I may have said before that I enjoy helping people figure out forgotten book titles

[conuly]

And I do. It takes a knack, though, because people have the most interesting way of describing half-remembered details. As in: "So basically Its set in the past because theres villages and they wore dresses and you get the point."

I mean, I do, but.... (I'm not dragging it up to quote now, but one summary ran "I'm sure it's set in Roman times because there's sand" and it turned out the book was Shabanu, which does have sand but is definitely not set in Ancient Rome, nor near it either temporally, culturally, or physically.)

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Why these students are bombing their community with seeds

Writers Are More Prolific When They Cluster

Charles Dickens and the Linguistic Art of the Minor Character (Note: Just because Dickens is the first citation for a number of common expressions, that does NOT mean he coined them. He may have, or he may simply have been the first to publish works using those words/phrases.)

Black Panthers in the 1960s: a rare intimate look – in pictures

The Americans Who Fought Fascism in Spain and Stuck Around for D-Day

“You Have Only Your Trust in Me”: Star Trek and the Power of Mutual Belief

How secret languages thrive behind bars

The slippery genius of the Cinderella story

'There is no word for Down’s syndrome in my language'

Torture Should Not Work in Dungeons & Dragons

Lovingly, a family raises an intersex child - again

The Struggles of Rejecting the Gender Binary

Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing

The Hobo College of Hobohemia

The climate renegade

The Unfulfilled Promise of DNA Testing

The Rough Riders’ Guide to World Domination

'They have you in a cultish grip': the women losing thousands to online beauty schemes

How the Cosby Story Finally Went Viral — And Why It Took So Long

Why Society Goes Easy on Rapists

These North Korean defectors were sold into China as cybersex slaves. Then they escapedCanada 'complicit in race-based genocide' of indigenous women

Why Should Immigrants ‘Respect Our Borders’? The West Never Respected Theirs

24 immigrants have died in ICE custody during the Trump administration

‘Food Doesn’t Grow Here Anymore. That’s Why I Would Send My Son North.’

An American Black Site

Comments

[steorra]

This post didn't show up on my reading page for some reason, and I wonder if the reason it doesn't have any comments is that it also didn't show up on other people's reading pages.

[steorra]

This post didn't show up on my reading page either.

[conuly]

That's... really weird?

[steorra]

Sorry, I just double checked and the the prompt fest post actually is on my reading page, I must have just missed it when I went to check.

But *this* post that we're currently commenting on still doesn't show up on my reading page. It is weird, yeah.

I've seen something like this before either if the "date out of order" box was checked (which I think made the post skip reading pages altogether), or if the post was initially created as private at one time, and then had the date modified when it was made public (it showed up in the person's journal at the time the date was modified to, but on people's reading pages it showed up at the time it was initially posted, and by the time it was made public, that was off the first page or two of reading-page posts.)

Not sure if either of those could apply here.

[conuly]

Well, I often post entries out of date, but without checking the backdate button. It possibly showed up when I posted it, you just didn't see it :)

[steorra]

It's possible. I tried to check for that by going back through my reading page to the beginning of the month, and text-searching every page for your name to see if this post showed up, and I didn't find it, but if it's older than about two weeks it would be back before I checked.