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How can I find a book that I don't know the title of?

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bran · 05/08/2005 14:45

For years I've been wanting to re-read a book from my childhood, but I can't remember the title or the author, although I have a pretty good recall of the plot. Does anyone know of a website where you can search key words from the text of the book, or key words about the plot? [hopeful emoticon]

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Nixz · 05/08/2005 15:54

your on Blu!

Blu · 05/08/2005 15:53

You can get on top of the links, Nixz! Go on, I dare you!

MrsGordonRamsay · 05/08/2005 15:52

Er... something by Patricia Scanlan I picked up from a charity shop!

She won't tell us it must be bad ROFL

SoupDragon · 05/08/2005 15:51

So p-ed off she flounced twice

Nixz · 05/08/2005 15:51

I am a hijacker, i googled the answer and i cant dolinks.
Humph - i am defeated.

SoupDragon · 05/08/2005 15:51

Er... something by Patricia Scanlan I picked up from a charity shop!

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Blu · 05/08/2005 15:50

Flounce! Flounce! Flounce!

hehe!

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SoupDragon · 05/08/2005 15:50

hehehe. Has cheered me up no end, I can tell you AND I have the book ready to read when I've finished my current trashy fill-in book. Sigh.

dinosaur · 05/08/2005 15:49

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Blu · 05/08/2005 15:48

yes, SoupyD you ARE the queen of the castle, we're just jostling to be in your gang, now!

SoupDragon · 05/08/2005 15:47

You can all bog off. I knew the answer to the original question, you just googled for a thread hijack question.

Nyanyanya!

Blu · 05/08/2005 15:47

I did Nixz - my post of 3.18 was to you!

But I said new seekers earlier, so nerrrrr....(I was a bit wrong, but even so..)

Nixz · 05/08/2005 15:46

so how do i insert a link - i just copy and pasted the url!
Ohhhhhhhhh - u boffins!

MrsGordonRamsay · 05/08/2005 15:44

No linky

No lyrics

No winny

Oh alright you win

Nixz · 05/08/2005 15:43

Ahem - i have to take credit for that one im afraid - check out my link from earlier!!!! Sorry - but i was jumping in my seat when i found this - and no one noticed boohoo hoo

Blu · 05/08/2005 15:31

MGR - that's a brilliant site - 'name that tune, children's songs' ooooh....

(but people in the office next door are wondering why i am swaying along to the Seekers....)

MrsGordonRamsay · 05/08/2005 15:28

Dino

This one has sound

DS is now sitting on my lap signing along.

I had forgotten about this, thank you.

SoupDragon · 05/08/2005 15:25

I never located my copy of the Lion the WItch and the Wardrob for DS1 recently despite what I thought was an exhaustive search. Wasn't with the other "L" authors

SoupDragon · 05/08/2005 15:24

Trust me, if it hadn't been in the right place in what happened to be the first box, I could still be up there!! There are several piles of those cardboard fruit crate boxes up there with my pre-housemove book collection in, all pointing spine up. Now I think about it, I had to pack them up when I gave over "my" room to DS1 6 years ago

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bran · 05/08/2005 15:21

It was that thread about books that have changed your outlook on life that made me think of it again. When I was quite an irritating atheist it made me see that religions have a useful function both to individuals and society even if they don't have (what I would consider to be) definite proof. Plus it's a real page turner of a novel.

I'm of Soupy's loft, my book collection has to be drastically culled at least once a year because we don't have enough storage. When I build my own home I'm going to have a library. Even with a library I wouldn't have Soupy's incredible organisational ability to find one particular book in anything less than a whole afternoon. I'm very, very impressed.

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spidermama · 05/08/2005 15:20

My God! Just reading this thread puts me in absolute awe of you lot. What did I ever do before mumsnet. It's a goldmine.

(bows and genuflects)

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