Comments | cmshank: Calling all book worms

cmshank

Calling all book worms

Apr 17, 2009 10:24

Ok guys, I need your help. I have been trying for the longest time to remember the name of a book I read in the early nineties, when I was 13 or 14. I believe it is young adult fiction, although if so it is on the latter end of the spectrum (fairly adult themes). I am pretty sure it was written in the seventies or early eighties. The book belonged ( Read more... )

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frogs_n_turtles April 17 2009, 15:48:56 UTC

"Vienna Prelude" by Brock and Brodie Thoene. It is the first of a series. The heroine was part Jewish? It's an awesome series.

frogs_n_turtles April 17 2009, 15:54:47 UTC

Wait! It could be "Prague Counterpoint". That's part 2 in the same series. But, you're definitely describing the plot of one of the books in that series.

cmshank April 17 2009, 16:16:08 UTC

Good series, but as I said, this book was not part of a series. It was definitely a standalone, and rather slender. Plus I read it years before any of those books.

I've already ruled out all the "good" authors I remember from that time period. I wouldn't be desperately posting if it were someone so easy to remember as the Thoenes :) I always knew I should have kept a book list...

frogs_n_turtles April 17 2009, 16:17:41 UTC

LOL Wasn't sure if you knew about the Thoenes. Most people I know don't.

And it really does sound almost exactly like one of their plots! That's so weird!

cmshank April 17 2009, 16:24:22 UTC

Oh yeah, I read ALL their books :) My favorite series was probably the Shiloh Legacy, but the WWII series was the first one I read (Zion Chronicles) and I was a huge fan of those too.

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mahjong_kid April 17 2009, 16:05:17 UTC

Grace Livingston Hill? That sounds like one of hers that I remember reading - a dark and stormy night, characters meeting at an inn, finding out that a lover was a - cousin? No idea what the name of the one I'm thinking of is, though.

cmshank April 17 2009, 16:11:05 UTC

NO way! lol. See I know it wasn't anything that trite...or I wouldn't remember it so vividly. I never liked any of her books, really. It was some obscure (to me) author.

cmshank April 17 2009, 16:20:38 UTC

You do know what I'm talking about though, right? The bag of books Mrs. Leinbach lent us? I think it had some LM Montgomery books, and the only other book that really stands out was about a family that emigrated from Europe to the U.S. and the problems they had after they arrived (the title was something about a rainbow).

mahjong_kid April 17 2009, 17:44:08 UTC

I remember the books you're talking about (The Other Side of the Rainbow, I think), but I didn't read nearly as many of them as you did.