to rid you of a stalker!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:58:39 +0000

Glad you are home safe and well – it’s given much pleasure (and plenty of amusement along the way!) to keep up with your posts whilst you have been over here, and it was such a pleasure to meet with you in Edinburgh. I think you have seen more of the UK in the last three weeks than I have seen in the last 15 years, so shame on me… How I can have left Orkney off the list after almost 20 years in Scotland I do not know!

Looking forward to your next visit for Language of Bees – no pressure, then! – and to UK success for Touchstone.

With all good wishes,
Chris