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

Thanks for your response, Drew. It wasn't The Kite Runner. I've read that and A Thousand Splendid Suns (which I liked a lot better than The Kite Runner).

I read this somewhere between 1994 and 2003. I thought the title was "Kandahar", but I can't find it under that title. It starts in this very modern, westernized city of Afghanistan (Kandahar, I think), and then we see Afghanistan impoverished and brutalized by war. The story covers many years and has a huge cast of characters, but I remember the two brothers as central characters. One brother is radicalized by his experiences to become a leader of what becomes the Taliban.

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Rainbowheart wrote: "Beat the Turtle Drum"

That's it. Thank you!

I'm trying to remember this book I read approx 1977 to 1982. The narrator is a young girl of about 12 to 14, and the novel takes place in the months following her sister's death from a fall out of a tree as the family grieves. One of the sisters - I don't remember whether it's the surviving sister or the one who died - is named Joss.

Thank you! This is it. Funny that I had this book mixed up with The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House because I must have read them several years apart.

Solved. The book is Locked in Time, by Lois Duncan. Locked in Time

No, that doesn't look like it. The protagonist is a girl, probably around 12 to 15, although I might be wrong about her age. I don't remember anything about her family or the setting. I think she meets one of the teenage (maybe 20s?) sons in the family and likes him. Gradually clues reveal that they're much older than they seem.

Hi there, I read a book in either the very late 70s or early to mid 80s about a girl who meets a mother and her children and gradually comes to realize they have frozen time for themselves. I believe the mother was in her 30s and realized she didn't want to get any older, and engages in some sort of magic to stop her children and herself from aging. At least one of the children is pre-pubescent when it happens and so is forever frozen as a 7 or 10-year-old or so, and not very happy about that. I think it was a teen novel because I read it as a child or teenager, but I'm not absolutely sure. I also seem to remember that it was scary, and there may have been a character named Lydia in it. I remember a scene about bringing groceries into a kitchen, but no firm details. It is definitely NOT Tuck Everlasting. I read that only last year, and it has a very different, less sinister feel. It is also not The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House. I must have read that book at about the same time that I read this one, because I had the two stories conflated in my memory.