Holly’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2013)

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

Ooh ooh! I know this one! (haha)

Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day. Very good story.

Anything on this list? https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

And here's a non-erotica list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

This is a short story I read in 2006 for class (freshman college writing). Our professor made photo copies of the story for us, so I don't know if it came from a short story collection, anthology, or what (sorry!) First off, I'll say that it reminded me quite a bit of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, but it was not The Lottery. Again, this was a photo copied story, so I have no idea when the story was written. I'm guessing the latter half of the twentieth century, but I'm afraid that doesn't narrow it down much!

It's been a while, so I don't completely remember the story, but this is what I do remember: it's set in some town where violence is prevalent. It is expected, even. The characters talk about how people who are hurt are at fault - they should have been more careful and aware. The story was told in third person (I think) but I believe it focused on an adult woman. She may have been married. I seem to remember a knife being important in the story (as far as I can remember, most people had knives or used their fists, etc. rather than use firearms). I seem to remember the main woman being scared to leave her home, which may have been an apartment(?) I believe someone died (by stabbing?) at the end of the story.

As you can tell, a lot of the details are fuzzy for me! At the time the impression I got was that the story's author was making a point about violence - how if you expect it and blame the victims, then violence will just increase and we'll all be complicit. The story may have been written in reaction to a real-life crime. But it's possible I'm mixing up this story with Harlan Ellison's 'The Whimper of Whipped Dogs,' so I'm not 100% sure on that!

Thanks in advance for taking a look at my topic!

Any of these books?
In Deep Dark Wood
A Walk in Wolf Wood
Astercote
Blain's Woods
Strange Spirits of St. Ignace
The Beasties
Watcher In The Forest

Was this a scary story at all? Or just a sort of normal everyday teen book?

When searching, I found a book called Black Ice. Even though the description doesn't mention it, the worldcat tags included "computers."

Either of these? Choicy or Sail, Calypso!?

Anything on this list? https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

When did you read this? And do you think you know when it might have been published?

Are you 100% sure it was Baked Alaska, btw?

Also, Fur, how many years ago were you in middle school? We're not you and we're all different ages in this group, so we have no idea what years you were in middle school!

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life?

If not, check out this list and maybe it'll be on there: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

And it's not Outlander, is it?

Was this a children's book? And was the main character a grown woman or a girl?

And where did this take place? If it's Celtic, was the main character from Ireland or somewhere else?

You might want to check this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

Anything on these lists?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Is it any of the books on this list? https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

Do you remember what the cover looked like at all?

I don't know what your book is, sorry! Do you think you're looking for the same book as this person though? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I second The Magic Half!

Spirit Quest by Diane Silvey?

Dee wrote: "movie wise - sounds very much like that Ricki Lake movie from the mid-90's - Mrs. Winterbourne"

Dee, Mrs. Winterbourne is an adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's I Married a Dead Man :] If I had to guess, the author of Washington Avalanche, 1910 has read the book or seen one of the movie adaptations, because the plot sounds eerily similar...