Books & Authors - December 2006

The book was published within last 15 years. I think the title is something like "Not much to tell" : letters from Ruby." I read a review of it and it was a non-fiction epistolary novel. The letters were between a sister and her other sisters and mother. The one sister had moved away from her hometown. The letters were written during the forties and fifties, I think and I think they all lived in the Mid-west. I really would like to find out the title so I could read it. Please help!

2006-12-16 11:24:23 · 1 answers · asked by Jennifer M 1

2006-12-16 11:18:32 · 3 answers · asked by NeckLover 2

Okay this is just for fun, first person with the most right answers wins 10pts. No hyperlinks, if you know it, type it. All questions are from Book#5

1) What shape does Hermione's Patronus take?
2) What muggle remedy did Mr. Weasley and the healer Augustus Pye try?
3) Which Death Eater lead the group that undid Hagrid & Olympe's work with the giants?
4) Who came up with the name "Dunmbledore's Army" for the DA group?
5) Who was the last person to sign their name on the DA list?
6) How much does a Butterbeer cost at the Hog's Head?
7) How do Visitors get into the Ministry of Magic?
8) What "Noble Sport" did Dudley take up to lose weight?
9) What's does Dudley's friends call him?
10) Where is the Headquarters for the Order of the Pheonix located?

2006-12-16 11:13:12 · 8 answers · asked by Rukh 6

I have this theory that everybody has an opportunity to reach happiness. Rich, poor, clueless; those things don’t have to matter. I honestly believe that everyone in the world has at least one chance to be happy. The problem is, not all opportunities offer themselves to you. No, sometimes, they whip by you, so fast that by the time you look wildly around, they’re gone, without even the slightest of traces. Other times, they slam straight into you, and while you’re busy regaining your balance, they’re gone, just like that.
You’re probably wondering, “So why is that I’m not happy? Why are there so many miserable people in the world if they all can aim for happiness?” And I can understand that.
It’s like when you were little, and your friend had a big fluffy teddy-bear in her room, and you loved it so, so, so much that you went every day to her house to hug it. You wanted it so badly that you pleaded and begged until your parents bought it for you. But once you had it in (continued)

2006-12-16 11:07:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-16 10:33:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-16 10:30:35 · 23 answers · asked by mk 2

particularily in Italo Calvino's version, but anything works just fine.

2006-12-16 10:26:01 · 5 answers · asked by Starrieyed 1

OK, I know this is strange. I seem to stumble into accidental themes when reading. Last year, I seemed to read a lot of stuff based in Japan. This year I have discovered two very enjoyable authors with nothing in common beyond their first name - Jim (Butcher and Thompson). Can anyone recommend any other authors called Jim whose books they've enjoyed? I will accept James.
To help narrow it down, I like detective novels and historical stuff and occasionally fantasy and horror. I draw the line at sci-fi and slush.

2006-12-16 10:22:08 · 10 answers · asked by Athene1710 4

In the Fatboy Slim song Weapon of Choice, there's a line that goes :"Walk without rhythm/So you wont attract the worm". I was just wondering if this had anything to do with the Frank Herbert novels in which natives of the planet Dune have to develop an irregular walking style as regular sound patterns can be heard by giant worms under the surface of the planet. The lyrics seem to fit this fairly well.

2006-12-16 10:12:06 · 4 answers · asked by smoran90 1

I learned how critical survival is, and that no matter what the situation is you do anything to survive. What did you learn, it is for a my Literature class. We have to ask other people who read the book what they learned. Thanks

2006-12-16 10:02:30 · 5 answers · asked by ♥♡CrocsRule♡♥ 1

I am an author. I have written a novel I believe is an excellent murder mystery. It's been turned down by a dozen publishers over 10 years because it contains A. explicit language (every "dirty" word you ever heard), and B it contains explicit sex (like the "stroke fiction" you've heard about). The novel isn't written to be "hard-core", but the story required hard-core sex. I won't reveal the plot-line, so when you see the book on the store shelves, you won't know it's me. I AM curious if-- in 2007-- there is a market of modern ADULTS who would buy and read and ENJOY a very realistic novel with EXPLICIT language and EXPLICIT sexual content? Picture Quentin Tarantino "explicit dialog" with DESCRIPTIONS of scenes from porno movies. The plot is EXCELLENT. Your opinions, please.

2006-12-16 10:01:38 · 29 answers · asked by John1212 4

2006-12-16 10:00:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

how can you offer home
to a stranger unknown
with no map to find
the peaks of the mind
and valleys of the heart
where do you start
to glow and ascend
will purity transcend
when the concrete invades
and an abstraction fades
depression was a season
before she gave me reason
to keep connection
in this human collection
Now, I intellectualize
feelings that have no eyes
can a gift stay alive
can kindness still thrive
on the end of this vine
nothing to be mine
but only for once see
filtered eyes set free

2006-12-16 09:36:08 · 6 answers · asked by the w 1

I've finished my first draft of my novel, and now I'm revising it. I'm feeling a little drained but I'm still working at it.

Anyone want to tell me a funny joke or story to keep me going? Or anything inspirational?

2006-12-16 08:50:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I like Alicia, but I also like Claire and Massie.
Dylan and Kristen are okay.

2006-12-16 08:41:53 · 1 answers · asked by ~*actress/singer_girl*~ 2

has anyone read the current books of the Legacy of the Force series? do you think it may be setting up for a major dissappointment?
I'm a long way off from reaching this series though, I'm still on the X-Wing series

2006-12-16 08:38:08 · 3 answers · asked by Sammy Hagar 3

Does anyone reallly know how to kill a mockingbird?

2006-12-16 08:22:12 · 8 answers · asked by Duck 2

2006-12-16 07:53:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you are a writer, what do you usually do to help you overcome the so-called "writer's block"? thanks

2006-12-16 07:52:41 · 17 answers · asked by cycle of life 1

On a controvesial topic ( gay rights, abortion, Amerucanization). I have to use the book as a reference. I'm in 12th grade English. For example My Sister's Keeper was on stem cell research, but it was still a fictional book. We already read that book in English though. Thanks!

2006-12-16 07:46:15 · 3 answers · asked by I love the cake 2

And if so, what did you think of them? Were they just as good?

2006-12-16 07:24:33 · 3 answers · asked by ms dont panic 4

2006-12-16 06:58:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

no comment

2006-12-16 06:42:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just need a brief text about the book's story line. Just about a parragraph saying the basic things that happen in the book and what its about.
Or if not if you could get me a link with a sumarry.

Thanks

2006-12-16 06:40:26 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

i love him, and only got a few of his books and looking for more good ones. i have: carrie, it, the dark half and dolores clairborne

2006-12-16 06:23:52 · 22 answers · asked by livinia 4

Or should i go for a different author? What sort of books are similar? Thanks in advance

2006-12-16 06:14:49 · 5 answers · asked by Nikita21 4

"There are two good men in this world. One is dead; another unborn."

2006-12-16 05:54:04 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please dont spoil it for me, I am on the part where the cougar is about to go into the theatre

2006-12-16 05:49:35 · 5 answers · asked by kramerscoffeetables 2

that tells you the meaning of your dreams. I have been triyng to find one but I don't have no luck finding one. Can you guys help me and give me some titles on some? Or anything else will help too...

2006-12-16 05:41:40 · 4 answers · asked by mysteryousmtz 6

"Poetry Does not mean; but be."

2006-12-16 05:29:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous