#oscar de muriel

[storms-of-lastweek]

Wanted to practice horses today, what better way to do that than paint the lovely Rye and Phillipa!

#frey and mcgray #horses #watercolor #oscar de muriel #my artwork #artists on tumblr #Ian Frey #adolphus mcgray #nine nails #fanart #simple watercolor #a case for frey and mcgray #series #anglo-arabian #bavarian warmblood #click for quality cause mobile is stupid

[the-rogstar]

»he gave me a rib-cracking embrace, lifting me several inches from the floor, and I became intimately acquainted with the true scent of his ragged overcoat« 

had to draw my favourite moment between Frey & McGray for the release of the final book in the series 😭❤

#oscar de muriel #book art #frey and mcgray #book #frey & mcgray #adolphus mcgray #ian frey #fanart #my stuff

[illusmina]

That’s your problem, boy. You think. You assume. You give your senses more credit than they deserve, and then think we’re all idiots for not seeing things through the same glass as you.

~ Oscar de Muriel, A Mask of Shadows

#quotes #oscar de muriel #frey & mcgray #a mask of shadows #victorian mysteries #I'm speed reading through his frey & mcgray series. so good!!!

[day-lyreminder]

Drawing / Doodling them monthly until Oscar de Muriel announces Loch of the Dead in spanish, pt.3

-> McFrey content ahead (?)

Credits of “How to help… ” to @/velsmells on Twitter

See u next month (?)

#frey and mcgray fanart #a case for frey and mcgray #a fever of the blood #a mask of shadows #adolphus mcgray #frey and mcgray #ian frey #oscar de muriel #mcfrey #loch of the dead

[27morayplace]

So, I finally have my hands on ‘The Sign of The Devil’. A bittersweet moment, as I have been a fan of the Frey & McGray series since ‘The Strings of Murder’ when I first saw it in Sainburys when it came out, and has now replaced another series, which shall remain nameless *cough*Miss Peregrines*cough* after a terrible, terrible film adaptation. I’m going to reread all the books now (now I’ve finished the last book I was reading, Museum of Extraodrinary Things, if anyone’s curious, it was pretty good). I’m going to go into the little mental notes I’ve made while reading when I finish each book on here. 

#frey and mcgray #Ian Frey #adolphus mcgray #Oscar de Muriel #the sign of the devil

[endersketch]

I feel like an early days Instagram post. But I am reading outside, with my coffee, and my cat. And it’s a delightful morning out here at 6am.

I’m reading “Loch of the Dead” by Oscar De Muriel, a mystery set in 1888 Scotland. So far, there’s a very tall and masculine female character and I am her. But it’s a very fun and interesting read so far.

Am I turning into a Bookblr?

#Ender irl #Ender speaks #books #booklr #kinda #loch of the dead #oscar de muriel

[withsomejam]

The Sign of the Devil, Oscar de Muriel

The Sign of the Devil, Oscar de Muriel

5/5 stars! A wonderfully-thrilling final book to the Frey and McGray series, The Sign of the Devil is full to the brim of twists and turns with family secrets revealed and bombshells dropped mercilessly throughout. It was everything I had hoped it would be and so much more. Multiple grave-robberies? Murdered asylum patients? The sign of the devil reappearing everywhere? Nothing is adding up in…

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#2022 #Book Review #Books #Crime Fiction #Edinburgh #Fever of the Blood #Final Book #Frey & McGray #Frey & McGray Series #Loch of Dead #Mask of Shadows #Oscar de Muriel #Scotland #The Dance of Serpents #The Darker Arts #The Sign of the Devil #The Strings of Murder #Victorian era

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1896 – Birth of Kathleen Barry at 8 Fleet Street, in Dublin.

Kathleen Barry Moloney was the eldest of seven children. Her parents Thomas and Mary (née Dowling) and her aunt Judith ran a prosperous dairy that included an eighty-six acre holding at Tombeagh, Hacketstown, Co Carlow and a retail outlet below the family home in Fleet Street. When Thomas Barry died in 1908 the Barry family found themselves split between their homes in Dublin and at Tombeagh. The…

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#Anti-Treaty Dublin Brigade #Éamon De Valera #Cathal Brugha #Clann na Poblachta #Co Carlow #Cumin na mBan #Hacketstown #Hammam Hotel #IRA #Jim Moloney #Kathy Barry #Kevin Barry #Linda Kearns #Muriel MacSwiney #Oscar Traynor #Tombeagh #UCD Branch

[doreyg]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Frey & McGray Series - Oscar de Muriel Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ian Frey/Adolphus "Nine-Nails" McGray Characters: Ian Frey, Adolphus "Nine-Nails" McGray Additional Tags: Mid-Book 7, Carriage Sex, Rimming, Anal Sex, First Time, Infidelity (Sort Of), Kissing Summary:

“I need to relax, for her sake if nothing else. I need something to take the edge off, before I fucking explode.”

