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I think I've officially peaked, nerdiness-wise. I've found the Facebook for would-be librarians.

Update:

HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT!

I found a group on the aforementioned social-networking site thats (whose?) purpose is helping people like me remember the names of books they read a thousand years ago... even if they can only remember like, one vague/fuzzy/partially accurate detail of the story. For about five years, I've been trying to remember the name of a series that I read when I lived in Australia (1992-96... ish). I remember loving the series (and that it was, in fact, a series), and that in one of the books, the teenage female protagonist (who has some kind of special power) gets a tattoo of a bird (a phoenix?) which is like, a key/password to the secret society of gypsies (I was sure of the gypsies), but it heals (to her surprise.)*

Seriously. I've asked about it at every library I've visited in the past couple of years (making a point of asking the YA Librarians) and at a fair number of bookstores. Don't even get me started on the google searches... I was starting to think that maybe I'd made the whole thing up.

But I posted the above description on the 'Name That Book' forum, and within 20 minutes, someone had answered.

So, here's my revised reading schedule:

-Finish Nausea
-Pride, Prejudice and Zombies.


-The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody.

Hurrah!

*In case you were wondering: in Ashling, the third book of the series (released in '95), Elspeth (an orphan 'mutant' with the 'talents' of farseeking, beastspeaking, coercion and the ability to heal herself) gets the Triple Birds tattooed on her arm (with the Birds being the official seal of the Twentyfamilies, a tribe of gypsies) that does, in fact, heal (to her surprise). And Carmody is an Australian author, so. Boo yeah.