#J Henry Waugh

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J. Henry Waugh "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc" (Signet, First Printing, 1969)

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Amortentia and Armistices

Amortentia and Armistices https://ift.tt/OBFze4a by AnGalley Eleven years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger receives a letter from Brakebills University. Words: 1718, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Hermione Granger and the Quest for Time Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Magicians (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, Angelina Johnson, George Weasley, 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater, 23rd Timeline Alice Quinn (The Magicians), 23rd Timeline Eliot Waugh, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, 23rd Timeline Julia Wicker, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ginny Weasley, Henry Fogg Relationships: Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Angelina Johnson/George Weasley, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Dean Thomas/Ginny Weasley, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger/Quentin Coldwater Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Character Death, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Amortentia Potion (Harry Potter), Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Cheating, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Date Rape Drug/Roofies, Forced Relationship, Forced Marriage, Forced Pregnancy, Post-War, Time Skips, Canon-Typical Violence, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Harry Potter is Dead, Voldemort Dies (Harry Potter), Ilvermorny, MACUSA | Magical Congress of the United States of America, Immigration & Emigration, Love Potion/Spell, Mental Health Issues, Janus Thickey Ward (Harry Potter), voluntary institutionalization, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Divorced Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley, Past Brainwashing, Ron Weasley Bashing, POV Hermione Granger, Brakebills (The Magicians), Adult Hermione Granger, Hermione Granger-centric, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, No Smut, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Flawed Hermione Granger, Dark Hermione Granger via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/WYoidpD March 14, 2024 at 09:48AM

[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

[warm-mojito]

hi, just stumbled upon your account in the jet lag tag (thanks for the drinking game)! i've never heard of blaseball before, and unfortunately it seems i'm late to the party, but i'd love to learn what it was about! i love weird cool internet things

Hoo boy, I'm glad you enjoyed the Drinking Game! I sure can try my best to explain what Blaseball was. But quick warning, it's a lot.

Okay, so at its core, Blaseball was a Baseball Simulator, where you could bet fake money on simulated games, where players could die mid game. Hence the name Blaseball, which is a mixture of Blood, and Baseball.

Blaseball games took 30 minutes to an hour to play out, and would start new games at the top of the hour. Seasons would last a week, with generally the schedule being 2 weeks of games, followed by an average of 2 weeks of "Siesta", a time where no games were going, and almost nothing happened, that gave the developers time to crush bugs, and implement new features.

At the end of each season there was an election, where fans (us), could use the money we made betting, to buy votes, to vote in the election. Every season there was the big thing to vote on, The Decrees, which had wide sweeping implications on how Blaseball would continue to be played; as well as smaller things to vote on that impacted team performance, such as legendary items, or custom modifications that protected players from some fates.

To be clear, in Season 1 there was no death, and nothing weird going on, everything just seemed like your standard baseball game, very reminisciant of the 1968 book, "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J Henry Waugh, Prop." By Robert Coover. That said, there was one very peculiar thing, and that was the decrees.

In season 1, the decrees were listed as:

Redistribute Wealth: The top five players from the Internet Series champion will be distributed to five other random teams in the league.

Relegation: The last place team in the league will be eliminated from the league, and replaced with a new team.

The Forbidden Book: It is Forbidden.

Obviously, The Forbidden Book was the one that was voted on, and that's when they really put the Blood, in Blaseball, as immediately after opening the book, the umpires went Rogue, and the best player, Jaylen Hotdogfingers (Please note this was July 2020, well before EEAAO), was incinerated, by one. In addition a Hellmouth would swallow the Moab dessert, and the team that was formerly known as the Moab Sunbeams, would henceforth be known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams.

The final change was that Blaseball received a Subtitle, and this subtitle was "The Discipline Era". There are a few eras of Blaseball, there is the Discipline Era, The Coffee Cup, The Expansion Era, Short Circuits, and The Coronation Era. Each one functions as essentially the next chapter of the story.

This said, it is regrettable that I have gotten this far into my summary of Blaseball without talking about the community that formed around it. It was passionate. It was bright. It was essentric. To this day there are few players, that had any playtime, that do not have at least one piece of fan art for them. There is a music collective that started up, that is called The Garages that made songs about the game, that are incredible (If you like Ska Punk I highly recommend their album The Skarages), which got their name from the in game team, The Seattle Garages. All of this for a list of names on a webpage. There was not official art of anyone in Blaseball. No physical descriptions. No personality included. The fans breathed life into the characters adding some, and the developers (The Game Band, who also created a game called Where Cards Fall that you actually can go play on Steam and Switch still) embraced it, and basically said all of it was canon and none of it was canon.

Did the fans have their fair share of drama? Of course, any time you group 10k+ people together, of course not all of them are going to get along. I mostly avoided this by spending most of my time on Twitter for Blaseball, instead of in discords, and using the Block Button liberally.

I could go point by point down the story of Blaseball, but I imagine that if you're still reading at this point, that you'll probably want to go do that yourself, and you can! Blaseball originally had a Fandom wiki, however they realized that the company Fandom sucked, so the fans in the Society for Internet Blaseball Research (SIBR for short), created a new wiki which can be found at Blaseball.wiki, from there you can learn about everything that happened, it's very well organized.

