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Post by Smilla on Jul 29, 2007 22:44:47 GMT -4
Anyone?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2007 11:03:49 GMT -4
I wish I could help Smilla, but instead I have a new mystery, trying to remember a book I read a long time ago.
It's about a man whose daughter Pamela begins acting oddly and develops a strong yet cold fascination with the Holocaust, and it turns out she's the reincarnation of someone who was killed.
It attacked my brain last night as I was trying to get to sleep, so I figured I'd throw it out to the Greecies - among us we must have read almost everything, right?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2007 3:57:37 GMT -4
There is this YA book that is an epistolary novel; the books is a series of letters from the main character (a teenage girl) to her dad b/c her parents just got divorced. It's titled something like, "Sincerely yours, ___" or "Love always ______"
Any ideas?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2007 11:06:11 GMT -4
Aries, it sounds kinda like "Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself." Except her parents weren't divorced; her dad stayed behind to run the family business. I don't think that's your answer but that's what it made me think of.
I have one that no one seems to remember, ever. It was about a young girl whose sister had leukemia or something. The parents decide to move out to the country. The sister is dying -- there are lots of nosebleeds all over the sheets, I remember that.
The young girl befriends the neighbor couple - one or both of them is African American. They are hippie types. Toward the end, she helps to deliver their homebirth baby right around the same time her sister is dying at the hospital.
Ugh. It's been driving me nuts for years. I probably read it in the early 80s.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2007 12:09:32 GMT -4
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2007 12:14:05 GMT -4
That's it!
You are awesome.
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Post by kanding on Oct 11, 2007 14:38:28 GMT -4
I wish I could help Smilla, but instead I have a new mystery, trying to remember a book I read a long time ago. It's about a man whose daughter Pamela begins acting oddly and develops a strong yet cold fascination with the Holocaust, and it turns out she's the reincarnation of someone who was killed. It attacked my brain last night as I was trying to get to sleep, so I figured I'd throw it out to the Greecies - among us we must have read almost everything, right? I swear I saw this as a movie a long time ago. Like, at least twenty years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2007 22:47:46 GMT -4
I'm not sure if it's a short story or a novel (and there may be more than one) but I'm looking for a story in which someone has been sleeping next to a dead body/keeping the dead body of a loved one in the bedroom for years. I think it's a woman who's doing the body keeping. Any guesses?
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Post by dwanollah on Oct 12, 2007 23:51:13 GMT -4
That's the short story "A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner. American gothic at it's best!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2007 9:41:00 GMT -4
Yes, that's it! I knew it was Faulkner and was frequently brought up as an example of Southern Gothic, but my husband kept telling me it was O. Henry "because I learned it in high school and I don't think they threw Faulkner at us." Two Masters degrees in English between us and an hour on Wikipedia and I couldn't find it. Thank you!
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