So, I was nosing around Amazon to find titles to try to hunt down in the library here on campus (where I'm wandering around in-costume today and having a blast doing so yay).. really, not having much luck, Reed hasn't much in terms of general fiction. It looks like a lot when you're up there, but really, there's only two or three aisles of children's/YA, and general fiction.. not a lot, unless it's classical literature.

All that aside, however, I've found ANOTHER bunch of books to my want-desperately-but-am-unlikely-to-find-dueto-being-out-of-print list. (The main bunch atm is the Trixie Belden series, of which the first three have been reprinted, but the rest, I've not seen since I was last in the children's room of the Perry Public Library.) Those of you who got my NaNo spam email know about this book "Requiem for a Princess" that I love with all my heart, and really admire, for being able to pull of something that, at a glance, seems lame and unbelievable, but doing it in such a real, heartfelt, believable.. I can't really explain it, it's odd, it's not the main conflict that sticks with me, it's the sense and the feel of the interaction between the girl in the present and the girl in the past that she dreams of..

In any event, on a whim, I decided to see if the author, Ruth M. Arthur, had done anything else I might want to hunt out. And o. mfg. EVERYTHING that she has written, I want so terribly to read. It turns out that that's the main theme she wrote around - a girl in the present has some sort of dilemna or trauma or what-have-you, and unearths a similar situation in the life of someone in the past who's in some way connected to her. Which is EXACTLY what I'm planning on taking on. *facepalm* So I'd just like to state that, for the record, I didn't know that when I was thinking up this story. ^^;

...meanwhile, though, I think I really am going to re-read "Requiem" again soon, I love that book dearly, and could use the tips on how to do what I want to do well. It could so, so easily go cliche, and I'm not about to let it.