“That may be sensible, at current-” I started soothingly, pleased that he finally realised his endless forceful push would only send him sooner to the grave, but then noticed his eyes upon me. His dark eyes, his demanding eyes, his downright hot eyes lingering in a way that they hadn’t since I’d left Edinburgh. “Are you serious?”

#My Fic #Frey & McGray Series - Oscar De Muriel #I finally wrote these two fucking again!!!

[tengomilpalabrasparati]

Cumpleaños 🎂

La increíble Toni Collette cumple 51 años

Antonia Collette (Blacktown, Nueva Gales del Sur; 1 de noviembre de 1972), conocida como Toni Collette, es una actriz australiana nominada al premio Óscar.

Toni Collette es hija de Bob Collette, camionero, y de Judy Collette, trabajadora de una empresa de mensajería. Es la mayor de tres hermanos. Toni comenzó su carrera como actriz en el instituto, y apareció en diversas obras teatrales estudiantiles. Posteriormente se matriculó en el National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), de Sídney, que, tras estudiar dos cursos, abandonó para comenzar a interpretar representaciones teatrales.

Saltó a la fama al protagonizar "Muriel's Wedding" (1994), una fábula social en tono de amarga comedia dirigida por P. J. Hogan. Para el papel tuvo que engordar en pocas semanas más de 18 kilos. En esa época tenía 22 años, y dicha película le valió una nominación al Globo de Oro como mejor actriz de comedia.

Más tarde, la actriz australiana logró debutar en Hollywood, compartiendo protagonismo con Gwyneth Paltrow y David Schwimmer en "Mi desconocido amigo"  1996. Tras aparecer en películas como "Emma" (1996), adaptación de la novela de Jane Austen o "Velvet Goldmine" (1998), Toni intervino en "The Sixth Sense" (1998), película de suspense de M. Night Shyamalan que se convirtió en la sensación del año. Por este último título sería nominada al Oscar a la mejor actriz de reparto, aunque la estatuilla sería para Angelina Jolie por "Inocencia interrumpida". También destacó en 2006 interpretando el papel de Sheryl Hoover en la aclamada película "Little Miss Sunshine".

En 2011 estuvo en el 'remake' de la comedia de terror "Noche de miedo", donde interpretó a la madre que cae bajo el hechizo del vampiro (Collin Farrell), estrenada en 2011

Formó parte del elenco de la serie "Hostages" con el rol de Ellen Sanders, el papel principal y la famosa película de terror "Hereditary"

Collette es vegetariana, practica yoga y le encanta realizar viajes espirituales a la India, es una ferviente defensora de los derechos de los animales y es miembro de la organización PETA. Tuvo una relación sentimental del actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, su compañero de reparto en "Velvet Goldmine" (1998). Contrajo matrimonio en enero del año 2003 con Dave Galafassi, tienen dos hijos. La pareja tiene dos hogares: uno en la República de Irlanda y otro en Australia

En los últimos años, Toni Collette nos ha maravillado con sus sorprendentes interpretaciones en películas como "Knives Out o " I’m Thinking of Ending Things"

#Cumpleaños 🎂 #Toni Collette

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

#quest #book list

[the-rogstar]

Finally got around to draw another Frey & McGray fanart!  Love them, miss them, only 3 more months until we see them again (for the last time?!) 😭

#my stuff #Fanart #ian frey #adolphus mcgray #frey & mcgray #frey and mcgray #book #book art #oscar de muriel

[rockislandadultreads]

Read-Alike Friday: The Poisoner’s Ring by Kelley Armstrong 

A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates.

While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when she stumbles out again, she is in the same place - Aldrich Castle - but in a different time: 1815, to be exact.

Mistaken for a lady's maid hired to help with weekend guests, Kendra is forced to quickly adapt to the time period until she can figure out how she got there; and, more importantly, how to get back home. However, after the body of a girl is found on the extensive grounds of the county estate, she starts to feel there's some purpose to her bizarre circumstances. Stripped of her twenty-first century tools, Kendra must use her wits alone in order to unmask a cunning madman.

This is the first volume in the “Kendra Donovan” series.

The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel

1888: a violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard send Inspector Ian Frey. Frey reports to Detective "Nine-Nails" McGray, local legend and exact opposite of the foppish English Inspector. McGray’s tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond belief...

