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openTime Travel related book? Literature
The premise of the book is that a scientist is attempting to send a block of lead into the future which leads to an explosion of catastrophic proportions, with a group of people trying to ...repair? the split in time it caused. Everything is frozen and only things exposed to the people over time can be affected. The clearest part I remember of this book is a whole chapter devoted to the coolest adventure park in existence, where groups of people fight each other? with foam tipped spears and are then attacked by an animtronic monster that proceeds to 'eat' them.
openNo Title Literature
It was about modern mages with dragons.
One of the main characters was dating a poet, at the end of the series there was the line:
"It will create, it will inspire, it will spark a minds bright fire."
openChild vs Monster children's book Literature
As a child I read a book that in retrospect seems like it's an adaptation of a folk story. The illustrations were in black and white and looked a bit like they had been drawn in pencil.
The story involved a young boy who travels from his home deep into a forest and encounters a monsters bog-man. The bog-man is short, well built, covered in hair, and has hoofed feet. The bog-man has a bit of a notorious reputation as the boy seems to know that he enjoys eating children. The boy climbs a tree to escape him, knowing that the bog-man can't climb trees because of his hoofed feet. The bog-man does have an axe however and begins to chop down the tree.
What happened next I don't remember, but I think the boy has to rely on his wit to outsmart the bog-man.
openA YA novel Literature
This one is necessarily going to be vague as I read it in middle/high school. Most of the plot points escape me, but in general it was somewhere between a survival story (a la Hatchet) and a story about the meeting of several native tribes (can't recall if they were Native American proper or something else). The most distinct feature I can recall is that every other chapter was a short passage of tribal mythology, describing animals such as Wolf or Raven interacting with each other.
More generally, it was a YA novel I read in the mid-to-late 2000s, so it's likely at least 10 years old at this point.
openApocalyptic Tabletop RPG Literature
There was this RPG I heard about on TV Tropes. One where you like, played as spirits and were tasked with killing living people by the powers that be or something.
open1900s story about beautiful woman who is revealed to be a HumanoidAbomination Literature
Lovecraftian style short story written somewhere around 1900 - 1930s . A man falls in love with a mysterious woman, It is never explained what the nature of the woman is but she is unnaturally beautiful, enchanting people fall in love with her, with Siren or Succubus parallels. It is revealed at the end that her true form is an eldritch abomination. I don't remember anything else.
I first read it after being linked to it while reading about the manga Tomie, it having similarities to the story. Thanks.
Edited by glassbooksopenFate/Stay Night RWBY Fanfiction Crossover Literature
I remember a Fate/Stay Night & RWBY crossover where Emiya Shirou was engaged as Beacon's custodian.
P.S. I think it would fit the Almighty Janitor trope.
openYoung coming of age work boy with truck driver father. Literature
Friend of mine mentioned this book. Details that they remembered were:
- Dog and boy are on a beach at one point. She can't remember if they found the dog on the beach or it was just a big scene there.
- Boy had father that was truck driver. Went out to store and never came back.
It's really vague, but I am curious if anyone would know potentially.
openChildhood book series Literature
On behalf of my friend, who wanted some help with this.
They're pretty sure it was a series of at least two books, starring a boy and a girl who may have been siblings, but my friend isn't sure. They remember the following scene:
"They were at a fancy dinner thing with the villains who looked young The hosts wore white gloves But one of the kids spilled wine(?) on the ladies gloves and she took them off revealing how wrinkly they were, and in sense, how old they actually were."
TYIA!
opena Voltron fanfic Literature
Hello guys,
I hope I've found the right place to post this.
I'm just dying to read that fan fiction mentioned in Voltron/Headscratchers!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/Voltron
"There is one fanfic out there that offers an interesting, if completely non-canon, explanation...Voltron had been hidden and unused for so long, that by the time the pilots find the lions, their internal power source has been severely degraded; exposure to the sun slowly recharges it, but that process takes a lot longer than it should thanks to the decay").
The description starts from the line 20.
Can anyone tell me where I can find it?
resolved Fourth grade girl named Josie with Bully and Dead Brother Literature
This children's book that was published no later than 1996/1997's protagonist was a fourth grader named Josie who had a best friend and 2 other girls that were close friends. She also had major problems with bullying that year.
The bully's name was Bonnie. Her best friend was Kathleen and nicknamed Haystack Head by the bully. At one point after Bonnie's cat died, she had Josie backed up into a fence and was hitting the fence closer and closer to Josie with a large stick until Josie looked her in the eye and told her she was sorry Bonnie's cat had died. There was hints of Bonnie having abusive parents.
