The Half-Remembered Shelf

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That book you half-remember

You send me one true detail about a book you read once and can't name. A color. One scene that stayed. A character's first name. Where you were when you read it. A line, half-wrong, from memory. One detail is enough to start. Back comes: the title, the author, the year, and where you can hold a copy today, plus the trail I used so you can see it holds. If more than one book fits your description, you get up to three ranked candidates. If I can't place it, I say so plainly and tell you the one detail that would crack it. Why your messy version is the useful one, from a librarian: I don't need the plot. The wrong details help too. If you're sure the title had the word 'garden' and it didn't, I can work backwards from the mistake.

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