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openAlien shellfish POV Literature
I read a sci-fi short story sometime in the last few years. I probably read it on Project Gutenberg. No idea how old it was or how well-known. It was from the point of view of some kind of shellfish-like alien whose mother was an alien like itself but whose father was human. We only got glimpses of his story through the POV of the alien, but he had apparently figured out how to communicate with these aliens. The narrating alien child would quote him sometimes and the things he said were recognizable as jokes to the reader but the child didn't get them. The alien children lived inside their mother's shell until they were old enough to survive on their own. I remember the narrating alien led its siblings to high ground because that was considered a prestigious place to settle down and establish themselves. There were some details about the hostility of the environment where they lived but I don't remember specifics.
openCoop's New Dad Literature
It's a fanfic I did about Coop Burtonburger [Kid Vs Kat] getting adopted by Chi-Fu [Mulan], after Mr Kat blew up Burt & Millie, as well as himself.
openSupernatural thriller about "the Old Ones" Literature
This is a book I read a long time ago. As I recall, the world started to sort of fade away. Everything became dimmer, and food and water lost all taste. I'm pretty sure there were monsters appearing, but I recall both the monsters and a number of people would repeat "Rantassas" something, which is supposed to mean "serve the Old Ones". Main characters are a woman and a man. The man has some sort of power to "shift" from one place to another. It turns out that these "Old Ones" are noncorporeal beings (I think they typically possessed people when they were on this side) trapped in another plane, and they're trying to get out, but to do so they need the help of a supernatural "Guide" and the power of that man, whom the Guide will possess to shift from our world to theirs and back, providing a path through which these beings can come to our world.
opencan't remember Literature
In a Nancy Drew book, the titular heroine is shoved down a garbage chute. Initially disoriented, she's horrified to quickly realize that she's trapped on the trash compacter's conveyor belt. Luckily, a malfunction stops the machinery in the nick of time. What is the name of the book with that stuff?
openPossibly Jewish folktale Literature
A story that goes like this: a remote town is preparing for a (likely Jewish) holiday, so that when a traveling merchant comes by they're too busy to buy anything. The disgruntled merchant leaves but spitefully puts a curse on the town (via amnesia powder) that makes them forget about the holiday. Then a group of children (who'd been sent to gather branches in the forest and so weren't affected by the curse) wonder why the preparations have stopped, get blank responses from the adults, and decide to perform the ceremonies themselves, which breaks the curse. And the epilogue shows that the merchant accidentally sniffed his own amnesia powder in the middle of a forest and was never heard from again.
openA scifi/fantasy novel about canine aliens using captured spirits to fly through space Literature
I read this probably about 20 years ago, but now I can't remember the title or the author. It followed the life of a girl through repeated upheavals, broken into roughly three parts.
In the first part, the girl lives in an isolated village. The village is attacked by raiders during a harsh winter, with both sides managing to wipe each other out, leaving her the sole survivor.
For the second part, she turns out to have witch powers, so the local faction of witches adopt her and take her to the city to train her. Witch powers are basically capturing and harnessing spirits and using them to accomplish things — larger spirits can achieve greater effects, and your power as a witch is more or less determined by the size of spirit you can control. The most powerful witches can fly into space — where there are much larger spirits than anything on the planet. The largest ones, which only a handful of witches can handle, can be used to travel between stars. Naturally, the protagonist eventually reaches this level, with the plot of this section revolving around her growing in power and eventually facing off against the most powerful witch alive (a member of an enemy faction), who she is able to defeat despite being weaker (at the time) by outsmarting her.
The last section happens when she, during her interstellar travels, encounters aliens that travel through space using technology rather than using spirits (either heavily implied or outright stated to be humanity, I forget which). They end up coming into conflict, with the witches being individually more powerful, but the humans having much greater numbers. Over time, the number of FTL-capable witches dwindles, and it becomes clear that they'll lose if things continue as they have been. By now, the protagonist is an old woman, and feels increasingly isolated from society as witches have become less and less relevant to daily life (since they've been off fighting in space).
In the end, she gathers up all the remaining FTL-capable witches for a final confrontation with the enemy fleet. They approach within striking distance, and then all release their spirits, effectively committing mass suicide, as a demonstration that they want peace between their civilizations, with the understanding that their time had already passed and their society was moving on without the witches regardless.
Edited by NativeJovianopenBook tittle Literature
I'm looking for a YA book about a dystopian society that takes away the babies of teen parents and gives them to rich people; I know that the main character is a girl and that's it. Also its not unwind
openya series, ferryman motif Literature
it was a ya series (maybe a trilogy), with a figure that is a ferryman in the vein of Charon..I think the first book might involve a suicide, but I can't remember. it's not a fantasy novel and I think the ferryman is an urban legend of some kind? the main character is a teenage boy who's sort of an outcast I think. sorry if this sucks :-[
openShel Silverstein poem about monsters Literature
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.
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?
openTheater 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.
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 Paradoxicopenindonesian 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.

I vaguely remeber a short passage from some old novel, where there was an expedition to Moon. There were at least two different kinds of sapient aliens who somehow competed against each other. Then I remember the human landing pod which was spherical and rather cramped. The protagonist needed to take shelter there during lunar night due to extreme cold (or day due to extreme heat? I don't remember. It was over 25 years ago, since I read it and the novel was probably even older.)