What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Paul Loves Amy Loves Christo
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. YA fiction. Teenage boy called Paul writes a self-pitying poem about himself (rejected by girl?): "Poor sore small Paul, feels like he's only two feel tall." Read in 1990s. [s]
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Do you remember the cover?Part of a series?
Time period/location story takes place?
I think the cover had an illustration of some teenagers on it, with an orange or reddish background. But I could be confusing it with another book.I don't think it was part of a series.
Time period was contemporary when it was published, so 1990s or late 80s. As for the location... maybe Australian or possibly British? I can't be more specific than that unfortunately.
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Can you tell us more about Paul (e.g., favorite school subjects, sports, hobbies, personality)?
Sorry Kris, everything I remember is in the first post. I know it's not a lot to go on, but I read the book 20+ years ago.
Found it!Paul Loves Amy Loves Christo
Poor Paul, poor sore small Paul
feeling like he’s only
two feet tall
sitting in the garden trying not to cry
sixteen years and I don't know why.
Sixteen - eighteen - twenty-three
how much improvement will there be?
Want my opinion? Not a lot.
Bit of music talent is all he's got.
Little bit of talent
lots of spite
angry in the garden
all uptight.
Someone else's garden,
someone else's pool,
someone else's sweetheart -
God! What a fool!
Oh my god Rainbowheart thank you so much! You found it!
All credit to Archive.org!I typed in "sore small Paul," and boom, it turned up.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=...
Looks like someone just uploaded it in January, so it never hurts to try the site periodically if you remember particular words and phrases from a book.
Super glad to help out! :)
I think we might also have a potential solve on this thread!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The main thing I remember is that one character was a teenage boy called Paul who at one point felt very humiliated (maybe due to rejection by a girl?) and sat in a room alone making up a self-pitying poem about himself. It went something like "Poor sore small Paul, feels like he's only two feet tall". I've tried googling words from the poem but didn't get any useful hits.
About the rest of the book: it was general fiction about the ups and downs of teenage life. Paul's story was told in the first person, and there may have been chapters narrated by other main characters. I think there was another very confident boy who Paul had something of a rivalry with - maybe a love triangle? At one point they may have all gone away on a trip to a big house or stately home - I thought the poem incident took place somewhere like that, possibly with a scene in a library - but I'm not 100% sure on that.
Any help appreciated, sorry the details are so vague.