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I stumbled across an erotic comic around a decade ago. I think it was a translation because the phrasing was somewhat awkward at times. It opens with this man who might be a famous space explorer trying to convince a woman to come with him on an expedition. He even gets on the wrong spaceflight on purpose to convince her. Iirc they are joined by his best friend and some kind of stupid faithful-manservant-type named “Mungo”, which was kind-of off-putting. They crash land on an alien planet that has an atmosphere that is amenable to human life and has its own wildlife. They proceed to try to survive and frolic around in the nude and have lots of sex to burn off their anxieties while they spout pretentious philosophy. There are indications as they explore that there may have been civilization on the planet a long time ago, in the form of eerie terrain that may not be natural. Later they encounter a tribe of primitive humans, the woman pairs off with the “alpha male” of that tribe while the remaining men from her crew fraternize with the women of the tribe, pairing off more or less. They discover at some point that the women have birth control devices over their cervixes, and remove the one inside the woman who has bonded with the lead male character. She subsequently becomes pregnant. At some point in exploring the jungle region they are in they see a city of crystal spires across a desolate rocky plain and plan to go to it. I think that is roughly where I left off before forgetting about it.
I absolutely cannot find any leads on this book. It would have been read around 2013-2015. There was MC and a companion (I’m remembering the companion to be a girl), and they fled a big city through an underground tunnel that leads them to another town. They then leave this town with an older companion, do something involving bloodhounds and war machines, then return to the town having burnt down.
There are also other details that I remember, such as there being wyverns, wyvern tamers, and they MC fled the city due to a coup, and something related to the next ruler having their new wyvern stolen.
Okay I don't remember much about this book but it was from the perspective of 3 people, A little girl who's mom left her in a store overnight, a woman who's husband recently died, and a lonely man. They come together at some point and the woman and man take care of the little girl and I think they go somewhere together, and I think the man and woman fall in love? PLEASE help me out this book was so good but I cant find it anywhere....
help please bro i been trying to find this boo for a week now i read a little of it but i don't remember everything it's about a girl who was looking for an actress job and one day she had got stuck in the elevator with this like popular man very famous man but she didn't know they finally both got out but i don't remember the rest i just remember the characters having to pretend date for the internet because the famous guy would get caught or something i forgot a lot but it's a very underrated book please someone help omg i wanna read it again and i had found the book on TikTok and i think the author is on tiktok but right now i have no idea where to look help.
Does anyone remember a young adult book about a boy who was obsessed with getting into a boarding school where they allowed you a refrigerator in your dorm and plied you with junk food? The plot of the book revolves around his admission essays and an obnoxious guy he begrudgingly befriends. The twist at the end is that they’re assigned to be roommates at the boarding school. I’ve been trying to figure out the name of the book with no success.
In the story, the parents leave the children at home alone, and the kids decide to make candy. Somehow, one of the younger children burned her fingers in the candy, and they unwittingly wrapped her burnt fingers together so that when the parents got home and unwrapped the bandages the two fingers had scarred together. It’s the only thing I can remember from the book, but I’d love to know what the book was.
It's a graphic novel from quite a while back, maybe 10 years ago or a little less. This teenage girl works at a corn dog stand in the mall. I remember she was good friends with the lady in the oddities/antiques store. I don't remember if she bought a necklace or something, but it was like a beacon to this other world where she was offered a nanny job. The babies she was in charge of were different creatures. There were like 13 or something, but I only remember there being a baby vampire and a little werewolf type baby. Anyways, all the parents of these babies are appalled that a human is in charge of their children, so she tries her hardest to prove herself. Then there's a point where she has to go out in public to "The Bizarre Bazar" (I remember this being important, cause the babies do as babies do and reigned Holly hell upon the place) and she gets in trouble. Some more plot filler happens, and towards the end, there's a ball or something happening, and she dances with someone very important, and I don't think she falls in love, but I can't remember. I wanna say that she wakes up after the ball in her own world again and wants to find her way back.
