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openWoman Scared Of Tornadoes Literature
A scene from a book from English class long ago, where a woman living in a place regularly hit by tornadoes is constantly going to her female neighbor for reassurance (she's scared not just by tornadoes but apparently everything). The neighbor was sympathetic at first but the woman's constant neediness is getting on her nerves.
One of them was possibly named Cassie.
openOld 1980s-1990s word map book that described various cultures of the world Literature
I vaguely remember this geography book from the 1980s-1990s. It had maps of pretty much every country with brief descriptions of said countries. It would the describe the various cultures and tribes of each country . Real live photos of cities and tribes of each country.
I remember the book mentioning woodabe tribes of Africa and the Dani tribe of asia
I believe the book cover was blue with white dots (stars) and the title was white
Edited by monkeyheroineopenEntertainment Weekly Pixar Literature
Issue of Entertainment Weekly that has a page about upcoming Pixar movies. The movies featured are
Toy Story 4 (With a Day of the Dead plot, may be referring to Coco) Incredibles 2
openXenofiction Magic Series Literature
A series of at least four (4) xenofiction novels. One of them definitely centered on a badger. The series has a name along the lines of 'wild magic' or 'animal magic'. I unfortunately remember very little about the actual plot, I can only really remember the cover, brown edging with a badger in a yellow circle.
openFrench book about a guy who comes back from the dead only to find his gf is dating someone else? Literature
The book was in French - most likely by a Canadian author, though it’s possible that it was in Met French or just a Canadian-French of an English book.
Main cover is done in cold colours, like green and purple. If I remember it depicts the protagonist, who was depicted as sort of this skeleton-looking creature who I think was wearing a hoodie, basically emerging from his grave.
I remember the beginning, where he comes back to life (no reason given from what I remember) and the first thing he does is visit his girlfriend, but gets upset when he finds out that she’s already dating someone else even though it’s only been six months. Later in the novel they seem to get back together, though it may have been a different woman the protagonist was involved with. During an exchange between the two they mention The Big Short (unless I was mistaken and it was a different movie they mentioned), so the book must have been released at around the time of the movie’s release or after it.
At a later point the person who the girlfriend had been dating tries to kill himself by jumping off a building, but although the girlfriend talks him down he stumbles and falls to his death.
IIRC, the book ends with the protagonist trying to jump off a building as well, only to find that since he’s already dead, he can’t die again, with the last words of the book being him just saying “merde”.
openZoro/Sanji fanfic Literature
I read this Zoro/Sanji fanfic set in modern era where Sanji gets/bought a doll/bear that’s possessed by Gin and he was jealous of anybody getting close to Sanji. I think I read it on fanfiction.net?
openA children's book series about a kitten adopted by a girl Literature
It's a book for somewhat older kids, part of a series about a kitten who ends up adopted by a girl. The book in question might've been a Christmas special (or not), with the kitten in question somehow getting out of the house during winter, and finding another even smaller kitten in an abandoned house. She takes care of the smaller kitten - I vaguely recall something about finding a ham sandwich and ripping bits of ham out for the smaller kitten, as well as making a nest out of discarded rags and huddling with the smaller kitten for warmth. Her humans end up finding her, and adopt the smaller kitten as well.
Edited by ParadoxicopenTheater camp tween book Literature
This is such a long shot, but I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read, probably around 2014 or 15 (and I think it was a new book around that time). It was aimed at tweens and I'm pretty sure the premise was a summer camp for theater kids and they would put on a show at the end of every summer. It was family run/very small, because I feel like all of the kids who attended the camp slept in some sort of farmhouse or something that the owners/runners of the camp also lived in. There was 100% a kid at the camp who had a mohawk and was presented as a bad boy delinquent type that wouldn't fit in with all of the theater kids, but over the course of the book the reader/the other characters learn that the mohawk guy actually has a lot of theater experience and is a lot nicer than he seemed at first. His name was Jason? Jake? Jack? The other characters are an ensemble cast situation, kind of a grab bag of all the classic highschool kid character tropes (there's a jock, a popular girl, a nerd, etc.) It's very Total Drama Island in that way, especially with the mohawk guy! I'm pretty sure there's also some sort of morning yoga class that all the characters have to attend that mohawk guy is very frustrated by. There's a cute dog in the book I think. Guys and Dolls factors in somehow (that might be the show they're putting on) and finally, to conclude this ramble of mostly vague information: I distinctly remember there being a sort of teambuilding exercise between the campers where they have to close their eyes in the dark theater, pretend to be types of ships, and attempt to cross the stage without bumping into each other (as in, someone makes a barge horn sound and another person is like "I'm a sailboat!" I know, very stupid). I think it was a joke about ships passing in the night? Thanks if anyone can remember!
