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The Jupiter one sounds like part of City by Clifford D Simak.
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The one on Jupiter sounds like Call Me Joe by Poul Anderson. You can read it here: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/978162...791085___2.htm
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Bah, humbug!
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Bah, humbug!
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A story from Aesops Fables?
I wish ask if anyone knows of a story of a band that played very badly and the band leader thought that he could make them sound better by making them change places. Was it one from Aesop’s fables?
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#1116 |
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looking for title/author
Woman Returns to hometown faces past tragedy (death of child) gets back together with ex (father of children)
I first read this book in late 2006 early 2007. It was about a married couple who has three young children and somehow one of them dies. It seems to me that it was an accident in the yard or house. Possibly involving blind chords. The mom was a nurse at a hospital and her husband can't get a hold of her and brings daughter to the ER (daughter is maybe twoish, surviving children are maybe 5 and 8. Following the accident the family is broken, the other kids were not given enough attention and everyone feels responsible for the accident. The book was told from the parents point of view mainly the wife though at times I believe it went back and forth between her and the husb/ex husb. The book doesn’t reveal details of accident till maybe mid-book. The couple divorces. Later (10-15 years) the woman goes back to hometown or at least where she lived when she was married. (maybe to finalize divorce) at that time surviving children are grown the couple reunites. The husband owns or runs a book store or a coffee shop. I think when the couple reunited it was during the Christmas season. |
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#1117 |
Outside of a dog
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Hopefully an easy one (relatively new book?)
Yesterday, my Kindle with special offers "offered" me a free Prime Reading book. It was a thriller with the Macguffin being world-changing consequences arising from a 60-year-old undelivered letter.
When I tried to download, the Kindle threw an error, and kicked me back to the book I was reading, and out of the offer area. I can't find it on Amazon's site today. Obviously, I can't recall the author's name, but I think the title has the word "Memorial" in it. EDIT: I just found it. "The Last Monument" by Michael Grumley. And it's NOT free for Prime Reading, which is probably a mistake that got corrected in the time between them sending me the offer and me trying to take advantage of it. Maybe it was a January title, and my screen hadn't updated yet by February 2? I'll go check Overdrive, can't see spending $7... Last edited by curtw; 02-03-2022 at 11:34 AM. |
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#1118 |
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I first read this as the stand-alone story Desertion back in the 70's when I was a kid. I'd forgotten the author's name (but definitely not the story) and was surprised to find it again decades later as part of City.
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The book I am looking for is actually a short story, but I am certain it was published in at least one collection of Isaac Asimov stories.
In the story almost all people acquired the ability to read by some fast and easy process, maybe by taking a pill or something. But there was a small proportion of children where that process did not work and they had to learn to read the old fashioned way. These children were considered unintelligent by their peers, most adults, and even themselves. Spoiler:
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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It's even available on-line, by permission of Doubleday: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php |
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#1124 |
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Time Travel + cockroach statue
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"The Figure" by Edward Grendon, originally in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1947. It has been anthologized a few times. https://archive.org/details/Astoundi...e/n45/mode/2up |
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children's books, christie, forgotten title, four just men, mystery stories, teen sleuths |
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