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I could have sworn it was W.H. Auden who wrote something to the effect that 'poetry didn't save a single person from the Holocaust' but Google and I are completely drawing a blank, even when I remove his name from the search. Can anyone help???

Hello! I posted about this book a few months back on find_a_book but no luck there. Maybe someone here can help?

I had this book probably about ten years ago. It was fantasy, standard paperback size, about an inch thick. I cannot remember the title or the author, but it was part of a series called something like "Circle of Time" or "Circle in Time." I have searched for this, to no avail. Everything that turns up in search results is either Robert Jordan or new age, and not what I want. I think the author's name might have been Jane something?

The story started with a young woman in the household of her very unpleasant father. They live in a country with a really patriarchal, anti-sex religion which bashes women, so the young woman is basically under her father's heel. She catches the eye of a mercenary-type who is accompanying a merchant and staying at the father's house that night. The mercenary, slightly drunk, offers for the young woman's hand in marriage, and the father consents, since he wants his daughter off his hands. The mercenary is actually quite nice to the young woman, because he comes from another country (an archipelago, as I recall) where their version of the religion celebrates sensuality and holds men and women equal. As soon as the new couple are on the road, the young woman takes advantage of the mercenary getting drunk and runs off, because she's convinced he's as bad as all the other men she knows. But it turns out she has some kind of magic, and the one time they had sex, the magic of both parties combined somehow, so they're connected. The rest of the book is the young woman making her way through the countryside, with the mercenary trying to find her, because he's aware of the connection and thinks it's significant. In the end, the young woman defeats one of the big, bad bishop-types from the patriarchal religion.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'd like to read it again. I can provide more details if anyone wants them, but I think I included the important bits

Looking for a Young Adult book about a boy escaping from East Berlin, probably written in the early sixties.

I thought it was titled simply The Wall, but that has turned up nothing.

Early in the story, the boy's mother dies. (He returns to his home one day to find her lying cold on the sofa, I think.) I don't remember the father being in the picture at all, though the way the story goes, he is/was probably someone important. The boy finds a spot where he digs a hole under the wall at night with the help of a small dog; pretty sure it was a dachshund.

I remember some guards coming near and one of them lighting a cigarette, and "the match flared as bright as a headlight". At least, I'm pretty sure that phrase was in this book. :)

Once he's made it to the other side, he finds a home with a couple who care for him (possibly relatives)--but it turns out he is not safe, as he is being trailed by the KGB who want to capture him and return him to the East.

I really want to read this again, as it is the obvious source of a recurring dream I have of escape and pursuit.

Ok, I literally just heard this on "Mad Men" and it's at the very end of the ep. The singer sounds *a lot* like Roy Orbison -- it might actually *be him -- and the chorus of the song sounds like "Cha-ta-ruba". Anyone?

Found! It's "Shahdaroba" and it *is* by Roy Orbison! Thank you!!! :)

I found it in my junior high library in 1983-85, though I have no idea how old it was then. It was a small paperback with a cover illustration of one or two white unicorns in a dark green tree-filled area. The story culminated with the unicorns missing the deadline to get on Noah's ark, and that's why there aren't any unicorns anymore.

It's not _The Last Unicorn_ by Peter Beagle and yes, it's a lot like the song _The Unicorn_ by the Rovers. The first time I heard the song I remember thinking that the writer must have read this book.

Thanks for you help!

Hi all,

I'm trying to remember the name of a YA Fantasy novel that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. It was likely written on or before 1995.

Sadly, I can only really remember the scene that scared me: an evil wolf/dog thing jumps on a kid who is lying in bed, and nearly kills him. I believe the dog/wolf is supernatural and from another world or plane of existence. I believe the kids in the story travel to this other plane occasionally, but there is something evil there, and the kids have to hide from it.

This book was a paperback, I got it at Cole's in Canada. I have looked EVERYWHERE for this book, but I have no idea what the title was. I believe the paperback cover was a typical fantasy cover and painted in light/pastel colours, and it wasn't marketed as a "scary" book or anything like that...I was just a wimp. :)

Thanks so much for your help!

Ok, this is a bit of a difficult one, possibly.

There was an advert for something or other, where there's a girl in a dark part of town and she has to follow the light or something. The song with it goes something like, "I could be your alice, in your wonderland."

It was shown both on TV and in the cinema, but I can't find the song nor the advert. I know it's vague but it's all I can remember. Any idea?

I'm looking for a children's book about the North Pole. It had very beautiful, detailed illustrations. There were some more reindeer in addition to the ones mentioned in the "Twas the Night Before Christmas" song. One of the illustrations showed the reindeer's stables, and the name "Lichen" was on one of the stalls. I had this book when I was kid in the '90s, but I don't know if it was new then.

Found: It's "The Wild Christmas Reindeer" by Jan Brett.

Hi everyone. This is a great community and having to opportunity to try and find some books from my past is awesome. I really hope someone can help me.

The first book was a YA book, or maybe even a children's book that my sister brought him from the library one time. It would have been written in or before the late 90s/early 2000s. I seem to remember the cover having pastel colors and pictures of real girls in hearts. The book was about these three girls who go off to a boarding school and have to room with each other or something like that. And they all disliked each other but ended up becoming friends. I also think the POV moved between each of the girls. Anyone have any ideas?

The second book is really vague. It's a book I thought about buying a couple times but never did. It was about this girl who could see a hot ghost, if not more than just that one ghost. And I think she may have had dark hair and been sitting on a beach in the cover art. All I really know for certain is that it's not The Mediator series by Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll. Sorry it's so vague.

Any help would be amazing! Thanks!

