I have finally received my very first Sherlock Holmes book. I am absolutely ecstatic!! Except for one thing, it did not come to the address that I use during the week while on campus, but to my home address in a different county. And, as I have not got my Sherlock DVD this week either, I have had a very depressing week of trying to get my daily dose of Benedict through youtube and, although the videos are amazing, I miss having my DVD and the readily available-ness of the Sherlock series. So when my Mom called me to tell me that it had finally arrived, I was on the verge of exploding. Now, I will be trying something new next week, I’ll be trying to make all of those fan pics and all of Sherlock, Benedict and Martin. It means that I will have to watch Sherlock again and again and again ;). And so, I’ll be putting up my first picture in a bit. Hope ye enjoy what’s to come :)
A GUIDE TO DEDUCTION GIVEAWAY.
In celebration of the Guides surpassing 20,000 followers (and A Guide to Deduction reaching over 11, 500 itself) and in order to promote Save Undershaw, I have decided to do a giveaway.
(Knowing how people can be suspicious, here is evidence of me being at the signing in question back in November. [x])
First Prize: A copy of A Study In Scarlet, BBC Sherlock Edition, signed by the writers themselves, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, two fliers of the November 2nd signing and a personal letter from Sherlock Holmes.
Runner Up Prize: A ”deduction promotion” on A Guide to Deduction and a personal letter from Sherlock Holmes.
Rules:
- The competition is open internationally.
- Only reblogs will be counted, not likes.
- Reblogs from “fake” (inactive or purely designed for giveaways) accounts will not be counted.
- One reblog per day: anyone with spammed entries will be disqualified.
- Winners will be chosen completely at random and given 48 hours to respond or the prize will go to another entrant.
- You must expect to give an address and at minimum initials/full name to receive the prize.
How to Improve Your Chances
- Submit work for the Save Undershaw Project. Each piece is worth one extra entry, and submissions are unlimited. Stolen work will result in immediate disqualification. Work purely for entry with no effort will not be counted.
- It may help (but it isn’t necessary) to follow A Guide to Deduction as I will announce winners there before sending out messages to avoid any technical hitches.
DEADLINE IS MARCH 10th, 9PM GMT.
Good luck, have fun.
The Game is Afoot!
HR, Author of A Guide to Deduction
Happened to pause it here, thought it was a pretty amazing picture :P
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The Book
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The Coat
I am not a man. And I don’t have the figure of a man, but I do know that if I was born a man, I would dress like the character Sherlock. But, as I am female, I’ve had to settle for much less than wearing shirts and suit trousers. Instead, I have a coat. It is not black, and it is not long, but,it has a collar.That’s right laddies, a collar that you can put up around the back of your neck, and with the accessorizing of a short enough scarf, suddenly I already feel like a ‘consulting detective’. Now, I will admit that walking along the road with my collar up and looking at people in a very deep way, does seem to be starting a bit of a stir in those passing me, so I have (unfortunately) limited myself to putting my collar up only when it is cold and windy (A Study in Pink/Scarlet references :))
If any of you do not know what Sherlock’s coat looks like, which I doubt, here’s a picture so we can all gaze at his amazing fashion sense as well as… well… him. Enjoy ;)
Series 2
Now, as most of you know, series 2 is of course out. And, as I am still awaiting the arrival of my books from the site I ordered them off (it takes 7-10 working days for them to get here) I have decided that the second series is a necessity. So, I took a picture of the box in one of the shops with my phone and put it up on Facebook, hoping that some rich guy would see it, feel sorry for me that I need a €17 DVD to live and buy it for me. But of course, I don’t really know any rich people, so I will have to wait ‘till it goes down in price. As for the pictures, I got a few comments about Sherlock and offers to borrow some other people’s books, which is great, but still no new series.
Here’s the picture anyway in case you wanted to see it:
So my confession of the day is that Sherlock is making me beg people for a DVD… A €17 DVD. This can only get better ;)
As the early days of the obsession continues, I find certain pictures insanely upsetting and enlightening
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Early Days
As I sat on the bus this morning, I noticed how already my world is changing and the way used to look at things evaporating into non-existence. I find myself staring at people’s shoes, wedding rings, even their ears searching for some sort of defying qualities. I find myself looking over the pages of my books, which would usually thrill me, bored and wanting more, wanting to be able to see. So far in my life, other than very few twists and turns, my life has been relatively uneventful, but thanks to my latest love and obsession, I am no longer happy with ‘relatively uneventful’. I want adventure, thrilling moments, to be thrown at the edge of death and pushed over it, gripping to the edge with my bitten-down finger nails, and then-. I arrive at my destination, back on the bus and watching the nervous people as they dash off the bus into a crowd of people. I get up and walk through the same streets in the same way, with the same thoughts running through my mind.
But now, that is all going to change. I am doubtfully a new member to this phenomenon, but none the less, I will take full advantage of it. Although I love to read and have always read, and though I knew that the books of Arthur Conan Doyle would be right up my alley, I never read them at all, or even bought one of the books. Until yesterday, that’s right, although some of you may think that I am at a disadvantage only beginning to read the books now, I think it will make the journey of this blog more realistic, more up-to-date, as my feelings will be fresh and will develop with the books and series.
If you have not yet guessed, I am totally obsessed with the current series of Sherlock, on BBC. I fell for Benedict Cumberbatch’s take on the much loved character instantly; as I’m sure many of you have too. This will not only be a blog, or document of my ‘Holmes experiences’, but it will be a diary, a confession box, this will be the guide and Bible of a Sherlockian, this will be the Confessions of a Holmes- aholic.
I hope you will join me on the obsessive impulses to follow people to see if you were right about where they were going, or to make sure you were thinking like the great man himself, or watching people trying to figure them out, or even just smiling at the thought of writing a blog, or even at the sight of a door with the number 221 on it, and adding a ‘b’ in your mind. And so, in the infamous words of Sherlock himself, “the game is afoot!”