There were a LOT of red colors and tones in the book, especially for the other world with the various creature babies.
I can’t remember anything about the plot of this book. I had to of read it when I was maybe 12 or 13…so almost 20 years ago. I feel like the book cover was white and pink but I could be wrong.
Here’s what I do remember… There was a teen male and teen female character. At some point one (or maybe both?) lose their virginity to each other. I remember her menstrual cycle was synced up with the moon so she knew she wasn’t ovulating. There was also a lot of description about her tasting or smelling like lemon or lemon balm or something close.
I realize this isn’t much to go off of. Let me know if any of this rings a bell!
From what i recall its about a bunch of teenagers living in a low income area from one kids point of view majority of the characters were african American (i could be wrong). At the end of the volume either someone important dies or the main character dies.another thing i remember is the cover and the comic itself were colored in mostly different shades of blues . Lastly the year had to be between 2013-2016.
I read this pdf file of a book 7 years ago. It's about a kid (I think it was a boy) that was able to find a cabin (or a cave?) in the forest after being chased by something (I'm 90% sure it was wolves). There they found an entrance to a place that's stuck in a time loop during a war. I remeber it having kids there with sad backstories. It was so long ago that I forgot what happened with the story.
I would really like to read that trippy book again. Thanks!
I cannot remember details or name of this book!! A boy visits his grandpa for the summer at his home (I feel like he was reluctant and didn’t want to go). Once he’s there, I think he meets someone his age. I read in another thread that sounded familiar, that there was a body they discovered? I don’t remember that but it sounds right.
I remember details of how hot the weather was. I know that’s not much but if anyone knows, please tell me!
I must’ve been 10-12 when I read it. So 2009-2012 maybe? Possibly a 90s book.
I’m looking for a YA novel I encountered and skimmed through as a teenager but never fully read. This is all I remember about it:
Its protagonist is a boy who is a senior(?) in high school; his autism is explicitly mentioned
White cover (at least I think)
The protagonist takes everything literally but also wisecracks
He says “it’s called autism, it’s not Voldemort” when people skirt around his “condition”
I believe a central plot point is he is kicked out of school/has to change schools for autism-related reasons?
It is not Marcelo in the Real World, Curious Incident, or any other well-known autism/Asperger’s YA novel
Any help would be appreciated, I’ve been wracking my brain trying to find this.
I’ve been looking for this book basically my entire adult life. Since the movie big eyes came out it’s been even harder to search for. All I remember is the illustrations were stunning, kinda hyper realistic. All the children had big soulful eyes, it was a hardback, the cover had black border with white polka dots. The pages were fully illustrated, and I think they were outside a lot. I was born in 1988, and remember having it since the beginning so I’m guessing it was published late 80s to early 90s.
I read this book in 2021-22. Its a fiction about a broke high school student, male who usually gets bullied in his school and he always misses the bus, but then he finds some new shoes and now he is pretty good at running and starts to enjoy it. I read it in english, the cover i think was just 2 feet and shoes running. i also remember he just lived with his mom and had an abusive father who left him. I also feel like the title was 1 or 2 words but that might be completely wrong. Another character in the book was a girl who lived in the same apartment as him and i think she had a family restaurant? im not sure though
I’ve been trying to find this book for so long and can’t remember enough to find it on Google. All I remember the cover was a dark color scheme and had a young child in either a white dress or garment. I also believe they might have been walking down/ up a set of stairs, or crawling on their stomach. I believe these kids in the book were microchipped and forced to serve and I’m not sure if they had supernatural powers or not. This is so vague but it’s bothering me I can’t remember
I also believe it was a SciFi genre and believe it was paperback and it was at least 200+ pages
I remember a few things. There's a man and a girl and they are in a boat going through water for a lot of it. It's like a water world kinda theme, but it's cold and lots of ice sheets. I remember a dog and hungry seals, and them running over ice sheets. I remember a waterlogged (rotten?) Leg on the man. And they eventually make it to land... some sort of outpost. I don't remember much past that. It's a small boat, like a canoe, possibly rowing through the water looking for land. I feel like maybe the girl was looking for someone? Not sure though, and the man was helping her....?
