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What book(s) has changed your life? (lemmy.world)

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What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success.

Any kind of change, big or small. Anything from weight loss, world view, personality shift, major life change, single change like stopped smoking or drinking soda to starting exercising or going back to school. I want to hear how people's life were a bit or a lot better through reading and your progress.

TIA 🙏

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[-] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When do you think you read it? Do you think it’s The Hunchback Assignmets by Arthur Slade?

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

That's not it, but looks fascinating! I read it 15 ish years ago, but if I had to guess I'd say it was early 1900s setting or before.

[-] Ubettawerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Are there any other details you can remember? I’m kinda curious and would like to see if I can help you remember what it was. Was it somewhat historical or did it have more fantasy elements?

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I think the authors name was a pseudonym, and something like Jaques, maybe? The title may have been something like Little Angels. Olympia was black, and a major caricature. She's very fat, and has a large bosom. It was a display book in a furniture store, so the cover/title/author may not be accurate, though.

I remember pulling up the Wikipedia article for the author at one point after reading it in ~09?

The little girl's friend was wealthy. Like, insanely sane. They leave and adventure, end up very bad off. Adopted by a very nice preacher and his wife, that turn out to be evil, and may have been the literal devil (which would be the only sort of fantasy aspect that I can recall), and Olympia bursts in at the moment and rescues.

That's really all I can remember. I've tried for years.

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