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This is a fairly recent book. It's based off the idea that so long as someone alive remembers you, you still exist in some way. After people died, they went off to have a sort of second life in this typical city. Suddenly, they start disappearing, as does the city, at a rapid rate. Meanwhile, in the world of the living, this plague is killing off every living thing. There's a group of three people in Antarctica but they are totally cut off, supplies are dwindling and so are they. I think it's two men and a woman and I'm pretty sure her name is Amy. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book, so if anyone can help, I'd be much obliged.
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Jan 7, 2008 10:40
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LittleSunshine posted:The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. Thanks for reminding me of it; I'd meant to get hold of a copy and forgot! Thank you so very much!
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Jan 8, 2008 02:52
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My roommate and I were talking about children's stories involving death, like Where the Red Fern Grows. He mentioned one I cannot remember for the life of me, it just sounds like a mash up of Bridge to Teribithia and the movie My Girl. The two lead characters are a boy and a girl, middle to high school age (so... 11 - 13?). The boy has a crush on the girl but she's with someone else, but eventually gives him a chance. It doesn't work out. He goes to this tree alone, falls out of it and dies. She's the one to find him. Any ideas? Another he cannot remember the title of is about a boy who's always running, possibly has Run in the title. It's not Forrest Gump.
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Jun 4, 2008 05:30
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Sweetwater Kill posted:It's not Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, is it? Well done! Thank you!  Fedaykin posted:
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Jun 5, 2008 06:03
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Blue_monday posted:I saw this book at the book store last year on the new releases/popular table and I never bothered to buy it, and then forgot most things about it. Well, The Shipping News has a troubled family and involves incest, but it's not Canadian. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald; however, is set on Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia and probably the one you're looking for. Ulalume fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 6, 2008 |
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Jul 6, 2008 03:26
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Inle-rah posted:I've been trying to find a book I read maybe fifteen years ago. It was fantasy, possibly young adult. One of the opening scenes involved the main character, a girl, getting her period for the first time and wading into the sea. Then a woman, possibly a relative, comes to take her away to be trained in magic or something similar. Her mundane relatives didn't want to let her go. I think it was one of those "one girl in every generation must go" sort of plots, and I think time moved differently for the magical women (they didn't age as quickly, perhaps). The thing that sticks out most in my mind from the book was that those women all had a pair of diamond-shaped earrings, and that the girl eventually got a pair of her own when her training was finished. I hope this book isn't too obscure... I feel like I read this too, I hope someone can identify it - sorry I can't. A google search yielded nothing but eventual porn results. 
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Aug 16, 2008 07:33
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