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Originally Posted by laureen227

My Sweet Audrina, by V. C. Andrews?
Yep, I realized after-the-fact - that is the second VC Andrews book I posted about, but I did say she was one of my favorites.


You got it in record time. It's definitely a chilling book whose plot stays with you.

What are you reading?
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

What are you reading?
finished the last one today, & while i haven't started a new one [yet] i do have one out to start...by a favorite author.
another romance-type book, but w/mystery elements. someone [we don't know who?] is trying to kill the female protagonist - w/a plane crash! but she & the pilot manage to survive & return to civilization. but is she safe from another attack?
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

It's the countless hours in a hospital room sitting next to Joshua while he's hypnotized by the Boob-Tube and SpongeBob. Theres no prying the remote from a 5 year old on Chemo and Steroids! That and mysteries/dramas are my favorite. I'm not really one for romance novels; although, I've been known to read a few on occasion.

It's softball season, so what I'm reading right _now_ is an ISA rulebook...
so you're going to have to guess something I've read in the past.


This novel is written by one of my favorite authors. She has written many books while she was alive, but now her creations live on through a ghost writer hired by the family to finish her notes.

This book is the only stand-alone novel written by this author. Most of her novels are 5-part series. But this one particular book is one of her most complex - even by itself.

Its about a little girl whose sister passed away and she was always second-fiddle to her. She wanted desperately for her father to love her as much as her dead sister. When the sister died, the family turned the bedroom into a shrine behind locked doors that no one was allowed in.

But wanting desperately to be loved like her sister she defies her parents and starts visiting the room. Day after day, as she rocks in the chair that was once her sister's, the memories slowly start to come back to her.

Her sister is not dead.

She is the sister.

A tragic accident had happened to the little girl when she was younger one day walking home from school. After the girl was shocked into post-traumatic amnesia, the family thought it would be easier to just pretend she had died and was born anew.

Like I said, an intricate book. I hope I didnt butcher the synopsis


Good Luck!
Dang it!!! I was gonna read it until you ruined it for me.


j/k
 

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Originally Posted by kluchetta

Dang it!!! I was gonna read it until you ruined it for me.


j/k
i was intrigued... i'm going to read that one! i enjoyed Flowers In The Attic, but haven't read many of her others... the plot, tho, sounded like something she would've written - so i went looking!
 

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Originally Posted by kluchetta

Dang it!!! I was gonna read it until you ruined it for me.


j/k
I almost put a spoiler notice up


It is one of her most complex books. I love VC Andrews - the books she wrote herself. I'm not as into the books written by her ghost writer. Even though they are written from her notes, but style of writing is just not the same.

I have been reading her stuff since I was a teenager, and I remember dedicating a whole Saturday veging out on my bed engulfed in a book from cover to cover.

A few years back I started collecting all her stuff in hardcover. Some of her stuff I have read more than once and the paperbacks tend to get a little bit mangled after awhile


Anyway, sorry for the spoiler
but it really is a good plot.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
 

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Originally Posted by laureen227

finished the last one today, & while i haven't started a new one [yet] i do have one out to start...by a favorite author.
another romance-type book, but w/mystery elements. someone [we don't know who?] is trying to kill the female protagonist - w/a plane crash! but she & the pilot manage to survive & return to civilization. but is she safe from another attack?
Is it a J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) book??????? Is the female protagonist Lt Eve Dallas????
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

Is it a J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) book??????? Is the female protagonist Lt Eve Dallas????
no, but that was a good guess - one of my all time faves!

ok, hint: author is female - initials are L. H.
 

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Originally Posted by laureen227

no, but that was a good guess - one of my all time faves!

ok, hint: author is female - initials are L. H.
Just from that, I'd guess a Laurell K Hamilton, but I'll be darned if i know which one... I haven't read them, but I am familiar with her work... (working in a library, I see LOTS of authors names).

I don't think this counts as me getting a turn... unless I can find the title... I did a search and it came up with Obsidian Butterfly... but not entirely sure why...

Is the author right, at least?

Amanda
 

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Originally Posted by RubSluts'Mommy

Just from that, I'd guess a Laurell K Hamilton, but I'll be darned if i know which one... I haven't read them, but I am familiar with her work... (working in a library, I see LOTS of authors names).

I don't think this counts as me getting a turn... unless I can find the title... I did a search and it came up with Obsidian Butterfly... but not entirely sure why...

