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Cornwind Evil posted:I'm trying to recall a young adult book in the vein of Judy Blume (not one of hers I believe, I checked a lot of them on her Wikipedia page). All I remember from it is that the female teenage main character has such a bad parent/teacher meeting (I think she and the teacher were having strong disagreements) that she basically suffers a complete physical breakdown, like the negative assessment by her teacher has made her violently ill. I thought then, and now, that it was a strange reaction. Her symptoms were a lot like one time that I got sick (she specifically mentions just being 'unable to get out of bed', which happened to me one time when I was young, my body just suddenly became very weak. No idea what I had then), but I actually had a physical disease while hers is a psychological reaction. Could it be Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements? The main character had a lot of trouble in school because she was dyslexic and didn't realize, and acted out to compensate. There was definitely a part where her uncle takes her out to get her ears pierced and the woman at the piercer's is kind of New-Agey and starts telling the mc about the meanings of all the different stones. Do you remember a part where the mc spraypainted "School makes me puke" on a school wall, only with a bunch of misspellings (because dyslexia) and a police officer comes to her classroom and makes everyone write the message out, and she panics because she realizes her misspellings could give her away?
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Professor Shark posted:This is actually a BBC Radio Drama, but I figure this is a good spot for it: Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Is_Easy EDIT: Should add that that link spoils the entire plot, if you want to read the book. Liffrea fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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DasNeonLicht posted:Deep reach with this one — a contemporary novel with a historical setting on (I want to say) the American East Coast... New England? I think the first-person narrator was female, pining after her at-sea husband. A whaler? Was there a mermaid or a selkie? A threatening storm? I want to say I remember descriptions of the rickety homes in this coastal town. Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer? https://www.amazon.com/Ahabs-Wife-Star-gazer-Novel-P-S/dp/0060838744 It was published in 2005, but I definitely remember it being a thing (might have been one of Oprah's Book Club selections or something like that) sometime around that period.
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hexwren posted:teen novel where the sidekick character is a conceptual artist with a weird car Korman's Son of Interflux? It takes place at a high school for the arts.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:A book in the 90s about a group of girls, I think junior high age. I want to say it had Blubber vibes, maybe. I think there was a girl they bullied that eventually made friends with them? Only things I remember are I'm almost positive this is Barthe DeClements' Nothing's Fair in 5th Grade. Does the bullied girl getting blamed for stealing her class's book club money ring any bells?
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