| Mystery, apples? Dollhouse? Something about clues being types of apples? |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
I'm trying to find a book I would have read in school, sometime between grade 3 and 6 which would maket roughly 10-15 years ago if that helps. What I remember is minimal but here goes anyways: Theres a girl and I think her two brothers (?) and they're visiting someone for the summer...grandmother maybe, I can't remember if even that far is correct. Some type of mystery comes and if I remember correctly clues that have something to do with different types of apples? And then in the end they/she find(s) a dollhouse that is what all the clue led too...there may have been something to do with special wallpaper with apples on it that they dollhouse was hidden behind or I could just be making that up.
I can barely remember anymore, but the dollhouse and the clues that have something to do with apples are the two parts that are stuck in my head. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about!!! |
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| Mother of the bride romance/chick-lit |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|06:38 pm] |
What I remember is really vague, but I'm hoping that any suggestions fitting this theme will lead me to the book I'm looking for.
What I remember:
Heroine is the mother of the bride, but I don't remember who the hero was - old boyfriend? Father of the groom? Totally random dude? No idea. Heroine is definitely the Mom - not a mother figure.
It's a contemporary humorous romance that I read late 90s - early 00s and published close enough to that that I bought it new at WalMart. Definitely not a Harlequin/Silhouette.
There may or may not have been a subpolot involving the bridal daughter and the groom (as in one or both gets cold feet, not someone trying to sabotage them)
That's really all I remember, but if anyone knows ANY books with a mom-of-the bride plot maybe one will jog my memory.
xposted to whatwasthatone |
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| Book about a boy walking with a lion |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|02:33 pm] |
I'm looking for a book in which a boy and his father visited Africa - I think they were from England - and the boy ended up walking a great distance, with an old male lion following him. Near the end of the story, he ended up petting the lion before he (the lion) died. There were also poachers in the story somewhere. I read this in the early 2000s, but it might have been written in the '80s or '90s.
Found - "The Place of Lions" by Eric Campbell. Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mpettitt. |
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| Friends who went to India |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|11:54 am] |
I'm trying to remember what book this was from, and this is all I remember from it; I can't even remember the main plot. But two adult friends had gone to India as young women, and fallen in love with men there. They push their children (one has a son and one has a daughter) to go as well but they want nothing to do with it. At the end of the book, the daughter tells her mother that she is going to India, and that she's going with the friend's son because they've been secretly dating and are in love.
Thank you for any ideas, this has been driving me crazy. |
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| paranormal/past life autobiography |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|06:02 am] |
My crazy uncle gave this to me for Christmas when I was 14 or so, so in the early 80s. I was both fascinated and creeped out by both the contents and the cover-a face, but mostly eyes, staring out of flames. (I used to leave it turned face down so it wouldn't look at me.)
It's an autobio by a guy who did a lot of past-life regression therapy. His therapist was a clinical hypnotist and possibly a psych professional of some sort who specialized in it. I remember he was a knight, and a woman a couple of times, and a baby that died at birth. He traced his self back through dozens of lifetimes, back at least through ancient Rome, and I vaguely remember Mongols? Some tribal group predating that, anyway. The same people kept turning up in his lives, including his gf. His gf also did the regression therapy, and kept dying violent deaths. A flowing white dress/gown/grave clothes figured in somehow, and were in her nightmares, which caused her to do the therapy.
I'm sorry this is so vague, but I was really creeped out by this as a teen. I'd like to read it again as an adult. Does this ring any bells for anyone? |
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| Older book |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|04:37 am] |
I'm looking for a book from at least twenty years ago. It was about a young girl, maybe ten, whose grandmother comes to live with her. I can only remember the following details about the plot:
- When the grandmother moved in, she took the bed (out of two) that was under the window - the girl's bed, though she didn't mention anything to the grandmother.
- The girl had a fifteen-year-old sister named Muriel, who was a cranky, crabby teen that liked to call the couch the davenport.
- The grandmother taught the girl how to grow African violets.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
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| Two young adult books |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|01:05 am] |
Book 1: The first book is a paranormal book that I read probably six years ago. All I remember is the girl moves into a house with her brother (or they are cleaning it or something) and the girl, the main character goes into the building next to it and experiences flashbacks of another life. I do remember that it is centered around Oh My Darling, Clementine.
FOUND: Dreadful Sorry by Katheryn Reiss -- Thanks to xen0glossy!
Book 1: The second book I read some years before the above was about a girl who had a friend (His name, I'm fairly sure, started with a W) she would talk about her problems with. Throughout the book it would jump to scenes of her and W by the sea on a dock or cliffs, I think. But when she sees him suddenly when she's driving (or riding a bike) she realizes that he doesn't exist. When she was young, her babysitter and her boyfriend kidnapped the main character and the MC, scared, saw the name of the store and turned him into someone she could go to (the guy with the W name)
I'm sorry if this seems vague but it is all I remember. Thank you to anyone who helps! |
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| People who share an apartment building??? |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|11:49 pm] |
Ok, the book I'm looking for is a series of separate, but intertwined stories about people in an apartment building, I'm guessing in NYC.
