Kris Kris’s Comments (group member since Apr 05, 2013)


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185 Shannon, is the boy the son of a druid, as in Deception's Princess by Esther M. Friesner - SBC's sugestion?

I copied some book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.
185 Description of Panther by Martin Booth - Rainbowheart's sugestion - on Google Books:
- "Two children on a family caravan holiday on the edge of Dartmoor see something black hunting sheep. Convinced it's a panther, they set off to track it across the moors. As they hunt the panther, a rescue operation is mounted to find them."

185 Google Books has a preview of The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom - Ayshe's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=PVO...
- There are different cover images.
Quote from the book:
- "... casino is, we may say, suboptimal."
"What?"
"Your skills. They are wasted there. So from now on you work for me. No more dealing cards. It is preferable for you?"
"Yes, Pan Kladivo. It is preferable for me," I say ...

185 Becca wrote: "A Thousand Candy Santas by Daphne Doward Hogstrom looks like it might be your book. There's a copy on archive.org here - you can search for keywords e.g. 'wand', 'ribbon' etc.
https://archive.org/details/thousandc..."


Youtube has a read aloud video of this book - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbTUA...
185 Julie, around what year did you read this book?

What's the genre (which we need to add to the topic header) - e.g., adult mystery, thriller, etc.?
185 Google Books preview of Matala: A Novel by Craig Holden - Daisy's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=57U...
Kirkus Review:
- "Cross and double-cross in Europe as a couple of lowlife operators meet their match in a spoiled little rich girl.
Will and Justine, the grifters ... think they have found the perfect prey in 19-year-old Darcy Arlen from Ohio, who is on an all-expenses-paid tour of European art and architecture. But Darcy has the measure of them and chooses to go along with their scams and schemes just for the thrill of it. She steals Will away from Justine and has no problems with shoplifting, even a bit of smuggling, given her kleptomania and the sexual excitement it generates. ... sold into Arabian sexual slavery. ..."

185 Kris wrote: "Google Books preview of Second Act by Barbara Barrie - Ayshe's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=CzZ..."


Kirkus Review:
- "That even colostomies have their humorous aspect is demonstrated in this spirited account by a Tony- and Oscar- nominated actress with a remarkable zest for life. In April 1994, when Barrie was in her early 60s, she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. ...
Then, a humiliating accident on a Manhattan bus inspired Barrie to go public with her story. ..."

185 Rosemary, was this book written for children or teens?

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185 Link for Lynda's suggestion - https://www.goodreads.com/series/4140...
His Letty daughter has her own series - https://www.goodreads.com/series/3411...

Is the story set in Britain? Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series comes to mind. His ex-wife Josie worked in front of a camera but I thought she was an actress?
185 Amazon's preview of Random Acts of Trust by Julia Kent - Juels's suggestion:
- https://www.amazon.com/Random-Acts-Tr...
- There are different cover images.

185 Amazon has an audiobook preview of Grayheart by Tara K. Harper - Ayshe's suggestion:
- https://www.amazon.com/Grayheart-Tale...
Google Books has a limited preview. You might get lucky searching for keywords:
- https://books.google.com/books?newbks...

185 Serena, can you describe some of the plots or common themes of these short stories?

Could the short stories have been written by multiple authors - or definitely one author?
185 Lauren, does her mother die, who stabbed her and why?
Where is her father?

I copied some book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.
185 Google Books preview of I Am No One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates - RabbitMilitia's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=4eL...
- "Curly Red" is the first short story in this collection.
- There are different cover images.

185 Google Books also has a preview of I Am the Wallpaper by Mark Peter Hughes- Becca's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=iOx...

185 Google Books preview of Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer - Lisa's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=K-b...
- There are different cover images.
Kirkus Review:
- "... Jam Gallahue is sent to The Wooden Barn, a boarding school for emotionally fragile teens, when she fails to recover from her boyfriend’s death. At first, she can’t fathom how the school will help her. All she wants to do is stay in bed and remember the 41 days she and Reeve shared. One class, “Special Topics in English,” offers her a way to experience those moments in a whole new way—by writing in a particular journal and slipping into a surreal alternate reality. She and the four other members of the class are both thrilled at the opportunity to revel in their old lives and anxious that when the journals fill up, they have to say goodbye all over again. ...

185 Amazon's preview of Shadows of You by Catherine Cowles - True's suggestion:
- https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-You-Lo... The Kindle preview is longer.
- There are different cover images.

185 Just noting that there are two thieves in The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer - Holding Name and Sue's suggestion - according to Wikipedia:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cor... (Jimmy Yarde and Horace Trimble)
Google Books has a preview:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=nqX...
- Quote from the book: (page 83) '... pocket, where he placed it - and now I come to think of it, he actually had my coat in his hands - he must guess that we have discovered it!'
'Very likely he will, but I cannot see what profit there would be in his cutting our throats. Sir ...'

185 Google Books preview of Sky Raiders (book 1 of the Five Kingdoms series) by Brandon Mull - Bridget's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Xqv...
- There are different cover images.

185 Google Books preview of Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner - Mysterosity's suggestion:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=tmJ...
- There are different cover images.
Quote from the book:
Chapter Three: "The brown recluse spins a medium-sized irregular web with a maze of threads extending in all directions without definite pattern or plan."
From Biology of the Brown Recluse Spider,
by Julia Maxine Hite, [etc.]"