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"Yes, mon ami, there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!"~Hercule Poirot
Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten #BookWormSat #ShakespeareSunday & #Cats of course
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"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."

-A Wrinkle In Time
Madeleine L'Engle
#BookWormSat
One of the numerous covers of "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle, with art by Leo and Diane Dillon. This cover features three children (Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace) in the foreground with the Happy Medium, a clairvoyant being, standing behind them holding a crystal ball. In the background three old ladies can be seen (Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit), and behind them is a dark, ominous shadow covering part of a starry sky.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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“All my early tulips are out. Are yours?”
The girl stared at her vacantly.
“I don’t know.”
What was one to do... with someone who didn’t talk gardening or dogs—those standbys of rural conversation?

-Taken at the Flood
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
One of the numerous covers of "Taken at the Flood" by Agatha Christie. This cover shows the aftermath of an explosion at an estate near London. A little boy can be seen in the foreground standing in front of a lawn full of colorful flowers and bushes and looking at the destruction.
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!"

Henry V
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: The Hollow Crown Plays
Screenshot from "The Hollow Crown" featuring Tom Hiddleston as King Henry V. In this pic he is holding a shield and the national flag of England.
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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“...I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am LIVING in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.”

-A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#BookWormSat
Front cover of the first US edition of "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts (1905). A little girl with short black hair is wearing a black dress and holding a doll. She is sitting and looking up at a dark sky with large fluffy white clouds and yellow starlike birds.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Speaking of Yorick...
Cartoon by Ellis Rosen depicting a skull on a lounge chair by a pool. It is talking on a phone and wearing sunglasses. The caption reads "Find me something else! I am not doing Hamlet again!"
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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"O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with time’s deformed hand
Have written strange defeatures in my face:
But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?"

Comedy of Errors
Act 5, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Love & Loss
Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham in the 2011 BBC miniseries adaptation of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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"Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."

Romeo and Juliet
Act 4, Scene 5
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Love & Loss
A field of red poppies with a grey sky in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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what tv show grabbed your attention from episode one? 📺

for me… 🖤
Pic from the 4th season of Only Murders in the Building. Eva Longoria, Eugene Levy, and Zach Galifianakis are portraying the main characters, Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin), and Oliver (Martin Short). This pic shows everyone dressed in outfits from the very first episode.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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"The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war."

-The Conduct of Life
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#BookWormSat
The cover art for this edition of "The Conduct of Life" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is from the painting "Cypresses" by Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts a field with cypress trees and a blue and white swirling sky with a crescent moon.
November 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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"War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice."

-Who Speaks for Man? 
Norman Cousins
#BookWormSat
The cover of "Who Speaks For Man?" by Norman Cousins, an American journalist, writer, professor, and activist. The quote on the cover reads "Belonging to a nation, man has nations that can speak for him. Belonging to a religion, man has religions that can speak for him. Belonging to an economic and social order, man has economic or political orders that can speak for him. But belonging to the human race, man is without a spokesman."
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot
David Suchet (as Poirot) takes Joan Hickson’s (Miss Marple's) hand at Torquay Station during the Agatha Christie centenary celebration in 1990. Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector Japp), Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings), and Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon) can be seen in the background.  The photo is captioned "David Suchet, portraying Hercule Poirot, meets Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) as they never did in Christie's books. The actors met at the train station in Torquay during the Agatha Christie Festival."
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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"If circumstances lead me, I will find
Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed"

Hamlet
Act 2, Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Truth & Lies
Screenshot from "Only Murders in the Building" season 5, episode 10. The trio and Howard are standing just outside the gates of the Arconia looking down at the latest murder victim with shocked looks on their faces.
November 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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October 31 vs. November 1 #Caturday
Cat meme showing the difference between October 31 vs. November 1. On the left there is a small white cat dressed in a pumpkin costume and lounging on a pumpkin blanket. On the right the same cat is dressed in a Santa costume and is lounging on a Christmas blanket and sweater.
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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“All life is a jest... and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die? Well, that is very true for us here—it is a question only of whose death will come tomorrow.”

