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Books, movies, shows, fic. Post about things you have memory of but not enough to actually know what it was and see if anyone can help.

Well, there is a copy of Dante's Inferno that I had when I was younger that I will never find. Been looking for it for ages (both online and in book stores) but I can't find the copy I had.

there's this book that has always been on my mind but my brain can't seem to remember anything concrete about it that i can google it and find it myself.

it's a middle school grade book and it's about a kid (i think the kid was a girl but not 100% sure) who lives in an flat in france (i think france, it was definitely somewhere in europe). and i think it was below the flat, there was a bakery and the kid was friends with the baker there and would get free treats from them. all i can remember is that and i'm pretty sure the main plot wasn't about that. i have no idea what the main plot was about but i remember enjoying this book a lot when i was a kid.

I have three things.

1. MOVIE: All I remember is there was a guy who locked himself away from the world for a year or something and ended up inventing hologram stuff, but the company that paid him to do that wiped his memory of it and stole his money and now he's backtracking with clues he left pre-wipe.

2CHILDREN'S SOMETHING: I don't remember if this was an actual story book or a non-animated cartoon sort of video. I just remember the princess of pineapples and the prince of strawberries fell in love despite their differing kingdoms and maybe invented strawberry pineapple concoctions?

3. PRE-TEEN NOVEL: I want to say it was in the vein of the Bingo Brown books, but I don't think it actually was one. But definitely part of a series that'd been following a group of kids and this book had them as high-schoolers going on a class trip to some sort of...anatomy...science...museum? I remember them walking through a giant interactive display about ears that was literally like walking through an ear and this was the backdrop for relationship drama with the main boy character. And I feel like the cover had the group of kids and the main one was spinning a globe on his finger like a basketball.

Okay, actually 4.

Another book: Sort of like the Gordan Korman baseball books, this one features a kid who secretly joined the summer baseball league even though his dad was against it. I remember he kept his uniform in the tree house and one day he was asking his mom to help him figure out averages, and she realized he was talking about his own batting average, which was like a .4something. And he had a best friend named Carroll who spent most of his time trying to get people to call him Kyle. I don't remember if this one had the magical negro ex-baseball player turned ballpark janitor or if that was another book, though.

You'd think I've got enough that these would all be easy to find with some google-fu, but I have had no luck. Except for the movie, which I haven't looked for, but I just recently thought about (and remembered more than I expected once I started typing).

#1 is Paycheck: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/

Your movie is Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck.

There were some christian fantasy MG/YA stories that I recall fondly. They were heavy on symbolism (not actual Bible things), and about truth and honor and things like that. They took place in another world reached through (portal? book? etc?). I remember really enjoying them and being impressed by how non-preachy and well crafted they were. I wish I could remember who wrote them or what they were called. There were at least three, and probably published in the 90s or Oughts, though I'm not sure about that.

Oh, and one of the books had a dark-skinned girl as the heroine and I remember she was interesting. I thought it was unusual and liked her a lot. She was younger in the earlier book(s?). The books might've had co-authors.

Is there anything else you can remember? Because that sounds vaguely familiar.

Could it have been the Magic Attic series?

No it was definitely a christian series. They were fairly thin paperbacks, and I think they were from a smaller publisher, or at any rate not widely successful. I found them at one library and nowhere else, ever, iirc.

thanks for trying to help!

I don't think that this is it, but I'm going to throw out Ted Dekker's 'The Lost Books' series. The first book was published in 2005

https://www.goodreads.com/series/44514-the-lost-books

There was an illustrated copy of A Little Princess that I loved and frequently checked out of the school library. All I remember is Sara wearing a purple dress while looking at Emily the doll.

That sounds like the 2001 edition illustrated by Graham Rust. Does this look like the illustration you remember?

http://grahamrust-murals.com/illustrated-by-graham-rust/a-little-princess/

Oh my gosh, that's it! Thank you~!! Those illustrations were so beautiful to me.

I grew up with the Tasha Tudor illustrations, but Rust's are beautiful too--glad I could help reunite you with a favorite book!

A book where people got power from magical stones that were possible placed in their back.

were the people all girls?

There was a children's picture book at my elementary school library that was about a cat (I'm pretty sure it was a cat, but it's possible it was a dog) that got lost at a fancy dog show or parade. The thing I remember most is this big spread page of a bunch of the dogs in the show sitting on fancy cushions and eating different kinds of desserts that I'm pretty sure dogs would not be able to eat in real life. And I think either most or all of the dogs in the show were poodles. I just remember I really loved that looking at that picture and imagining how delicious those desserts must have been, lol.

There was this supernatural-themed book I read years ago where the main character is a teenage girl whose mom died. She either lives with her grandparents or spends a lot of time with them (I think her dad was alive, but he worked a lot, I think he was a cop or something, and was never around) and near their house was a cemetery. There was this giant log in the cemetery that either turned out to have always been a snake and she didn't realize it, or it turned into a snake, near the end, and I think it might've been posessed by her mom's spirit or something, and it helped her in the big supernatural showdown that happened at the end.

Oh, and it's NOT YA (I posted on a LJ community about it a long time ago and everyone assumed it was YA, but no one had any idea what it was).

There was this book when I was a child. A girl's new stepsister seems really bratty. She gets an imaginary friend that starts becoming unhealthy for her and something something and when her father rescues her, I think it's revealed she has some kind of PTSD or something(some dark secret revealed).

I think the (younger bratty)girl's name was Hannah but I'm not sure.

The vague memory of this book has been in my head for a while and it drives me a little nuts.

Wait Till Helen Comes, by Mary Downing Hahn.

One of my favorite childhood books and authors!

OMG thankyouthankyouthankyou

So glad to know what this is. Sometimes I was starting to think my ind had made it up.

Thank you.

There was this sci-fi book I read years ago called something like... 'Escape from Haven'???
It was about this guy called Berry living in some sort of pre-agricultural tribal society, head of his tribe, hot girlfriend; and then hot girlfriend gets abducted by people who live in a flying city and Berry goes off to rescue her.
The people in the flying city are not real impressed by this dude in animal skins trying to steal back his girlfriend, and at first they're going to kill him, BUT THEN. This older guy who... I think was sort of a formerly-powerful, somewhat fallen-from-grace aristocrat-type goes, "Wait, wait! Social experiment time!" and takes Berry in and teaches him reading and writing and chess and how to work the shower controls.
Blah blah blah, chess metaphors, creepy objectification of female characters, mentor-aristocrat dies, Berry kills a baddie, Berry rides off into the sunset with girlfriend (and the other girlfriend he acquired while in the flying city, because why not).

Does all this sound even vaguely familiar to anyone?

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