What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Might have been spelt different. I can't remember anything other than the main characters (or an important character anyway)name being harlequin. I'm usually wrong about the publish date but probably mid 90's.

Got so into it I 'lost' 40 minutes and almost missed the bus home. Anxiety due to extreme possibility of missing that bus made me forget what the book was about :(

Do you remember the cover?
Time period/location story takes place?
Part of a series?

Do you know what genre the book falls into? If not, what genre did you normally read?

Don't remember the cover. Time period seemed modern. Don't think it was part of a series. Probably was a 'coming of age' type story.

The Mysterious Mr. Quinn has a fairly main character who is named Harley Quinn. (view spoiler)[And yes, he really IS Harlequin. THE Harlequin. (hide spoiler)]

While not "modern" and new, this book has been re-released a dozen or more times since Agatha wrote it, lo those many years ago.

Not that Ann. I've never read an Agatha Christie book. I know she's pretty popular.. I just never gotten into her. I did just think of another book to add to my read shelf though.

Repent Harlequin, said the Ticktock Man is a short story by Harlan Ellison. It has made me miss a bus stop. Check it out.

stormhawk - No, but looks good. I've added it my 'to read' shelf.

i think the characters were in middle school and it was aimed at someone a bit younger than me at the time I read it.

still kinda interested in this one.

Set in the U.S. or somewhere else? Characters white, black, Hispanic, other ethnicity?

Us and white

^^

There is short story named "Harlequin Valentine" by Neil Gaiman and there were also Harlequins (they were some kind of warriors) in The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks. None of them are aimed for middle-grade children though.

Did you read it in the 90s or at a later time? What genres do you normally read?

I read it between 2001-2003. At the time I only read YA and that is what it would have been.. I started to read it in the school library. The book was probably published in the late 80s or early 90s. I don't think the school library ever bought new books for itself. I just saw an article in the paper that the new librarian was going to or has gotten rid of a lot of the books to make room for modern technology.

Also, it was a soft cover book (not sure if all books first come out as hardcover) and probably less than 225 pages. Also, it was smaller in dimension Not very wide or long.

Not Harlequin, but the first thing I though of was Harley (Like a Person) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawkes??? been a few years since I read it but believe that one of if not the main character was Harley

The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks for Edcaley's suggestion.

Can't be the traveler because that was published in 2006 and i definitely read this book before the 2004.

Krista's suggestion makes me wonder. The plot is something I definitely would have gotten into, but I am not sure the school library would have had such a recently published book, plus the book I read was fairly beat up and old looking.

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M, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

Still looking; hopes are not high however.

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