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[lizard-reads-the-world]

YA Books about 🇦🇹 Austria

List of Austria books for the YA World Challenge.

It's been quite a while since I did a country-themed list. This one has been sitting in the drafts for a while.

I have discovered that YA books in English featuring Austria consist of only 3 categories:

WW2 (sometimes WW1)

Empress Sisi (interchangeable with Marie Antoinette or Nannerl Mozart)

Eva Ibbotson

And that's it. Well, I'm kidding, but it almost seems like it. Here's the little list I came up with. Feel free to suggest any I missed - I mostly search through Goodreads to find these so the list is prone to mistakes and omissions!

YA

I Don't Live Here Anymore by Gabi Kreslehner 💚 The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu ⌛🦋 Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville ⌛ When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler ⌛ Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld ⌛🦋 A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson 💚 Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson 💚 The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson 💚 The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap ⌛ Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten 💚 Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ⌛🦋 Becoming Marie Antoinette: A Novel by Juliet Grey ⌛ European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (#2) by Theodora Goss ⌛🦋 Wanderlost by Jen Malone 🏖️ Coronets and Steel by Sherwood Smith 🏖️🦋 The Empress by Gigi Griffis ⌛ The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg ⌛ The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer ⌛ In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story by Carolyn Meyer ⌛ Apple's Song by Blake Ryan 🏖️

MG

Hedy and her Amazing Invention by Jan Wahl 🛩️ The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of by Kristin Levine 🏖️♿ The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr 🦋 Searching for Lottie by Susan Ross 🛩️ Moonlight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne 🏖️⌛🦋 Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky ⌛ The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman ⌛ Stolen Words by Amy Goldman Koss 🏖️ The Taste of Snow by Stephen V. Masse

Memoir

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust GN 💚 How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust GN 💚 Fat by Regina Hofer 💚♿ Becoming Alice: A Memoir by Alice Rene 💚⌛

NA/Adult

The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki ⌛ The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton ⌛ Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil ⌛🌈 The English Girl by Margaret Leroy ⌛🏖️ The Secret Society of Salzburg by Renee Ryan ⌛ The Edelweiss Sisters by Kate Hewitt ⌛ The Light After the War by Anita Abriel ⌛ The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck ⌛ The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor ⌛ The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason ⌛ House of Gold by Natasha Solomons ⌛ Setting Free the Bears John Irving Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese ⌛ The Girl with the Golden Scissors by Julia Drosten ⌛ Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson ⌛

💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy or Paranormal 🌈 LGBTQ+ ♿ Disability rep

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“Let me rest for a bit longer,” he whispers, cheek pressed against the mud, refusing to move, not even noticing a black beetle ponderously climbing over his hand. “No one will find us here.”

Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark

[weirdesplinder]

Fiabe rivisitate in romanzo

La mia lista di romance storici ispirati a fiabe classiche ha colpito la curiosità di alcuni lettori e ho ricevuto una nuova richiesta per un’altra lista di libri, sempre ispirati a favole, ma più contemporanei o almeno non romance storici.

Il problema con questa richiesta non è stato trovare titoli da proporvi, ma non proporvene centomila, poichè invece di restringermi il campo me lo ha allargato....perciò ho dovuto essere io ad auto limitarmi.

Per prima cosa, mi sono focalizzata su titoli disponibili in italiano, poi ho limitato gli young adult, poichè altrimenti rischiava di essere una lista solo di YA visto che moltissimi sono storytelling, perciò non meravigliatevi se vedrete che non cito degli young adult ispirati a favole strafamosi anche in Italia (tipo quello su Alice nel paese delle meraviglie), è stata una mia scelta.

Come una mia scelta è stata anche il fatto di darvi una varietà di generi in questa piccola lista, rosa, romantici, dark, drammatici, rivisitazioni o addiritura capovolgimenti di fiabe....di tutto un po’ per tutti i gusti.

Ecco la lista:

- Gli occhi del cuore, Susan Wilson  (Retelling di La bella e la bestia)

Link: https://amzn.to/39Jupwj

Alix appartiene a una famiglia di pittori incaricata di ritrarre l’aristocratico Crompton, scrittore di successo rimasto sfigurato in un incidente…

- La più bella del reame, Jennifer Faye  (Biancaneve)

Link: https://amzn.to/39K9r0r

C'era una volta un regno in cui vivevano una matrigna cattiva e una splendida fanciulla con la pelle candida come la neve e le labbra rosse come il sangue... Oggi a Los Angeles vive una giovane donna determinata e di successo, mentre nella Grande Mela abita la matrigna che l'ha privata del regno lasciatole dal padre. Sage White ha ricominciato da zero e ha faticato per raggiungere la posizione che ricopre. I sentimenti verso il suo affascinate assistente Trey la rendono vulnerabile, mettendola in allarme. Lavorare fianco a fianco li avvicina sempre di più, fin quando Sage scopre che l'uomo di cui è innamorata in realtà è Quentin Rousseau, settimo erede dell'impero editoriale in cui lavora e suo capo. La strada verso il lieto fine di questa Biancaneve e del suo principe, però, è ancora molto lunga...

- Il giardino delle rose, Jennifer Faye  (La bella e la bestia)

Link: https://amzn.to/35U18Oy

C'era una volta un castello dentro cui abitava la Bestia, e c'era una fanciulla, Bella, che seppe rompere l'incantesimo... Oggi c'è una villa a Malibu, con un giardino di rose di ogni colore, dove vive ritirato Deacon Santoro, il quale porta su di sé le cicatrici di un brutto incidente che ne ha infangato il nome e distrutto la carriera.Quando nella villa arriva Gabrielle Dupré, la vita di Deacon viene sconvolta. La giovane si accorge in fretta che sotto i capelli lunghi, la barba incolta e il carattere rude c'è un uomo ferito ma sensibile, e vuole aiutarlo a riabilitarsi. I sentimenti, però, si fanno sempre più profondi, anche se la Bestia non è ancora pronta a riconoscere l'amore per la sua Bella...

- Cuore Oscuro, Naomi Novik  (La bella e la bestia, Barbablù)

Link: https://amzn.to/2N9Mwny

Agnieszka è una contadina diciassettenne goffa e sgraziata che vive insieme alla famiglia in un piccolo villaggio del regno di Polnya. Su tutti loro incombe la presenza maligna del Bosco, che sta progressivamente divorando l'intera regione. Per mantenere al sicuro se stessi e i loro villaggi dalle minacciose creature del Bosco e dai sortilegi mortali che lì si compiono, tutti gli abitanti della valle si affidano a un misterioso e solitario mago noto con il nome di Drago. Quest'ultimo sembra l'unico, infatti, in grado di controllare con la sua magia il potere imperscrutabile e oscuro del Bosco. In cambio della sua protezione, però, l'uomo pretende un tributo: ogni dieci anni avrà la possibilità di scegliere una ragazza tra le diciassettenni della valle e di portarla con sé nella sua torre. Un destino a detta di tutti terribile quasi quanto finire nelle grinfie del Bosco. Con l'avvicinarsi del giorno della scelta, Agnieszka ha sempre più paura. Come tutti dà infatti per scontato che il Drago non potrà che scegliere Kasia, la più bella e coraggiosa delle “candidate” nonché sua migliore amica. Ma quando il Drago comunica la sua decisione, lo sgomento è generale.

- Cinder. Cronache lunari, Marissa Meyer (Cenerentola)

Link: https://amzn.to/3sEYVA8

Cinder è abituata alle occhiate sprezzanti che la sua matrigna e la gente riservano ai cyborg come lei, e non importa quanto sia brava come meccanico al mercato settimanale di Nuova Pechino o quanto cerchi di adeguarsi alle regole. Proprio per questo lo sguardo attento del Principe Kai, il primo sguardo gentile e senza accuse, la getta nello sconcerto. Può un cyborg innamorarsi di un principe? E se Kai sapesse cosa Cinder è veramente, le dedicherebbe ancora tante attenzioni? Il destino dei due si intreccerà fin troppo presto con i piani della splendida e malvagia Regina della Luna, in una corsa per salvare il mondo dall'orribile epidemia che lo devasta. Cinder, Cenerentola del futuro, sarà combattuta tra il desiderio per una storia impossibile e la necessità di conquistare una vita migliore. Fino a un'inevitabile quanto dolorosa resa dei conti con il proprio oscuro passato.

- L' orso e l'usignolo, Katherine Arden (fiabe russe)

Link: https://amzn.to/2M1a0ef

In uno sperduto villaggio ai confini della tundra russa, l'inverno dura la maggior parte dell'anno e i cumuli di neve crescono più alti delle case. Ma a Vasilisa e ai suoi fratelli Kolja e Alëša tutto questo piace, perché adorano stare riuniti accanto al fuoco ascoltando le fiabe della balia Dunja. Vasja ama soprattutto la storia del re dell'inverno, il demone dagli occhi blu che tutti temono ma che a lei non fa alcuna paura. Vasilisa, infatti, non è una bambina come le altre, può "vedere" e comunicare con gli spiriti della casa e della natura. Il suo, però, è un dono pericoloso che si guarda bene dal rivelare, finché la sua matrigna e un prete da poco giunto nel villaggio, proibendo i culti tradizionali, compromettono gli equilibri dell'intera comunità: le colture non danno più frutti, il freddo si fa insopportabile, le persone vengono attaccate da strane creature e la vita di tutti è in pericolo. Vasilisa è l'unica che può salvare il villaggio dal Male, ma per farlo deve entrare nel mondo degli antichi racconti, inoltrarsi nel bosco e affrontare la più grande minaccia di sempre: l'Orso, lo spaventoso dio che si nutre della paura degli uomini.

- La moglie del califfo,  Renée Ahdieh (Le mille e una notte)

Link: https://amzn.to/3qCwSQf

Al calar del sole sul regno di Khalid, spietato califfo diciottenne del Khorasan, la morte fa visita a una famiglia della zona. Ogni notte, infatti, il giovane tiranno si unisce in matrimonio con una ragazza del luogo e poi la fa uccidere dopo aver consumato le nozze, prima che arrivi il nuovo giorno. Ecco perché tutti restano sorpresi quando la sedicenne Shahrzad si offre volontaria per andare in sposa a Khalid. In realtà, ha un astuto piano per spezzare quest'angosciosa catena di terrore, restando in vita e vendicando la morte della sua migliore amica e di tante altre fanciulle sacrificate ai capricci del califfo. La sua intelligenza e forza di volontà la porteranno a superare la notte, ma pian piano anche lei cadrà in trappola: finirà per innamorarsi proprio di Khalid, che in realtà è molto diverso da come appare ai suoi sudditi. E Shahrzad scoprirà anche che la tragica sorte delle ragazze non è stata voluta dal principe.

- Il trono della luna crescente, di Saladin Ahmed (fiabe di Le mille e una notte)

I Regni della Luna Crescente, territori in cui dimorano santi guerrieri ed eretici, cortigiani e assassini, assoggettati al potere di un feroce Califfo, sono messi a ferro e fuoco da un misterioso furfante che si fa chiamare "il Principe Falco". Mentre la rivolta incalza, una serie di brutali omicidi che sembrano guidati da una forza sovrannaturale colpisce la città di Dhamsawaat. Adoulla Makhslood, l'ultimo dei cacciatori di ghul, creature fatte d'ombra e dalla pelle di sciacallo, vorrebbe ritirarsi, ma capisce che non è ancora il momento giusto. Insieme al suo giovane assistente Raseed, coraggioso e fiero, e all'affascinante Zamia, capace di risvegliare un'arcana magia, si ritroverà coinvolto nella ricerca della verità su queste morti. In poco tempo i tre diventeranno eroi loro malgrado di una battaglia ben più crudele e spaventosa: non solo sulla città, ma sull'intera umanità, incombe la minaccia di una fine sanguinosa che solo loro possono sventare.

- La bambina di neve, Eowyn Ivey (fiabe nordiche)

Alaska, 1920. Un luogo incontaminato e brutale. Specie per Jack e Mabel, giunti in questo territorio selvaggio da lande molto meno aspre. La coppia, un po' avanti negli anni, e senza figli, ha una vita dura, col lavoro atroce alla fattoria. Mabel, in particolare, oppressa dal rammarico di non avere figli, è sull'orlo della disperazione. La prima notte d'inverno Mabel e Jack tornano per un momento ragazzi e, tirandosi palle di neve, finiscono per costruire un pupazzo. Che prende la forma di una incantevole bambina di neve. Ma al mattino non c'è più nulla. E, in lontananza, una bimba bionda corre via tra gli alberi. La piccola, che dice di chiamarsi Pruina, torna più volte da loro. Pare una creatura dei boschi. Va a caccia di animali con a fianco una volpe, del tutto a proprio agio nelle lande innevate, è in grado di sopravvivere nell'asprezza dell'Alaska. Ma quale che sia la vera natura di Pruina, la bimba sembra destinata a cambiare per sempre la vita di Mabel e Jack.

