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-Peter Cushing promo photos for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Awww his Holmes always puts on a cute serious face which is just simply adorable! Look at him!

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Au where Harry Hart is Holmes close family friend

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Where are my White Walkers and my volcano and magic ring to throw in the damn thing? Where’s my quest?

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I don’t even know what to say about this except it’s 100% amazing. A must-read for fans of The Lunar Chronicles! 

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Amber Recommends:

Dead City is a great introduction to Molly Bigelow, where you learn the important essentials about who she is - how she misses her mom, why her sister is both evil/awesome at the same time and about her goofy dad. You learn how she marches to the beat of her own drummer - hanging out at the morgue (where her mom used to work), learned a martial art instead of ballet, was an avid junior birder and learned the periodic table backwards and forwards. These fun activities have however caused her to be, well, less than popular among her fellow classmates at MIST (Metropolitan Institute of Science)…..   These activities, which make her unpopular are what make her a natural Omega.   What’s an Omega you ask? The Omegas are a small, select team of students, like Molly, who are smart and driven, tasked with policing or peace-keeping (depending on your view) the zombies population of Manhattan.   Yeah it was hard for Molly to wrap her head around as well.   This is a great first book. Ponti gives the reader enough information to know exactly what is going on, while leaving a large number of crumbs/hints about what the reader will find in the next installment of the series, Blue Moon, giving the characters greater depth in the next book.   I enjoyed the fact that the book started mid-action. It forces the reader to catch up, and think when you go back a bit in Molly’s timeline, to understand how she became an Omega and learned about zombies (which, btw, they don’t like to be called, just in case you need to know). Plus Molly is a wonderful heroine, and her teammates are just as good with both strengths and flaws; while they are all over achievers, none of them are so over the top they are unbelievable.   I would recommend this book to any girl (or open-minded boy as there are several really great male characters) nine and up. While this book is good, the second book in this series, Blue Moon, is Fantastic! However the events make much more sense and have more depth when you read the first book first!

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Looking for a taste of hollyblack's new novel? Find this quote on page one. The master of the modern faerie tale returns on January 13th.

Read more of The Darkest Part of the Forest now here.

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Why We Melbourne.

Images by oh.yes.melbourne

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The Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

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The Nine Gates of Death by Laura Tolton.

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“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.” — Persuasion, Jane Austen

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Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron

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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old...

Emily Dickinson

#Emily Dickinson #hall #decay #ruin #old #glass #seattle mystery

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I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.

Joyce Carol Oates

#Joyce Carol Oates #Abandoned building #ruin #decay #broken #seattle mystery

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Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.

Emil Cioran

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Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done.

Faulkner

#faulkner #abandoned #ruin #decay #broken #seattle mystery