The book I am remembering was probably written in the early to mid nineties, as that's when I read it as a middle-schooler, and read it.  It seemed fairly new at the time, though I could be wrong. As far as I know, it wasn't part of a series. The main character's name or nickname was Pepper, and she had a boyfriend that was nicknamed Salt, making them Pepper and Salt. I believe she had gotten pregnant, though I don't know if it was before the book started or during.

The book I'm trying to remember is definitely not The Salt and Pepper Chronicles.


Some of the scenes remembered:

• They're in a car and trying to leave town, but they get stuck, and end up driving in circles, unable to leave.
• There is a creepy witch-type girl who is rewriting the world in her notebook.
• Creepy girl also stabs Pepper in the stomach with a pitchfork at one point.
• There were a lot of crazy dream sequences, including one where someone (Salt?) is balancing on the edge of a razor, and I think he falls.

I'm trying to identify two books, the first I remember having when I was very little (so early 90's I'd say) and the second I remember reading in grade school (so late 90's).

1) A children's book (possibly even toddler/baby book) and all I can remember is the cover. It had a brontosaurus on it and possibly a little boy or girl. I can't remember if the child was riding the dinosaur. The illustration was done in very soft pastel colors and it looked like it was colored with colored pencils.

2) A teen fiction book about a girl cloned by a scientist to try and cure his daughter's disease? People keep telling me it's the Replica series but I distinctly remember the clones having different names starting with a sequential letter of the alphabet (amy, brenda, carly, etc) and at the end of the book one clone meets another girl like herself whose names starts with a "D" (I think?) and then wonders how many more are out there. I think the girl might have been sick and that's how she found out she was a clone? It's really fuzzy.

I want to make ribs in the crock pot this week.
(Louch, for some reason, I thought your rib recipe was a crock pot one.  I don't know why.)

Which one should I make?
this one
or
this one?

Hey, guys :)

Here's the next chapter of Wrong Turn... I wanted to say thank you to all the people who've been commenting and reviewing on such a consistent basis... you have no idea how much it means to see the number of comments and readers gradually grow... makes me feel so good about this story, which has become my "baby" of the moment. I'm so glad to see other people are enjoying it too :)

*hugs*
DoS


Title: Wrong Turn
Beta: </a></b></a>snogged 
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: none, really; there is Barney/OMC and Barney/OFC, as well as allusions to Barney's feelings for Robin; all friendships/relationships are as they are as of immediately before the season 4 finale :P
Warnings: non-con, violence, torture, disturbing themes, dark!fic
Summary: Barney's determination to turn over a new leaf is cut short when a terrifying experience changes his life completely. In the wake of an extreme trauma, the group must face their own demons while trying to help Barney recover.

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First post,yay!

Anyway, I read this book when I was in 4th grade(2001?)
On the cover It's a weird garden and maybe a girl and/or a old lady? It had to do with a ghost too. Bah, I'm not sure! All I remember about the book is this:

There's a girl who moves someplace( I think) and the next door neighbor has some weird garden or a treehouse. There was some doll involved I think. Anyway, the next door neighbor who owned the garden or whatever was a bitter old women who didn;t like the little girl in her garden or something. The little girl meets a ghost girl and they become friends and later on in the book it's revealed that the ghost girl is the bitter old womens' dead sister or dead bestfriend or something.

I really want to read this book again.
:)

Edit: The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn

There's a book I'm trying to find for a friend.

I don't have much at all in the way of plot, but I thought it couldn't hurt to try.

All I know is that there's a girl who has a group of people watching her, or watching over her.

He's pretty sure the cover has buildings with neon lights, and he thinks "The City" is included in the title, but isn't sure. He also said he had found it in the mystery section.

I'm sorry I don't have much to go by at all, but if anyone has any insight, that would be much appreciated. :)

I NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. No, I do NOT know why, but I do.

When I was 12 and in school I went to the schools library and found a book about a young boy who finds a pegasus in his grandfathers orchard ( I think) Its been 14 years and I've been looking for a copy of that book. The only problem is that there were no words and it was all pictures. I don't know the artist and would kill to know of anyone who knows what I'm talking about and could point me in the right direction.

I just discovered, through a happy accident, that the Pilot Precise RT pen refills fit into the Pilot G2 Pro pen body. This is awesome, because I prefer the Precise v5 point to the G2 (although the G2 is awfully nice), but I hate the RT body. It's ugly. The G2 Pro body is much nicer to look at, and it feels great in the hand. So now that I put the refill and body together I have a perfect pen.

I feel a bit guilty, using that when my Lamy Vista is inked and in my bag. I'll have to take that one out and play with it more. At this rate my Moleskine is going to look very hodgepodge. But that's okay. Nobody looks at it but me. (It will annoy me a bit to have different inks and pencils, but I'll get over it...)

I've searched everywhere, trying to figure out the title of a book I read when I was 12ish (1988?). It's about this teenage tennis prodigy whose family has to scrimp and save just to afford her required tournament uniforms. Anyway, ultimately, her main rival is accidentally killed by the teen prodigy's best friend overchlorinating the pool they all exercise in.

This book made a strong impression on me, but unfortunately it seems to have vanished.

Hmmm?