Is the author right, at least?

Amanda
nope, but she's another one i've read most of what she's done... altho she's getting a bit tiresome.
ok, another hint - female protagonist is the trustee for her adult stepchildren - one of whom is older than she is... they're VERY unhappy about it!
 

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Originally Posted by laureen227

no, but that was a good guess - one of my all time faves!

ok, hint: author is female - initials are L. H.
My first thoughts when you said L.H. are of Linda Howard... but from there I had to cheat...

Are you reading Up Close and Dangerous?
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

My first thoughts when you said L.H. are of Linda Howard... but from there I had to cheat...

Are you reading Up Close and Dangerous?
YES!!! your turn!
 

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Originally Posted by laureen227

nope, but she's another one i've read most of what she's done... altho she's getting a bit tiresome.
ok, another hint - female protagonist is the trustee for her adult stepchildren - one of whom is older than she is... they're VERY unhappy about it!
See, I'm terrible at mainstream fiction... someone reading sc-fi or fantasy... I might have a chance... I rarely read mainstream...

I see someone else got it... I'll get my chance yet!
 

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Originally Posted by RubSluts'Mommy

I see someone else got it... I'll get my chance yet!
You can go now if you wish! I just did one the other day so I am more than happy to share the wealth... that and I'm not sure what to put up yet, since obviously I'm not reading anything new at the moment!
 

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Originally Posted by Marianjela

You can go now if you wish! I just did one the other day so I am more than happy to share the wealth... that and I'm not sure what to put up yet, since obviously I'm not reading anything new at the moment!
Okay, thank you!

This, honestly, is recently read, since I'm dueling between a kids fiction and a non-fiction right now (trouble with working in a library, odd things spark my interest, hence the kids book)... so here's an excellent book I recently read...

It's an alternate timeline to ours, British, with loads of humor, first in a line of five books, but can be read in any order. The title refers to a classic novel, and the story jumps in and out of 'fiction.' It's hard to explain without giving it away... let's see...

Some points:
~Cheese is an illegal substance, black market and all...
~Literature and it's authors are more 'marketable' and popular (books lusted after, etc) than TV personalities.
~The main character is a detective who cracks cases involving literary crime.
~She has an odd name.
~She ends up jumping into literature... and thus starts solving crimes and stuff within the 'seedy underworld' of literature...

~the author is Welsh, and manages to poke fun at the differences between the Brits and the Welsh throughout the series.
~the author also has started a new series involving a different main character, one from 'fiction.'

Need more?

I told you guys I was into weird stuff ...

Amanda
 

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Originally Posted by RubSluts'Mommy

It's an alternate timeline to ours, British, with loads of humor, first in a line of five books, but can be read in any order. The title refers to a classic novel, and the story jumps in and out of 'fiction.' It's hard to explain without giving it away... let's see...

Some points:
~Cheese is an illegal substance, black market and all...
~Literature and it's authors are more 'marketable' and popular (books lusted after, etc) than TV personalities.
~The main character is a detective who cracks cases involving literary crime.
~She has an odd name.
~She ends up jumping into literature... and thus starts solving crimes and stuff within the 'seedy underworld' of literature...

~the author is Welsh, and manages to poke fun at the differences between the Brits and the Welsh throughout the series.
~the author also has started a new series involving a different main character, one from 'fiction.'

Need more?

I told you guys I was into weird stuff ...

Amanda
oooh, i love those! but i didn't know there were 5 of them... i think i have 3 or 4, tho. but i'm still reading the same thing, so i'm not going to say the book.... unless no one else can figure it out!
 

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Originally Posted by laureen227

oooh, i love those! but i didn't know there were 5 of them... i think i have 3 or 4, tho. but i'm still reading the same thing, so i'm not going to say the book.... unless no one else can figure it out!
Oh oh, let's see...someone Fforde? Jasper maybe?

Tuesday Next is the protagonist. I can't remember any titles. One of the books she jumps into and out of is Jane Eyre!

BRB

ETA - I think it's "Thursday Next: First Among Sequels"
 

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Originally Posted by kluchetta

Oh oh, let's see...someone Fforde? Jasper maybe?

Tuesday Next is the protagonist. I can't remember any titles. One of the books she jumps into and out of is Jane Eyre!

BRB

ETA - I think it's "Thursday Next: First Among Sequels"
Right author, wrong book... that one was #5 out of 5. You alluded to it...

Amanda
 
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