Books you read but can't remember the title or author of - Help us remember what we forgot

[Koby_Fish]

I have a few of these, but the most prominent story I had to read for high school that I can't remember author or title of was a book about a boy in a farm in South Africa, an Afrikaner Boer. I forget the kid's name, but I do remember he had a dog named Majoor that needed to be shot because it had "gotten among Mr. Buchner's Leghorns" and killed a bunch of chickens. I seem to recall a point in the story where the kid wishes the dog was still alive because he was staring down an animal, I THINK it was a Cape Buffalo but I can't remember for sure. The farm had an orchard and they had their hands full shooting catbirds and other fruit-eating feathered pests (except during nesting season). At an early point in the story it was related that the dog had been gored by a warthog, but luckily the intestines hadn't been pierced, and it survived that. I want to say the kid's name is Jamie but then I'm afraid I'm confusing it with the protagonist of Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat.

Google is of absolutely no help.

Does anyone remember reading this book who could remember the title and author? Did you read a book that you can't remember the title of but some of the plot and need help remembering?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Sorry, doesn't sound familiar.

Got like two vague books off the top of my head, but I'm only more interested in learning the titles since they've been bothering me for a long time at this point every time the thought of them pop into my head:

One from many years ago was like a YA novel that took place in Ancient Egypt and I think had at least two different point-of-views in it of the children of the Pharaoh or at least children who were privileged enough to be near the Pharaoh (was most likely this as the girl was married off to him at some point, buuuut upon remembering that incest was a thing... he could've been their uncle). Only thing I really remember is a brief scene in which the brother got to see his sister perform a dance practically nude, and he found it gross, especially since the Pharaoh was ogling her the whole time and I think at that point I took notice that the author might've accidentally slipped in the narrative since it felt more like it was their thoughts and not the thoughts of a royal Egyptian boy on the cusp of puberty. I believe the story spans a few years or so as the girl was twelve at the start of the book. Pretty sure I checked the book out from the library because it took place in Egypt and was expecting some of that. Given that I don't remember anything else about it, I must've been disappointed by the end of it.

I read this in high school when I probably shouldn't have anyway (it ended up leading to my distaste of the romance genre--it's not a Harlequinn, far as I know) and I swear the title's something along the lines of "The Farmer's Wife" (it's not, though, just similar), except the characters don't get married until the very end anyway. But it was called that simply because the female lead was like a maid or maybe a mail-order bride (around the time of the pioneers? lol) who started working for this family on the farm in which the man is a widower and was having trouble raising his two kids for like a few years or so. I don't really know much of it or even the plot except their first love scene took place in the barn and right as the (virgin) female lead was about to reach her climax, the man accidentally moaned his late-wife's name and it upset her. My mom used to have this book, but she either gave it back to Grandma or got rid of it, so that's why I can't find it to get the title. The cover had what were most likely the main leads locked in a kiss on the farm, which would probably pull up a bajillion book covers.

Nothing more than two shots in the dark, but whatever.