-  Boy, snow, bird di Helen Oyeyemi  (Biancaneve)

È una notte d’inverno del 1953 quando Boy Novak – lunghi capelli biondo ghiaccio e lineamenti delicati – scappa di casa lasciandosi alle spalle il padre violento di professione acchiapparatti. Da New York il caso la porta a Flax Hill, una cittadina del Massachusetts. Qui conosce Arturo Whitman, un gioielliere rimasto vedovo: è antipatia a prima vista e infatti, dopo poco, si sposano. Corollario del matrimonio è il ruolo di madre, prima vicaria e poi naturale. Ma se inizialmente il rapporto con la bellissima ed eterea Snow è magico, nel momento in cui nasce Bird tutto cambia. Arturo e la sua famiglia nascondevano un segreto che la bambina ha svelato e Boy si trasforma, con sua stessa sorpresa, nella crudele matrigna delle fiabe.

- La regina del Nord, Rebecca Ross (fiabe, miti nordici)

Link: https://amzn.to/2LBc7Wj

Regno di Valenia, 1566. Sono passati sette anni dall'arrivo di Brianna nella prestigiosa Magnalia, la scuola per giovani prescelte che ambiscono a perfezionare la propria vocazione ed essere adottate da un patrono. Brianna però è l'unica allieva a non aver mai mostrato doti particolari e, se non fosse stato per l'enigmatico maestro Cartier, non avrebbe trovato la sua vocazione tra Arte, Musica, Teatro, Eloquenza e Sapienza. Ma alla cerimonia finale, il peggior timore della ragazza diventa realtà, e Brianna rimane l'unica senza un patrono. Ancora non sa che dietro allo spiacevole imprevisto si cela la sua più grande fortuna. Lo scoprirà solo quando un misterioso nobile - troppo esperto con la spada per essere un semplice protettore - la sceglierà. Brianna si troverà allora dentro un vortice di intrighi e piani segreti per rovesciare il re e ripristinare sul trono l'antica legittima monarchia, tutta femminile. Perché ci fu un tempo in cui sul Nord regnavano le regine. Ed è ora che quel tempo ritorni.

Non ho resistito dall’aggiungervi anche alcuni titoli in lingua inglese non disponibili in italiano, perchè troppo interessanti:

- To Kill a Kingdom, Alexandra Christo (La sirenetta)

Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever.

- The ice queen, Alice Hoffman (La regina delle nevi)

Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks it into a new beginning. She goes in search of Lazarus Jones, a fellow survivor who was struck dead, then simply got up and walked away. Perhaps this stranger who has seen death face to face can teach her to live without fear. When she finds him, he is her opposite, a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches. As an obsessive love affair begins between them, both are forced to hide their most dangerous secrets—what turned one to ice and the other to fire.

- Gretel and the Dark, Eliza Granville (Hansel and Gretel)

Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer—celebrated psychoanalyst—is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings—to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Krysta’s Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the ‘animal people,’ so little Krysta plays alone, lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel, the Pied Piper, and more. And when everything changes and the world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale, Krysta finds her imagination holds powers beyond what she could have ever guessed. . . .

-The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, Louise Murphy (Hansel and Gretel)

In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed “Hansel” and “Gretel.” They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called “witch” by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children.

- Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth (Raperonzolo) French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens... After Margherita's father steals parsley from the walled garden of the courtesan Selena Leonelli, he is threatened with having both hands cut off, unless he and his wife relinquish their precious little girl. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death. She is at the center of Renaissance life in Venice, a world of beauty and danger, seduction and betrayal, love and superstition. Locked away in a tower, Margherita sings in the hope that someone will hear her. One day, a young man does.

- The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine (Le 12 principesse danzanti

The Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.  Jo, the firstborn, "The General" to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father's townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father, until the day he decides to marry them all off. The girls, meanwhile, continue to dance, from Salon Renaud to the Swan and, finally, the Kingfisher, the club they come to call home. They dance until one night when they are caught in a raid, separated, and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn't seen in almost ten years. Suddenly Jo must weigh in the balance not only the demands of her father and eleven sisters, but those she must make of herself.

- Everywhere You Want to Be, Christina June (Cappuccetto rosso)

Tilly Castillo thought she lost her chance to be a contemporary dancer, but when a summer job in New York City appears, nothing can stop her from saying yes—not her mother, not the other cutthroat dancers, and not even her fears of the big city.

[selena-snape]

Familia Snape

Primera Generación:

¤ Morphin Nikolai Snape y Tallulah Aurelia Snape

Segunda generación:

¤ Ilona Octavia Snape y Viktor Kirtking Snape

¤ Bellona Demetria Snape y Aurelius Amadeus Willowdee

¤ Tanith Marcellina Snape y Albion Casimir Snape

Tercera Generación:

¤ Gabriel Soren Snape y Conan Levi Malfoy

¤ Sonja Cassandra Snape y Lucian Rowland Snape

¤ Selene Belladona Snape y Michael Thomas Corvin

¤ Morgana Drucilda Willowdee y Octavius Mortifer Dollins

¤ Belvina Anastasia Willowdee y Alexander Andreas Kane

¤ Silvanus Alestair Snape y Minerva Dorinda Primrose

¤ Cornelius Devereux Snape y Nocturna Evelyn Nightwood

¤ Almeric Lazarus Snape y Amarah Senka Lonwood

¤ Esperanza Medea Snape y Mereida Azura Blackwood

¤ Theodocia Isidora Snape y Centar Ismaband Blackwood

Cuarta Generación:

¤ Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore y Gellert Amadeus Grindelwald

¤ Aberforth Florian Leighton Soren Dumbledore y Belvina Vega Black

¤ Ariana Odolette Wilhemina Dumbledore y Arcturus II Alioth Black

¤ Tom Marvolo Riddle y Kara Sonia Milford

¤ Valens Basilius Snape y Charles Hunter Levin

¤ Tobias Vincent Snape y Eileen Aiko Prince

¤ Pamela Demetria Malfoy y Elias Paul Voorhees

¤ Abraxas Ariel Malfoy y Renatha Edith Oswald

¤ Evageline Ethel Malfoy y Lazarus Granville Sparda

¤ Bianca Brooke Di Angelo y Thalia Eliza Grace

¤ Nico Ethan Di Angelo y Perseus Lorcan Jackson

¤ Theodore Lev Snape y Marcus Casimir Corvinus

¤ Ethan Joseph Snape y David Monsse Conberg

¤ Eve Ilaria Corvin y Logan Brad Fowler

¤ Raymond Vincent Dollins y Juliette Umbra Walker

¤ Sebastian Andrew Dollins y Adrianna Asura Walker

¤ Micah Vladimir Dollins y Raven Tenebra Walker

¤ Benjamin Caleb Kane y Aaron Leonard Luthor

¤ Natalie Eileen Snape y Bastian Abraxas Prince

¤ Octavian Demetrius Snape y Abigail Aura Cooper

¤ Percival Valentine Snape y Willow Delilah Lake

¤ Archibald August Snape y Phineas Atticus Moose

¤ Piper Delilah Snape y Alvin Nicholas Dream

¤ Flora Alyssandra Snape y Louis William Afton

¤ Colette Silver Snape y Kenneth Horace Orville

¤ Nikolaus Rafferty Snape y Nika Dominika Winston

¤ Evageline Danica Blackwood y Claude Tobias Harley

¤ Gabrielle Victoria Blackwood y Gideon Silas Murphy

¤ Belladona Tabitha Blackwood y Quentin Ulysses Orson

¤ Nimue Andromeda Blackwood y Balthasar Ignatius Fitzhugh

¤ Valtor Phoenix Blackwood y Ninette Madeline Sutton

¤ Dimitry Avalon Blackwood y Thalassa Estelle Rex

Quinta Generación:

¤ Credence Aurelius Dumbledore y Lycoris Lyra Black

¤ Modesty Orianna Dumbledore y Michelle Caroline Miller

¤ Valentine Desmond Dumbledore y Leroy Samuel Cooley

¤ Octavius Theodore Dumbledore y Minerva Ursula Parker

¤ Cassandra Eliza Dumbledore y Zivar Pollux Galanford

¤ Callidora Eridanis Black y Harfang Ernest Longbottom

¤ Cedrella Oriana Black y Septimus Ronald Weasley

¤ Charis Scorpia Black y Caspar Dorian Crouch

¤ Trish Clarice Riddle y "Lady" Mary Ann Arkham

¤ Vanessa Octavia Riddle y Tom Spencer Peters

¤ Delphinie Savannah Riddle y Serena Angelette Denford

¤ Dominika Hazel Levin y Thomas Downey Richardson

¤ Vincent Alexander Levin y Daphne Rosie Campbell

¤ Niven Finnian Levin y River Aura Stone

¤ Malorie Estella Levin y Ivan Adonis Novak

¤ Severus Tobias Snape y Ulaz Devereux Snape

¤ Ryou Nathan Snape y Krolia Serenity Kogane

¤ Jason Ezra Voorhees y Michael Gideon Myers

¤ Diana Madeline Voorhees y Mason Samuel Kimble

¤ Lucius Abraxas Malfoy y Narcissa Meissa Black

¤ William Joseph Dixon y Cassandra Allegra Lewis

¤ Vergil Amon Sparda y Faith Mackenzie Myron

¤ Dante Alastor Sparda y Hope Catherine Myron

¤ Victor Jethro Grace y Ryan Christopher Everett

¤ Aurelia Peregrine Grace y Sebastian Artemis Jensen

¤ Ian Mason Jackson y Bellona Damara Huxley

¤ Ada Demetria Jackson y Azura Jasmine Brooks

¤ Kitty Xanthe Jackson y Charlotte Marcellina Donovan

¤ Sansa Calypso Corvinus y Thomas Nicholas Parkinson

¤ September Lev Corvinus y Tanith Amara Walker

¤ Flora Pandora Snape y Xenophilius Leland Lovewood

¤ Thora Margot Fowler y Marc Anthony Marcelly

¤ Lyra Beatrix Fowler y Lorenzo Finnian Donnelly

¤ Morgan Ariella Fowler y Nolan Cassander Delaney

¤ Ruby Hilda Dollins y Miles Oliver Corwin

¤ Luna Stephanie Dollins y Theon August Dresden

¤ Noah Jonah Dollins y Helena Roxane Ansel

¤ Stanford Nathaniel Dollins y Nita Evelyn Paxton

¤ Mortimer Morphin Dollins y Martin Jonathan Flint

¤ Elizabeth Tallulah Dollins y Valens Vatlos Braken

¤ Janeth Mirella Dollins y Stefano Nova Fox

¤ Arya Eloise Kane y Constatine Nikolai Hudson

¤ Angelette Lucille Kane y Yuri Vladimir Ivanovich

¤ Azrael Finnian Kane y Luciana Angela Ortiz

¤ Niven Ezra Kane y Mikhaila Juniper Orion

¤ Carlisle Damien Kane y Serena Laurel Ranger

¤ Basilius Sebastian Prince y Ida Scarlett Lennox

¤ Felix Robert Prince y Jane Ophelia Miller

¤ Jasper Wyatt Prince y Marlene Elora Lawson

¤ Edward Henry Prince y Selene Stella Harper

¤ Adrien Scott Snape y Calliope Ivory Bronx

¤ Raphael Patrick Snape y Mirah Colette Cain

¤ Richard Lawrence Snape y Galilea Lyra Dexter

¤ Francine Eliza Snape y Michael Francis Oakley

¤ Connie Violet Snape y Tallulah Vera Lake

¤ Melissa Barbara Snape y Eugene Jordan Morrinson

¤ Morticia Moira Snape y Kiyoko Asahina

¤ Morterius Mortimer Snape y Reina Matsumoto

¤ Jeremy Vincent Dream y Sabrina Addison Riley

¤ Nathan Samuel Dream y Piper Aurora Harrow

¤ Bruce Steven Dream y Nicolette Grace Tyson

¤ Adeliza Morigan Afton y Emmett Blake Cartet

¤ Daemon October Afton y Darrel Cael Ossory

¤ Violetta Ursuline Afton y Jeffrey Hunter Jefferson

¤ Minerva Rowena Afton y Leonard Robert Leighton

¤ Doria Judith Orville y Dominic Alexander Edevane

¤ Ryan Joshua Orville y Alice Isidora Jones

¤ Agatha Rachel Orville y Jeremiah Andrew Evans

¤ Carlotta Katherine Snape y Owen Stephen O'Kelly

¤ Ethan Elijah Harley y Larissa Daphne Davis

¤ Giovanni Mortimer Harley y Ariel Danica O'Ryan

¤ Vincent Oliver Harley y Amelie Luna Roberts

¤ Bastian Lynx Murphy y Arya Ruby Forrest

¤ Theodore Niven Murphy y Ursa Aries Black

¤ Dominika Valda Murphy y Arthur Russel Glenwood

¤ Callista Eliza Orson y Callista Addison McCoy

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¤ Victoria Hilda Orson y Sabine Belladona Volkov

