Books & Authors - November 2006

I need to compare a character from Romeo and Juliet to a cartoon character. Someone gave me advice to use Yo Samity Sam, becuase theyre both agressive/fighting type of people. Can someone write a short paragraph on the similiarities between them for 10 points?

2006-11-05 02:30:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-05 02:27:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

as much as I do? Do you know where she lives? I am reading "The diaries of Jane Somers" and enjoy it a lot. If you have any recent information about her writing, health, ideas... thank you!

2006-11-05 02:10:57 · 5 answers · asked by anne k 5

I have written 26 books so far since the age of about 12 and published none. I have just written my first kids book and I'd like to publish it. It has been proof read and the remarks are outstanding. I have been in contact with some publishers who tell me I have to be a member of the writers year book something, something.
Anyone know how I can go about this without all the hussle?
Your answers will be much appreciated.

2006-11-05 01:49:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

2006-11-05 01:16:55 · 3 answers · asked by Ronnie 2

2006-11-05 01:08:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

(Except religious texts)

2006-11-05 01:04:23 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Chambered Nautilus
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft steps its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

2006-11-05 00:50:37 · 7 answers · asked by Ronnie 2

Is there any meanings behind?

2006-11-05 00:39:47 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-05 00:39:20 · 1 answers · asked by Barbiq 6

The Chambered Nautilus

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!

Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft steps its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn!
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

2006-11-05 00:25:48 · 5 answers · asked by Ronnie 2

My cousin had a collective fairytale book when we were little (1980s) that included Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and the Three Billygoat's Gruff to name a few. I think it had all of the characters on the front of the book and it was possibly red.

2006-11-04 23:48:07 · 5 answers · asked by Willow 2

In a lot of books written in the 1800s some authors would not identify people or places. They would write "Count ______" or "_______ Street". Why did they do that?

2006-11-04 23:31:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or, has anyone ever murdered the butler?

2006-11-04 23:12:04 · 4 answers · asked by Ask the chicken 2

2006-11-04 23:01:29 · 7 answers · asked by JW 1

For one of my geography projects i have decided to draw a map of a fantasy location from a book.. Hogwarts and Narnia were an obvious choice but i wanted to do something challanging and unique, so thought of Wonderland. i havent read the book yet but will if people who have already read it can tell me if they think it is possible to make a map. if so what sort of things would i need to include in the map? please help me! thanks

2006-11-04 22:42:32 · 13 answers · asked by fatz 2

2006-11-04 22:19:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

the movie "interview with the vampire" starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas...etc. It's based on the book by Anne Rice

2006-11-04 22:13:40 · 6 answers · asked by Rock_Fozzy 1

I have a Yahoo Reading Group and am in need of resources or book recommendations that may help in making my yahoo reading group grow. Any suggestions?

2006-11-04 21:35:40 · 2 answers · asked by R21 2

It must appropriate for school children

2006-11-04 20:18:10 · 15 answers · asked by rma 1

2006-11-04 19:36:23 · 4 answers · asked by Pauline M 1

I was a desert
A dark and empty desert
Where the wind blows for no one
For no one
Where dust clouds rise
Among the gloom
And bring darkness
To that lonely desert

Neither man nor beast
Dare venture there
For no bird ever sing
Nor mice ever roam
But then one day
When the sandstorms swept

An old man came
A man with a beard as white as snow
Which blew with the wind.
He came one day and
Wandered through that vast desert
And by a tree with a thousand year thirst
He sat, He sat there
He sat there for days and days
Then one day he, Awoke from his thoughts
And walked away
And as he walked from
That dry dead desert
All around
Flowers bloomed,
Birds sang,
Rivers flowed

And that tree by which he sat
Fulfilled its thirst
From the rain which fell
Enriching the dry sand
The dry sand
Which once blew up sandstorms
But now the breeze fills
Those mountains of green
Which were once sand

And that man,
Who was that man?
A priest? A saint?
No, he was a poet

2006-11-04 19:21:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need a good read and LOVED 'the riders' Id like to know of some other horse related novels that come recommended that I can sink my teeth into.
Cheers!

2006-11-04 18:53:41 · 10 answers · asked by adnie25 2

I am reading it. It seems interesting but it is not one of those books which u dont want to keep down until u have finished.
What do u say?

2006-11-04 18:14:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

is there any place on the internet where i can find the book to kill a mockingbird all typed out with page numbers, like a PDF file type? thanks.

2006-11-04 17:49:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I found it in some family things.It is entitled The Poetical Works of John Godfrey Saxe. Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company , The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright, 1859,1861,1866,1868,1872,and 1873, By John G. Saxe, Tickson & Fields, and James R. Osgood and Co.

Copyright, 1987, By Charfles G. Saxe. Printed by H.O. Houghton and Company.
Does anyone know anything about this book, and is it worth anything?

2006-11-04 17:36:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Great Books...

2006-11-04 17:11:53 · 18 answers · asked by aine2u 3

i dont want anything that has to do with fake drama we see everyday plz. i like deep storys that dont give away the story and that keep you reading.

2006-11-04 16:45:00 · 6 answers · asked by M.O.B 3

I just read a great book and I'd like to send the author a nice, brief letter about it. How do I go about this? Have you ever contaced an author before or sent comments?

2006-11-04 16:33:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

hey everyone i just feel like reading poems so enter ur poems i <3 reading them ;)

2006-11-04 16:28:10 · 7 answers · asked by **Shelby** 1