Children's book I cannot remember

[mollyringle]

This is a shot in the dark, but: there was this book I read when I was about 8-10, a novel, a ghost story, and I cannot remember the title or the author. It has been bothering me for years. Today I searched thru Amazon and Google for about an hour and turned up nothing. So I thought maybe, just maybe, one of you might know what it is. It was about a girl who encounters and sort of befriends the ghost of another girl who used to live in this house. The ghost's name was Miranda. I think she originally drowned in a well or something. She had a favorite stone owl, with yellow glass eyes, that was hidden somewhere (hollow trunk of a tree, I think), and told the modern girl where to find it. The book was probably for the 10-14 age range. It must have been published at least 15 years ago. And that's all I remember for sure. Any ideas? Heh.

[Edit, 3/29/03: jedmiller rocks! He found it: it is The Ghost Next Door, by Wylly Folk St. John. Think I'll go order a copy and see if it's actually as good as I remember.]

Other random things:

"Nasturtium" comes from the Latin words meaning "nose" and "twist/torture". Eat a nasturtium leaf and you will see why. Yowza. Spicy! (Nice addition to salads, though.)

[Edit 3/29/03: Photos taken down because a) they're stupid and b) I was NOT fishing for compliments (or at least, not on my looks; maybe on the amusing Photoshop effects...). I genuinely thought the first was unflattering; but you all were obliged to follow rules of politeness and say nice things anyway. Which is sweet of you, but that wasn't the point and I feel silly now. Tempting to take a vow of silence some days.]

Comments

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Arrrrgh.

First it's too much LOTR. Now I let y'all in on what I genuinely considered to be an unflattering photo, and I'm "fishing for compliments."

Well, fine. They're taken down. See if I make THAT mistake again.
:P

[madbard.livejournal.com]

Someone is having a little trouble identifying gentle chiding. I guess they don't teach you that in linguistics school. :)

I didn't say it was too much LOTR! I said it was too little other-things.

And put back the pictures before your other LJ users blame me for this and start hitting me with furniture. You're quite fetching.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

Technically, this morning I was thinking I should take them down even before I read the comments. Last night, when posting it, I wasn't thinking straight (headache from hours of screen-staring), and at such times I have a tendency to inadvertently fish for compliments. You were actually right about that; there is precedence for this. Still, the compliments weren't supposed to be on my looks; they were supposed to be on the silliness/amusement of the Photoshop job! Should've known, though, that people would be obliged to be polite and say "No, you're pretty" - they do teach us that in linguistics school. And there's no way to avoid that, so it's best to just take the things down.

Doubt there'll be any abuse with furniture. People can find pictures of me elsewhere easily enough, if they really want to. (Anyway, the pictures are actually still up; I just removed the links...)

[madbard.livejournal.com]

The subtext I was trying to convey is that I didn't mean to cause any offense or anything like that. That really wasn't the spirit of my response. Please post more, not less.

And go ahead, fish for compliments. Just, you know, work on your technique.

[madbard.livejournal.com]

The subtext I was trying to convey is that I didn't mean to cause any offense or anything like that. That really wasn't the spirit of my response. Please post more, not less.

And go ahead, fish for compliments. Just, you know, work on your technique.