¤ Margot Elizabeth Orson y Pietro Leroy Carrington

¤ Riven Alexander Blackwood y Petra Victoria Hayden

¤ River Stella Blackwood y Jasper August Moore

¤ Chloe Henrietta Blackwood y Griffin Cyrus Lexington

¤ Vanessa Tabitha Blackwood y Miles Herman Goodwin

¤ Ivan Septimus Blackwood y Rosie Olive Brown

¤ Amadeus Artemas Blackwood y Hariett Emily de Loughrey

Sexta Generación:

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle y Julian Cameron Gray

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters y Sky Aurelius

¤ Hazel Opal Peters y Magnus Roman Watson

¤ Theodore August Peters y Meredith Mavis Monroe

¤ Cora Stephanie Riddle y

¤ Arabella Diane Riddle y

¤ Francis Ezra Riddle y

¤ Aaron Christopher Riddle y Verena Michelle Dyer

¤ Joshua Stephen Riddle y Esther Amalia Holt

¤ Charles Samuel Riddle y Ruby Stephanie Saffron

¤ Iris Aurelia Riddle y Marshal Everett Conrad

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardson y Henry Oliver Brookes

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson y Flynn Milo Wolf

¤ Willow Cosima Levin y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford

¤ Fern Violet Levin y Marie Honoria Ollivander

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin y Jhon Florean Palmer

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin y Elladora Eloise Gibson

¤ Salazar Lucius Levin y Holly Avalon Barnes

¤ Eleanor Hope Levin y Savannah Genevieve Shaw

¤ Gracie Isadora Novak y Marvin Declan Sullivan

¤ Alec Aurelian Novak y Claire Piper Johan

¤ Mason Ezekiel Novak y Clementine Octavia Albion

1)¤ Lotor Comet Snape y Raphael Percival Rosier

2)¤ "Moon Demon" Darius Angelo Snape y "Dark Angel " Arianne Alysson Snape

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¤ Morterius Viktor Snape y Hisirdoux Artemas Casperan

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5)¤ Kevin Ethan Snape y Gwendolyn Stephanie Tennyson

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8)¤ Regulus Orion Snape y Abel Austin Khemse

9)¤ Cygnus Arcturus Snape y Frederic Alistair Weasley

10)¤ Elle Rigel Snape y Matsuda Touta

11)¤ Beyond Aurelian Snape y Mikami Teru

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15)¤ Alexander Valens Snape y Magnus Sebastian King

16)¤ Lysander Nikolaus Snape y Vladimir Micah Masters

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¤ Merle Ariel Dixon y "Jesus" Paul Finnegan Rovia

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¤ Ophelia Nozomi Jensen y Cordelia Avery Bkwie

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¤ Nova Genesis Jackson y Allison Leah Reid

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¤ Arianne Odette Donovan y Terrence Gideon Graves

¤ Kendra Alessandra Donovan y Alexis Scarlett Bishop

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¤ Pansy Genevieve Parkinson y Theodore Phineas Nott

¤ Ursa Alexa Corvinus Y Narcissa Hazel Ripley

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¤ Ronan Artemis Marcelly y Adam Timothy Reed

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¤ Mika Valentina Donnelly y Arthur Ethan Bowers

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¤ Natasha Penelope Dresden y Donna Mary Berkshire

¤ Emily Alisha Ansel y Nana Eliza Martin

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¤ Chase Akira Braken y Felix Lucius Quinn

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¤ Amelia Robin Prince y Nicolo Dorian Guthrie

¤ Alastor Robert Prince y Dinah Pandora Pearson

¤ Gavin Marshall Prince y Megara Eloise Lang

¤ Sean Colin Prince y Rebecca Odette Douglas

¤ Renee Tara Prince y Miles Edgar Lambert

¤ Eric Lance Snapey y Millicent Corinne Curtis

¤ Marlon Levi Snape y Lily Alyssa Yancer

¤ Luther Garth Snape y Judith Naomi Tailyour

¤ Hannah Ebony Snape y Lincoln Nathan Penfold

¤ Marie Clarice Snape y Leslie Regan Eastwood

¤ Jade Tiffany Snape y Leah Eliana Rees

¤ Grant Devin Snape y Geraldine Annalie Harfield

¤ Dean Leighton Snape y Fiona Charity Wheeler

¤ Mason Riley Oakley y Cartie April Willis

¤ Morgan Harley Oakley y Ian Paul Wenman

¤ Robert Damian Lake y Marion Corinne Turner

¤ Roy Ethan Morrinson y Griffin Rhett Essex

¤ Joy Ebony Morrinson y Kilian Lee Rowell

¤ Holden Ethan Snape y Eleanor Nadia Heron

¤ Corey Silas Snape y Jane Lydia Orchard

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¤ Tate Julian Snape y James Ronan Poole

¤ Soren Jaspn Snape y Carmen Marianna Rojas

¤ Edgar Samuel Snape y Ingrid Ianthe Lauder

¤ Castiel Gabriel Dream y Cecilia Ember Bonavich

¤ Callum Paul Dream y Avalon Ginevra Carmichael

¤ Cedric Ernest Dream y Bathilda Sibyll Irvine

¤ Garett Elia Dream y Padma Orla Astor

¤ Austin Jordan Dream y Magenta Pomona Hearst

¤ Daryl Silvanus Dream y Nuru Sura Van Doren

¤ Calliope Scarlett Dream y Gemma Pomona Windsor

¤ Cordelia Maribelle Carter y Ivar Rainn Kline

¤ Howart Steven Carter y Sylvia Peyton Bechtel

¤ Lysander Casimir Carter y Enid Jivanta Galumba

¤ Pierre Milford Afton y Kylie Olivia McKeehan

¤ Rupert Stanley Afton y Andrea Jocelyn Varner

¤ Warren Philip Jefferson y Michelle Sabine Castle

¤ Ellie Audrey Jefferson y Shireen Monroe Marks

¤ Giselle Corina Leighton y Mia Velvet Bushnell

¤ Odette Marina Leighton y Nicoletta Verona Goldstein

¤ Larissa Dirina Leighton y Winry Carmina Montgomery

¤ Magnus Cassidy Edevane y Harry Leroy Baker

¤ Stella Andromeda Orville y Harold Russell Mcquiston

¤ Lucille Arabella Orville y Jace Colton Rutledge

¤ Lee Amos Evans y Zoey Makayla Camfield

¤ Cadmus Orion Evans y Trudy Nayala Lovell

¤ Florean Newton Evans y Xenia Sybil Herron

¤ Ivory Ooal Evans y Edmund Wilfred Frankham

¤ Luisa Veronica O'Kelly y Connor Evan Carson.

¤ Finn Andrew Harley y Portia Marilyn Curtis

¤ Abel Nolan Harley y Bonnie Thea Proudley

¤ Louis Xander Harley y Petunia Jamie Deakins

¤ Claire Norah Harley y Lance Chandler Western

¤ Camille Loena Harley y Myrtle Denise Golby

¤ Cora Adelaide Harley y Selma Kelsey Hicks

¤ Juliette Theodora Harley y Daisy China Kempster

¤ Cyrus Maximua Harley y Meredith Shannon Crocker

¤ Horatio Gideon Harley y Heidi Antoinette Deacon

¤ Dorothea Euphemia Harley y Terence Xavier Croucher

¤ Violetta Leopoldine Murphy y Franklin Leonidas Burton

¤ Nova Orion Murphy y Faustina Spencer Odam

¤ Comet Sky Murphy y Yvonne Wilhemina Hibberd

¤ Phoenix Bianca Murphy y Rosalie Simone Stratton

¤ Celestine Xiomara Glenwood y Rylan Waylon Mills

¤ Isla Cosima Glenwood y Neil Rowan Lee

¤ Jacqueline Glennda McCoy y Jarome Staley Orline

¤ Ann Marie McCoy y Ridley Everett Anderson

¤ Apoline Elian McCoy y Simom Edward Thompson

¤ Aubrey Lynn Orson y Braxton Hunter Young

¤ Amelia Faith Orson y Ryland Linden Allen

¤ Lucy Ella Volkov Jacob Jhon Wright

¤ Freya Leah Volkov y Rome Canyon Adams

¤ Martin Lane Volkov y Brianna Mirella Collins

¤ Monet Valentina Volkov y Callahan Anselm Morris

¤ Robinia Venus Carrington y Aragon Glorianne Watson

¤ Damon Micah Carrington y Selie Nia Rise

¤ Calla Seraphina Balckwood y Ariel Calyx Reid

¤ Adriana Norah Blackwood y Windsor Athen Foster

¤ Trevor Narcissus Blackwood y Larry Eugene Fraser

¤ Heather Kalina Moore y Lucilius Nicholas McIntosh

¤ Bernadette Alexa Moore y Ares Gabriel McLean

¤ Althea Ruby Lexington y Trinity Elizabeth Bland

¤ Camellia Iris Lexington y Damian Anthony Boswell

¤ Taylor Sidney Lexington y Fabian Dominic Bartlett

¤ Elena Vittoria Lexington y Athena Aubree Birch

¤ Oris Edward Goodwin y Ryleigh Nadia Chapman

¤ Archer Emrys Goodwin y Paisley Autumm Pannell

¤ Raphaela Esperalda Goodwin y Ryder Quentin Hamilton

¤ Ike Neron Goodwin y Bailey Stephanie Adams

¤ Lilianna Persephone Blackwood y Jared Fabian Crawford

¤ Albert Christopher Blackwood y Gemma Alyna Gibson

¤ Alfred Stella Blackwood y Nicholas Julian Munro

¤ Rose Mary Blackwood y Sebastian robert Walker

¤ Bernard Alden Blackwood y Katherine Calliope McGregor

¤ Benjen Isaiah Blackwood y Seraphina Harper Docherty

¤ Lewis Beckett Blackwood y Samirah Luna Ross

¤ Vlaire Harley Blackwood y Aurora Isabelle Gordon

Septima Generación

¤ Abigail Elizabeth Gray y Angel Nicholas Romero

¤ Jareth Jefferson Gray y Nimue Manon Valerian

¤ Lucille Hazel Gray y Helena Danica Valerian

¤ Wendy Elora Gray y Diana Amelie Valerian

¤ Jamie Arlan Peters

¤ Star Demetria Peters y Beck

¤ Blue Danae Peters

¤ Caroline Victoria Watson y Elijah Phineas Butler

¤ Sophie Marianna Watson y Seth Dorian Deacon

¤ Garth Theodore Watson y Rosalie Tabitha Willett

¤ Evangeline Tallulah Peters y Malody Colette Ray

¤ Angelo William Peters y Luciana Angelica Rodriguez

¤ Arthur Elijah Riddle y Gwendolyn Stella Huntington

¤ Hank Bernard Riddle y Ralph Franklin Grimaldi

¤ Olive Ocravia Riddle y Mabel Charlotte Clemonte

¤ Ocean Lavender Riddle y Terra Olive Grigg

¤ Terry Wilder Riddle y Violetta Harper Quantum

¤ Alan August Riddle y Barbara Amelie Warner

¤ Ronald Victor Riddle y Micah Cassius Ferrell

¤ Nancy Cosima Riddle y Desmond Julian Norton

¤ Mary Juniper Riddle y Felicity Ottilia Ansol

¤ Cheryl Marina Riddle y Raphale Simon Loomis

¤ Timothy Riven Riddle y Loretta Elise Hopkins

¤ Linda Euphemia Riddle y Edwin Max Oakland

¤ Lucius Ethani Riddle y Daniel Miles Stevens

¤ Malia Portia Weston y Gavin Dylan Wells

¤ Claire Georgina Weston y Bob Stanley Cooper

¤ Julian Alden Weston y Vivienne Rodinka Mustow

¤ Cameron Thaddeus Weston y Percy Monroe Parker

¤ Camille Opal Weston y Leora Winter Joles

¤ Savannah Honoria Weston y Othello Scarlett Pike

¤ Annalie Electra Everleigh y Millicent Rhonda Weir

¤ Seth Edgar Everleigh y Matilda Rosalie Weir

¤ Hermione Isadora Brooks y Marlon Carlton Tenne

¤ Herman Ignatius Brooks y Julius Oliver Cooley

¤ Judith Lavinia Brooks y Hugo Gilbert Jones

¤ Jedidiah Jasper Wolf y Ezra Thomas Miller

¤ Isidor Hadrian Wolf y Gretcher Genevieve Douglas

¤ Ingrid Avery Wolf y Parker Logan McKay

¤ Melanie Ariana Wolf y Matthew Roman Burns

¤ Grace Mackenzie Wolf y Ophelia Lyra Bell

¤ Demetrius Niccolo Levin y Mackenzie Meissa Giles

¤ Castiel Timothy Levin y Roxanne Ivory Sherwood

¤ Giovanni Balthazar Levin y Henrietta Marine Pinford

¤ Felicity Alexa Levin y Claude Victor Isaacs

¤ Serenity Adeline Levin y Gilbert Leonard Pierce

¤ Nellie Elizabeth Ollivander y Grover Zachary Janos

¤ Valerie Lenna Ollivander y Theodore Dustin Rose

¤ Gael Francis Ollivander y Martha Emily Newland

¤ Ella Louisa Palmer y Arthur Jared Sbeen

¤ Philomena Emersyn Gibson y Julian Milo Holland

¤ Michelle Natalie Gibson y Henry Joshua Sandler

¤ Draco Artemas Levin

¤ Evan Alastor Levin

¤ Regulus Leland Shaw

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¤ Sarah Makhaila Sullivan

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¤ James Luka Sullivan

¤ Katie Violetta Novak

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¤ Rolanda Severina Novak

¤ Lee Thomas Novak

¤ Morterius Aries Lestrange

¤ Morticia Ursa Lestrange

¤ Honerva Piper Lestrange

¤ Allura Rhaella Lestrange

¤ Severus Vincent Lestrange

¤ "Mad Thrill"