There was no way in or out of the locked music studio. And there are black magic symbols on the floor. The dead man’s maid swears there were three musicians playing before the murder. And the suspects all talk of a cursed violin once played by the Devil himself. Inspector Frey has always been a man of reason—but the longer this investigation goes on, the more his grasp on reason seems to be slipping...

This is the first volume in the “Frey & McGray” series.

The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma

This rollicking page-turner with a cast of real and imagined literary characters and cunning intertwined plots stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator.

Characters real and imaginary come vividly to life in this whimsical triple play of intertwined plots, in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence.

What happens if we change history?

This is the first volume in the “Trilogía Victoriana” series.

The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O’Donnell

London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances?

On the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls, stumbles into a role as Cutter’s sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters—despite her employer’s preference that she stick to a women’s society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands.

#mystery #historical fiction #fiction #Library Books #Book Recommendations #book recs #Reading Recs #reading recommendations #TBR pile #tbr #tbrpile #to read #Want To Read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

[day-lyreminder]

Drawing / Doodling them monthly until Oscar de Muriel announces Loch of the Dead in spanish, pt.4 + 5 because I forgot that I was supposed to post here too

haha, spanish jokes that are hard to translate

#a case for frey and mcgray #a fever of the blood #a mask of shadows #adolphus mcgray #frey and mcgray #ian frey #oscar de muriel #frey and mcgray fanart #loch of the dead #book fanart #mcfrey

[hydrangeawise]

Because something something end of the year something, I felt like doing a small post on things I really enjoyed this year, in no particular order:

Sasaki to Miyano (anime): made my heart bloom like, idk, a meadow in spring or something. I've adored the manga for years, and the anime transported everything in this story so well!

Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch (music): uh, yeah. This album was released early in the year and I haven't stopped listening to it since.

Sabikui Bisco (anime): tackled me into the ground, has excellent worldbuilding & character dynamics, made me cry.

Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road (Light Novel): probably the thing that got me back into reading physical books again, swallowed me whole, made me fall in love with many unhinged women (I'm still waiting on my pre-ordered copy of the fifth volume, I can be patient though).

Little Witch in the Woods (video game): very charming story so far! I'm a bit miffed that almost all my progress got deleted when I updated to the Beta version, so I'll have to redo a lot of things when I get playing again the next time, but still, very charming.

Frey & McGray series by Oscar de Muriel (books): I'm currently reading the 4th book. It's all very enjoyable, the character dynamics are intriguing, I enjoy the stories very much, and I'm looking forward to slowly making my way through the rest of the books.

Lycoris Recoil (anime): I still am very much hip deep in this. Takina still has my whole heart, thank you very much. I'm looking forward to the light novel & the manga. (I did write a lot of posts screeching about the girls).

Hello from the Hallowoods (podcast): I adore this podcast. With my whole heart. I'm slowly making my way through the episodes because sometimes I get easily overwhelmed when I'm listening to it, but - I adore it; so much!

Kitchen for Singles (series of short videos on YT): pure comfort to watch - I also started trying some of the recipes (and I may have adopted the tomato sauce permanently into my staple recipes).

The Cat Proposed (manga): uh, yeah. So this manga probably kind of preserved my sanity? In a "I found it when I was in a pretty not-good place and it got me back on solid ground" way, I suppose (maybe I'm being a bit melodramatic, but I truly feel like it did save some part of me). Charming story, charming characters, I have so so so much love for every single bit of it.

And that's it, I believe. This is what my cheese brain held on to for the last 12 months.

#b grumbles #I think this is neat because in all honesty at the start of the year I was not sure if I would even make it through the year #and with the power of apathy and structure and small joys on my side I did it still #so yeah: neat!

[queer-geordie-nerd]

Tagged by @ddagent

Favourite Colour: I've never really given it much thought, but probably dark reds and purple.

Currently Reading: The Sign of the Devil by Oscar de Muriel, part of the Frey and McGray series. Supernatural murder mysteries set in 19th century Edinburgh - highly recommended.

Last Song: Turn Loose the Mermaids by Nightwish - just happened to be the last song on shuffle on my ipod on my walk to work yesterday.

Last Series: Currently halfway through season 4 of Lost and halfway through a rewatch of ER. Also just started a rewatch of Babylon 5 because I'm nothing if not predictable.

Last Movie: Probably Jurassic World: Dominion. I tend to watch shows over movies mostly.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Savoury. I could demolish a multipack of crisps myself easily.

Currently Working On: Trying to get back to my meditation because it really does help calm my anxiety.

I am going to tag: @tossacointoyourhotmess @gabolange @musingsofauniversedisturber anyone who wants to join in.