Last Friday, June 2nd, The Game Band announced after a 4 month hiatus that Blaseball would not be coming back, and that we would not be seeing an end to The Coronation Era. The reasons of which are complicated, and many. One of the developers tweeted out in the hours leading up to the announcement "(quote from man who died by a thousand cuts): what are you gonna do, stab me one thousand times", which is likely the situation, as sometimes it isn't 1 big cut that does it, but 1000 little ones.

I hope this helps you understand what Blaseball was, I am open to answering further questions in DMs.

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Amortentia and Armistices

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UMWxiVm by AnGalley Eleven years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger receives a letter from Brakebills University. Words: 1718, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Hermione Granger and the Quest for Time Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Magicians (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, Angelina Johnson, George Weasley, 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater, 23rd Timeline Alice Quinn (The Magicians), 23rd Timeline Eliot Waugh, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, 23rd Timeline Julia Wicker, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ginny Weasley, Henry Fogg Relationships: Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Angelina Johnson/George Weasley, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Dean Thomas/Ginny Weasley, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger/Quentin Coldwater Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Character Death, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Amortentia Potion (Harry Potter), Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Cheating, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Date Rape Drug/Roofies, Forced Relationship, Forced Marriage, Forced Pregnancy, Post-War, Time Skips, Canon-Typical Violence, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Harry Potter is Dead, Voldemort Dies (Harry Potter), Ilvermorny, MACUSA | Magical Congress of the United States of America, Immigration & Emigration, Love Potion/Spell, Mental Health Issues, Janus Thickey Ward (Harry Potter), voluntary institutionalization, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Divorced Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley, Past Brainwashing, Ron Weasley Bashing, POV Hermione Granger, Brakebills (The Magicians), Adult Hermione Granger, Hermione Granger-centric, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, No Smut, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Flawed Hermione Granger, Dark Hermione Granger read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UMWxiVm

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Amortentia and Armistices

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ZOtj6Pq by AnGalley Eleven years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger receives a letter from Brakebills University. Words: 1718, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Hermione Granger and the Quest for Time Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Magicians (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, Angelina Johnson, George Weasley, 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater, 23rd Timeline Alice Quinn (The Magicians), 23rd Timeline Eliot Waugh, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, 23rd Timeline Julia Wicker, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ginny Weasley, Henry Fogg Relationships: Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Angelina Johnson/George Weasley, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Dean Thomas/Ginny Weasley, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger/Quentin Coldwater Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Character Death, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Amortentia Potion (Harry Potter), Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Cheating, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Date Rape Drug/Roofies, Forced Relationship, Forced Marriage, Forced Pregnancy, Post-War, Time Skips, Canon-Typical Violence, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Harry Potter is Dead, Voldemort Dies (Harry Potter), Ilvermorny, MACUSA | Magical Congress of the United States of America, Immigration & Emigration, Love Potion/Spell, Mental Health Issues, Janus Thickey Ward (Harry Potter), voluntary institutionalization, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Divorced Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley, Past Brainwashing, Ron Weasley Bashing, POV Hermione Granger, Brakebills (The Magicians), Adult Hermione Granger, Hermione Granger-centric, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, No Smut, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Flawed Hermione Granger, Dark Hermione Granger read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ZOtj6Pq

[supernaturalinguist]

F/Os / Character Obsession List

(Last Updated: 1/30/2024)

★ - Currently obsessing/ F/O (bolded -> super fixated)

☆ - Not currently obsessing but still F/O

○ - Non-f/o but character I enjoy

Ultimate F/O: Jasper (LA By Night) ★ 💕🎭, since 2021.

Isaac Brooke (New York by Night) ★🫀

Wrench (WD2) ☆ 👾

Danny Johnson/Ghostface (DBD) ☆ 👻

Artemy Burakh ☆ 🌿, Daniil Dankovsky 🩺☆, Peter Stamatin 🎨 (Pathologic)☆

Roman Roy (Succession)☆

Elias Bouchard (TMA)☆ 👁

Deacon (Fallout 4)☆ 🕶

Eliot Waugh/Quentin Coldwater (The Magicians (show))☆ 👑

The Masked Bandit (The Fall)☆ 💊

V (V for Vendetta, as played by Hugo Weaving)☆ 🧨

Henry Bolet (Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull) ☆ 💀

Dustfinger (Inkheart Trilogy) ☆

Astarion (BG3) ○ 🩸

Jonathan Sims (TMA) ○ 📖

Silco (Arcane) ○ 💉

Viktor (Arcane) ○

Solf J. Kimblee (FMAB/FMA manga) ○ 💥

Lucien Lachance (TES Oblivion) ○ 🗡

Szayelapporo Granz (Bleach) ○ 🧪

Henrik Vanderhune (Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand) ○ 🔬

Garrus Vakarian (ME) ○ 🛸

Thane Krios (ME) ○ 🌅

Blackbeard (OFMD) ○ 🏴‍☠️

Eric Draven (The Crow) ○ 🥀

Dum-Dum (Cyberpunk 2077) ○

V (DMC 5) ○

[riceli]

BANNED CLASSICS

Banned Classic Books - banned in various countries, time periods, etc. Non-fiction, children's, modern, etc.

How many have you read?

1

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

2

The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)

3

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

4

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

5

The Color Purple (Alice Walker)

6

Ulysses (James Joyce)

7

Beloved (Toni Morrison)

8

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

9

1984 (George Orwell)

10

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

11

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

12

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

13

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

14

Animal Farm (George Orwell-1945)

15

The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

16

As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

17

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

18

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

19

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

20

Song of Solomon (The Song of Songs, also Song of Solomon or Canticles, is one of the megillot found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim, and a book of the Old Testament.)

