aaaaaah. had been trying to identify this book. which I read a galley of but did not keep bcs did not like much but thinking of how if do not keep how can you recall? this one what I remember esp not leading to finding it. ~ one word title ~ grand ~ like Revolution but not that maybe starts with R (turns out in bk there is history of a Republic) or with E there is red hair like blowing in wind on cover red hair was of tutor gentle loved by a student presenting a history of her country or society for an exam to join an academy? her name maybe starts with A and there is an Adam in the history and it is to do with computers, and apes? monkeys? some reveal at the end that they the examiners and the student and her tutor are all ____ apes I suppose where the reader has assumed they are people ? and computers figure, are they part computer? part computer part ape?
searching book academy redhead monkey/ape
and tried putting in science fiction recent novel young adult
(thought I recalled some noticing / qstning whether it was for young adults)
was NOT getting it
did happen on this:
How to Find That Book You've Spent Years Looking For -utne.com/2003-11-01
which is cool, it's 2003, it's just this quite general article
the advice is try ABE and also you could ask a librarian!
but then there's this looooong list of comments forever and ever still going in 2011bttm of page is 2008 this is eight years of people coming to this page because of the article title?
asking Can you tell which book I mean?
Everyone's got their one book...
the book YOU have spent YEARS looking for
it had a this and then there was this, and I think the cover ...
//Oh, humanity. what we remember. in all we forget, what we remember. these read like dreams.//
'I am looking for a book any suggestions on finding it. Its
called hunted or hunter by an author with the first or last name
david. The main characters name is david. The cover is black with
red tear across the middle of three claws. its sci fi and deals
with a mad scientist who takes dna alterning serum that turns him
into a beast.'
' it was about two brothers who were mirror twins (I think the medical term is that they have situs invertus). Anyway there was something about the balance of the universe and one twin was supposed to die but then the wrong twin dies. the story then splits up and we follow the living twin as he tries to deal with the now apocolyptic world and the dead twin as he journeys through the afterlife. Its a very vague description but the only other thing i remember is that the living twin (i feel like his name was felix but that could be wrong?) gets stabbed but he lives because his heart was on the other side of his body. Can anyone help? I would really appreciate it!'
// really it is sweet. plenty of people helping each other Martha I think the book you mean is...
and it's sweet that stories get to so many people, get in mind, "and he turned out to be a scottish laird's son"//
and so mark this to read through these.
what I know about Revonotlution I dunno about redheaded girl ape student Adam book is less coherent than many of these,
going to have to find my own note of it (if I made one) or bust.
not sure I would have noted it at all since not that into it but maybe before releasing the physical book to the non-recollected
on phone had looked thru dlww/books
then tonight after dealing in marks & notes tonight
because into novel Heft - web - kindle az highlights > dlww
so mind flurry orginfo
tried again and then gave try to
dlcs/books search ape nope. then searched galley sort of a whim but that is one fact I recall it was to-me a galley scrolled to bttm of screen to see how many pgmrks dealing with, will dlcs infinite scroll just keep loading, is this too much to look through at least now not up for a long loook
and As Luck Would Have It the final pgmrk on the screen before the infinite scroll kicked in loaded more was --
and I saw the one word title and re young adult and YEAY That Is It --
az Genesis: Bernard Beckett: Books
int: bside the Houghton Mifflin edtn due April, also this hardcvr w almost-same cover (but eery bluer blue sky & sea, and author's name wher 'a novel' is on Houghton) fr Quercus Publishing Plc (May 7, 2009) AND at az.uk 1847247296 a hardcover w green jungle cover fr Quercus Publishing Plc; Children's ed edition (May 7, 2009). so I guess Quercus has the uk pub rights, and is doing a childrens as well as an adult edtn (& for latter, shared design w Amer Houghton edtn) // unavail paperback edtn listed w no cover pic is Longacre Press 2006 so that's the New Zealand orig publ - y: longacre.co.nz and swhre out thr shld be th ~2008 Australian edtn fr Text Pub Co. // so, lkg at az struck by 1) # editions and 2) 'childrens' - 'young adult'. no sign of that on backcvr my galley, w marketing plan. seems B Beckett is a 'young adult' writer so this book has been marketed as that and also for adults.
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