-Death Comes as the End
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
Poster advertising the closing event for the 2025 International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay, featuring a skull impaled by a bloody dagger. (Source: IACF Facebook)
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Visitors and staff at the Torquay Museum have reported #AgathaChristie books flying off the shelves in the gift shop. The staff believe the activity is linked to a ladder displayed in the shop which was made from wooden floorboards taken from Ashfield, her childhood home in Torquay. #PhantomsFriday
Photo of the Torquay Museum where Agatha Christie books have been seen flying off the shelves. The haunted ladder is displayed in the gift shop. (Source: TripAdvisor) Photo of the ladder made from wooden floorboards salvaged during the demolition of Ashfield, Agatha Christie's childhood home. (Source: DevonLive)
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".
The robotic doorman L.E.S.T.R. from "Only Murders in the Building".
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Not my home, but I know my way around.
The Azeroth world map from World of Warcraft which shows Kalimdor, Northrend, Dragon Isles, Broken Isles, Kul Tiras, Eastern Kingdoms, Zandalar, Pandaria, and Khaz Algar. The Cosmic map from World of Warcraft which shows Azeroth, Draenor, Outland, and the Shadowlands.
October 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Post a witch. Or three. 🧙‍♀️🧹
Bella Webb (Rita Tushingham), Sybil Stamfordis (Kathy Keira Clarke), and Thyrza Grey (Sheila Atim) from the 2020 BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse." In this screenshot the 3 witches are standing outdoors in front of a sign that reads "Let Madame Sybil read your fortune."
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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"My dear man, why have people come throughout the ages to the necromancer—to the sorcerer—to the witch doctor? Only two reasons really. There are only two things that are wanted badly enough to risk damnation....So simple, isn’t it? Love—and death.”

-The Pale Horse
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
One of the numerous covers of "The Pale Horse" by Agatha Christie. This pic shows the back and front covers of the Pocket Books edition printed in the US in 1972. Three middle-aged witches can be seen on the front cover with wispy iridescent clouds in the background. The back cover shows an upside down cross near a skull and crossbones behind a flaming and smoking goblet. A skeleton riding a pale white horse through the smoke and clouds takes up the whole background and can be seen in its entirety with the book wide open as in this pic. The blurb reads "The fatal list was found on a dead priest's body. And the names had one thing in common. Each person was either already dead—or marked for murder."
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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"I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring."
And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her—a sense of the loveliness of the world—of her own intense enjoyment of that world....“I shall never be as happy again as I am now—never.”

-The Hollow
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
One of the numerous covers of "The Hollow" by Agatha Christie. This cover shows steps leading into a pool. There are slight ripples on the water's surface and autumn leaves can be seen scattered on the steps and floating in the water.
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Reply with an image you can hear 🐠
October 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Share a TV show you love from the 1970's. 📺
The original cast of "Are You Being Served?" - Mrs. Slocombe (Mollie Sugden) holds up a pair of pink underwear with "No Parking" printed on it to show to her associates who have gathered around her. Standing next to her is Miss Brahms (Wendy Richard), then Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister), Mr. Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), Mr. Mash (Larry Martyn), Mr. Grainger (Arthur Brough), Mr. Humphries (John Inman), and across from her is Captain Peacock (Frank Thornton). One of my fave shows, and I also really liked the sequel "Grace and Favour" (also known as "Are You Being Served? Again!").
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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"If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."

The Merchant of Venice
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Forgiveness & Revenge
Small black cat carrying a knife in its mouth.
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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"Most details are insignificant; one or two are vital. It is the brain, the little grey cells”—he tapped his forehead—“on which one must rely. The senses mislead. One must seek the truth within—not without.”

-The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat
Dover Mystery Classics cover of "Poirot Investigates," a Hercule Poirot short story collection by Agatha Christie. A black bowler hat is above the title and Poirot's signature mustache is below with a background of blue sky with clouds. This collection was first published in the UK in March 1924 and included 11 short stories: The Adventure of the Western Star The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor The Adventure of the Cheap Flat The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman The Case of the Missing Will The American edition was published a year later and included 3 additional short stories: The Chocolate Box The Veiled Lady The Lost Mine
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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the vibe I'm bringing into October... 🖤🎃
Promotional pic for the episode "Hallowe'en Party" from Agatha Christie's Poirot. David Suchet as Hercule Poirot is holding a jack-o'-lantern. Another jack-o'-lantern is on a small table nearby. A ghost made from a white sheet and orange balloons can be seen behind him.
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM