The setting of the novel I’m currently working on: Abaron Hall. Set during the last few days of September in 1899, Ophelia Allred and eleven others are invited by the enigmatic recluse, Lord Alvin Fane to his home for a special competition. But with strange visions, ruthless co-contenders, and rumors of spirits walking the halls at night, it’s clear that there is something far more sinister at hand
2) The page numbers didn’t match up with the actual pages I turned through. Turns out, this was because the pages were bound out of order! (Page order was actually 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 97, 98, 99, 100, 109, 110, 111, 112, 105, 106, 107, 108, 113, 114, 115)
Not sure if this weird scavenger hunt is the annotator’s way of drawing attention to the misbound pages or if the scavenger hunt actually leads to a huge Da-Vinci Code-esque revelation if you use some sort of top secret cipher.
Intrigued? Come visit Wilson Library and solve the mystery yourself!
Mt. Paektu is standing in Samjiyon County, Ryanggang Province, in the northern part of Korea. It is 2,750 metres above the sea level. The crater Lake Chon is on the top of Mt. Paektu. The area of the lake is 9.16 square kilometres and the maximum depth of water is 384 metres. There are many mountain lakes in the world but none of them is as beautiful as Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu with mysterious colours. Everybody admires the magnificent and wonderful view of Lake Chon at first glance. The main colour of water of Lake Chon is greenish blue. It is colourless to a certain depth from the shore. The water is so clear and transparent that all kinds of stones in it seems to be spreading on the bed. Going further, the colour of water turns light green little by little. As the lake gets deeper, it gradually changes from light green, green and greenish blue to complete blue, which is the main colour of the water of Lake Chon. The blue colour turns dark blue as the lake gets deeper and it is the colour peculiar to Lake Chon that cannot be found elsewhere.
The colour of water of Lake Chon mysteriously changes into multifarious colours according to the watching position and distance, seasons and weather, and natural phenomena. When the sun rises spreading golden beams, it looks like a gilt plate on the red background. When the beautiful evening glow appears and full moon rises, the silvery and golden waves of the lake are very spectacular. The original colour of water of Lake Chon is peculiar and beautiful and mysteriously harmonizes with various colours, adding to the marvellous and distinctive looks and character of Mt. Paektu.
Book Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Book Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
A stunning #OwnVoices debut representing Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) culture in a hook-you-from-the-start thriller. Teenage Daunis Fontaine gets roped into an FBI investigation of a meth ring in her small hockey-obsessed town near the Canadian border. Her knowledge of the Anishinaabe community, the hockey world, and medicinal plants make her the perfect informant, but digging too deep will put her in…
Hello excuse me friends, but have any of you read A Good Girls Guide to Murder? By Holly Jackson?
Ok well, I need recs for more books like it. It’s for a younger teen so probably nothing too horribly graphic. Murder mysteries, crime mysteries, who dunnit’s.
She used to love the A to Z Mystery books and has moved up, but I don’t know what to recommend for her.
Anyone have any suggestions? Middle grade to YA preferred.
During this absence I was going through many things that consumed my time or I didnt want to do much BUT, I already returned and I hope to be more frequent with this because I really miss drawing.
So, here is a High School Mystery! AU because I love them, and I hope this doesn’t end forgotten like my other AUs, which I hope to continue even with just sketches.
The mysterious; the enigmatic; power; Ra, god of the rising sun; wisdom; royal dignity; vigilance; strength.
With the head of a man, or woman, body of a bull, feet of a lion and wings of an eagle, it represents the four elements and combination of physical and intellectual power, the natural and the spiritual power incarnate in the Pharaoh.
The androsphinx is human-headed and represents the union of intellectual and physical powers; the criosphinx has a ram’s head and depicts silence; the hieracosphinx is falcon-headed and is solar; an all-lion-bodied sphinx, without wings, signifies power.
The Theban sphinx is funerary, a protector of graves and denotes wanton destruction and is an enemy of mankind.
The Greek sphinx is female-headed; the Minoan sphinx wears the ‘lily crown’.
The human-headed sphinx is also suggested as human spirit overcoming animal instincts.
[Source: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper]
