Okay, so in another comment just a bit ago, publius1 posted a movie quote that I wasn't familiar with (from Sunset Boulevard it turns out). I'd started to google it before just deciding to say "eep, don't know that one," but by that time in the results from the first unhelpful search, I saw this link and had to click on it. I mean, who the hell *doesn't* remember all those movies that...

I'm looking for a young adult book that I read a few years ago (probably between 2004-2007). The one detail that I know for certain is that 2 of the characters were named Bernie and Elton, after Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The "Bernie" character was a girl. I believe the main character in the book was a boy who befriends Bernie. He later asks if Bernie is short for Bernadette, and then she tells...

Red: Sharon Creech's Absolutely Normal Chaos , a story about a 12-year-old girl trying to survive her crazy family over the summer. Written in journal form. Orange: I don't remember the title, but it's a children's book about a mouse who moves into an abandoned jack-o-lantern for the winter. Next stop, whatwasthatbook . Yellow: Love That Dog , also by Sharon Creech. The poetry journal of...

Lately I’m loving the whatwasthatbook group on lj. Not only for its ability to find lost books (largely kids’ books, but also for the conversation style of its questions. See, for example: I read this book while I was in late elementary school - probably fifth or sixth grade (around 1999). I found it in my mom’s room and don’t really know a publishing date for it, but I know that it wasn’t new...

whatwasthatbook is really rather busy these days.

Okay, I know that the title of this group is find a book, but I know the book - I just need to opening paragraph and just to confirm the page number. I'm really sorry to be posting it in here, but I honestly have no idea where else to look - please, point me in the right direction! - I just need to opening paragraph or so for my dissertation and for the life of me, I can't find my copy anywhere! ...

Yes, I already tried whatwasthatbook . Can you identify this book for me? It is driving me CRAZY. It was a picture book I used to love in elementary school, and it was watercolors, I think. Lots of green. It was about a girl and her mother was a witch, or something? Kind of outcasted from people. And there was something to do with strawberries. If you don't know or care, what was your favorite...

*frowns* For random reasons I'm scoping Snopes today. Backstory is that there was a post in whatwasthatbook about an author who wrote about "dream monsters who were gods" and then committed suicide after going insane . While I'm nodding along to the comment along the lines of "surely that's a rip-off Lovecraft", I'm almost completely sure I've read this before. Except anyone who got hold...

I went out today, first stopped at Music Millennium and got a Shins shirt (Ship and Clouds, google it. The pink version). I wanted the debut CD from Howling Bells but although they had the tag/section divider/whatever the holy fucking hell those things separating artists in CD stores are called, they didn't have any of their CDs. Then I checked the price of the new Neko Case CD, it was 14.99 and I...

X-posted to whatwasthatbook I had a book that I think was once a school textbook, the kind with a bunch of short stories in it, for a reading class (although not any reading class I was in. I think my grandmother sent me the book). I no longer have the book, but there was one short story in it that I especially loved and would like to be able to read again, if it's online. The story takes...