This is quite possibly the vilest thing I've seen in a while. My favorite is the one where the writer tells men to remove slats from a girlfriend's chair so she'll break it when she sits on it. Ugh. I'd thank Mike for the link, but I wish I could un-read it.

Looking for a book I read in middle school. It might be YA, possibly adult, but I don't think so. Sort of a gothic romance or mystery. When I read "Rebecca" years later, it sort of reminded me of this book.

I think it takes place in Scotland, or maybe Wales or England. Someone is named Christobel. Maybe the main character? I think that might even be the name of the book, although I've never been able to find it searching for Christobel on Amazon or similar sites.

I can't remember the plot, something about romance, definately very gothic-y, with damp mansions or castles or something. I think it was a period piece too, but not sure what period. There was probably a mystery involved somehow and some danger. Maybe a bridge was involved?

I read it in the early 90s, and the copy was a bit worn, so it was probably published in the mid 80s or before (unless it had multiple printings, then it could be even older).

Sorry, this is all very vague. I read it so long ago! I hope someone can help.

I feel ridiculous asking about a book I read only a few months ago, but I'm hopeless with trying to find books when I have no idea who the author was or what the title was.


Like I said, I read it a few months ago.. it's not very old. It's kind of a romancey-drama. It's about a house in one of those beach places that rich people go (I don't know which one... they had to take a ferry to get there. It's on the east coast). An old woman lives in the house and needs money so she decides to rent the rooms in it. The story is about the different people who come to live there and their stories.

Her son comes and he's just trying to get out of a relationship with his boss's wife.

A man who just told his wife (and mother of his children) that he's gay.

A woman who's daughter has turned against her since the mother divorced the father (because he was unfaithful, but the daughter doesn't know that.)

It was a really interesting book and I'd like to read it again sometime... if only I could find it...

Is there anywhere intown, particularly midtown or EAV, showing UFC 100 tonight?

Can't tell if I'm hungry again or if breakfast it trying to put up a fight. Either way, I would have been working out and on my way to dressed, instead of poking around EBay window-shopping, if it weren't for some discomfort in my gut. It's still here, somewhat, but sitting in the computer chair is not helping any.

Today is primarily for the commission for hametsunosaturn, as it's been evading me for the past several days, or at least some key to the interaction between the characters has. I didn't get a damned thing done yesterday, and that's pretty okay. wolven and I drove around a bunch to do things, through areas we don't usually go, which I usually enjoy. I blame my mom, who used to have to drive me around as a baby to get me to sleep when I was colicky. Something about the motion and the vibration settled whatever was hurting, I guess.

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Hallo all. I'm searching for a book that was part of my middle school curriculum; I read it in the late '90s. I found it a while back, but I lost it again. I do hope you can help!

There was a game involved: a will had several people together to try to solve a mystery for the inheritance. One of the teams was lead by a younger girl, and their answer to one "riddle" was a monetary value (completely wrong).

I don't remember any more plot wise. I do remember that the cover had a large mansion on it. I want to say that the title has the word "game" in it, but I'm not sure.

Any help will be very much loved, and leading me to this book will end in internet points and e-cookies ♥

ETA: Found! It's The Westing Game. You guys are totally awesome!

I heard about this book on the radio a while ago and its written by a guy who went to a fancy prep school and then an Ivy League University.

Its pretty much all about how he went to the best schools in the nation and learned absolutely nothing and then got out into the real world and realized how useless the educational system is. He got a lot of criticism on the fact that he wrote this after attending Yale, or wherever he went. It stuck in my head because I've always argued that college is overrated most of the time and more people should consider trade schools (no offense, but my university was so "serious" about admissions that I got into Pre-Med after nearly flunking out of high school).

FOUND: "Lost in the Meritocracy" by Walter Kirn

I blame the_xtina for the fact that I discovered this evening what appears to be a large, coordinated, and widespread attack on multiple Web hosting providers.

I hadn't actually intended to do any computer security stuff today; my plans for the evening involved playing WoW. the_xtina speculated during an IM conversation this evening about the existence of Viking porn, so naturally I did a Google search, and got rather more than I expected.

A Google search for "viking porn" turns up a few hits with a Google "this site may harm your computer" tag. Both of the first two I looked at--because I can't stay away from the "this site may harm your computer" tag--had a couple of interesting things in common: they were hosted on iPower Web, the notoriously insecure Web host I've written about on several occasions in the past; both had malicious redirection files in a directory named /backup/, both used a complex series of traffic redirectors before ending up at the malware site proper, and both were heavily seeded throughout Google using a very large number of popular pornographic and non-pornographic keywords.

In other words, all the hallmarks of the Russian Zlob gang. God, how I hate those people.

I widened the Google search using both common keywords (like "porn") and keywords I know the Zlob gang favors, and specifying inurl:/backup/ as part of the search.

What I ended up with was a VERY long list of compromised Web sites, each with a directory named /backup/ containing large numbers of files stuffed full of keywords and each of which redirects through a series of redirectors to a site that attempts a drive-by malware download.

( Click here for more technical details (down the rabbit hole we go!) )
Edited to add: Many, but not all, of the hacked sites also have invisible iFrames placed on them which load content from http://microsotf.cn/ or http://updatedate.cn/.

The first isn't resolving for me at the moment. The second is, but returns a blank page when loaded directly; again, it's probably checking the browser for exploits and attempting to download malware in the background.