Book: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Peabody and Emerson! Miss Amelia Peabody si certainly a woman before her time. She is an 'old maid' and inherits quite fortune from her father as well as a very curious mind and no patience for the arbitrary rules placed on women in the Victorian era. she takes her money and sets off down the Nile on an adventure and she gets more than she bargained for when she and her companion, Evelyn, meet the Emerson brothers. What follows is filled with suspense, archaeology and mummies! And a bit of love as well.

All together a delight to read.



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Drabble #17: With Feeling (Sherlock Holmes)

For outercorner

Title: With Feeling
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2017 Drabble. Prompt: Lullaby. For outercorner
Summary: Sherlock plays.

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WITH FEELING

He was playing the violin, but not the discordant noise he usually played. I think he played that godawful racket to annoy me. But tonight he played a lullaby, one of the sweet songs I remembered from my childhood.

“What is the occasion? Tired of driving me mad?” I asked.

“I had word that my mother is dead. She sang it to me and Mycroft when we were small.”

Feeling awful for my sarcastic comment, I expressed my condolences. He looked at me, no emotion on his countenance, and said, “Perhaps I shall feel sorrow if I play long enough.”

Drabble #18: All She Was (Babylon 5)

Title: All She Was
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2017 Drabble. Prompt: Untouchable
Summary: He thinks as he watches her sleep.

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ALL SHE WAS

He watched her sleeping. Her only movement was the gentle rise and fall of her chest as she breathed.

She was beyond reproach, perfection, untouchable!

She was also warm and caring, brilliant and wise. She was human and alien. She made others be more than they thought they were and inspired them to great achievements. She loved her people and served them all as best could. She was both funny and serious, sometimes all at once. She was kind and gentle, yet she could take down a grown man.

She was a daughter, wife and mother.

His wife.

His Delenn.

Drabble #29: A Shining Beacon (Babylon 5)

Title: A Shining Beacon
Fandom: Babylon 5
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2017 Drabble. Prompt: Shining
Summary: Just another day with Marcus and Susan

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A SHINING BEACON

“Do you really think Babylon 5 is a beacon shining in the night?” Marcus asked Susan as they searched among the stars for more of the Old Ones. They were hoping they could find some help in the war with the Shadows.

“Yes, I do. We are the light in the darkness to many planets… why are you laughing?”

“Because you sound like an advertisement for Babylon 5. “Come see our shininess and we’ll cure what ails you…”

Susan couldn’t decide whether to laugh or get angry, then he started singing “This Little Light of Mine”.

Angry it was!