¤ "Infernal Void"

¤ "Mercenary Shadow"

¤ "Assassin Silver"

¤ "Defiant Spear"

¤ Valtor Christopher Volturi y Ogron Demetrius Kymer

¤ Dimitry Raphael Vanderwood y Jihyun Kim

¤ Aizawa Otsutsuki y Enji Todoroki

¤ Rhaegar Targaryen y Elia Martell

¤ Leslie Aaron Volturi y Ruben Kenneth Victoriano

¤ Evan Nova Casperan y Leigh Taylor Ainsworth

¤ Firkle Jonah McNamara y Ike Harley Broflovski

¤ Brick JoJo y Momoko Atsutsumo

¤ Boomer JoJo y Miyako Gōtokuji

¤ Butch Jojo y Kaoru Matsubara

¤ Levi Alexander Ackerman y Erwin Joseph Smith

¤ Avalon Jason Snape y Josie Terra Marion

¤ Saeyoung Choi y Jumin Han

¤ Saeran Choi y Yoosung Kim

¤ Castiel Vincent Sparda y Nathaniel Jacott

¤ Shaena Targaryen y Benjen Stark

¤ Richard Jhon Grayson

¤ Pitch Kendall Casperan y Jackson Ice Frost

¤ Armin Ariel Casperan y Lysandro Ainsworth

¤ Alexy Matthew Kogane y Kentin O'Connor

¤ Daeron Targaryen y Urrigon Greyjoy

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¤ Gaella Targaryen

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¤ Aegon Targaryen y Lynesse Hightower

¤ Timothy Jackson Drake y Lucien Draven Bloodmarch

¤ Alesandro Darius Volturi y Marcus Donovan Volturi

¤ Jaehaerys Targaryen y Obara Sand

¤ Viserys Targaryen y Aurane Velaryon

¤ Damian Wayne y Jonathan Kent

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¤ Rhaemyra Targaryen y Mya Stone

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¤ Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy y Albus Severus Potter

¤ Devlin Nikolai Snape

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¤ Levi Damien Khemse

¤ Leonora Arabella Khemse

¤ Micah Oliver Khemse

¤ Lavi Dawn Weasley

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¤ Desmond Perseus Weasley

¤ Narcissa Daphne Weasley

¤ George II Norman Weasley

¤ Mikhaila Larissa Weasley

¤ Mihael "Mello" Keehl

¤ Nate "Near" Rivers

¤ Mail "Matt" Jeevas

Octava Generación

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1828 Weds. 27 August

6 10/60 11 5/60 Cut my toenails little or no moting - went out at 8 - walked to the Crownest gates and back - in returning called for 6 or 7 minutes at Hannah Green’s, to see her - came in at 9 20/60 - wrote very nearly 3 pp. to Mrs. D- [Duffin], to enclose the small gold chains (3 ft. 7in. long exclusive of the clasp) that was Eliza’s watch chain - promised, when last in York, to send it, to put to the watch again, which Mrs. D- [Duffin], since the death of Lady Crawfurd, has had, and worn, and which she said (when I was in York in the spring) it was her intention to leave to me, as I had the best right to it - enclosed also 1.14.6 being 21/- for a pair of boots to be ordered at Hornby’s - 12/4 1/2 for a  Dunstable straw bonnet to be ordered, and 1/- for the box for them to come in - ask Mrs. D- [Duffin] to send me a leaf or 2 out of the spinning school book so as to shew the plan of conducting the business - and for any information respecting schools such as to forward Miss Isabella Maclean’s plans, should be much obliged - found, Mr. John Tweedy, having got the department of stamps for our division, is coming to live at H-x [Halifax] - whom did he marry - was it not a milliner’s apprentice? Think somebody told me so - what news of the N- [Norcliffe]s - oppressively hot - the atmosphere so heavy - ‘In spite of local attachments, one cannot deny that there are peoples who have better climate then we’ - excellent accounts of my aunt - enclosed the money and chain - packed up my letter to ‘Mrs. Duffin Micklegate York’ with a brace of very fine moorgame (in a box) sent by Mr. Parker just killed on Monday, and sent them off by John about 11 1/2 for the mail and then breakfast and came upstairs at 12 1/2

While walking this morning met Charles Howarth senior, and ordered small thermometer - about 10, letter from my aunt (Paris) and from Mrs. B- [Barlow] Mrs. Thistlethwaites ‘Lyndhurst Friday 22 August 1828’ - my aunt says of herself ‘I am well, except my limbs, which have been rather worse of late’ - cannot have Dr. T- [Tupper]’s apartment - Ms. D- [?] better but had not quite got up her strength after ‘sore throat attended with a good deal of fever’ - received the £20 last thursday the 21st ‘exchange very low, I only got 3 francs’ anxious to hear how all is going on here

Mrs. B- [Barlow] says ‘Dr. Granville’s prescriptions have agreed wonderfully well, and in time he has led me to expect that I should be quite restored to health - the irritation of nerves, which brings low fever and bilious fever and jaundice must be kept under if possible - I am certainly much more composed than I have been, and I hope I shall be able to retain this comfortable feeling, and conquer the weakness entirely’ - they seem to have had ‘continual wet weather’ till within the last few days, of which she observed (at the end) ‘the weather is so fine, that it reminds me of days never to return, those spent in dear Italy’ - she little thinks I am meditating going next spring but it seems It seems Mrs. Sophia Barlow is to go to them in Paris next spring - may have a bed at her house college street Winchester any time - the cottage at Lyndhurst too small - Miss Caroline Gauntlet to become Mrs. Shutes on the 30th instant - could never be reconciled to settle in London - the atmosphere too smoky - Jane thought Salisbury Cathedral spire nothing to that at Strasburgh - has been at the Salisbury festival with the Hetleys (Mrs. H- [Hetley] was a Miss Thistlethwaite) of Bulbridge house, Wilton, and the Southwick Thistlethwaites were of the party - asks by what route I should like to return to France - the voyage by Havre might be too long for her - we shall be too late to excursionize much

Wrote the above of today which took me till 1 3/4 - stayed talking some time to Marian after breakfast about my buying the Hampstead property - immaterial to me, so long as it would pay me the interest of the money - no encouragement to come to particulars, so here the matter dropped - thought my father would not like to sell it to me knowing I had the money to borrow - said I was always so unlucky at understanding him, should then say nothing about it - if he could find another purchaser, it was well - thought in my own mind, I might go as far as £400 - but then 1 1/2 year’s rent for fine would be £42, and the expense of purchase-deeds would be £20 or £30? or less? - Mrs. B- [Barlow] says ‘the comtesse de Mollandé …. is going  to be married to the duke de Luxemburg’

.....

From 2 50/60 to 5 50/60 wrote and read over 3 pp. and the ends, and under the seal very small and close to my aunt - telling her all the news (a great deal) I could pick up, and all about giving up building at the Cunnery and how on my father’s account - do not understand - cannot yet make out whether he is really for or against my planting more and therefore cannot determine as yet what to do - the building at Lower brea to be done - none to be done at the Stagg’s head Inn - the paying for the Northgate land the main hinge on which rests my getting off from here - Know not how it will be but hope to be back in Paris before the expiration of October - say, I think, we ought to have another woman servant whether Miss McL- [MacLean] returns with me or not - mention John’s daughter Martha, and Jessy Maclean from Coll - ‘I almost think Martha would do’ …. the sooner my aunt gives her opinion on this, the better - the Hampstead property to be advertised for sale by private contract - valued at £700 would take £600 - mention to Marian I should have no objections to buy it if it would pay the interest of the money - ought to pay nothing for the little garret M. Sèué is to let us have in addition - another servants room always promised, if and when we kept another servant - wheat above the plantation - oats in the Hanging hey - Charles Howarth junior began mowing today - (he was almost frightened with it, so green - but corn should be cut a week or 10 days before ripe)

Wrote the last 14 lines, and dinner at 6 1/4 - sent off my letter to my aunt ‘place neuve de la madeleine, No. 2, Paris,’ by Cordingley at 6 1/2 - went out at 7 20/60 - into harvest field - thinnish field of wheat above the Hanging hey - sauntered about - came in at 8 - sat talking - came to my room at 10 5/60 - Fahrenheit 70 1/2º in the library at 9 1/4 p.m. - very fine day - very hot - damp, heavy, oppressive heat -

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Foreboding Fables

#BOOKREVIEW - Foreboding Fables - #GretelAndTheDark #blog

Stories have a way of distracting us from the realities of life, often the harshest ones. Weaving together two tales in Gretel and the Dark Eliza Granville demonstrates the power that stories wield.

When a young woman is found in an unfavorable location and in unfortunate circumstances in Vienna in 1899, a respected psychoanalyst, Josef Breuer, takes her into his home. Amid her odd behavior,…

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" Yes, life is hard,” whispers Erika, “but knowing about other people, other civilisations, other ways of living, other places – that’s your escape route, a magical journey. Once you know about these things, no matter what happens, your mind can create stories to take you anywhere you want to go. " - Gretel and the Dark, Eliza Granville

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FIRST CHAPTER CHALLENGE!

This week I picked adult fiction and romance, along with a middle grade. I’m finding now that I’ve narrowed down my ARCs so much, I’m starting to pick more adult books. I’m both wary and intrigued by this possibility, because I have a weird sense of what I want to interest me and what actually interests me. Well, let’s see how the weeks ahead play out!

A gentle reminder: Just because I’ve unhauled the books in this post and in future posts, it doesn’t mean that they’re books not worth reading. They’re just not right for me. This is more of an incentive for me to free up space and give these books better homes than my basement.

Also, there might be some spoilers. If you’re interested in reading these books, tread with care.

Read my original post and how I’m going about this challenge here.

Have any of you practiced this challenge this past week?

My Lady’s Choosing by Kitty Curran & Larissa Zageris 

Decision: Unhauled

While the concept of this book is interesting and fun, I started reading the first page and just immediately knew it wasn’t for me. I’m very very picky with my historical fiction, especially historical romance. I wish I could have found this more interesting, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea. Also, I personally find it sort of odd to have a Choose Your Own Adventure for a romance book...

Synopsis: 

“You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of ninteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the bantering baronet Sir Benedict Granville? Or turn the page to true love with the hardworking, horse-loving highlander Captain Angus McTaggart? Or perhaps race through the chapters chasing a good (and arousing) man gone mad, bad, and scandalous to know, Lord Garraway Craven? Or read on recklessly and take to the Continent as the “traveling companion” of the spirited and adventuresome Lady Evangeline? Or yet some other intriguing fate?”

The Losers Club by Andrew Clements 

Decision: Adding to my TBR for April

I’ve been wanting to read this adorable book since I first received it. The first chapter showed me that this is all about the love of reading and I’m hooked. This will help anyone remember what it was like to get caught reading in school when you weren’t supposed to. 

Synopsis: 

“Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law--pay attention in class, or else--Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn't a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec's club--including his ex-friend turned bully and the girl Alec is maybe starting to like--Alec notices something. Real life might be messier than his favorite books, but it's just as interesting.”

Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson 

Decision: Unhauled

I remember picking this up because I was sort of intrigued by the dark synopsis. But then when I picked it from my jar, I realized that while in theory it looks like it could be promising, the idea of actually reading it wasn’t as appealing. Also, the synopsis is very troubling and while maybe the small size of this book might be a draw, the content feels like it would be insanely heavy. 

Synopsis: 

“It is 1950, and nine-year-old Willa's sheltered childhood is about to come to an end when her two new stepbrothers arrive at her family's summer home in British Columbia. As Willa's older sister pairs off with the older of these boys, Willa finds herself alone in the off-kilter company of the younger, Patrick. When, one afternoon, Patrick lures Willa into a dilapidated rowboat, Willa embarks upon an increasingly damaging relationship with Patrick, one that will forever reconfigure her understanding of herself and her place in a menacing, male-dominated world.

Demi-Gods traces the tumultuous years of Willa's coming-of-age, as she is drawn further into Patrick's wicked games. Though they see each other only a handful of times, each of their encounters is increasingly charged with sexuality and degradation. When Willa finally realizes the danger of her relationship with Patrick, she desperately tries to reverse their dynamic, with devastating results.”

Have you read any of these three books? What were your experiences with them?

I’ll be back next week with another three picks!

Happy reading!

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Familia Snape

Primera Generación

¤ Morphin Nikolai Lazarus (1347-????) y Tallulah Aurelia Snape (1351-????)

Segunda Generación

¤ Gabriel Soren Snape (1389-????) y Conan Levi Malfoy (1834-???)

Tercera Generación

¤ Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (1881-???) y Gellert Amadeus Grindelwald (1883-????)

¤ Aberforth Florian Leighton Soren Dumbledore (1883-????) y Belvina Black (1886-????)

¤ Ariana Odolette Wilhemina Dumbledore (1885-????) y Arcturus Black (1884-????)

¤ Tom Marvolo Riddle (1926-????) y Marcus Eli Mulciber (1926-???)

¤ Valens Basilius Snape (1928-????) y Charles Conan Levin (1924-????)

¤ Tobias Vincent Snape (824-????) y Eileen Aiko Snape (1938-????)

¤ Pamela Demetria Malfoy (1931-????) y Elias Paul Voorhees (1928-????)

¤ Abraxas Ariel Malfoy (1936-????) y Persephone Avery (1935-???)

¤ Evangeline Ethel Malfoy (1938-????) y Lazarus Granville Sparda (????-????)

Cuarta Generación

¤ Crendence Aurelius Grindelwald (1901-????) y Lycoris Hesper Black (1904-????)

¤ Modesty Orianna Grindelwald (1918-????) y Michael Monroe Miller (1916-????)

¤ Valentine Desmond Dumbledore (1904-????) y Leroy Samuel Cooley (1906-????)

¤ Octavius Theodore Dumbledore ( 1908-????) y Minerva Ursula Parker (1905-????)

¤ Cassandra Eliza Dumbledore (1914-????) y Zivar Pollux Gallanford (1910-????)

¤ Callidora Eridanis Black (1915) y Harfang Ernest Longbottom (1913-????)

¤ Cedrella Oriana Black(1917-????) y Septimus Ronald Weasley (1915-????)

¤ Charis Scorpia Black (1919-????) y Caspar Dorian Crouch (1916-????)

¤ Trish Clarice Riddle (1954-????) y "Lady" Mary Ann Arkham (1958-????)

¤ Vanessa Octavia Riddle (1959-????) y Mike Spencer Peters (1952-????)

¤ Delphinie Savannah Riddle (1983-????) y Serena Angelette Denford (1981-????)

¤ Dominika Hazel Levin (1946-????) y Thomas Downey Richardson (1944-????)

¤ Vincent Alexander Levin (1951-????) y Daphne Rosie Campbell (1953-????)

¤ Niven Finnian Levin (1955-????) y River Aura Stone (1953-????)

¤ Devin Ivan Levin (1959-????) y Malorie Estella Van Kleiss (1962-????)

¤ Severus Tobias Snape (1960-????) y Ulaz Devereux Snape (1958-????)

¤ Ryou Nathan Snape (1971- ???) y Krolia Diane Kogane

¤ Jason Ezra Voorhees (1953-???) y Michael Gideon Myers (1957-????)

¤ Diana Madeline Voorhees (1961-????) y Mason Samuel Kimble (1960-????)

¤ Aphrodite Medea Malfoy (1952-????) y Ethan Marcus Nott (1950-????)

¤ Lucius Abraxas Malfoy (1954-????) y Narcissa Meissa Black (1955-????)

¤ Icarus Theodore Malfoy (1956-????) y Cassius Hastings (1957-????)

¤ Orpheus Lev Malfoy (1959-????) y Elsie Cobris (1959-????)

¤ William Joseph Dixon (1960-????) y Cassandra Janeth Lewis (1963-????)

¤ Kore Allegra Malfoy (1961-????) y Regulus Arcturus Black (1961-????)

¤ Pandora Luna Malfoy (1963-????) y Xenophilius Leland Lovegood (1961-????)

¤ Vergil Amos Sparda (1956-????) y Faith Mackenzie Myron (1959-????)

¤ Dante Alastor Sparda (1956-????) y Hope Melissa Myron (1959-????)

Quinta Generación

¤ Bastian Lynx Grindelwald (1924-????) y Riven Alexander Blackwood (1942-????)

¤ Theodore Niven Grindelwald (1929-????) y Amelie Luna Roberts (1931-????)

¤ Piper Delilah Grindelwald (1934-????) y Alvin Nicholas Dream (1932-????)

¤ Madeline Senka Miller (1933-????) y April Clarissa Wilson (1931-????)

¤ Percival Valentine Miller (1937-????) y Damien Thomas Haywood (1939-????)

¤ Benjamin Caleb Miller (1941-????) y Abigail Aura Cooper (1938-????)

¤ Micah Vladimir Miller (1945-????) y Louis William Afton (1946-????)

¤ Albia Bellona Miller (1949-????) y Gideom Silas Murphy (1945-????)

¤ Manon Ariana Miller (1952-????) y Cassius Roderick Abbott (1950-????)

¤ Ian Mason Dumbledore (1924-????) y Bellona Damara Huxley (1921-????)

¤ Ada Demetria Dumbledore (1929-????) y Azura Jasmine Brooks (1927-????)

¤ Kitty Xanthe Dumbledore (1933-????) y Ryan Christopher Everett (1930-????)

¤ Charlotte Macellina Dumbledore (1938-????) y Sebastian Artemis Jensen (1935-????)

¤ Demetrius Kieran Dumbledore (1942-????) y Ulric Frederick Golding (1940-????)

¤ Fabian Leonard Gallanford (1931-????) y Evan Diaval Merton (1935-????)

¤ Sarah Elizabeth Gallanford (1935-????) y Juliette Liona Lancework (1933-????)

¤ Marjorie River Gallanford (1938-????) y Alder Amadeus Holecraft (1940-????)

¤ Edward Florian Longbottom (1934-????) y Augusta Margaret Longbottom (1936-????)

¤ Algie Lazarus Longbottom (1937-????) y Enid Verna Longbottom (1939-????)

¤ Daniel Vincent Longbottom (1942-????) y Coraline Eliza Longbottom (1945-????)

¤ Gabriel Roderick Weasley (1941-????) y Malia Juniper Lenington (1943-????)

¤ Norman Carlton Weasley (1945-????) y Doris Ariana Armstrong (1947-????)

¤ Arthur Marlon Weasley (1950-????) y Molly Elliana Prewett (1950-????)

¤ Casthora Aura Crouch (1934-????) y Aaron Leonard Luthor (1930-????)

¤ Aries Adeline Crouch (1937-????) y Theresa Rose Taylor (1935-????)

¤ Bartemius Crouch (1940-????) y Rebecca Maia Crouch (1941-????)

¤ Lilith Moira Riddle (1983-????) y julian Cameron Grey (1980-????)

¤ Theodore August Peters (1976-????) y Magnus Roman Watson (1978-????)

¤ Hazel Opal Peters (1983-????) y Meredith Mavis Monroe (1981-????)

¤ Bloom Larissa Peters (1997-????) y Sky Aurelius Peters (1997-????)

¤ Cora Stephanne Riddle (2005-????) y Alucard Magnus Holland (2002-????)

¤ Francis Ezra Riddle (2008-????) y Archibald Niven Allender (2008-????)

¤ Aaron Christopher Riddle (2012-???) y Verena Michelle Dyer (2010-????)

¤ Joshua Stephen Riddle (2013-????) y Esther Amalia Holt (2015-????)

¤ Charles Samuel Riddle (2016-????) y Ruby Stephanie Saffron (2018-????)

¤ Iris Aurelia Riddle (2018-????) y Marshall Everett Conrad (2016-????)

¤ Theophania Calliope Richardson (1964-????) y Corinne Roxanne Everleigh (1962-????)

¤ Arabella Beatrix Richardso (1968-????) y Henry Oliver Brooks (1966-????)

¤ Kai Dominick Richardson (1971-????) y Flynn Milo Wolf (1969-????)

¤ Willow Cosima Levin (1969-????) y Nicoletta Pomona Wilford (1967-????)

¤ Fern Violet Levin (1972-????) y Marie Honoria Ollivander (1970-????)

¤ Euphemia Alessandra Levin (1974-????) y John Florean Palmer (1972-????)

¤ Dorothea Giovanna Levin (1978-????) y Elladora Eloise Gibson (1975-????)

¤ Salazar Lucius Levin (1973-????) y Holly Avalon Barnes (1970-????)

¤ Eleanor Hope Levin (1977-????) y Savannah Genevieve Shaw (1975-????)

¤ Gracie Isadora Levin (1979-????) y Marvin Declan Sullivan (1983-????)

¤ Alec Aurelian Levin (1982-????) y Claire Piper Johan (1980-????)

¤ Mason Ezekiel Levin (1986-????) y Clementine Octavia Albion (1983-????)

¤ Lotor Comet Snape (????-????) y Giovanni Benjamin Lestrage (1974-????)

¤ "Moon Demon" Darius Angelo Snape (1973-????) y "Dark Angel" Arianne Alysson Snape

¤ "Killer Shadow" Lazarus Ignatius Snape (1973-????) y "Ice Demon" Urania Calliope Snape

¤ Morterius Snape (1973-???) y Hisirdoux Artemas Casperan (1098-????)

¤ Severina Tabitha Snape (1975-????) y Valentine Orion Dencort (1972-????)

¤ Ursa Destiny Snape (1975-????) y Vladimir Micah Masters (1964-????)

¤ Regulus Orion Snape (1977-????) y Angel Archibald Mountford (1975-????)

¤ Cygnus Arcturus Snape (1977-????) y Cassius Warrington (1977-????)

¤ Elle Rigel Snape (1979-????) y Touta Matsuda (1978-????)

¤ Beyond Aurelian Snape (1979-????) y Teru Mikami (1982-????)

¤ Emma Elizabeth Snape (1983-????) y Verna Clarissa Rawlinson (1981-????)

¤ Eileen Umbra Snape (1983-????) y Samara Enola Norton (1984-???)

¤ Ariel Kolithace Snape (1985-????) y Clementine Amarah Gorgon (1985-????)

¤ Alexander Valens Snape (1985-????) y Cassidy Vienna Keller (1987-????)

¤ Lysander Nikolaus Snape (1985-????) y Gabrielle Delacour (1986-????)

¤ Minerva Evangeline Snape (1986-????) y Alexia Mary Ray (1989-????)

¤ Walburga Aries Snape (1988-????) y Lynn Juniper Dumbar (1986-????)

¤ Druella Angelette Snape (1988-????) y Lazarus Julian Norton (1991-????)

¤ Raphaela Bellatrix Snape (1990-????) y Finnegan Glenn Gardens (1988-????)

¤ Selena Narcissa Snape (1993-????) y Barbara Rose Kidman (1996-????)

¤ Regris Niven Snape (2001-????) y Acxa Valda Snape (2003-????)

¤ Kevin Ethan Snape (2001-????) y Cooper Joseph Daniels (1999-????)

¤ Gwendolyn Hiroko Snape (1994-????) y Emily Flora Blunder (1997-????)

¤ Ezra Yamato Snape (1998-????) y Aidan Vincent Holdcroft (1999-????)

¤ Ryan Yoshio Snape (2001-????) y Janet Mary Eastmond (2008-????)

¤ Keith Akira Snape (2005-????) y James Griffin (2005-????)

¤ Mako Etha Snape (2006-????) y Patricia Harriet Smith (2009-????)

¤ Yuriko Edith Snape (2008-????) y Harvey Everett Aylesworth (2006-????)

¤ Morgana Kendra Voorhees (1973-????) y Carrie Margaret White (1970-????)

¤ Jessica Lorna Kimble (1980-????) y Steven Freeman (1978-???)