21

Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

22

Native Son (Richard Wright)

23

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Ken Kesey)

24

Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

25

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

26

The Call of the Wild (Jack London)

27

Go Tell It on the Mountain. (James Baldwin)

28

All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)

29

The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)

30

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

31

Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)

32

A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

33

The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

34

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

35

Sophie's Choice (William Styron)

36

Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)

37

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

38

Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)

39

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)

40

Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)

41

The Naked and the Dead (Norman Mailer)

42

Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller)

43

An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)

44

Rabbit, Run (John Updike)

45

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

46

Candide (Voltaire)

47

Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)

48

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Alex Haley and Malcolm X)

49

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)

50

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

51

Howl ( Allen Ginsberg - a poem)

52

Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)

53

Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

54

Our Bodies, Ourselves (a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective)

55

The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)

56

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

57

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell R. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin)

58

Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein)

59

A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

60

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

61

Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)

62

The Crucible (Arthur Miller)

63

Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

64

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

65

Arabian Nights (Richard Francis Burton & Geraldine McCaughrean)

66

Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)

67

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)

68

Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

69

Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)

70

A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'engle)

71

Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)

72

The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)

73

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

74

Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)

75

The Giver (Lois Lowry)

76

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

77

The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

78

Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

79

The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)

80

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (lMark Twain)

81

That Was Then, This Is Now (S.E. Hinton)

82

The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)

83

Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)

84

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

85

The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)

86

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)

87

The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)

88

James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)

89

Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm)

90

The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Anderson)

91

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Alvin Schwartz

92

Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)

93

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

94

The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka -1915)

95

Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

96

The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)

97

The Well of Loneliness (Radclyffe Hall)

98

All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

99

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

100

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

“A book banned” sounds like a joke.

Are people a bunch of idiots that have to be controlled by some System that decides what can be read and what can not?

It is ridiculous.

[the-literata-letters]

reading list - psychological fiction

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✵ ACTIVELY UPDATING ✵

☐  BECKETT, Samuel – The Trilogy ☐  BÖLL, Heinrich – Billard um halb zehn ☐  BOWLES, Paul – The Sheltering Sky ☐  CONRAD, Joseph – Lord Jim ☐  COOVER, Robert – The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. ☐  DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – Crime and Punishment ☐  EGERTON, Owen – Hollow ☐  FOWLES, John – The Magus ☐  GREENE, Graham – The Heart of the Matter ☐  GOLDING, William – Lord of the Flies ☐  HESSE, Hermann – Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend ☐  HUGHES, Richard – A High Wind in Jamaica ☐  HURSTON, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God ☐  ISHIGURO, Kazuo – A Pale View of the Hills ☐  ISHIGURO, Kazuo – An Artist of the Floating World ☐  JAMES, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady ☐  LOWRY, Malcolm – Under the Volcano ☐  McCULLERS, Carson – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ☐  O'HARA, John – Appointment in Samarra ☐  SCHLINK, Bernhard – Der Vorleser ☐  STENDHAL – Le Rouge et le Noir ☐  TARKINGTON, Booth – The Magnificent Ambersons ☐  TEY, Josephine – Miss Pym Disposes ☐  THEROUX, Alexander – Darconville's Cat ☐  WOOLF, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hey Steph! Do you know of any fics where J&S are both teachers? Thanks in advance :))

Hi Nonny!

Ah, I don’t know of many; I’ve only read one and I have a couple on my MFL List:

TEACHER AU

Love or What You Will by miss_frankenstein (T, 31,987 w. || College/Uni AU || Professor John, Ph.D Student Sherlock, Pining John, Poetry, Falling in Love / Slow Burn, Light Angst, Happy Ending) – John is an English professor who specializes in War and Post-War Literature and Sherlock is the brilliant yet impossible Ph.D. student assigned to be his TA because no one in the Chemistry Department is willing to put up with him. And - somewhere between Waugh and Plath, e-mails and takeaway, novels and villanelles - they fall in love.

The Baker Street Nativity by SwissMiss (E, 99,662 w., 23 Ch. || Nativity! AU || Teacher Sherlock / TA John, Pining, Sherlock POV, UST, Angst, Christmas, Music/Song Fic, Anal / BJ’s, First Kiss / Time) – Fusion between Sherlock (BBC) and Nativity! (2009 movie starring Martin Freeman). Sherlock is a primary school teacher and John is assigned to be his classroom assistant. Together, they are charged with putting on the school’s Nativity play. What could possibly go wrong? Part 1 of The Baker Street Nativity Verse

MFL:

Never Been Kissed by MorganeUK (T, 36,960 w., 22 Ch. || Never Been Kiss AU || Different First Meeting, University / College, Undercover Sherlock, Detective Sherlock, Army Doctor John, Teacher John, Case Fic, Rom Com, Good Big Brother Mycroft) – At 28, Sherlock is undercover in a college where ex-Captain John Watson is a biology teacher. Part 5 of Rom-com adaptations…

Learning Curve by thpontiacbandit (M, 41,422 w. || Teacher / Parent AU || America, Fluff and Smut, Parentlock, Frottage) – John is a Kindergarten teacher. One of his students, a boy named Henry Holmes, refuses to speak in school. John is determined to get to the bottom of it, and that is how he meets Sherlock Holmes.

