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resolved A reincarnation novel with a fat crippled Literature
I forgot the name of a novel, if someone can help me please.
The mc transmigrates in a game or novel world. He is in the body of a fat child. Because his father hates him he locked his potential after birth, poison him and even put a gu inside his body so he will die painfully when he turn eighteen. The reason the mc is fat is because of the parasite. Each day the mc had to drink a sort of tea that fed the parasite and made him fat.
Iirc the father did that because a ghost once take possession of his body and the mc body is the child that was make when he was possessed so he doesn't consider him his own and killed his mother, the woman he married when he was possessed.
It's not a a cultivation novel. The power system has mages and knights. If I remember there something called Mage and Mana gates, the original body had the chance to be born with both opened but the father poison him.
At some point the mc explore a place with a treasure and met an assassin sent by his former fiancee, the assassin is a woman who used an artifact to conceal her gender.
resolved Vampire book Literature
Book about a Vegetarian Vampire guy who reveals the existence of vampires to the world, and the cover had a yellow smiley face one it with fangs
Edited by Tremmor19resolved The Push Literature
Not to be confused with "Push" by Sapphire. "The Push" is a 2021 novel by Ashley Audrain about a mother who fails to bond with her daughter, who begins to suspect her daughter of unsavoury deeds.
resolved horror short story Literature
I've read this story somewhere on the internet. It's about a family who lives in a neighborhood where everything is normal, except during the night, everybody has to be inside their house and nobody is allowed to look outside. The main character is a kid and has a little sister. One day, their newly moved neighbor kid goes to play, and invites them disobey the rules and look at what's outside during the night. Despite the main character's efforts, the neighbor kid eventually looks outside the window at night and whatever he saw left him unable to speak. His family then moved again the next day.
resolved Picture Book About Coyote and the Moon Literature
It was a picture book about an Indigenous tale from the American Southwest, where the Moon became sad that, while the Sun got to rule over many beautiful creatures of the day, she only had ugly creatures— except for Coyote. Because he was her favorite, she gave him multiple gifts, including the ability to sing and a shining silver coat like her. However, because he glowed in the dark, he was no longer able to hunt food, and had to give his gifts back. The moon took all her gifts except for his ability to sing, and she appreciated Coyote as he was.
resolved Mythology-based children's book (American) Literature
The book starts with an orphaned kid, passed around his family tree, finally ending up with a "weird uncle" of some sort. Either the uncle or the kid's name is Ned, can't remember which. They go on an adventure together with a lot of direct involvement of mythological characters.
At one point, they're driving along a long, straight road and it suddenly curves out of nowhere, as if trying to kill / derail them. At another point, they run into Medusa or a Medusa-like monster, but are saved because she glimpses herself in a shiny car hubcap.
Any ideas? I'd love to find this book, so thanks in advance! And it's not anything from the Percy Jackson series!
resolved Soccer children's book (American) Literature
This book is aimed at middle/high schoolers, and it's about a girl who wins a contest to try and score a goal against a famous female goalie, who's a bit of a cheater. She gets the money only if she scores a goal, so she starts training with a local soccer coach and a nerdy guy who analyzes the famous goalie's technique and helps with statistics. The book ends with the famous goalie calling in sick or getting out of it somehow, and the local coach ends up being the goalie for the televised contest shot.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
resolved looking for a book Literature
I'm looking for a book that I never read but came across the a tropes page for. From what I remember it came out after 2000 (possibly even after 2020) and is about a killing spree taking place in a small town/village. I think it was mentioned that some of the parents of the teens got killed in the killing spree were knowingly involved in it
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Shapeshifting princess in a tower Literature
An illustrated children's book. A Princess is kidnapped by a wizard who turns everyone to stone, but a fairy gives her seven chances to escape and the ability to shapeshift. Unfortunately, every time she runs away, the wizard finds her using his magic book that tells hime where she is. The princess figures this out, and escapes by turning herself into a blank page in his book.
resolved Alien Email Penpal Literature
When I was in, I want to say 5th grade, I remember reading a book about a brother and sister becoming penpals over email with an alien, and towards the end, when they decide to meet up at a burger chain (I believe it was Fatburger), the alien was wearing very 90s clothing and cracking jokes about his home planet that none of the people at the restaurant understood. I can't remember the name of the book, though, but I remember that it was all text; no images. Does anybody know what this book is?
resolved Unknown YA novel about a valley of hidden people who get invaded. Literature
- YA novel from the '80s possibly early '90s. Maybe even late 70s.
- Characters are Hobbit like almost and live in a hidden valley.
- A tribe of vicious Invaders come over and through their mountains and invade them. Their enemies use poison Spears and make you some mushrooms a lot both as food and as antidote.
- At one point the characters make a hot air balloon and explore outside their valley.
- Some of the young characters are captured by the Invaders and this is how they discover the information about the mushrooms.
- The book had a fair number of illustrations demonstrating what the characters were working on.
- Early part of the book focuses on the sort of bucolic rural lifestyle of the people.
- Possibly post-apocalyptic and a pseudo fantasy setting.
- I have only seen it in hardcover.
- Publish no later than the mid-90s.
resolved silkworm humans Literature
a short(?) story about a group of human girls that had been imprisoned & genetically modified to act as sort of giant silkworms for someone (the government? freelancing evil scientists? i don't recall that part). the silk came out of their fingers & was a different color for everyone; there was a detail about how everyone tried to guess which color theirs would be and always guessed wrong, but the color was always "personal" to them (idk how to word this part). the silk had to be extruded with a machine. one girl committed suicide by not using the machine for weeks until the silk built up inside her and choked her. the story ended by the girls wrapping up the guards/officials of the place they were at with silk to kill them, like spiders, and then building themselves cocoons to become Something New, which was left for the reader to imagine.
i think this was in an anthology, but i might be remembering wrong and it was standalone, or even longform. i read it on kindle a couple of years ago.
resolved Unlicensed Minecraft book about griefer teleported into the game Literature
I read this book in middle school, circa 2013-14? I believe it was the first in a trilogy or series but that I never got the chance to read on. All I remember is that the main character was a boy who was antagonistic in Minecraft servers, and then he got isekaied into the game and underwent some sort of character development in his quest… getting home or saving the overworld or whatever. One of the prominent characters was a villager who I think underwent a heroic sacrifice in the end?
resolved Realistic Fiction about girl hiking Appalachian trail Literature
It was a middle grade coming of age/finding oneself novel about a protagonist whose separated parents had named her after a mountain in Appalachia, and in order to disciver herself she runs away from home to hike the trail. She meets a trail buddy she nicknames Beagle, who's an adult she forms a crush on (it's not reciprocated). At some point her distant father finds her and tries to convince her to come home or at least go back to mom.
resolved Short story about a man being kidnapped by his future descendants Literature
I think he was going to do something that was going to cause some kind of problem for his descendants. (I feel like maybe it was a reputational thing, like he made a bad name for himself and all of his eventual descendants; but maybe I'm making that up.) So they go back in time and kidnap him and trap him on a ship (an oceangoing ship, not a spaceship) for his whole life against his will, to stop him from doing the thing. He resents his confinement, especially over something so relatively trivial, but he can't do anything about it. He spends the rest of his life on this ship, with his descendants. At the end of his life, he points out to them that they forgot to give him the opportunity to actually bear any children, so after all their effort to fix their problem, all they've accomplished is retroactively killing themselves. (He deliberately didn't tell them until it was too late, because he resented them that much.)
I don't remember when I read it, but it was probably less than ten years ago. I feel like the story itself was older than that, though; it had the vibe of classic science fiction (i.e. 40s-70s) more than modern science fiction. But, I might be wrong about that.
resolved (Solved) Kids book about school for kids with powers Literature
A childrens book series I read like 5 years ago about a school where every student had a magic power. The main character had a power called fluxing which is basically shapeshifting but i forgot what she could turn into. Her friend was a boy named Bax or Box who also had flux powers but could only turn into a rock. In her class there was a boy who was always floating and had to be weighed down with bricks, a boy who could see sound waves and had to wear a blindfold, a girl who could make rain clouds, and more that i can't remember. I think one of the books had a baby dragon on the cover even though there weren't even any dragons in the story but i might just be misremembering.
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I'm trying to remember a short story, pretty sure by Isaac Asimov (which does NOT reduce the field by that much lol)
- It's set not on earth, but can't remember if it's mars, the moon or some space station
- It's stated that they can see the Earth though
- It opens with a guy attempting to commit cyanide suicide and another interrupts him
- They're on a a small colony with other scientists
- they escaped because (can't remember if implied or outright stated) of nuclear war
- Earth is stated to be uninhabitable anymore
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