Cruth’s Comments (group member since Nov 14, 2012)

Cruth’s comments from the What's the Name of That Book??? group.

Carol wrote: "YES!!!! That's it, thank you so much. I will now find a copy to buy "

Excellent. Happy reading!

Carol wrote: "I had a book that I used to read to my children about a child living next to an older lady. The lady has Alzheimer's and the child, by bringing things like shells and photos etc., encourages the la..."

That sounds like Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Australian author Mem Fox and illustrator Julie Vivas. First published in 1984.

A beautiful book dealing with loss of memory.

Ashley wrote: " and the book cover isnt purple, its blue with a wolf on it."

Don't you just hate that? *grin*

Happy reading!

I actually have no idea but Undying Embrace by Jessica Lee has a purple cover: (via google).

Good luck with your search.

Australian author John Marsden has a number of books written in diary/journal form and from the right era.

Jaclyn Moriarty Ashbury/Brookfield series is a bit later (post 2000) and her books are lighter but still use journal/email/diary etc to tell the tale.

Published too late? Cath Crowley's Graffiti Moon is 24 hours, 4 perspectives.

Maybe Lady Delafont's Dilemma by Donna Simpson. Not quite right because they chose to marry, but he left to travel the world and returns with his mistress.

Fairest of Them All by Teresa Medeiros? They first meet in a garden and he propositions her.

Animal Babies by Rebecca Dickinson and Lisa Bonforte?

Written in rhyming couplets, this link on ebay has some of the inside pages.

Excellent! Happy reading.

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.

"Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question. I have no words I can rely on because, much to my dismay, my tongue was designed long and flat and loose, and therefore, is a horribly ineffective tool for pushing food around my mouth while chewing, and an even less effective tool for making clever and complicated polysyllabic sounds that can be linked together to form sentences. And that’s why I’m here now waiting for Denny to come home—he should be here soon—lying on the cool tiles of the kitchen floor in a puddle of my own urine."
from excerpt on http://www.garthstein.com/works/the-a...

Laura wrote: "I'm going INSANE trying to think of the name of a book I read years ago.
I think it might have been a highland-ish romance, but I'm not sure. I remember they were married and she was tricked into ..."

Sounds like the sort of book Hannah Howell writes.

Ryan wrote: "This book or omnibus (not sure, I remember the copy I had to be quite large) was about a boy from a poor upbringing (perhaps a fishermans son?) who is sent to a college for bards. It's not anythin..."

You aren't thinking of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series? In particular, Menolly's story in the Harper Hall sub-series starting with Dragonsong.

Lucy wrote: "Hey everyone:)
So the book i m talking about is one that our main female is send to live i think for a specific amount of time with our male lead. Her father doesnt like it, but he is forced by hi..."

In Hannah Howell's Highland Vow the Hero, Cormac, literally crawls (naked?) to Elspeth to demonstrate his love.

Maybe a Hannah Howell? MCs marry quickly in Highland Bride and consummation is unsatisfactory.

Lynsay Sands' The Deed has h promised to H by the king as well as a hasty consummation.

Night of the Phantom by Anne Stuart?
Published 1991.
Hero has a birthmark on his face.
One review I saw said "the implication that he might have contacted ladies in the sex industry to fulfill his needs".

Dzianis wrote: "It was quite a while ago maybe somewhere in 1998, I remember reading an adventure dungeon book. I vaguely remember the beginning.

...Page 1 "You have entered a dungeon. There is a old man sitting..."

You are looking for gamebooks or gamebook adventures, a variation of choose your own adventures.

Some links:
http://gamebookadventures.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
Fabled Lands series pub'd ~1995, 1996. Book 1
Endless Quest series pub'd 1980s. First Book
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Gamebooks pub'd mid 1980's. Book 1
Fighting Fantasy by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, pub'd 1980s. First book

Not a book, but this site (Australian Poetry Library) has a list of (and link to) some very evocative Australian war poetry.

http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poems...

Excellent. Happy reading!

Kim wrote: "I had read the trial version on my kindle and now dont know what the book was called....

The woman was given a map to hide that everyone is looking for. She has it hidden in her bodice/corset. She..."

The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne?

Maybe The Six Sisters series by M.C.Beaton?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/5537...
http://www.agatharaisin.com/?section=...

In Book 2 The Taming of Annabelle, Annabelle wants her sister's husband but is instead wooed by his best friend Peter.