¤ Dante Dorian Nott

¤ Dominick Edgar Nott

¤ Theodore Phineas Nott (1979-????) y Pansy Genevieve Parkinson (1980-????)

¤ Audrey Andromeda Malfoy y Andre Perseus Bourgeois

¤ Gabriel Bastian Malfoy y Emilie Calliope Graham de Vanily

¤ Roynard Hydra Malfoy y Violet Rowena Deekers

¤ Raymond Lynx Malfoy y Cedric Atticus Diggory

¤ Draco Lucius Malfoy y Astoria Coraline Greengrass

¤ Marcus Malfoy

¤ Elias Malfoy

¤ Magenta Malfoy

¤ Daphne Malfoy

¤ Elladora Malfoy

¤ Garlan Malfoy

¤ Farlan Malfoy

¤ Merle Ariel Dixon y "Jesus" Paul Finnegan Rovia

¤ Hope Leah Dixon

¤ Carl Thomas Dixon

¤ Levi Armand Dixon

¤ Daryl Hunter Dixon y Rick Jonah Grimes

¤ Nigellus Aries Black

¤ Cygnus Alphard Black

¤ Walburga Vera Black

¤  Phineas Arcturus Black

¤ Cassius Florian Lovegood

¤ Myra Hestia Lovegood y

¤ Luna Pandora Lovegood

¤ Vitale Astaroth Sparda

¤ Neron Asura Sparda

¤ Merak Emory Sparda

¤ Armand Vincent Sparda

¤ Nicholas William Sparda

¤ Septimus Conan Sparda

[narunii]

Monthly Reads: September 2018

Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville ★★ Medusa the Rich (Goddess Girls, #16) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams ★★★ Amphitrite the Bubbly (Goddess Girls, #17) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams ★★★ Hestia the Invisible (Goddess Girls, #18) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams ★★★ Echo the Copycat (Goddess Girls, #19) by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams ★★★ Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, #1) by Lemony Snicket ★★★ When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions, #2) by Lemony Snicket ★★★★ Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions, #3) by Lemony Snicket ★★★★ Wandmaker (Wandmaker, #1) by Ed Masessa ★★

[ahollowyear]

You mentioned fairy tales retold as WWII historical fiction, can you please list out some that you liked?

The two really good ones that I enjoyed a lot were both inspired by Hansel and Gretel. The more straightforward one is "The True Story of Hansel and Gretel" by Louise Murphy and the other, more experimental novel is "Gretel and the Dark" by Eliza Granville. Those are both centered on the experience of children during the Holocaust.

[steveskafte]

THE LEFT BEHIND The story of Job is the tale of faith in the face of insurmountable suffering. An admirable trait, but I'm not sure I'd want to wish it on my child. In the end, the son of John and Eliza Van Beuran probably caused them more pain than he ever felt himself. One would hope, that those 5 months and 14 days slipped easy for the one who was leaving. The hardest part is always for the left behind. I don't think we've ever estimated the exact horror of life out of living memory. There's no one alive who can tell you of the time when a third of all children died, but I see it everywhere I go. These abandoned spaces are a garden of small stones, knee-high reminders of sons and daughters who never grew taller than the markers that mark their graves. I can't be heartbroken about it, what good would it do? I'm looking back through barely visible carvings, to the murkiest hints of 1811, fading. It's the closest I come to a window through the past, face pressed to the filthy glass, squinting in the evening light, going blind. March 6, 2021 Chesley Cemetery Upper Granville, Nova Scotia Year 14, Day 4864 of my daily journal.

[jasonfry]

My Mysterious Kerr Ancestors

The 1850 U.S. census for Person County, N.C., shows my ancestor Bennett Ragan (often styled as Benjamin) as 49 years old and living with seven others: Sarah Kerr (28), John Ragan (29), Ann Ragan (21), William Ragan (19), Benj Ragan (13), Ashman Ragan (10), and Durram Ragan (3).

Once you get familiar with genealogy, you recognize patterns in families. Bennett’s most likely a widower. Sarah’s probably a daughter bearing the name of her dead husband. Conversely, there might be a daughter-in-law in there, and little Durram might be a grandson, not a son.

But the Ragan clan is odder than that. Bennett was indeed a widower, but one who’d inherited a 19th century Brady Bunch household. It’s required a genealogical A-game – and a hunt through legal documents – to help shed light on it.

The first crack in the wall comes from an 1845 estate case. Thomas Jefferson Kerr had died intestate, leaving his widow Elizabeth unprovided for. Bennett petitioned the court as “next friend” on behalf of Thomas’s brothers and sisters: Alexander Kerr, Duncan Kerr, Sarah Kerr, Roy Ragan, John Ragan, Martha Ragan, William Ragan, Goram Ragan and Benjamin Ragan. 

As with many court cases in Person County, the dispute was ultimately about land – Bennett was trying to get some of it for Thomas’s siblings. (Judging from the estate papers, he didn’t succeed.) The petition revealed that Sarah Kerr wasn’t a married Ragan daughter after all. So where had the Kerrs come from, and what was their relationship with Bennett Ragan?

An earlier argument over land made that clear. (Or at least clearer.) 

Back in 1829, Simon Gentry filed a petition naming a whole bunch of people: Christopher Wagstaff and his wife Peggy, Bennett Ragan and his wife Jane, William Buchanan and his wife Mary, Elizabeth Kerr, William Kerr, Ann Kerr and the rather wonderfully named Smithy Kerr. (Her actual name was Clementine, which is still pretty wonderful.)

Gentry’s petition explained that John Baird, late of Prince George County in Virginia, had given a 500-acre tract of land in Person County to John Kerr and his wife Peggy for their use during their lives, and upon their deaths it would go to Peggy’s children.

The petition explained that John Kerr died “some time over three years ago” while Peggy Kerr had died “some seven or eight years ago,” and named their survivors. Margaret Kerr had married Christopher Wagstaff, Jane Kerr had married Bennett Ragan, and Mary Kerr had married William Buchanan.

Unmarried sisters Ann and Smithy were noted as “of Person,” while Elizabeth Kerr was “of the State of Tennessee.” William was described as “of Virginia or other foreign parts.”

The dispute was settled in August 1833 by dividing John Kerr’s tract into seven lots. In the meantime, the Kerr daughters had gotten on with living: the settlement describes Elizabeth Kerr as Eliza Bray, while Smithy Kerr has become Smithy Buchanan. Lot No. 2, its borders defined by prominent sassafras trees and red oaks, went to Jane Ragan.

All that legalese gave us a wealth of genealogical information: Peggy Kerr had presumably been a Baird and died around 1822, with John Kerr dying around 1825. They’d left seven children: six sisters, including Jane, and a brother.

Well, except for one ambiguity: John Kerr’s daughter Jane had four children also named Kerr. How could that work? 

Two possibilities:

1) Jane could have married a cousin also named Kerr, making her indeed John Kerr’s daughter. 

2) She might have been John Kerr’s daughter-in-law or otherwise closely related to him, then married Bennett after her husband’s death, with the court documents not making the distinction. 

Precedents exist for both scenarios. The family of the aforementioned Christopher Wagstaff, for instance, features generations of cousin marriages that would give a geneticist heart palpitations.

There doesn’t seem to be a will or bond allowing us to reconstruct Jane Kerr’s first marriage easily. So how could we come at it indirectly? 

Well, at least we have two generations to work with.

Whatever the nature of Jane Kerr’s first marriage, we know the children it produced: Thomas Jefferson Kerr, Alexander Kerr, Sarah Kerr and Duncan Kerr. Tracing them forward in history might reveal their father, either through a death certificate, naming patterns, wills, or family histories compiled by descendents.

We also know Jane’s siblings, or at least her siblings-in-law: William Kerr, Margaret Kerr Wagstaff, Mary Kerr Buchanan, Ann Kerr, Elizabeth Kerr Bray, and Clementine “Smithy” Kerr Buchanan.

First, the children. 

That estate case told us what happened to Thomas Jefferson Kerr: he died in 1845, long before North Carolina counties issued death certificates. Before she remarried, his widow Elizabeth Long Kerr had a son out of wedlock known as John Henry Carr. (The two spellings are often interchangeable in the family, making our work even harder.) John Henry Carr married three times before dying in 1921, producing 10 Carr children with zero actual Carr/Kerr DNA.

Alexander Kerr remained in Person County, marrying Elizabeth Ann Dillehay in 1846 and fathering five sons and a daughter – all of whom moved to Durham, as many Person County residents did in the second half of the 19th century. But Alexander vanishes after the 1860 census, taking with him our hopes for a death certificate or another document with the name of his parents. 

Sarah Kerr supplied our original clue by appearing in the Ragan household in the 1850 census. Unfortunately that’s the last trace of her. In 1870 we find a 32-year-old Ashman Kerr living in the household of Bennett’s daughter Ann Ragan Carver. That’s a minor mystery solved, at least: we’ve found 1850’s Ashman Ragan. He was misidentified two decades earlier, which is pretty common in census records. Most likely he was Sarah’s son. Unfortunately, after 1870 Ashman vanishes as well.

That leaves one Kerr child from Bennett’s 1845 petition: Duncan Kerr. He seems to have left no trace in Person County, as usual for Jane’s children. But one reference intrigued me: in 1839 a Duncan M. Kerr married Mary Ann Cox in Granville County, N.C.

That’s not Person County, but it’s the next county to the east. And “Duncan Kerr” didn’t seem like a terribly common name. So I kept digging, looking in 1850 censuses of North Carolina county after North Carolina county for a Duncan Kerr or a Duncan Carr with a wife named Mary Ann. When I didn’t find anything, I started on neighboring states.

In 1850, in District 2 of Hopkins County, Ky., I found a 31-year-old Duncan Carr with 38-year-old Mary Ann Carr, three children and a 55-year-old woman named Nancy Weaver. Granville records showed a Nancy Cox marrying Dudley Weaver in 1844. Duncan and Mary Ann’s youngest child, just a year old, was born in Kentucky; everyone else was born in North Carolina.

It seemed likely that this was the same couple that had married in Granville County, and I was intrigued to find out there’d been a wave of migration from that area of North Carolina to four counties in Kentucky. But was Granville’s Duncan the same as Jane’s son? I started digging into his life, looking for a connection.

In the 1880 census Duncan has a new wife, Martha. The 1880 census asked for the birthplace of fathers and mothers; Duncan’s answers are recorded as North Carolina for his father and Scotland for his mother. That was interesting: John Kerr seems to have had children born in Scotland as well as ones born in North Carolina, and several of Jane Kerr’s children told census takers she was of Scottish birth. Interesting, but hardly definitive: many Kerrs of that period would have had parents born in Scotland.

I couldn’t find a death date for Duncan, but I kept digging, hoping documents related to his children might reveal more about him. That turned up the 1911 marriage record for Duncan’s youngest son, John Kerr – which recorded his father’s birthplace as Person County, N.C.

Duncan’s eldest son William Kerr died of Bright’s disease in Henderson, Ky., in 1913. His death certificate, using information supplied by a daughter, claimed his parents were both born in Virginia (I know – hold that thought) and supplied a full name for his father: Duncan Montgomery Kerr.

Intriguing, but still circumstantial – it was an educated guess that the two Duncan Kerrs were the same, but an educated guess is still a guess. 

Frustrated, I let Duncan Montgomery Kerr lie a bit and went back up a generation, to Jane Kerr’s siblings (or in-laws). I started researching their spouses and children more deeply, trying to find some connection I’d missed. I traced Margaret Kerr Wagstaff’s descendents and those of Mary Kerr Buchanan and Smithy Kerr Buchanan. (Mary and Smithy’s husbands were most likely cousins.) I worked into the early 1900s, finding Kerr preserved as a middle name, but nothing that was more than a curiosity.

So I decided to try a brute-force assault on Jane’s three mysterious siblings: Elizabeth Kerr Bray, husband’s name unknown but a resident of Tennessee; Ann Kerr of Person; and William Kerr. If I’d managed to find Duncan Kerr in Kentucky, perhaps I could find a Scotland- or North Carolina-born Elizabeth married to a Bray in Tennessee.

Well, assuming Elizabeth had lived until 1850.

First, though, I decided to take another shot at William Kerr. William was a successful merchant whose papers are preserved at the Greensboro (N.C.) Historical Society. Those papers include court records from various Wagstaff and Buchanan cousins who spent decades trying to get at his wealth. But considering his wealth, William left a surprisingly small paper trail before dying in Shelby County, Texas, in 1850. He’s a man known more from legal documents than government records.

[Actually, the William Kerr papers in Greensboro turn out to conflate records about John’s son William and the merchant William Kerr, who are different people. The merchant died in Mississippi; “our” William’s kin pursued their case in Greensboro because they’d moved there. Ah, genealogy.]