Josie's little brother died when he was hit by a car- I THINK while he and his twin were playing on the front lawn. His twin (I think her name was susie) saw him die and ended up manifesting selective mutism as a result of the trauma
An excerpt from the book from was in American Girl magazine in the mid-to-late 1990s; Josie was depicted as having curly reddish-brown hair
openNeo-Luddism, Talking Rats, and a giant ship. Literature
I remember there was this book I once read, I can't remember whether I liked it or not, but thats not important.
So, it takes place in the future. A bunch of schmucks decided that technology beyond medieval level stuff was bad so they formed a political party and took down every single world government and reinstated a new one.
Some guys got together and built a mega-ship that sails around the arctic. It's been doing this for like a hundred or so years.
The main characters some orphan and she's got these two rats that are like some sort of married couple that talk to her.
I think a boy is sent to spy on the ship or something.
Theres a giant sea-serpent that follows the ship but it's actually mechanical and friendly.
There was a sequel, I think. That's all I remember.
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openChildren's Book About Strange Place Literature
I read a children's chapter book years ago at my local library, but have no clue what it was. Because of weeding, I have no way of checking their catalog, either. The memory is hazy, but here's what I remember:
Three kids board a plane to visit their grandfather. However, they wind up in a strange city. They try to escape, with the last chapter revealing they ended up in a tree, with a farmer and his dog finding them thanks to one of the kid's shoes.
openPossibly Damiano Literature
When I was in elementary or middle school, one of the many tests I took contained an excerpt from a novel. In that excerpt, a boy whose name was Damon, Damien, or (as I am beginning to suspect) Damiano goes into the mountains to study magic. There's a magic school inside one of the mountains, and he meets another boy who also wants to study magic there. They make some kind of deal, and then the mountain opens and they go inside. Later (maybe after several years) they emerge from the mountain, having learned magic. Only then does the protagonist discover that the other boy is in fact some kind of demon, and that the deal they made allowed it to steal his shadow. Now, people will think the protagonist is a demon because he doesn't have a shadow. I've been doing some searching and I think this novel may have been "Damiano" by R. A. Mac Avoy, but I've never read that book and don't have it, so I don't know for sure.
openThis one Shakespeare play Literature
There's this Shakespeare quote I'm trying to find. It's about how smart people make dumb decisions because they use their intelligence to rationalize the dumb decisions. I know the play isn't Hamlet or The Tempest, and not Henry IV, V or VI. It's also not Richard III. Nor is it Troilus & Cressida or The Two Noble Kinsmen. It's not Double Falsehood.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenTime loop young adult book Literature
Trying to find a book I read in middle school. This teen or middle schooler starts his day doing a science project with this girl he doesn’t like before going to the fair at night. His sister I think gets injured and he feels really upset, before he suddenly finds himself back in the school. He’s stuck in a ground hog day type disruption, where he eventually falls for the girl and saves his sister by making sure he’s in the accident instead, in which he gets less injured. I know that’s not a lot to go on but it’s just bugging me.
openSci-Fi Empire State Building Book? Literature
There was this sci-fi book that I saw in an airport bookstore maybe a year and a half ago. It had the Empire State Building on the front, but the exterior was crumbling, revealing a black, futuristic skyscraper inside. It was about this scientist who invented an anti-gravity device & some people like the MIB approached him and gave him a choice of either working in their secret laboratories, perfecting his device, but it would never be known about by the general populace, or he could go to a secret prison, where other geniuses who refused to help the MIB-like people & wanted to show the world their creations are imprisoned. He chooses to go to prison, where I think he somehow leads a rebellion or something? When I found it, it was a hardcover. Please let me know what it's called or who it's by.
openVery weird short story about cyclops, floating hand and Orion Literature
Ten years ago I read a short story for a Summer reading class ten years ago. I loved the weirdness of the story but cannot for the life of me remember its name.
So the story began with a kid being afraid of a mysterious floating hand. He worried that in the night when he slept the hand would kill him or something. Later on he recounts the story of Orion's murder and how his cheating wife carried out the deed.
The rest is a bit flaky to me, but I definitely remember the ending, where the kid goes out to find his parents, who were kidnapped by a giant cyclops, and he comes across his parents in a cage, about to be cooked by the giant, but the kid kills him and sets his parents free.
I've been searching off and on for years for the title or anything to go on, but sadly, no luck. :(
openLooking for a book Literature
I remember finding it on tvtropes but I can't recall the name. It's high fantasy with defeating evil overlord and such but it had a standing out character - a humble elven alchemist/mage (sorry memory is wonky here) who was in love with a princess but so was the Hero. I remember the elf also died. It involved a tower and stones and a ton of enemies. Might or might not be a stand alone novel.

There was a book about an alien spirit-thing that wound up on a train which I think belonged to Russia? It killed some people and possessed their dead bodies and the protag eventually ended up driving the train over the side of a cliff.