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Fan of the Emerson Family. I don't care if the aren't real. | Barbara Mertz aka Elizabeth Peters aka Barbara Michaels (MPM) and her indomitable heroine Amelia Peabody. | Companion blog: AmeliaPeabodyForever | Twitter: @TeamRamses | http://pinterest.com/teamramses | Formerly teamramses.tumblr.com but I got locked out of my account. Still sad about it tbh.

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hi except she sings him to sleep again in this book when he is injured and

i'll never be over it?

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Not MPM mostly dedicating her books to beloved Friends and Family and then this.

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Quite A LOT, IN FACT.

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You sure can, Amelia.

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maybe the best first line in the series?? (nothing to do with recency bias.)

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Ramses inciting mutiny is forever one of my favorites.

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🐒⚔️⚖️ Amelia Peabody in The Ape who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters

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🐒⚔️⚖️ Radcliffe Emerson in The Ape who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters

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📜⚰️ Radcliffe Emerson in The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters

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⛈️⚡️⛈️ Radcliffe Emerson in He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters

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📜⚰️ Amelia Peabody in The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters

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Adventure Behind Every Door

For Barbara Mertz, every door led to an adventure. That's what the Amelia Peabody books are for me. But adventures are best when shared.

Did you find Amelia or did someone hand you the key? Mother? Grandmother? Aunt? (Perhaps a delightfully mischievous uncle?)

And to see MPM's own (literal) door, read more on the blog.

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🐒⚔️⚖️ Nefret Forth in The Ape who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters

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“‘That is what comes of letting women have their own money. They do what they wish instead of what men tell them to do.’ ‘Damned right,’ said Nefret, after this last witness had taken his leave.”

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The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Elizabeth Peters

(via arramdraper)

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Not me being personally offended finding a review from 1996 where Kirkus said "most readers will be numbed by the heavy-handed plotting."

FYI, The Hippo Pool turned thirty this month. She is still--imo--flirty and thriving.

Find some of my favorite quotes and further exposition on my complicated relationship with the book on the blog, here.