Still, it was worth another look. If William had lived long enough, maybe I could find him in Shelby County’s 1850 census. Certainly it seemed easier than hunting random Brays around the entire state of Tennessee.

I did find William but first I found something I’d missed: a will. It was unsigned – fueling decades of courtroom drama – but did have some intriguing information. William had given “my negro boy Bill” to his nephew Duncan Kerr, and bequeathed “my negro boy Tom” to his sister Ann Overby of Kentucky. 

Now I had Ann Kerr’s married name, and another state to search – and it was the same state where Duncan Montgomery Kerr had settled. 

I also turned up a message-board post from a descendent of Duncan Montgomery Kerr, with a claim that was new to me: Duncan had followed his grandfather Hugh Montgomery to the Henderson-Hebbardsville area of Kentucky.

Some of the writer’s information contradicted the historical record: it said Duncan Montgomery Kerr was from Mecklenburg County, Virginia, instead of North Carolina. But there was a lot of detail, and the writer seemed like they knew what they were doing. And Mecklenburg County was familiar to me: it’s just a few miles from Person County, and the ancestral home of the Wagstaff family.

So I went back to the 1850 census record of Duncan Carr in Hopkins County, Ky., to check on Duncan’s neighbors. I knew he’d only been in Kentucky for a couple of years at that point, so perhaps I might find a Montgomery within a few pages.

I didn’t, but I didn’t have to look far to find something else. 

Duncan’s next-door neighbor was Ann Overby. She was born in North Carolina. Her husband Peter Overby had been recorded in Person County in 1840. And after Ann’s death, Peter married a woman named Delilah Buchanan Townshend – who turned out to be Smithy Kerr’s sister-in-law. 

I’d found Ann Kerr and I hadn’t even had to tear apart Kentucky to do it. And now there was no doubt that I had the right Duncan Kerr. 

That’s how far I’ve gotten. Duncan has been found, Ann Kerr has been found, and we have an intriguing scenario to investigate: that Jane Montgomery, daughter of Hugh, married a son of John Kerr. As well as the idea that Hugh may have lived long enough to have a connection with his grandson. Perhaps that connection generated records as well as memories.

[Another update: I have DNA links to Jane Kerr’s sisters, suggesting she was indeed John’s daughter and elevating the idea of a cousin marriage once again.]

[bookfortunes]

Revisit once upon a time with these modern day fairy tales and adaptions available at the Westerville Library today! Roses and Rot by Kat Howard  The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden  Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire  Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville  A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham  Letters to Zell by Camille Griep The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey  The Mermaid’s Daughter by Ann Claycomb Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Briar Rose by Jane Yolen  The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell 

[hellyescharlesedwards]

The Range in Spades.

By Peter Craven. 

As with everyone, My Fair Lady is an ancient memory for Charles Edwards, who seems to oscillate from the Rex Harrison repertoire to Shakespeare – Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury in the West End and America, but also Oberon to Judi Dench’s Titania, directed by Peter Hall. 

“I was fascinated by it as a child,” he says. “The LP of the original with Rex and Julie [Andrews] I found – I can’t remember how old I would have been, but quite little – but I remember being really fascinated by the wit, even at that stage. I knew it was very clever and very sharp and very English, particularly the way Rex did it.” 

Edwards is the new Henry Higgins in Julie Andrews’ production of My Fair Lady. It’s the Hamlet of high-comedy roles and arguably the greatest of all musicals. So what does he do with Higgins’ sprechgesang? Does he follow the notes or does he do what Rex Harrison did on Broadway in 1956, opposite Andrews’ Eliza Doolittle, hitting a note every so often but speaking his way through? 

“I follow that,” Edwards says, of the latter. “I personally find if you follow the notes in Higgins’ songs, what is revealed to you is that they’re not nearly as much fun. They actually become rather leaden. And what you need with those songs is great lightness and dexterity. 

“I’d been playing around with doing it slightly off the beat, trying to maybe be a little bit clever with it. But Guy Simpson, our brilliant musical director, says it’s much better if you can speak as much as you like but just stick to the beat. It’s more real, there’s more of the character. Higgins knows what he’s saying, he doesn’t have to dither either side of the beat.” Frederick Loewe, after all, wrote it for Harrison, knowing he couldn’t sing. “I think that’s perhaps why if you try to sing more than one should it’s less interesting because it is written for the man who was going to do it like that.” 

Michael Redgrave famously refused the role of Higgins because it meant committing to a long run. How does Edwards feel about a longish stretch of phonetics and feminist musical comedy? “Oh, I could do it for a while,” he says. “I arrived, performed it in Brisbane, and now I’m rehearsing it in a way… for my own satisfaction. Something which would happen in four or six weeks of rehearsal is now happening to me, internally, just myself, finding my way. I feel like I’m still starting out even though the performance is there. I could do it for a bit longer because there is a lot more to explore.” 

I tell him I’ve just watched the recording of him playing Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing – the one role Harrison recorded for Caedmon, which is largely in prose and the Bard’s most Shavian play. “It was really fun,” Edwards says of his stint opposite Eve Best at the Globe in the role with a family resemblance to Higgins. “Julie [Andrews] likes comparing Shaw as the natural successor to Shakespeare in terms of that kind of comedy. I’m very drawn to both of these roles. That was a joy to do.” He adds that he learnt something from the Globe, because it’s rougher, more extroverted theatre. “If it’s done with wit,” he says, “it can be a great crowd-pleaser, without being naff. And I think it has informed my work to such an extent that often since I’ve been told, ‘Just calm down, Charles.’ ” 

When I tell him he was very good as the Tory whip in This House, the parliamentary play by James Graham, done by the National Theatre, he says of the author, “I don’t know how old he is, he’s something annoying like… he’s probably hit 30. I hope he has.” But he adds that at 47 himself he’s probably a bit younger than the received image of Higgins from the film of My Fair Lady, even though Shaw describes him as a pleasant-looking man of 40. It must be odd to inhabit a role with such a powerful acting ghost in the background. 

I once saw Harrison – very, very old – at an airport sweeping past in what looked exactly like the hat and coat he – and Edwards – wears in the opening scene of My Fair Lady in Covent Garden. “There’s a lot, I’m sure, in the production we’ve inherited that he insisted on,” Edwards says. “I’m sure that will be true of the hat … And here we are now, probably wearing the very weave he ordered from a particular tailor.” 

Of course, everyone likes the cut of Higgins’ cloth and would like to make it their own. George Clooney, of all people, is said to have had an eye on the role when Emma Thompson wanted to make a new film of it with Carey Mulligan as Eliza. And with the old George Cukor film, Alan Jay Lerner, treacherously, wanted Peter O’Toole, still in his 30s, rather than Harrison. Like O’Toole, Edwards does both ends of the acting spectrum: the light-as-air prose comedy of Shaw and the poetic majesties of Shakespeare. He worked with Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. 

“I’ve done quite a lot with him,” he says. “I think I auditioned one year when he used to run the season at Bath and he took a shine and kept wanting me back to do this and that.” His work with Hall included another Much Ado, where he played Don Pedro. “He got it into his head,” Edwards says, “that Don Pedro at the end was like Malvolio or Antonio, the man who gets left alone.” So Edwards’ Don was a bit in love with Claudio and something of “a real devil”. 

His Oberon to Dench’s Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream came from another of Hall’s bright ideas. “Peter put it to me, ‘Look, I’ve got this idea, it’s like Elizabeth and Essex…’ They did a prelude to the evening where the players were assembling to put on a play for Elizabeth I and then Elizabeth/Judi arrives and selects me.” He says that Dench, like Andrews, is great to be with and “just as nervous and scared as the rest of us all are. They’re very great company people; their fun is being in the company.” This was the second time he’d worked with Dench because he’d been her fancy man, Sandy, when she played Judith Bliss in Coward’s classic comedy Hay Fever. He loves the lightness of My Fair Lady and the way it can modulate into the gravity of “I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face”, with its utterly moody interplay between hilarities of exasperation, and something else, something at the edge of heartbreak. 

Of course, acting careers have their light and dark. Harrison, high comedian though he was, did Preston Sturges’s Unfaithfully Yours, that demon study of jealousy. Marcello Mastroianni, in many ways his European equivalent, made some of the more serious masterpieces, everything from 8 ½ to La Notte. And Edwards went straight from acting with Olivia Williams in Harley Granville Barker’s Waste to doing a chocolate-box soap TV drama, The Halcyon, with her. He says Granville Barker stands up very well when you prune him back and you know he thinks this of Shaw, too – the way “The Rain in Spain” crystallises something Shaw takes for granted and talks around – and does so operatically. “I find it very touching, that bit,” Edwards says. “It’s wonderful to do.” 

And he’s at pains to defend Higgins, the man who – at Harrison’s insistence – was given another Act II number, “A Hymn to Him”. “He’s not a snob,” Edwards says. “He’s trying to remove the social gaps. He’s trying to erase them, in a rather perverse way by wanting everyone to speak the same and dismiss regional accents – but he’s not a snob. He’s an egalitarian.” 

It’s always a fascinating thing to listen to an actor let his mind roam about the ins and outs, the winding staircase of his career. Charles Edwards went to a preparatory school named Amesbury in Surrey, which he says was “pure Decline and Fall, full of eccentrics, some of them quite dangerous eccentrics”. His salvation was Hamlet. “I was invited by – you know, we all have these teachers who encourage us – his name is Simon Elliot and he’ll still come and see me in shows now. ‘I’d like to talk to you about Hamlet,’ he said. ‘Oh yeah?’ ”

From there, a career. Here he is on Angela Lansbury: “She is in every way fit. In Blithe Spirit she did this extraordinary dance with these jerky movements as she was preparing for a séance. I don’t know what it was but I know every night she loved doing it and changing it.” And on Maria Aitken, brilliant as the wife of John Cleese’s Archie in A Fish Called Wanda, who directed Edwards in The 39 Steps: “With comedy she immediately knows, ‘That’s what I want for this show.’ And that it has to be taken very seriously. She’s the person you need at the centre, taking it absolutely seriously.” She insisted that Edwards – who was the production’s original Hannay in The 39 Steps – had to play the role when it transferred to Broadway. “She was lovely. She fought for me and she said, ‘You need the Englishman. You need the backbone.’ And they brought me over even though the rest of the cast was two Americans and one Canadian. It was great, I was thrilled. But it’s the kind of humour that can tip. It’s got to be tasteful, it’s got to have taste. Taste is the key with humour that involves an audience.” 

All of which brings us round to the ending of My Fair Lady where Eliza comes back to Higgins. She has sung that she can do “Without You”. “Absolutely,” he says, “and this is heightened by the ending, the fact that some people would ask why does she come back to him. But there has to be a meeting of minds, a meeting of souls, and that’s what he realises right at the end. She comes back to show him that she has to be there, but she is in charge. And he sees that and accepts that. And all of that we try to do in three seconds of the show.” 

Edwards laughs. 

So what is it like to work with Julie Andrews as she re-creates the original production of My Fair Lady by the legendary Moss Hart? “It was a real treat, it’s an extraordinary thing and very touching to see her remembering it,” Edwards says. 

Obviously the production is a blueprint, which he had to fit himself to, but the man who is best known here for his stint in Downton Abbey adds, “But you have to imbue it with a new texture.”.

Taken from The Saturday Paper, published Jul 15, 2017.

[the100boston]

VANCOUVER/UNITY DAYS 2017

Oh my goodness you guys.  I don’t even know where to begin.  I suppose from the start.  I’ll post the story and pictures of the autographs under the cut.

I flew in last Wednesday (its already been a week since I flew in. WOWOWOWOW. The feelz.) and immediately went to meet the Bellarke fam for lunch.  I hadn’t eaten all day, so I was starving.  It was SO awesome to meet Gina and her friend Kelsey and my roommates, Sam and Jenny!!  After eating, we walked around a bit, getting to know each other.  We went back to our hotel room and continued chatting.  I was EXHAUSTED by the end of the day thanks to all the traveling and the time differences.  

On Thursday morning at around 3:30, I woke up sick to my stomach.  Every half hour, I woke up to throw up.  It was nothing I ate because I had eaten at 3:30pm with the girls and if it was the food, it would’ve happened a lot sooner.  I think it was just nerves and exhaustion.  Anyways, while the fam went to Granville Island that day, I stayed at the hotel trying to get better.  A Clexa fan that I had been chatting with on twitter for the past few months reached out to me saying she was talking with the hotel bartender about my plight and they wanted to get a soda water and bitters drink up to my room to help my stomach, so I gave her my room number and we very briefly chatted.  I really really appreciate Jen reaching out like that to help me.  That’s what this con was always about.  It wasn’t about who you ship, its about celebrating the show that has ruined all our lives with how much we love it.  Jen’s a superstar and I will stand by that.  