I'm looking for an animated gif. I saw it in a community, but couldn't save it because I was on my phone and now I can't find it again.

It's black and white, and has Megan Fox in it. She says "Fuck them" or something similar and the words appear on the macro as well. There may be some other text too, but I don't remember.

Any help would be appreciated.

It's been driving me nuts today. There was a kids tv show with puppets - I think it was set in Yorkshire, possibly in the dales or something. They all had chubby cheeks and little sticky out ears and one of the male puppets wore a wool hat (possibly green) and a knitted sweater and was a bit daft.

Sorry that seems really vague!

Found - Roger and the Rottentrolls - thanks to shy_nerthuserce :)

I'm looking for a stargate SG-1 episode. It's pre-Ben Browder, and I'm pretty sure but not 100% sure that Daniel's in the episode (so not season 6). I read through the summaries on IMDB (which are awful, btw!) and wikipedia and didn't see anything that sounded like what I remembered. SG-1 are captured, or at least Jack and Sam and maybe also Daniel and Teal'c are captured, and kept in an underground or cave prison (but I'm pretty sure it's not "Beneath the Surface.") I *think* the prison is run by Goa'uld. Individual members of the team get dragged off and tortured - I particularly remember Jack being taken (but it's not "Abyss"). He hugs Sam at some point, I think, or they have otherwise affectionate times.

It's really driving me nuts! I've read all the summaries! I just want to rewatch this one episode! Sigh.

TIA!

I'm a student teacher and I'd love to do this in class. I don't know if it's available online, but I hope someone can help me! Or even find search words for something similar.

It was a lesson, either spoken or perhaps written down, and the students had to draw what the instructions said. Things like "Draw a road. On the Northern side of the road, draw a forest" etc, and it was basically an exercise showing how people's interpretations can be completely different, and giving practice in following directions. According to my boyfriend there was a 'real' picture as well, that was shown afterwards, and he said "It was interesting how varied it was from what it was supposed to look like".

Anything similar to that would be awesome too.


Also, there was a youtube video perhaps for Book Week, which was about how everyone reads differently. It had a scene from a mystery, replayed over and over but with different people's interpretation of what was going on in that scene, such as "A passerby" was sometimes a man, woman, sometimes walking, sometimes driving.

I read this sometime before high school, before 1998.

All I remember is that there is a group of kids in town, including a first-person male narrator I think, and each of them has a special thing-- not superpowers, just a thing that sets them apart. Then this kid's family moves in. He introduces himself to the entire group. He wears a green sock on one foot because he's that-footed and that makes him run faster; he can run faster than the fastest kid in the group. He has more freckles than the kid with the most freckles, and there's a moment when everyone pauses and the narrator can tell they're doing math in their heads. He has more pets than the kid with most pets, including at least one goat. His family has more kids than the kid with the most siblings, including twin boys, Sam and Uel, who they didn't know were going to be twins so they just split the name. He might be able to blow a bigger bubble than someone; basically, he's better at everything they'd valued about themselves, and suddenly things suck.

There is more to the book, but I don't remember anything else.

I was thinking about this last night/this morning as I was drifting off to sleep--it may have been a series or a one-time show, I can't remember. Basically it was this hypnotist going around hypnotising people on the street, in stores, wherever. I distinctly remember one "victim" being a grocery-store clerk who was hypnotised so that she thought she really liked the "beep" made when scanning an item, and she would run items over the scanner multiple times just to hear the "beep" sound. What was the name of this show and/or the hypnotist?

I'm trying to remember a trilogy of books I read when I was 12-ish. I think they were written in the 1970s or '80s.

The main character was a thief who got caught breaking into a house. I want to say that the house belonged to a man who was a sage or a wizard or something. Instead of turning him in, the man makes the boy his apprentice.

I don't remember much else about the story other than that there was a girl who I think was part of a troupe of actors who died who joins them later, and they find a computer from our time, which is when you discover that the story's actually set in the future. The computer teaches them to speak our language by showing pictures of clouds and stuff and then playing audio of each word.

I'm a little shaky on the girl, though. I'm positive that a girl ends up becoming a major character in the story, but the acting troupe thing might be from another book and I'm just confusing them.

What was the song from the club scene in the beginning of the Surrogate? (yes, I tried googling - no complete soundtrack to be found)

"the taste of this morphine is making me sick" is the only line to a song I know. Ring any bells?

ETA: Found! It's P!nk's 'Just like a Pill'.

I have been thinking a lot about a book I read [maybe in elementary?] that I only remember very, very vaguely.

The main is a boy and the book is narrated by him. He has a little sister and she always leaves the gate open. I believe his mother is sick. I also recall he always leaves his shoes untied. He never ties his shoes. At the end of the book he's walking down the railroad tracks [his mother died maybe?] and he suddenly decided to bend down and tie his shoes. As he's doing this, he is hit by a train.

I'm sorry there is so little info on my part. I barely remember this story and kept thinking it was called "The Gate", but my searches found ... David Bowie, I believe. My husband seemed to think it was by Stephen King in his pen name Richard Bachman, but my search of that got me nowhere. I've been trying to find this book for several years, but it seems to be totally lost on me on what it's called or who wrote it.

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to find a book I read in the fourth grade. It was a fantasy book, paperback, I think the cover had a girl and an archway. The story was about a girl, I believe she may have been riding on a school bus, she was drawn into another world. I believe there may have been a goblin and/or a prince, something purple and sticky, a climbing of a tower, a wizard (possibly evil). I think she was one in a line of girls brought from our world to the magic world, but the others before her had been killed/sacrificed. I know its not much to go on. It could have been published no later than May of 1995, though I think it was probably a few years old already by that point.