Parallel by brbsoulnomming (M, 77,397 w. || Case Fic, First Time, First Kiss, Undercover For A Case) – There’s a case at a secondary school/University, some series of threats or string of bizarre murders that has the entire campus shaken. In the course of the investigation, Sherlock and John meet two students. One is well liked if not popular, athletic, intelligent without showing off, involved only because they were close to a victim or witnessed something important. The other is a loner with no regard for social norms, an insufferable genius, always in the chem lab, and involved because everyone, including teachers/professors, think they’re behind everything. Sherlock and John are responsible for these two meeting. And, because they both want to help with the investigation, they get to watch them become friends and fall a little in love. And that makes them feel things about themselves that they’ve been working very hard to not feel, thank you.

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I know they’re not 100% teacher/teacher, but they should satisfy until we get some recs from my Lovely followers! Anyone have any additions??? :D

[skonnaris]

Books I’ve Read: 2006-2019

Alexie, Sherman - Flight

Anderson, Joan - A Second Journey

                          - An Unfinished Marriage

                          - A Walk on the Beach

                          - A Year By The Sea

Anshaw, Carol - Carry the One

Auden, W.H. - The Selected Poems of W.H. Auden

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Bear, Donald R - Words Their Way

Berg, Elizabeth - Open House

Bly, Nellie - Ten Days in a Madhouse

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

                        - The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, David - The Road to Character

Brooks, Geraldine - Caleb’s Crossing

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden

Buscaglia, Leo - Bus 9 to Paradise

                         - Living, Loving & Learning

                         - Personhood

                         - Seven Stories of Christmas Love

Byrne, Rhonda - The Secret

Carlson, Richard - Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Carson, Rachel - The Sense of Wonder

                          - Silent Spring

Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote

Cherry, Lynne - The Greek Kapok Tree

Chopin, Karen - The Awakening

Clurman, Harold - The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre & the 30s

Coelho, Paulo -  Adultery

                           The Alchemist

Conklin, Tara - The Last Romantics

Conroy, Pat - Beach Music

                    - The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

                    - The Great Santini

                    - The Lords of Discipline

                    - The Prince of Tides

                    - The Water is Wide

Corelli, Marie - A Romance of Two Worlds

Delderfield, R.F. - To Serve Them All My Days

Dempsey, Janet - Washington’s Last Contonment: High Time for a Peace

Dewey, John - Experience and Education

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol

                             - Great Expectations

                             - A Tale of Two Cities

Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking

Disraeli, Benjamin - Sybil

Doctorow, E.L. - Andrew’s Brain

                         - Ragtime

Doerr, Anthony - All the Light We Cannot See

Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie 

Dyer, Wayne - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

                     - The Power of Intention

                     - Your Erroneous Zones

Edwards, Kim - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Ellis, Joseph J. - His Excellency: George Washington

Ellison, Ralph - The Invisible Man

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Essays and Lectures

Felkner, Donald W. - Building Positive Self Concepts

Fergus, Jim - One Thousand White Women

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Follett, Ken - Pillars of the Earth

Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl

Freud, Sigmund - The Interpretation of Dreams

Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces

Fromm, Erich - The Art of Loving

                       - Escape from Freedom

Fulghum, Robert - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Fuller, Alexandra - Leaving Before the Rains Come

Garield, David - The Actors Studion: A Player’s Place

Gates, Melinda - The Moment of Lift

Gibran, Kahlil - The Prophet

Gilbert, Elizabeth - Eat, Pray, Love

                            - The Last American Man

                            - The Signature of All Things

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - My Own Words

Girzone, Joseph F, - Joshua

                               - Joshua and the Children

Gladwell, Malcom - Blink

                              - David and Goliath

                              - Outliers

                              - The Tipping Point

                              - Talking to Strangers

Glass, Julia - Three Junes

Goodall, Jane - Reason for Hope

Goodwin, Doris Kearnes - Team of Rivals

Graham, Steve - Best Practices in Writing Instruction

Gray, John - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Groom, Winston - Forrest Gump

Gruen, Sarah - Water for Elephants

Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone

                          - The Nightingale

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis - Strategies That Work

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl on the Train

Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion

Hellman, Lillian - Maybe

                         - Pentimento

Hemingway - Ernest - A Moveable Feast

Hendrix, Harville - Getting the Love You Want

Hesse, Hermann - Demian

                            - Narcissus and Goldmund

                            - Peter Camenzind

                            - Siddhartha

                            - Steppenwolf

Hilderbrand, Elin - The Beach Club

Hitchens, Christopher - God is Not Great

Hoffman, Abbie - Soon to be a Major Motion Picture 

                          - Steal This Book

Holt, John - How Children Fail

                  - How Children Learn

                 - Learning All the Time

                 - Never Too Late

Hopkins, Joseph - The American Transcendentalist

Horney, Karen - Feminine Psychology

                        - Neurosis and Human Growth

                        - The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

                        - New Ways in Psychoanalysis

                        - Our Inner Conflicts

                        - Self Analysis

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner

Hoover, John J, Leonard M. Baca, Janette K. Klingner - Why Do English Learners Struggle with Reading?

Janouch, Gustav - Conversations with Kafka

Jefferson, Thomas - Crusade Against Ignorance

Jong, Erica - Fear of Dying

Joyce, Rachel - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

                       - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Kafka, Franz - Amerika

                      - Metamophosis

                      - The Trial     

Kallos, Stephanie - Broken For You  

Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek

Keaton, Diane - Then Again

Kelly, Martha Hall - The Lilac Girls

Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon

King, Steven - On Writing

Kornfield, Jack - Bringing Home the Dharma

Kraft, Herbert - The Indians of Lenapehoking - The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of NJ, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut

Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lacayo, Richard - Native Son

Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird

                         Word by Word

L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake

Lappe, Frances Moore - Diet for a Small Planet

Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird

Lems, Kristin et al  - Building Literacy with English Language Learners

Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois - The Giver

Mander, Jerry - Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Marks, John D. - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind         Control

Martel, Yann - Life of Pi

Maslow, Abraham - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

                              - Motivation and Personality

                              - Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

                             - Toward a Psychology of Being                            

Maugham. W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage

                                        - Christmas Holiday

Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca

Mayes, Frances - Under the Tuscan Sun

Mayle, Peter - A Year in Provence

McCourt, Frank - Angela’s Ashes

                          - Teacher man

McCullough, David - 1776

                                - Brave Companions

McEwan, Ian - Atonement

                      - Saturday

McLaughlin, Emma - The Nanny Diaries

McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Meissner, Susan - The Fall of Marigolds

Millman, Dan - Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Moehringer, J.R. - The Tender Bar

Moon, Elizabeth - The Speed of Dark

Moriarty, Liane - The Husband’s Sister

                         - The Last Anniversary

                         - What Alice Forgot

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea

Moyes, Jo Jo - One Plus One

                       - Me Before You 

Ng, Celeste - Little Fires Everywhere

Neill, A.S. - Summerhill

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Offerman, Nick - Gumption

O’Neill, Eugene - Long Day’s Journey Into Night

                            A Touch of the Poet

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Owens, Delia - Where the Crawdads Sing

Paulus, Trina - Hope for the Flowers

Pausch, Randy - The Last Lecture

Patchett, Ann - The Dutch House

Peck, Scott M. - The Road Less Traveled

                         - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond

Paterson, Katherine - Bridge to Teribithia

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Puzo, Mario - The Godfather

Quindlen, Anna - Black and Blue

Radish, Kris - Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral

Redfield, James - The Celestine Prophecy

Rickert, Mary - The Memory Garden

Rogers, Carl - On Becoming a Person

Ruiz, Miguel - The Fifth Agreement

                     - The Four Agreements

                     - The Mastery of Love

Rum, Etaf - A Woman is No Man

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince

Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye

Schumacher, E.F. - Small is Beautiful

Sebold, Alice - The Almost Moon

                       - The Lovely Bones

Shaffer, Mary Ann and Anne Barrows - The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Shakespeare, William - Alls Well That Ends Well

                                   - Much Ado About Nothing

                                   - Romeo and Juliet

                                   - The Sonnets

                                   - The Taming of the Shrew

                                   - Twelfth Night

                                   - Two Gentlemen of Verona

Sides, Hampton - Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree

Skinner, B.F. - About Behaviorism

Smith, Betty - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley - The Velvet Room

Spinelli, Jerry - Loser

Spolin, Viola - Improvisation for the Theater

Stanislavski, Constantin - An Actor Prepares

Stedman, M.L. - The Light Between Oceans

Steinbeck, John - Travels with Charley

Steiner, Peter - The Terrorist

Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

Strayer, Cheryl - Wild

Streatfeild, Dominic - Brainwash

Strout, Elizabeth - My Name is Lucy Barton

Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch

Taylor, Kathleen - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

Thomas, Matthew - We Are Not Ourselves

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden

Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

                      - The Power of Now

Towles, Amor - A Gentleman in Moscow

                       - Rules of Civility

Tracey, Diane and Lesley Morrow - Lenses on Reading

Traub, Nina - Recipe for Reading

Tzu, Lao - Tao Te Ching

United States Congress - Project MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification: Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the ... Congress, first session, August 3, 1977

Van Allsburg, Chris - Just a Dream

                                - Polar Express

                                - Sweet Dreams

                                - Stranger

                                - Two Bad Ants

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple

Waller, Robert James - Bridges of Madison County

Warren, Elizabeth - A Fighting Chance

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited

Weir, Andy - The Martian

Weinstein, Harvey M. - Father, Son and CIA

Welles, Rebecca - The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

Westover, Tara - Educated

White, E.B. - Charlotte’s Web

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorien Gray

Wolfe, Tom - I Am Charlotte Simmons

Wolitzer, Meg - The Female Persuasion

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway

Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Zusak, Marcus - The Book Thief

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One Thousand Portraits.

It might be hubris to start a project with the name ‘One Thousand Portraits’ though I felt similarly daunted about the last project. 

The aim is one thousand photos, my hope is that some people will be in multiple portraits. I already have some ideas for themes / subjects, and I expect that more may emerge organically as the project develops. 

The ideas I’ve had so far are:  

Applying the Face

To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. 

Oscar Wilde

My Happy Place

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Here is my Heart, Guard it Well

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

Prized Possession / Rubbish / Show me your junk! 

...Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe, and useless piles of shit. You know you want it.

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

Boundary Conditions

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams

Get your Glad Rags on

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self expression and, above all, attitude

Iris Apfel 

And it feels like Home

Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone

I hear you call my name

And it feels like home

Like a Prayer - Madonna

The Modified Body

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Walden - Henry David Thoreau 

100 Strangers

“Take 100 photographs of at least 100 people you don’t know by approaching them, asking for permission”

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100& More Books To Be Read Before You Leave School

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen

3. Emma- Jane Austen

5. Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte

6. Mill on the Floss- George Eliot

7. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell.

8. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

9. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

11. The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

13. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd– Agatha Christie

14. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

15. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

16. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

17. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

18. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte`

19. The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis

20. The Harry Potter Series – J. K. Rowling

21. The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown

22. The Lost Symbol- Dan Brown

23. Inferno- Dan Brown

24. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

25. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

26. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

27. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

28. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

29. The Godfather – Mario Puzo

30. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

31. Aesop’s Fables

32. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

33. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

34. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

35. The Evening News – Arthur Hailey

36. Three Men in A Boat – Jerome K Jerome

37. The Hobbit – J. R. Tolkien

38. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

39. The House of The Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne

40. The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells.

41. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens.

42. Middlemarch – George Eliot 43. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh

44. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

45. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

46. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

47. Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

48. The Shining – Stephen King

49. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

50. Disclosure – Michael Crichton

51. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty

52. Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella

53. The Eagle Has Landed – Jack Higgins

54. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz –L Frank Baum

55. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak.

56. The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth

57. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

58. The Bourne Identity – Robert Ludlum

59. The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe

60. The India Fan – Victoria Holt

61. Love Story – Erich Segal

62. The Hotel New Hampshire – John Irving.

63. Joy in the Morning – P G Wodehouse

64. The Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle

65. Dracula – Bram Stoker

66. A Passage to India – E M Forster

67. A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul.

68. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh.

69. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

70. To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee

71. The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger

72.1984 – George Orwell

73. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton

74. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

75. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

76. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

77. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

78. Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney

79. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

80. The Help-Kathryn Stockett

81. Non Stop India- Mark Tully

82. City of Djinns- William Darlymple

83. The Shadow of the Wind-Carlos Ruiz Zafon

84. And the Mountains Echoed- Khaled Hosseini

85. Mahabharat-Devdutt Pattanaik

86. Ramayana –Devdutt Pattanaik 87. The Krishna Key- Ashwin Sanghi

88. Chanakaya’s Chant- Ashwin Sanghi

89. Helen of Troy- Margaret George

90. The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller

91. Henry VIII- Margaret George

92. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall-Anne Bronte

93. TristramShandy-Laurence Sterne

94. Midnight’s Children-Salman Rushdie

95. The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins

96. Palace of Illusions- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

97. The Twentieth Wife (A trilogy)-Indu Sundaresan

98. Mountain Of Light- Indu Sundaresan

99. Empire of the Moghul series- Alex Rutherford

100. A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry

101. A Case of Exploding Mangoes- Mohammed Hanif

102. Not Without My Daughter- Betty Mahmoody

103. The Colour of Water- James McBride

104. Blood Brothers- M.J.Akbar

105. Luka and the Fire of Life- Salman Rushdie

106. Haroun and the Sea of Stories- Salman Rushdie

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Quiet Desperation:  The Lucy Combs story Part I

By LARRY J. GRIFFIN

Special Reporter for The Record

“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation….”—from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

Waugh  Street runs east to west across Sparta Road (Hwy 18N) for less than a half-mile in the northern borough.  

It is bounded by fast food restaurants, an auto parts store, a bridal shop, and a Food Lion shopping center, among other commercial concerns.  Traffic is typically teeming on the main highway, though precious little ventures down Waugh Street—east or west—unless, of course, you happen to reside in one of the houses tucked within the wooded nooks and crannies carved out by the twists and turns of the truncated thoroughfare.  

Perhaps it was the trees and a healthy stand of bamboo that muffled the reports of the .38-caliber pistol or the hunting rifle as each was frequently fired—aimed at human targets.  Of course, few heard the subdued screams of a wife and two sons who were living off West Waugh in harm’s way—literally feet away from the hustle and bustle of traffic, commercial endeavors, and the lunchtime crowd ordering food from their favorite fast food vendor.  And no one took note of the “quiet desperation” etched upon their beleaguered faces.

“Mine, George (Jerry Jr.), and Jeff’s lives were so awful; nobody would know the hell we went through…,” wrote a wife and mother in a journal in which she confided when there was no one else to sympathize.  For what must have seemed like an interminable maelstrom of malcontent—35 years, in fact—she and her two sons endured abject physical and mental abuse, criminal neglect, and a life-threatening barrage of bullets, some of which, on occasion, found their intended moving targets.  

It is difficult for Lucy Combs to remember life before the abuse began.  But when asked about it, her mind easily wandered back to her childhood with her parents.

Lucy was born on Tuesday, July 1, 1947, to Carl (1885-1964) and Edith Prichard (1921-1995) who resided in Alexander County.  She was the 10th of 14 children—eight boys and six girls in all.

“I grew up in Hiddenite in a homeplace that stood until December of last year (2017).  I attended school at Hiddenite High—the elementary and high school grades were all in the same building.  I played fast-pitch softball—I was a shortstop—and basketball from the seventh grade to the 11th grade.  I was a guard and certainly the shortest player on the court,” Lucy laughed.  “But I could dribble around players and could come up under the basket before anyone saw me.”

 Her father, Carl Prichard, was 62-years-old when Lucy was born.  She remembered him fondly.  “My Dad was 36-years older than my Mom. He was a jeweler by trade but did other things for people, like sharpen saws, to make money.  My dad was also a strict, church-going man and didn’t appreciate a lot of noise; but, I was close to him—you could call me a ‘daddy’s girl.’”

Lucy remembered their gardens and working in them.  “We had—usually—four gardens every spring and summer that we (the children) helped tend, of course.  My Dad had a plow but no horse or mule to pull it.  So a couple of us kids would pick up the plow and drag it through the gardens to break up the ground and make furrows.”

When he was 79-years-of-age, Mr. Prichard died in Alexander County and was interred at Liberty Baptist Church in Hiddenite, where the family convenes for yearly reunions.  Lucy was 16-years-old.  Her mother, a young 43-year-old widow, eventually remarried a school handyman named, Woodrow Payne.  “He was a singer who sang in choir at church.  My stepfather was a good man—a churchman,” Lucy remembered.  “I think he was also a barber.”

In the January following her father’s death, Lucy’s met a young man that would change her life—his name, Jerry Combs.  “My mother (Edith) knew his grandparents and would assist them in harvesting tobacco. Jerry was there of course.  But I really got to know him some when he came over to our house to visit my brothers,” Lucy recounted.

Jerry Fred Combs was born 12:50 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1947, at Wilkes County Hospital to Agnes Mae and Fred J. Combs.  He was their firstborn.  Though his parents were a constant in his life, Jerry stayed with his Grandmother and Grandpa Griffin and a great-grandma to whom they referred to as Gran Ann—purportedly a full-blooded Cherokee.  

On March 12, 1965, Jerry Combs and Lucy Prichard were married.

“Both of us were 17-years-old; and, I was pregnant,” Lucy averred without equivocation.  “We were married in York, S.C., by a magistrate there.  His mom and dad and my mom witnessed it.  But Jerry really didn’t love me—he barely knew me at the time we were married.” After being lost in thought for a moment, Lucy added, “He never had any love for me.”  

Jerry’s family lived around Johnson Road, off Hwy 268 in the Rock Creek Community.  So, the newlyweds went to live there at first.  Though their lives were never idyllic, Lucy remembered that everything was “OK” in the beginning.  But a late Summer trip in August, 1965 to Kerr Scott Dam with relatives—during her last trimester of pregnancy—triggered a disruption of their tenuous tranquility.

“Jerry and some of his cousins wanted to go up to the dam; but, they had been drinking too much to drive.  So, I had to take them.  They got to talking and told Jerry that I was being ‘flirtatious’ with them.  Well, I certainly wasn’t being flirtatious—not with any of them.  I was pregnant and didn’t feel like that.  But of course they got him stirred-up.  He never said anything much about it to me until after another incident sometime later.”

The revelers were swimming in the cool waters of Kerr Scott while Lucy sat on the bank watching them.

“I can’t swim, and I was also pregnant.  For some reason, though, Jerry insisted that I get in the water.  Well, I told him that I wasn’t a swimmer and wasn’t going to get in the water.  He didn’t pay that any attention and grabbed my arm and pulled me in anyway.  I panicked; I thought I was going to drown. Jerry saw that I really couldn’t swim and tried to push me out.  But I was so scared that I kept pushing him under.  Another swimmer, Larry Reavis, was swimming in the area at the time, saw what was happening, quickly came to the rescue, and managed to push me out of the water.”  

But when Lucy returned to the shoreline, she knew something was wrong inside her body.  “It just didn’t feel right; so, the next day, I ended up in the doctor’s office and learned that my baby had turned sideways. I guess it had something to do with the stress and trauma I experienced when Jerry pulled me in the water.  Obviously, I was scared!  When the doctor placed me on bed-rest for a week, he (Jerry) was not happy about it.”

The spousal abuse, in the early stages of the couple’s relationship, consisted primarily of drunken verbal castigations and lashing-out, but nothing really physical—even after their first son, Jerry Jr., was born on Saturday, Oct. 9, 1965. However, the vestiges of the couple’s domestic tranquility would soon be shattered—evermore—shortly after the birth of their second son in 1967.  The abuse would intensify and take a potentially deadly turn.

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Amortentia and Armistices

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UMWxiVm by AnGalley Eleven years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger receives a letter from Brakebills University. Words: 1718, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Hermione Granger and the Quest for Time Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Magicians (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Astoria Greengrass, Angelina Johnson, George Weasley, 23rd Timeline Quentin Coldwater, 23rd Timeline Alice Quinn (The Magicians), 23rd Timeline Eliot Waugh, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, 23rd Timeline Julia Wicker, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ginny Weasley, Henry Fogg Relationships: Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Angelina Johnson/George Weasley, Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley, Dean Thomas/Ginny Weasley, Astoria Greengrass/Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger/Quentin Coldwater Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Character Death, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Amortentia Potion (Harry Potter), Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Cheating, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Date Rape Drug/Roofies, Forced Relationship, Forced Marriage, Forced Pregnancy, Post-War, Time Skips, Canon-Typical Violence, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Harry Potter is Dead, Voldemort Dies (Harry Potter), Ilvermorny, MACUSA | Magical Congress of the United States of America, Immigration & Emigration, Love Potion/Spell, Mental Health Issues, Janus Thickey Ward (Harry Potter), voluntary institutionalization, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Divorced Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley, Past Brainwashing, Ron Weasley Bashing, POV Hermione Granger, Brakebills (The Magicians), Adult Hermione Granger, Hermione Granger-centric, Time Travel Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, No Smut, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Flawed Hermione Granger, Dark Hermione Granger read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UMWxiVm

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A to Z Book Rec Tag

Thank you to the lovely @that-quirky-girl for tagging me, she recognises the book weakness in me. These books are all linked on goodreads, where I have an account, linked HERE.

