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Eng Lit Learner

01:12

Q: Meaning of "Joachim spent the time it took for Dave and I to be snapped attempting to chat up Brigitte."

From The Last Bandit. A Rock'n'roll Life by Nikki Sudden: Joachim spent the time it took for Dave and I to be snapped attempting to chat up Brigitte. I don't understand the meaning and the construction of the sentence. Does "to be snapped" mean to take a picture? Who was pictured, and who was a...

bobble

01:54

Good close reading. One thing I’ll add, having read the book, is that this scene foreshadows two connected themes that will run throughout: 1) stories “conversing” with each other, which plays out in the plot as the main character progressing through episodes of “fractured” fairy tales, and 2) an old, resentful, malevolent spirit perverting and corrupting the young. — Kevin Troy 21 hours ago

Should this kind of information be edited into the answer?

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bobble

03:35

A: Everyone keeps diaries due to regular, town-wide amnesia

The book you're looking for is The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron, originally published 2016.

debating downvoting

bobble

04:05

Identification deleted because OP was unsatisfied with having his book found for him. — D. A. Hosek 22 secs ago

... flagged as Unfriendly or Unkind.

Also, for the LOVE of GOONDESS I am not a "him", don't assume that

Alex

Was it the right answer?

bobble

I mean, yes, but I was trying to get them to be explicit about why

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Rand al'Thor

06:10

Please don't vandalise or remove useful posts. We have a guide on meta for how to write good story-ID answers; if you aren't willing to put in this extra effort after you already found the correct story, at least leave the answer here to be useful, and maybe others can help to improve the post by editing in the matching details. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 1 min ago

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Bookworm

09:09

Q: Book about a boy and girl who are great baseball players

I have pretty limited information about this book, but here goes: I read it approximately 6-7 years ago. The language of publication was English. I found it while browsing in a book store where it was on display, so it probably was a relatively recent book at the time. I only read the first bit ...

identification-request

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Bookworm

19:33

Q: Mrs Bennet excluded from Pemberley?

The final chapter of "Pride and Prejudice" is rather an epilogue telling what happens to the main characters after the two couples get married. Is it meant that Mrs Bennet never visits Pemberley? Father, Kitty, even Lydia (without her husband) go to Pemberley, but not mother? With what delighted...