I read it as a hardcover and it is a novel. It has a reddish orange cover but I can’t remember what was on the cover. The main character was a girl and she has a best friend who is also. A girl. There is also a guy who joins them. The book had something to do with the teens getting chipped or brainwashed when they turn 16 or 18 and I’m pretty sure it determines what career they go into. The main girls best friend was pretty adamant about getting chipped because obviously like everyone gets chipped but I think at one point the main girl saves her friend minutes before she is getting chipped? Oh also I’m pretty sure her friend lived in a richer area and the main girl and guy snuck into her house to do something but we’re about to get caught because a car pulled up into the driveway. I can’t remember much because I read this in 2018-2019. But please help me find it?
Looking for full chapters with Brianna and Calian
I read a lot of adult fiction romance, and there was one book from within the last 5-7 years or so.... I remember the female MC wanted to renovate/remodel a home, and the male MC was named Andrew, who was a contractor and in charge of the renovations... She always called him "Mandrew" as a nickname.... The line 'you give good hug Mandrew" has stuck with me because I have a male friend named Andrew which reminded me of this book, and now I want to read it again. I'm in the U.S., and I think this story took place somewhere in the U.S. as well. Thank you for any help! :)
The first one is like a gay apocalypse book where this guy and his friend and his friend’s brother are at their dorms and there’s like this massive outbreak and they try to get out, and barely make it. They go to their like houses only to find that they are too late. And then they escape to the forest or something and they are trying to get to a certain destination. The mc and the brother’s best friend end up falling in love and fucking in the woods. That’s all I remember though.
The second one is another gay alien apocalypse and the mc becomes like friends with one of the aliens who lives on like these weird plantation things on earth. They bond and eventually for some reason end up running away with a couple other people and they like fall in love. And there’s this once scene I remember where the mc had just woken up but is pretending to be asleep, but his friend (I think) and the alien prank him by talking about how the alien has two dicks. (He doesn’t). But that’s all I remember from that book.
The book is fiction, I read it around elementary school around the 2010's. It was a paperback and I don't remember well but I do think it has a colorful cover. It was set in more modern day and it was a book in English. I read it from the library of my elementary school and it was meant for kids with a higher elementary to middle school level.
This is what I remember about it: The book was about a young girl and she leaves home to go to a school filled with kids who also have supernatural powers, though there are not many out there. While she is at this school slowly her powers (which is flying) goes away and eventually she discovers that it is because of the food she is eating. She also breaks into the lab that the school has and discovers there are animals that are out there that also have supernatural powers but they are being tested on so the researchers at the lab know how to get rid of the kids superpowers. These animals have cool powers like they glow in the dark and have the ability to get small and stuff like that. After this the girl plots to leave the school so she stops eating the food/taking the pills they give her that takes away her powers and eventually she is able to leave and go back to her family.
Can anybody help me find this book?? I read it when I was a kid so it could be from the 90s to early 2000s. I THINK they were a family of polar bears but I could be wrong. There is a mom and dad and baby son and the mom is pregnant. It’s a winter or Christmas themed book I think. They take the son to the airport and he sits next to the flight attendant who has to accompany him. He brings a bag of ice or a snowman or something with him but it melts? He is going to stay with his grandma while his mom has the baby. He gets to his grandmas and he goes sledding and eats cookies at some point. And his mom says dont eat too many cookies or you’ll end up like me. Then he come back and his baby sister was born and she has a pink bow in hair. The baby sisters name was crystal!!!!
I read it back in 2013 on the nook/ Barnes and noble app. I just remember that she had a basic name and she usually wore black clothes and had blonde hair. She and her family kept trying to escape a guy who put the star tracking tattoo on his wrist so they went to another dimension. In the book, she ended up being able to talk to her soulmate with her mind.
