Children's Books + 1 Old Lady

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Children's Books + 1 Old Lady turned 5 today!

[auntpol430]

Wonder Lands: Lewis Carroll

Many author have created Wonder Lands for us to enjoy. The first one I’d like to talk about is Lewis Carroll, who created two of them - Wonderland and Looking Glass Land.

In 1862, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Robinson Duckworth went boating with three girls - Lorina, Edith and Alice (above) Pleasance - the Liddell girls. Charles made up a story (as he had done before) as they rowed and stopped for tea. Alice begged and begged for that one story to be retold until he finally made her a book of it.

It was called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and presented to Alice for a Christmas present in 1864. Why, you ask, did it take two years to make the book?

Because he handwrote and illustrated it! There was one copy originally, the one Allice received. The story is similar, but not exactly the same as the one that was eventually published under his penname Lewis Carroll (Dodgson wrote mathematical books and apparently didn’t want those books to be confused with his fairy books).

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Some of the photos from our match last night.  Jurgen took many more good ones that are on our team website.  We won in 5 sets! We lost the first two sets because the team was not meshing and everyone was tense.  We were able to turn that around and win the next three sets! I had a good serving game with 8 or so aces that I can remember.  Currently we are sitting at 3rd place in our league despite having an undefeated record.  That is because we have won two of our matches in 5 sets. Winning in 5 sets does not get us as many points as winning in 3 or 4 would.  Regardless, we are doing well.  There is still much to improve on and much to learn.

[auntpol430]

Jon, how would I go about finding your team's website?

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This morning I woke up early and rode my bicycle to this place.  They call it Tiger & Turtle.  It is a giant stairway art piece which resembles a roller-coaster (tiger) and you can walk (turtle) along it. I managed to make it there right when the sun was rising which was very scenic.  Nobody else was there this morning so I got some clean photos. The round trip for this adventure was 20 miles. I barely managed to make it back in time for my school commute (10 mile round trip).  

[auntpol430]

Did you go on any of it Jon?

[hawkerly]

[bakerstreetbabes]

Martin and Benedict’s message to Comic Con

Laughed so hard during this.

[221brownstone]

[bakerstreetbabes]

That’s what way to keep track…

[auntpol430]

Wow - cool writer's room!

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Snape, drawn by J. K. Rowling. 

J.K. Rowling’s official site has just been updated with a look inside the annotated first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone auctioned off just days ago at Sotheby. Check out this image of Snape drawn by the creator of the series, herself!

- mugglenet

[auntpol430]

So cool!

[aryamularama]

[auntpol430]

I can really relate!

[dalpuri]

J.R.R. Tolkien on languages.

[auntpol430]

Just because he's cool!

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[bakerstreetbabes]

Canon quotes FTW.

[auntpol430]

wellll . . . . numbers four and five are canon quotes anyway. I don't think the others are.

[granadabrettishholmes]

The Red Headed League

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

My very favorite scene in this episode. Watson trying to make a straight face is so very adorable. Seeing Holmes laugh is every time again so wonderful.

[bakerstreetbabes]

ALWAYS REBLOG this scene.

[auntpol430]

One of my very favorite episodes of this show. To me it completely embodies the canon story (except for the addition of Moriarty at the end!).

[nanowrimo]

Walk into a bookshop and you will see books that you love and books that you hate, books that were written in three weeks and books that took thirty years, books that were written under the influence of drugs and alcohol, books that were written in splendid isolation, books that were written in Starbucks. Some of them were written with enormous enjoyment, some for money, some in fear and loathing and despair. The only thing they all have in common is that their authors finished them, sooner or later.

Awesome truth!!

— Nick Hornby, on the crucial first step towards seeing your book in shops. (via lettersandlight)

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In those opening paragraphs of The Sign of the Four, published in 1890, the world was introduced to Sherlock Holmes, cocaine addict—perhaps the best known drug user of all time.

Subcutaneously, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit, by Jack Tracy with Jim Berkey (via astudyinsherlockiana)

Except that wasn't where we were introduced to Sherlock Holmes. We had already been introduced to him in A Study in Scarlet. And this "habit" disappears as you read through the canon - by the end it's rarely mentioned. This does NOT define Sherlock Holmes. Read the canon and see what's mentioned about him most - I can guarantee it isn't his drug addiction (if it can even be called that).

[auntpol430]

Elementary's take on C.A.M.

I loved the take the writers did on Charles Augustus Milverton. Killing him off in the very beginning and then making the rest of the show about finding who killed him and stopping the blackmail was genius in my opinion. I thought they said originally that they weren't planning to take any of the canon stories and redo them - but I'm certainly glad they decided to change their minds and do this one. Every minute was phenomenal.

[fyeahjoanlock]

[auntpol430]

The emotions that he was able to portray in this scene with his face and his hands was absolutely breath-taking.

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“I was at university with him. He used to do this thing where he’d know everything about you. You’d come down to formal hall and he’d know who you’d been shagging the previous night. Drove us all mad.” - Seb Wilkes, The Blind Banker (x)

[auntpol430]

And what's the most bizarre about this conversation is that Sebastian is supposedly asking for help when he says it! Sherlock should have just ignored his email!

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“He and Sherlock have both clearly decided that they mustn’t get involved with human relationships. They perceive them as weaknesses. ‘Caring is not an advantage’. Yet, deep down, Mycroft clearly does care about his brother. All he wants to do is to bring him into the fold. To stop him being a loose cannon. I’d like to find a way of showing more than we have that he’s actually even cleverer than Sherlock - but the deductions are hard enough as it is!”

- Mark Gatiss

[auntpol430]

Love what he has to say about Mycroft!