On Friday, we went to the Capilano Suspension Bridge!!  I was feeling MUCH better at that point.  I’d be damned if I was missing that bridge.  That was the number one touristy thing I had wanted to do there.  

After that, we went back to the hotel to meet up with another fam member who had just arrived, APRIL!!  We went to lunch to meet other fam members too!  So many fam members were met all weekend, its kind of blurring together when we met which fam member when.  After lunch, we helped April find Bactus for Bob.  

Hung around for a little bit before registration.  The lines were so long, but you also had to pick out which of the package stuff you were doing, like photo ops and autographs.  They had the CancerGetsLOST auction set up right in the registration room.  Jo had DM’d me saying she wanted a #MorleyForPotter pin in exchange for a CancerGetsLOST bracelet, so I went up to her for the swap.  She’s so awesome!  Jen was actually working(?) the auction table because Jo asked me how I was feeling and I was all confused until I saw Jen back there and I guess they had briefly discussed my illness.  

I only caught the the meta panel at the very end because of registration insanity, but I did manage to give some pins out and then I introduced myself to Caitlin and Rogue (the Bellarke cosplay couple) and baby Laura, who were all sitting in the back.  

The Unity Days Secret Santa was held between events that night.  I got a Clexa shipper and she seemed very happy with the gifts I got her.  Guess who got me?  Jo Garfein!!  I was so surprised!  I had no idea she was even doing it!  

Here’s the stuff she got me:

Friday night was the cocktail party, to which I did not attend because I was still slightly recovering from Thursday.  My roommates and the rest of the fam had a blast though!  Sachin, Jess, Chelsey, and Katie had all shown up to the festivities.  

On Saturday, we all went out for breakfast and went to the welcome panel.  Literally the second after we entered the panel, Jo was introducing Bob and I had a slight panic attack because he was RIGHT THERE.  After the welcome panel was the Arkadia Boys panel with Jarod, Richard, Sachin, and Bob.  

After that, most of the fam had a meet and greet with Jarod, yours truly included.  We got a couple of pictures there.  Pretty sure the pictures belong to Gina and Allison. 

After the Jarod M&G, I was just waiting around for my Bob photo op because the Camp Jaha one I got was moved to Sunday because Lindsey was running late due to filming BECAUSE RAVEN MADE IT TO THE FINALE, YOU GUYS.  

I was actually in line behind the really fantastic Kane cosplayer that was there and when Bob saw him, he just went, “Dad?!”, and Kane wanted to hold Bob in his arms and Bob was like, “Are you sure? I’m pretty heavy.”  But they did it and I’m sure it came out AMAZING.  I haven’t seen it anywhere yet though.  

So then there’s little old me wandering into his arms.  He’s so warm and sweet and Australian.  

After Bob’s photo op, I went to get Eliza’s autographs.  (For all autographs, I was getting 2.  One for me and one for my sister, who couldn’t be there.)  I actually got up to her relatively quickly.  I gave her the spiel that my sister was back home in Boston and couldn’t make it up.  

I then mentioned that, since I never did well with talking (Eliza said, “Its okay. Neither do I.” In my head, I’m saying, yeah no shit.hahaha) and saying what I really want to say when the time calls for it, I handed her my notecard to her.  She was incredibly thankful and then I was on my way.  

So next was my Marper photo op!! They were putting people on the spot to do different things in their photos.  Chris said to someone in front of me, “We’re not very creative so we’re putting the pressure on you guys to come up with stuff.”  I get up there and I’m like, “I don’t know what to do!”  Chelsey grabs my hand and says we’re going to hold hands.  Chris follows suit and then they interlock their fingers with mine.  They’re so in sync like that.  They’re so cute.  

After the Marper photo op, I waited around until the Bad Boys photo op!  I walked in knowing I wanted a group hug picture and really be smushed in there.  I get in there and ask for a group hug and they say sure and just start closing in around me.  I see Sachin sneak behind a curtain and get ready to jump in front.  The flash went off and then he jumped in.  I assumed he didn’t make it in, but he told me to wait to leave and he ran and checked the photo and told me to get another one, so I went back into smoosh formation with the guys and it was heaven.  This photo is my pride and joy.  It was nice and toasty in there with them.  

After the Bad Boys photo, I had my meet and greet with Bob where I heard him say that its written that Bellamy is given the direction to look at Clarke lovingly.  Like, that’s a thing in the script.  Like we knew all along.  We got to talking about many different things, which I’m sure there’s a post or two circling around.  Someone brought up Roan and I said how I was devastated to lose him on Black Sails, but to have him on The 100 more than made up for it!  Bob went, oh yeah!  You know Vancouver is a lot closer to home for him than Capetown and when he was approached for the role, they had just had another kid so it was easier and better location-wise for him.  He brought up Boston because there were two older women from Boston there, but I didn’t know, so I mentioned that I was from Boston too!  There were actually quite a few Bostonians there, from my understanding!! 

After the Bob meet & greet (which was the source of my stress), I had the Bellarke photo op!  Eliza actually said she thought my shirt was cute, so then Bob took a gander.  I died.  

After the Bellarke photo op, I went to get some autographs.  I only had time for Jarod and Bob.  

I think I did Bob’s first.  I was super nervous because this is the most one-on-one time I had with him and I was stressing all over again.  Thankfully, he was sweet and lovely.  I gave the “my sister couldn’t be here” spiel and he asked where she was and I said Boston and he went, “Oh yeah!  You were in my meet & greet!”  I then told him that we were actually supposed to meet him the two times he was scheduled to appear around Boston, but he had cancelled so I had to come to Vancouver.  He goes on to say, “You know, you sign all these contracts in hopes that you can go and then work or something comes up and you have to cancel.”  I told him it was fine and that we understood.  I just had to go all the way to Vancouver.  I then gave him my note and asked for a hug and we both said thank you into each other’s ears and he was so smiley and warm.  I love him so much.  He’s the actual light of my life.  

Here’s Jackie’s (my sister) autograph.  I decided to get my Bad Boys photo op signed for me, so I’ll post that after I talk about Richard in a bit.  

Next was Jarod.  He asked where I was from and I said Boston.  He said, “You know, I’ve always wanted to go to Boston.”  I told him he should just come.  No big deal.  He wrote out Jackie’s autograph and then when he handed it to me, he said, “How’s that?”  I looked at it and said it was beautiful.  So he did the same thing on mine.  I gave him my letter and it had a pug sticker on it.  He said, “That looks like Sosa!”  I said, “Yeah!  I wanted to find one that looked like Sosa for you!”  

That was the end of the con on Saturday for me.  We all met up for pizza in April’s room and we talked about the show and the con for a few hours.  It was probably my favorite meal/time we spent together.  

On Sunday, I knew I had to get all the rest of my autographs in.  Not going to lie, I didn’t think I’d be able to, but I did!  

I started with Richard and Luisa, I think because I knew Richard’s line was going to be long and Luisa was leaving early.  

I believe I started with Luisa because she was right there.  I went up to her and introduced myself and said I was getting an autograph for myself and my sister.  I believe we did my sister’s first.  She asks me about her.  I said, “She’s not really as into the show as much as I am, but she LOVES Murphy.”  She writes her’s:

Then we go on to me.  I say how I didn’t even really like any of the grounders, but I actually really love Emori and I’m really looking forward to seeing more of her.  She gave me a high five.  She signed my autograph and then I gave her my note for her.  She was genuinely so surprised and grateful that people were giving her letters and art and other kinds of presents.  It was so sweet.  I told her to have a good day and went on my way.  

I went up to Richard and I told him I had 2 autographs and laid out my sister’s and my photo op.  He then started fussing with his hair, saying how upset he was.  The autograph volunteer at his table was like, why?  He said he was upset because his hair was clean.  He was saying how he needed product.  I said, “we’re in a room full of girls.  Someone should have something.”  He gestures vaguely to someone out of my eyeline and goes, “She doesn’t!  Her hair is clean.”  He puts his beanie back on saying, “I’m so upset.”  He looks at my group hug photo op and I think he said something along the lines of how great it was.  

Here it is: 

So Richard wrote, “Sarah We’re a family”. Jarod did the “#BostonStrong” and Bob wrote, “Nothing but love, Sarah”

I then told Richard how my sister wasn’t there and I was getting one for her.  I said, “We actually met you at Rhode Island Comic Con over a year ago.  She was wearing a Team Murphy shirt.” He goes, “Oh yeah!!” and smiles.  This is what he put for her’s:

So sassy.  I then gave him my note and told him to have a good day and he told me to do the same.  

I had to get my Grounders photo op and my Camp Jaha photo op.  

I think I got Chris too that morning.  I had so many autographs to get done.  The timing kind of all blurs together.  Chris was awesome.  Probably one of my favorite interactions at the autograph table.  On Sunday, he was having everyone write down their name, age, favorite album, and a pop/rockstar they’d want to be for a day.  I wrote Sarah, 25, Hamilton, and Adele.  He asked where I was from and I said Boston.  He said, “I’m from Connecticut so we’re kind of close.”  He wrote out my sister’s autograph as we start discussing Hamilton.  

He asked me if I had seen Hamilton.  I said, no.  He said, “Yeah. Its funny how most haven’t seen the show, but are really into the soundtrack.”  I said that I really wanted to try for the tour when it comes to Boston, but we’ll see.  You basically have to know someone to get tickets and he agreed saying, “Yeah either you know someone or have money.”  Basically.  Then he goes, “So Sarah, what are you doing in Boston?”  I’m kind of like, “What?”  He goes, “So what are you doing with your life in Boston?  Are you in school?”  I said, I already graduated and I’m not really doing anything interesting or anything I really want to do just yet.  I said that was fine though.  That I have plenty of time.” He said, “Yeah, that’s a good way to look at it.”  He went to sign my photo and he said, “Do you mind if I sign my body?”  I said, “Its your body.  You can do whatever you like with it.”  He really liked that!!!  haha.  Chris was really amazing.  Very personable.  When I read back my autograph, I kind of realized if taken out of context, its kind of ominous.  haha.  

Then I think I waited around for Lindsey’s next slot because I just missed the cutoff for her first one.  

Lindsey had a long line.  They were basically fitting a day and half worth of guests into one day.  She was taking her time with everyone, even though the time slots were so small.  I didn’t really talk much because I was just kind of staring at her.  She’s so gorgeous.  She signed this for Jackie:

When she looked at my photo op (which I’ll post after I post Sachin, who was the last one to sign it.), she goes, “Oh this is a nice one.”  (Back story: I had no idea what to do for mine.  I just said, “Let’s do a super nice whatever one.”  I could feel the guys standing taller beside me.  I laugh when I see Richard’s face because he looks precious and happy.)  I say, yeah I didn’t really know what to do for it.  She said, “Oh its a classic pose!”  I gave her my letter and wished her a good day.  

Next, I believe was Katie and Chelsey.  Both were super awesome and sweet.  Not really much to talk about because I was quiet.  Both were also shocked that I had notes for them too.  Katie gave an “Aww, a puppy!” when she saw the sticker I put on her’s.  My autograph from Chelsey can be seen up with Chris.  My autograph from Katie will be seen with Sachin.  

Here are my sister’s autographs: 

Next came Sachin, I believe.  He was really nice, but I was really quiet, I guess.  I told him about Jackie and how she couldn’t be there.  After I got the autographs, I handed him the note and he looked so surprised!  These adorable nerds are so grateful for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they are given by fans.  My goodness.  I wished him a good day and moved on.  

Then I got Jessica’s autograph!  We started with mine.  I think it was also kind of quiet for this part, but it picked back up when we moved onto Jackie’s autograph (and honestly that kind of caused her to mess that one up, but its fine).  I told her that I wasn’t as much of an active viewer in the iZombie fandom, but I really loved Dale and was wondering if we were going to see her again.  1)She was surprised that I call her Dale because apparently not that many do??  I said, “I like ‘Dale’.”  She goes, “I do too!”  2) She said that season 3 of iZombie looks really good and they were kind of surprised by the amount of people that love Babineaux and Bozzio.  I told her I didn’t really ship on that show, but that I LOVED them and she was pleased by that.  The show loves their chemistry.  I gave her the card and wished her a good day.  

Here’s the mistake autograph: 

As you can see, they did not actually meet.  hahahahaha.  

I got Tasya’s autograph next and I told her I was looking forward to seeing what goes on with Echo this season.  I got the autographs and gave her the card.  (Again, she was surprised!)  

I think that’s it!  If you have any questions, I’m reachable on here, but it might be easier to reach me on my personal blog, @sarahkomskaikru!!!

We said goodbye to a few members of the fam that night.  Had to say goodbye to Sam on Monday morning.  It was just me and Jenny for roommates and it was super sad.  We moped all day on Monday.  

I left Tuesday and here I am.  Here we are.  Two weeks until the season 4 premiere!!