Y’all this has been driving me nuts for YEARS. When I was a kid I had a big book, I think it was black or brown and it had either a red or green gem in the middle. Like an actual, smooth gem inset to the center. I’ve thought about it too much and ruined my memory on the exact color lol.
It had illustrations of fantastical creatures and maybe spells too? It was set up like an informational book but it was all magical. I remember thinking it was real as a kid, and I loved it.
There is a 50/50 chance I obtained this at the scholastic book fair in elementary school, somewhere between the years of 2007-2010, if that helps.
If you have ANY idea I will be eternally grateful for you, I fear this might bug me for the rest of my life if I can’t find it lol. I wish I remembered more about it 😫
the book revolves around two best friends, a guy and a girl. their birthday is the same day and they always celebrated it together, but they had a fight recently.
it turns out to be a groundhogs day plot, with them repeating their birthdays over and over until they “solve” or meet the requirements of something.
another random detail i remember is there being some kind of “godmother” of some sort who helps them along, and she has a small tattoo of a rubber duck i believe
this randomly popped into my head and details may be fuzzy here
This family lives at sea for years and they have I think three kids maybe two but I'm pretty sure it's three and they sometimes dock the parents are marine biologists after about a year of the randomly finding bioluminescence animals like sea creatures that they keep in like a very guarded room on the boat the parents try to weather storm and they tell all the children to go to the bottom and they disappear and because they had to be on the deck of the boat and their leashes snapped that they were connected to and the kids arrive at this island that's the fantasy that they think they were only able to get into because of the storm and they try to leave and they realize that their ship is wrecked so they go on to the island and then the trees and like greenery tries to like kill them or suffocate them and so they run through the trees and get to the next Island where they discover like this magical world and there's like a bunch of different creatures and very few humans and most the humans are delirious and have gone insane one particular scene that I remember is these tree people that live really high up cuz they're scared of this person that steals children and there are two humans in this whole like tree people thing that's like 300 ft off the ground and they're astrologists I think and the husband has gone insane because he's been there for so long and he's been mapping the same thing over and over again and all h is equipment that worked in the real world doesn't work there and his notebook is basically black from the amount of times he's wrote the same thing over and over again on the same pages because there are no more pages like there's no paper in this fantasy world and then I also remember them going into they got caught by the woman who steals children and they were put into like these labor camps and she's like mining for something it's a she with a bunch of other children and there's these monkeys that watch over them and make sure that they don't escape but they managed to escape and then they go back in on purpose to like defeat this woman that's all I remember can anybody find that book
I read this book when I was a teenager . She like finds a boy fairy and I think she then can choose wether to be a fairy and go with him or stay in the human world. I think the cover had like ..black background and blue flower petals.
it was I belive a young adult fiction book. I remeber very little about it, however I remember the kids I think winning placements in a program for them to go to space. The beginning of the book is mostly space training, before they get launches into space and we see that the ship they're flying in is a solar sail. I also want to say there was a twist where the company seding the kids to space was evil or had an alterior motive, Etc.
Not scary stories to tell in the dark, but i had it in elementary school around 2008ish and it was a fairly small book of short stories that were in a creepy sketch "emo"ish style of art, sorta tim burton style.
The cover had a red frame around it and art in the middle i think. I think most of the illustrations were black and white.
One story I remember is about a little boy hearing scratching on his window over and over and he finally checks and its a small creepy but cute bear thing looking at him. And another story about a cuckoo clock that i think has something to do with killing a lady's husband?
It was in english and i think it was all rhyming and sort of poetic in a sad and funny way. Been trying to find it for years.
I don't remember the title but I remember the plot. The heroine has a quiet and lonely character. She lives with a dog and is trying to get out of her shell. She falls for her new neighbour who is the single dad, who has a kid son. Also, he has a awkward relationship with his brother(a cop) because of the mmc was not able to protect him and his brother got hospitalized.
I do remember the climax where the dog saves the fmc when she gets attacked. Funny how I could remember the story but couldn't find the book. Tried long to search for the title, which I had read somewhere last year. Hope you could help me!