# - #Junkie and #Rev by Cambria Hebert 

A - Adorkable by Sarra Manning

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen 

Adulting 101 by Lisa Henry 

Alan Partridge: Nomad by Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) 

The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith 

All the Single Ladies by Jane Costello 

And Call me in the Morning by Willa Okati 

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins 

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake 

Austenland by Shannon Hale 

B - The Backup Boyfriend by River Jaymes

Beauty by Robin McKinley 

The Best Corpse for the Job by Charlie Cochrane

Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh 

Big Mouth, Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Blame it on the Mistletoe by Eli Easton 

Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton 

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 

Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote 

Breathe by Sloane Parker 

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 

Bridesmaids by Jane Costello 

Brighton Rock by Graham Green 

C - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 

Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan 

The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jessica Rothenburg 

Caught! by JL Merrow 

Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles 

Chance to be King by Sue Brown 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher 

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Cinder by Marissa Meyer 

Clear Water by Amy Lane  

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

Cold War by Keira Andrews 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black 

Collide by Riley Hart 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker 

Corkscrewed by MJ O’Shea 

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 

Crossroads by Riley Hart 

The Crucible by Arthur Miller 

Crush by Richard Siken 

D - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black 

Dash & Lily’s book of Dares by Rachel Cohn 

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 

Devoted by Sierra Riley 

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy 

E - Eclipsed by Dominic Holland 

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 

Emma - Jane Austen 

Epic Fail - Claire LaZebnik 

The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen by Valerie Z Lewis 

Every Move he Makes by Barbara Elsborg 

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande 

F - Fairest by Gail Carson Levine 

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowling 

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien 

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 

Filthy Little Secret by Devon McCormack 

Fish Out Of Water by Amy Lane

Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford 

Flash Burnout by LK Madigan

Flawless by Lara Chapman 

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman 

From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer 

The Future of Us by Jay Asher 

G - Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah : 

Girl on the Run by Jane Costello

Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

H - Harry Potter by JK Rowling

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey

The Heart of Texas by RJ Scott

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Helping Hand by Jay Northcote

A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne

Him by Sarina Bowen

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 

Holly Lane by Toni Blake

Hostile Ground by LA Witt

Hot Head by Damon Suede 

Hottie Scotty and Mr Porter by R Cooper

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

A Hunted Man by Jaime Reese

Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I - I Love the 80s by Megan Crane

If Only in My Dreams by Keira Andrews

Illegal Contact by Santino Hassell

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Inseparable by Chris Scully

An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley

J - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

 Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

K - A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn

Know Not Why by Hannah Johnson

L - Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote

Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles

Liam Davis & The Raven by Anyta Sunday

Light from the Dark by Mercy Celeste

Lima Oscar Victor Echo and the Truth about Everything by Suki Fleet

The Little Book of Vegan Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

M - Mark Cooper versus America by Lisa Henry

Mark of Cain by Kate Sherwood

Me and Mr Darcy by Alexandra Potter

Merry Christmas Mr Miggles by Eli Easton

Midwinter Night’s Dream by Eli Easton

More than This by Patrick Ness

Motel. Pool. by Kim Fielding 

Mrs Warren’s Profession by Bernard George Shaw

My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey 

My Single Friend by Jane Costello

N - The Nearly-weds by Jane Costello 

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn 

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney

Noticed Me Yet? by Anyta Sunday

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Off Base by Annabeth Albert

Open Tackle by LC Chase

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

P - Passing Through by Jay Northcote

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Peter Pan by JM Barrie

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Pressure Head by JL Merrow

Pride and Modern Prejudice by AJ Michaels 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Private Eye by SE Culpepper

Promised Land by Adam Reynolds

Promises by Marie Sexton

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Q - The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

R - Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Rock Solid by Riley Hart

Roughing the Passer by Alison Hendricks

S - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Shiny by Amy Lane

Shrinking Violet by Danielle Joseph

Shut your Face, Anthony Pace by Claire Davis

Silent by Sara Alva

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Skellig by David Almond

Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt

Slam! by JL Merrow

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Sock it to me, Santa! by Madison Parker

Someday by Sierra Riley

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Spencer Cohen by NR Walker

Splintered by SJD Peterson

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Starter for Ten by David Nicholls

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Stay With Me by SE Harmon

Strong Side by Alison Hendricks

Sugar Creek by Toni Blake

Superhero by Eli Easton

T - The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

The Time of Our Lives by Jane Costello

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Tonight by Karen Stivali

Turkey in the Snow by Amy Lane

The Two Gentlemen of Altona by Lisa Henry

U - Unwrapping Hank by Eli Easton

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

V - The Vintners Luck by Elizabeth Knox

W - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

The Walls of Troy by LA Witt

The Waste Land and Other Poems by TS Eliot

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

We were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

A Weekend With Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly

Where he ends and I Begin by C Cardeno

Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kiera Andrews

Whiskey Business by Avon Gale

The Wish List by Jane Costello

Wonder by RJ Palacio

X - X-It by Jane George

Y - Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Z - Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville