I’ve got a question for the TN readers, particularly those who have access to the BBC. While studying in London in 2001, I saw a television show that was so weird and twisted that it …

I have a small child who loves the Berenstain Bears and we read them over and over. The phrase below seems incorrect, but I’m not a grammar expert so I’d like to get a definitive …

When I was young, I read a couple of kids’ books that were way older than me. Probably published no later than the ’60s, possibly quite a bit earlier. A family purchased an old estate …

Guy and I are graduate students in the same program and have all the same friends. We’d been dating on-and-off for about a year and broke things off last week. If I’m honest, it was …

I’m hoping you can help with a song that’s been stuck in my head ever since the late ’80s or early ’90s.  It’s a silly little pop song sung by a female artist, it went …

Dear Nation,
Happy New Year! And welcome to your resolutions open thread: share/gut-check your resolutions; get/give support for everything from new workouts to budgeting to cookie recipes; second-guess your break-ups with Diet Coke and post-10-PM chocolate.
I’ll …

I could use some help on this, please. It’s a short children’s story (I think I found it in an English/Literature textbook when in 7th grade) about this fairy/elf-type being whose job it is to …

I have a bit of an apartment problem. Our upstairs neighbors are stompy walkers. I seriously don’t understand how normal human beings can make this much noise when they walk. It’s not a normal “all …

 
Since we’re all still here, let’s track down some books, eh what?
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I’ve searched for this book on Google and came up with nothing. I read this book in middle school (late ’90s). It’s about a …

I’m a happily married mother of two young children; my husband and I are both in our mid-thirties. We don’t really disagree about much and we have a pretty great life. But even though we …