ABANDONED. Characters trapped repeating their story?

[Jaina]

I don't remember much about this book, and in fact it could even be a movie - but I'm pretty sure it's a book. I was reading Into the Wild the other day and the aspect of fairy tale characters trapped reliving their past sounded really, really familiar to me. Does anyone know any other books like that? And I keep thinking it might be the Sisters Grimm series, but I really don't think that's it.

[Antonomasia]

It wasn't part of a Jasper Fforde book by any chance?

[Jaina]

No, I don't think so. I should clarify that it's probably a YA. I don't know what those are, but they don't look familiar. Thanks, though!

[Sally]

The show Once Upon A Time has a plot basically like that.

[Kris]

Wikipedia has a list of books that use a time or temporal loop:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_loo...

[Kate]

Robert A. Heinlein has a short story about time loops that end up with the oddest relationship between three people. It might be By His Bootstraps.

In other Heinlein books, time loops also occur: TiTime Enough for Love; To Sail Beyond the Sunset

[Clackamas]

Any idea of the age of the book / movie?

[Jaina]

Hmm. I've never actually seen Once Upon a Time, but I've looked it up. I don't think that's it, though.
Thanks for the list, none of them look quite right. I might have been thinking of Groundhog Day, but I'm not sure.
And I don't think any of those are it.

I really think it's some sort of fairy tale book, but I could be wrong. I must have read/watched it only a few years ago, but I don't know how old it was then. Not too old, I don't think. I just remembered the book
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass, which might be what I was thinking of, but I could have sworn there was some sort of fairy tale element to it.

[Lee Anne]

Try The Great Good thing: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85...

Or Between the Lines if this was a recent book. You may also want to check out the discussion of book characters coming alive: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[rivka]

Lee Anne wrote: "Try The Great Good thing: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85..."

That's the one I was going to suggest as well. It has some sequels you might have read as well.

[Jaina]

Thanks! I think it's actuallyThe Inside Story from the Sisters Grimm series after all, but I'm still not 100% about that. Ah, the pains of having read so many books . . . But not really!

Anyway, some of those books look REALLY good, even if they weren't what I was looking for, so thanks for the suggestions!

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Bumping since Jaina posted recently.

[Nicole]

The Great Good Thing?

[Ayesha]

Ms Pergerine's Home for Peculiar Children features time loops although it may be more recent than you are looking for

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Moving to Abandoned since Jaina hasn't posted in this thread for 11 years.