openChinese Monkey Myth Literature
I recall hearing about numerous myths from Chinese novels or stories in which monkeys (gibbons specifically I believe) would transform into women to deceive people. However, I can’t seem to find a source if one exists.
openindonesian YA romance novel about a housekeeper and 4 brothers Literature
Indonesian tropers might remember this one. or the ones who into local YA romance novels
i remember reading this like years ago. maybe when i was on 5th grade (this could determine the exact year its published. i read it on 2015).
the cover is brown color and has anime-ish outline drawing of a girl opening a mailbox with shocked expression with small drawings of the 4 brothers surrounding her.
The story is about a girl who hired as a housekeeper for a somewhat dysfunctional family and the entire story is her bonding with the brothers, and she (i think) falls in love with the eldest brother iirc?
What i remember about the story is the brothers themselves. the eldest one is the most responsible, and the second oldest (or the third) is typical bad boy. there is also the strict one who has asthma and the youngest is a 4-year-old boy who exposed to not kid friendly contents (in the story it said that he read adult magazine which belongs to one of the brothers) and thanks to his brothers and i remember the protagonist concerned about it
there also plotline where the youngest brother got sick, and its apparently because his unhealthy eating and near the end her parents who doesnt aware that she worked as housekeeper mistaken her to have secret relationship and really mad about it.
openHow To Have a Birthday Party Book Literature
It's a nonfiction picture book on how to have a birthday party. It follows a girl named Caroline. It mentions the term novelties and shows what they are.
openQuestion about WH40K reference Literature
I have a question. I was trying to do research about Warhammer 40K technology lately. Saw a couple of references to a machine that was able to Purge it's name from databases across the galaxy. Being I was partially referencing non warp based ftl tech I should have made a note. Trying to find what novel this might have been from. Anyone have any ideas?
openDiamond Brothers book with a coded message Literature
I was going to see if one of the books in the Diamond Brothers series had an example of a coded message, but I forgot which one.
I remember one scene in which someone was given a letter that seemed innocuous, with "Ma" talking about how things are going. It began "Bad news, I'm afraid." and said something about the recipient's granddad being in hospital, if I recall correctly. However, it turned out that the first letter of every other word created a message when they were put together. Said message was something along the lines of "BIG ED TAKING OVER, COME HOME AT ONCE." I also remember that the titular brothers were in police custody, but I might be conflating it with my memory of another book since they frequently ended up there, at least once for wasting police time.
It's definitely not "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" since the brothers never got arrested in that book.
Edited by RiolugirlopenYA book about dragon finding other dragons Literature
A YA book (I think it was a series) about dragons that I read in the 90s. I don't remember a lot of specific details, but it involved a dragon, I think working with 1 or 2 young people, trying to find other dragons. I remember a specific scene where they've heard rumors of dragons in a desert land, but when they get there it's actually giant crab monsters that they need to fight. The dragon is insistent that the crabs aren't real dragons.
openI don’t even know pt 2 Literature
This might be the same book as my last post, but it’s even more all over the place so I hope not.
Uhhhh…
Girl in village, I remember reading it and imagining lots of sun and green grass. On a hill I think. There was some sort of hunting tax.
For some reason the girl went on this quest?
All I remember about the quest is her absolutely demolishing a smith shop.
I think there were dragons?
And either an axe or daggers were super important. May have belonged to a father.
Again so sorry for the lack of info but I’m really just getting like glimpses of scenes.
openYA Sci-fi book Literature
main characters are young twins (boy and girl) with minor genetic mutation to have gills. I think later they get some kind of superpowers. Several other minor mutants including a lion tailed guy named Leo. I think there was an Layered Metropolis setting that was kinda dystopian.
Read when I was a middle school, so over 10 years old at least.
openStory about one of the Apollo missions crashing into one of the spheres of heaven Literature
It's some alternate reality story where an Apollo mission, presumably Apollo 11, crashes into one of the spheres of heaven and now everyone knows that heaven and hell exists. Another detail is that in hell, people who sin less are thrown into worse hells in order to incentivise people to commit worse sins.
openMiddle grade book, children escape from mad scientist Literature
So, I read this book in school, around the mid-2010s.
It was about a bunch of kids who were captured and being experimented on by a mad scientist, in a facility that might have (I'm not sure of this) eventually been revealed to be in space.
The children all had powers of some sort- I can't remember whether they had powers beforehand and that was why they were being experimented on, or if the mad scientist just decided to kidnap a bunch of random kids For Science! and the experimentation is what gave them their powers. Either way, the powers they had were pretty weird- I remember specifically there was this one girl whose hand turned into a hammer. Oh, and they had a Team Pet in the form of some unidentified creature that had also been subjected to (possibly even created in) the mad scientist's experiments.
Eventually, the kids figured out how to mount an escape (naturally, this involved cleverly combining all of their abilities, even the seemingly useless ones).
Other stuff I remember:
It was made for kids, so despite the "captured and experimented on" setup the tone was still somewhat lighthearted.
The cover had a colorful image of the main cast of children on it, including the aforementioned Team Pet, although the image made it look like a brick covered in purple fur (and with a pair of eyes sticking out of the fur).
The mad scientist was either mentioned or briefly shown to have performed an "experiment" with no actual science (mad or otherwise) in it; he was just torturing a lab mouse For the Evulz by pulling out chunks of its fur. I think he claimed that he was testing how "how many hairs you pull out at once" affects "how loud the mouse squeals in pain".
Oh, and I am REALLY, REALLY not sure about this, but I think at one point the narration used a weird expression that I think was an Australian-ism. Again, it is very possible that I'm misremembering and it was either another book or just a character with an Australian accent, so use this fact if it helps you search but please don't reject a possible match just because the author wasn't Australian.
openSci-fi book with digital copies of ancestors Literature
Chapter book for younger audience that I looked over in a library in the 00s
- Starts of the main character, a boy, dirt biking and crashing
- His mother so upset that she takes him to a place where they have digital copies of the minds of their ancestors to talk with a grandfather or older generation male relative.
- The people who looked after the place were called something like geeks or nerds and wore rainbow suspenders. Despite the name, they where honored for their role.
- The grandfather/past relative gives him a cheery speech and winks at him. The protagonist finds a message hidden the a frame of the wink.
- The protagonist recruits a computer savvy friend to help him and makes contact with the grandfather/past relative who tells him that the guy set up the digital copies of the minds has set so it edits the responses
- They confront the guy and he says that says he did it to stop "Clan Wars" and his actions were necessary to stop the cycle of violence
- The grandfather/past relative and the guy try to get the protagonist to decide who take control of the system with grandfather/past relative arguing for free speech and the guy arguing that it would lead to war.
- He puts them in a platform game-esque arena with whoever reaching the end gets control then deciding that neither should have control and putting them into a loop by sending them back to beginning when they reach the end.
- Then it turns out that it was All Just a Dream that the protagonist was having while unconscious after the biking crash at the beginning.
- After the protagonist wakes up in hospital he talks to computer savvy friend who exists in non-dream world where they make videogames suggests they could make a level that sends the player back to the beginning when they reach the end as reference to above plot point.

I remeber in one of the books by Shel Silverstein where there were a series of poems where a boy tells his mother he saw monsters right behind her, but she doesn't believe here until the last one.