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HaBO: Time Travel with Guns n’Roses

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This Help a Bitch Out is from Wench, who is hopeful that one of you will recognize this book:  

So after seeing the might powers of the Bitchery find titles to the most obscure books possible, and having zero luck with my own googling, here's my HaBO.

 

I originally read this some time in the 90s. Our Heroine finds herself back in Ye Olde Colonial Times, inhabiting the body of a woman from that time who has a younger plot-moppetish sister. Either the heroine or the woman she's possessing falls in the river and hits her head, and I think that's how this whole bunch of shenanigans get started.

She meets Our Hero, who is a furniture maker, who might be named Nathaniel. It's heading up on the Revolution, so things are in a state of serious unrest. The heroine's “father” is awful and terrible, and I think she runs away with Our Hero and hides in his house in Philadelphia. And is worried about the younger sister. They get their HEA, and there's a memorable scene at the end of the book with Nathaniel (?) wearing a bandanna, watching MTV, and making some remark about Axl Rose.

There's also some very memorable crazysauce: Our Hero's grandfather and Our Heroine's grandmother are both dead and meet up in heaven, and try to direct events from them so that OH's get their HEA. Grandmother drinks Olympia beer (which is frequently referred to as “Oly”, and you'd think that'd be one of those phrases you could use to google this shit but nooooo…) and wears those sweatshirts so popular in the 80s with the funny/clever sayings.

I have been looking for this for yeeeeeeeeaarrrrrrsssss, so hopefully y'all can help me out.

Of COURSE he wears a bandanna. Is it just me, or do you think men would have a harder time with time-travel culture shock than women, were such a thing to become possible? Sweeping gender-based judgements ahoy, obviously, but I am thinking Nathaniel would be all HOLY CRAP after the spring foward. ESPECIALLY if there were Axl Rose involved. 

That said, do you remember this book?

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  1. Don’t remember this book, but it sounds hilarious.

  2. cleo says:

    YAY!!  I love HaBOs!  So glad to have the crazysauce back after all the RITA reviews.  I thought I read a lot of crazy time travels back in the day, but this one isn’t ringing any bells yet.

  3. Shara says:

    Is it Forever by Amy Elizabeth Saunders? It has multiple references to Oly when I searched it on Google Books.

  4. Connie333 says:

    It’s “Forever” by Amy Elizabeth Saunders as Shara said.  The book is totally cracktastic but a lot of fun and you have to love a heroine who causes a scandal by sneaking off to get a nicotine fix half way through a fancy ball.

  5. Beccah W. says:

    Love the cover of the book I found on Amazon! Soooo 90’s fabulous! http://www.amazon.com/Forever-

    And btw, time-travel was one of my favorite Barbie stories I’d play out.

  6. Wench says:

    OH MY GOD YOU ARE AMAZING

    Thank you, thank you, thank you Shara, Connie, and Beccah!

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