One of the guys is really lonely and talks to the elevator...
One woman and her husband have a ritual where she gives him a bath every night and it somehow gets told to a reporter who writes a story about it, humiliating the husband...
Another is about a high school teacher who goes to dinner with a student and her parents and they end up telling him that she wants to marry him, and even though he's shocked and weirded out by it, they end up being engaged.
Help? |
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| 1 book to find please ^__^ |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|05:42 pm] |
It's a kid's book, I'd say for 2nd or 3rd graders. I think it's set in the 50's, it's about a kid that lives in Japan with his American father (who is a sailor) and his Japanese mother. The story is about the kid (I can't remember boy or girl...) telling the reader about how daily activities, such as dinner, are switched between his mother's and father's cultures. Ex: American dinner on certain days and Japanese dinner other days. That's all I can remember about it right now, I hope somebody recognizes it. Kthx =^.^= |
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| J.B. Phillips book with C.S. Lewis |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|09:58 am] |
My granny was telling me about a book, which she cannot remember the title of, so I thought I would see if anyone here knew of it. It's a book by J.B. Phillips, she thinks it was one his last books. She remembers it as being a slim volume, slightly taller than it was wide. The important part was that it contained a description of C.S. Lewis appearing to Phillips after Lewis' death. Phillips was in the bath, and C.S. Lewis appeared just as he had in life. My granny thinks that C.S. Lewis was even smoking his pipe.
I have done a few searches, and found references to this account, but not what book it appears in. Can anyone help? |
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| I have two books to find. First one found, Hope For The Flowers, by Trina Paulus |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|01:46 am] |
The first was a childrens book about a caterpilar couple and they traviled with this group of catarpillars and they all eventually started climbing into this big pile. The male caterpillar was afraid to go and the girl tried to convince him to go, but she finally gave up and climbed the pile and became a butterfly. I'm not sure about all the details but that's the basics.
And the second I have nothing to give other than that it was, I think the second book in the series and the title was a girls name. And the cover was light brown with the silhouette of a girl surrounded by branches.
Thank you so much and I'm sorry I couldn't give you more :) |
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| Found! |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|12:54 am] |
Okay, originally I had two books to list here, but I looked through the tags to find out a gazillion people had also tried to find my first one, heh. (The Fairy Rebel, if you're curious, and I've already ordered a used copy off of Amazon. ;) Thanks to everyone who's both tried to find it and helped others find it! ). Here's my other one, which I really only remember vaguely.
It wasn't a YA book, I don't *think*. But it was focused on a group of students at a college (I'm pretty sure... might have been high school, though) who were in this special study group where they learned magic? Or met fairies? Or both? The main character ends up with invisible cat whiskers at one point. And each person that joins the group can bring in one other person. (The main character brought in his girlfriend). One of the people in the group goes evil, I remember that. The person who'd originally brought him/her in felt really guilty about that at the very end of the book. And the title was *I think* Something 101. But I tried searching for everything I could think of like that on Google - I ended up with a million false hits!
It was out in the early 90's, but may have been published any time before then. My library's copy was really beat up, and I left that area in '94.
Anyway, any help is appreciated in advance! :)
Edit: Thanks to atalantapendrag and wolfrick - it was Mythology 101, by Jody Lynn Nye. There are sequels, too! |
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| Young Adult book about talking dolls |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|07:32 pm] |
I remember reading this book back in 6th or 7th grade. Problem is I never finished it and it's bothered me ever since. Haha
I don't remember a lot because it's been a good 10 years, but what I do remember is it's about a young girl who goes to live with her aunts in a house that (I think) use to be a boarding school or something. She learns that the original owners of the building, along with their dog, had died in a fire some time ago. And while she was wandering around the place one day she stumbled into (what I think is) the attic and she finds these dolls. But these dolls weren't just any ordinary dolls. These dolls held the spirits of the old owners.
A lot of things I remember are pretty vague, but there are some scenes that stick out. Like, the dolls follows the same routine everyday; The woman waters the wallpaper which had pictures of flowers all over it, the man would sit and read the same newspaper and mention that bathtubs were on sale, and the dog (who became a little porcine dog) curls up in a little dog bed.
There is also this one part that has nothing to do with anything, but I remember her aunts were sealing a bunch of envelopes and using a sponge because licking them would be too unsanitary.
Does anyone have any clue what this book is? I would love to find it again.
FOUND:"Behind the Attic Wall" by Sylvia Cassedy Thank you jellyfish78! |
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| 50's or early 60's young adult sci fi book |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:00 pm] |
I will be amazed if I can find this book. I read it in 5th or 6th grade (~45 years ago). It was a science fiction story with space ships and aliens, and a classic good guy vs. bad guy struggle, and one of the elements of that struggle was mind power or telepathy. The unique element of this story that I (vaguely) recall is that there was some type of rating scale for mental powers, so that if your mental prowess was (for instance) a level 7 you would have an advantage going up against someone with a level of 5.
Not much to go on. The other thing I remember is that I really liked the book! :>) |
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| little creatures move in ONE STORY FOUND |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|03:12 pm] |
An earlier post about a story in an Alfred Hitcock collection reminded me of these two short stories:
In the first one, a family has a birdhouse(?) or maybe a toy house (?) and they become aware that some kind of tiny creatures have moved into it. IIRC they never actually see them, but every morning someone is leaving tiny bottles of purple milk on the little house's doorstep, and I think maybe a newspaper too?
I'm not sure if they bring luck or what, but somehow the family gets too intrusive on their little neighbors and one day there's a little sign hanging in the window: "TO LET." Maybe something bad happens after that?
It may have been in a Hitchcock collection.
The second one I read in junior high and I got the distinct impression that this story collecion was not intended for that age group. In the story I'm trying to remember a man moves into an apartment below the female narrator. I can't remember much except that as the story progresses it becomes clear that he is an incubus.
I think at some point a neighbor is trying to pump her for details and says something like "So cold they say, and big as a bull's." (Woo-hoo!)
He also had a really odd name.
ONE FOUND: The first story is Henry Kuttner's "Housing Problem.: I probably read it in "Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery." |
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| Young Adult Sci-Fi |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|01:18 pm] |
So far as I can tell, I might've just made this whole thing up. In the years I've been wondering what it was I read, I haven't been able to find it. Hopefully someone here recognizes it and can confirm it's a real book. :)
It's a young adult/kids science fiction book with a female main character. I also remember that several chapters started with a countdown, and that the girl, and her friend(s) lived on a spaceship or space station. I really don't remember anything about the actual story, I just really remember liking the main character, and I think there was a series, at least two or three books about the same girl. I read this in the early 90s, but it's possible it was written in the 80s. I also really want to say that it was a female author and that the author's last name started with an 'S' (but don't hold me to that).
Thanks. |
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| Vampire novel set in Madison, WI? |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|01:01 pm] |
Not Vampire Cabbie. This one I read maybe 15 years ago. The protagonist was gay and from Chicago. After being turned into a vampire, he moves up to Madison, WI. I've been trying to remember the title and author...
Thanks! |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|07:14 pm] |
Okay. I need help finding something. But this might not be an easy one.
So. There's this book. I read it a few years ago, and I guess I forgot about it. But the past month or so I keep remembering more and more about it. Like, I'll remember a tiny little detail every day. I want to find this book, but I just can't. I can't recall any names from the book. However, the word "Runaways" is ringing a bell. I'm not sure if it's the title but I think the word may have been mentioned in the book a lot. Here's some scattered details. Some of these details MAY NOT BE TOTALLY RIGHT, because my memory's fuzzy and I read a LOT.
-Post apocalyptic, or at least set in the future.
-Kids who are 'no good' can basically be signed off by their parents to go to this place where they're deconstructed so their organs can be used to help other people.
-Two kids find out that this is happening to them and try to escape. [may have been one kid and his friend, not two kids?]
-There's this one kid who has part of a brain from another kid and he compulsively steals things, but he doesn't mean to and is ashamed about it.
-the two kids that escape are directed to this slummy thing by some lady, and then shipped off in crates after a while. One of the kids is sleazy and is after a girl there. Some other guy constantly tries to protect her.
-Not all of them survive the crates
-The crates ship them to some 'camp' thing for kids [runaways?] who have escaped the other place.
-There's this evil doctor or person of authority who everybody is scared of. He [she?] assigns one of the kids as their helper. I think they have a truck. And maybe people who go into the truck don't come out? Something like that.
-In the end, one kid is 'deconstructed' whilst the main female character plays music.
HELP ME. I NEED TO FIND THIS SHIT. GOOGLE DOESN'T WORK. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|09:28 pm] |
Hi, I'm not sure if this is permissible or not, but there's no whatwasthatpoem community currently active on livejournal. :( So, I'm on the lookout currently for a specific poem for a friend. He thinks the title was something like "Son Wanted", and that the poem was not a recent poem but at least from the 20th century, from an American poet. He thinks it was an anonymous poem, and that the speaker was longing for an older time when kids were more obedient, where apparently he or she could have the son he wanted - a dutiful child who would do his chores, take care of his homework, etc.
Is this sounding familiar or recognizable to anyone? |
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| vaguely rememered books sparked by other people |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|12:42 pm] |
One was about a gargoyle or gryphon. It had wings IIRC and there was a picture of it perched on the corner of a building. It may well have been a short story in amongst a novel full of them. I'm pretty sure it flew around doing stuff.
Another one was about werewolves. A family move into a new neighbourhood and the son befriends a regular person. I am fairly sure the family was all 'infected.' The son invites the boy over and the boy is shocked to see the family eating rare (raw?) meat. This one and the above would have been read while I was at school, so 1980's.
Third one is a cook book (many thanks to the poster asking about hers, I wouldn't have thought to ask about that here). It is an Australian, maybe even Tasmanian, one about what the early settlers used to cook. In it there were recipes to cook native hens (add to a pot of veges with a rock, cook for hours, toss hen out and eat rock), and wallabies, make browning and a recipe of sorts to make your own yeast. This one is less than 15 years old and had only like 50 pages, if that.
I'm not expecting miracles about these because they are so impossibly vague and maybe too local. |
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