|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Dec 30th, '14, 16:12 |
|
|
zrofyre
Joined: Dec 25th, '14, 08:22 Posts: 54 Hugs: 929
|
|
|
@Beyond Birthday - while that series sounds interesting it's not my lost one. I'll have to check it out though. Thanks!
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
Weep not for roads untravelled
Weep not for sights unseen
May your love never end
And if you need a friend
There's a seat here alongside me
-Linkin Park
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Dec 30th, '14, 21:45 |
|
|
Saloiq
Joined: Dec 24th, '08, 02:48 Posts: 2598 Hugs: 93762 Mood: Back on silent semi-hiatus. :)
Website: http://saloiq.deviantart.com/
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Dec 31st, '14, 04:52 |
|
|
zrofyre
Joined: Dec 25th, '14, 08:22 Posts: 54 Hugs: 929
|
|
|
@saloon - sadly none of those are it.
I'll keep checking that reddit post.
Thanks for trying to find it
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
Weep not for roads untravelled
Weep not for sights unseen
May your love never end
And if you need a friend
There's a seat here alongside me
-Linkin Park
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Jan 1st, '15, 22:23 |
|
|
Saloiq
Joined: Dec 24th, '08, 02:48 Posts: 2598 Hugs: 93762 Mood: Back on silent semi-hiatus. :)
Website: http://saloiq.deviantart.com/
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Apr 13th, '15, 05:33 |
|
|
Beautiful Disaster
Joined: Apr 28th, '12, 21:30 Posts: 1023 Hugs: 23315 Mood: Yeet
Location: My house
|
|
|
Okay, maybe someone here can help. I've looked everywhere else...
So, back in Jr. high, I found a book in the school library and started to read it, but I only got through a few pages before I had to return it (I don't remember why.) I've always wanted to find it again, but I've had no luck.
From what I remember, it started with a young girl who had a star-shaped birthmark on her hand. She was the daughter of a kind or some kind of high-ranking diplomat, and it starts with the girl skipping a class and seeing elephants for the first time. (It's an alternate universe, so she's excited because she didn't think elephants were real.) When the girl's tutor- or governess, or teacher- finds her, they tell her to go see her father. So she goes to find her father and tells him about the elephants, but he doesn't believe her, and he has other things to talk about anyway. He introduces a boy she's never seen before, and the boy also has the star-shaped mark on his hand, in the same place as she does.
That's as far as I got, and I'd really like to find this book again. If anyone knows of it, I'd really appreciate the help.
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
May those who love us love us And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts, And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping.
Questing: 1 x Gold Bullion, 1 x Pearl, 2 x Pink Diamond, 4 x Silver Ore, 8 x Red Rose, 15 x Sparrow Egg
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Apr 18th, '15, 23:26 |
|
|
Saloiq
Joined: Dec 24th, '08, 02:48 Posts: 2598 Hugs: 93762 Mood: Back on silent semi-hiatus. :)
Website: http://saloiq.deviantart.com/
|
|
|
Sorry for a late and disappointing response - I haven't heard of this book. >_< I'll keep searching though! Do you remember if the birthmark was on her palm or the back of her hand? Or around how old the characters were?
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Apr 19th, '15, 05:07 |
|
|
Beautiful Disaster
Joined: Apr 28th, '12, 21:30 Posts: 1023 Hugs: 23315 Mood: Yeet
Location: My house
|
|
|
Thanks. The birthmark was on her palm, I remember because I wanted to find one on my palm, too, and ended up drawing one instead XD I don't remember the age of the characters, or if they even mentioned the age, but based on where I found the book I'm willing to bet that the girl at least was somewhere between 10 and 14 years old.
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
May those who love us love us And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts, And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping.
Questing: 1 x Gold Bullion, 1 x Pearl, 2 x Pink Diamond, 4 x Silver Ore, 8 x Red Rose, 15 x Sparrow Egg
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Apr 21st, '15, 09:43 |
|
|
SaltPoisson
Joined: Apr 30th, '09, 20:32 Posts: 194 Hugs: 14308
|
|
|
I'd like some help finding a book. Almost 20 years ago, before I moved to an English speaking country, I read a book that I had borrowed from the library. Of course, since I was moving, I had to return it even though I hadn't quite finished reading it. It was a mystery. It may have been written by Agatha Christie, as I was quite taken with her writing back then. I do know that it was originally in English but translated into my native language, as all the clues were in English and the main characters had English names. The basic premise was this: a rich person died and people had gathered to hear how his assets would be divided up between them. Because the rich person loved puzzles, he made some clues and divided them up between teams. Each team had some sentence/word fragments and they were all different. Predictably, they started killing each other trying to get at each others' clue fragments. I had written down the clues as they surfaced but after almost 20 years and 4 moves, it seems I had decided to throw out the notebook where I wrote my notes. I do remember that one of the clues was "the_", the _ being a random letter. I remember that because in the book, the characters argued whether that clue was a fragment of a whole word or just the word "the" with an extra letter as an error.
So here are the clues, as it were:
- It was written over 20 years ago
- It was popular enough to have been translated into different languages
- It was a mystery
- It was set in an English speaking country
- It started with a death of a rich person
- It involved inheritance because of that death
- It involved serial murders
- It had a puzzle outside of the murders
- One of the clues for the puzzle was a nonsensical word starting with "the"
- It MAY have been written by Agatha Christie
I know this is a long shot and a tall order, but I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you.
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
"I'm pasty white, my eyes are huge, and I have blonde hair. 'course I look Japanese!"
NEVILLE
would have done it in four books
There's a milkman waiting in the sky.
He likes to deliver dairy so long as it's homogenized.
There's a milkman waiting in the sky.
He drives a rundown milk truck
And his milk's been pasteurized.
He told me;
Let the bovines moo it!
Let the bovines chew it!
Let the bovines boogie
Down, down dah dah dah
Dah dah dah dah
Dah dah dah dah...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Jul 9th, '15, 17:46 |
|
|
Kipkn
Joined: May 13th, '13, 15:55 Posts: 57 Hugs: 4301 Location: under a desk
|
|
|
I know it has been months since you asked, @musen, but I may have an answer for you. That sounds like The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Post subject: Re: Lost Books Thread Posted: Oct 25th, '15, 05:08 |
|
|
Beautiful Disaster
Joined: Apr 28th, '12, 21:30 Posts: 1023 Hugs: 23315 Mood: Yeet
Location: My house
|
|
|
I'm sorry, it doesn't sound familiar. (Sorry I know it's been months but I kind of forgot about this thread XD)
(0) (0) |
|
|
|
|
May those who love us love us And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts, And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping.
Questing: 1 x Gold Bullion, 1 x Pearl, 2 x Pink Diamond, 4 x Silver Ore, 8 x Red Rose, 15 x Sparrow Egg
|
|
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum
|