Books & Authors - February 2007

Do you ever read books outside of required class books? i'm just wondering because i know me and my best friend have always read and read and read nomatter what.. im a highschool sophomore and am nerdy enough to keep count and i've gotten to where i barely read much anymore.. last year i read 35 books and thought to myself "whats happening to me?" because thats soo few for a whole year.. and classmates caught wind of this and said "you read 35 books.. in one year?" and upon inquiry i learned nothing i didn't already know, but is still alarming, that most of them have prolly read maybe that many books in their lives...

is it really uncommon to read for pleasure anymore? I admit i read childrens books that offer no difficulty but i still read them because i enjoy them!... yes.. i still have every intention of reading every Nancy Drew book ever published... i know im a dork.. but whatever! im still appalled that me and my friend are the only people we know who ever read for fun!!

2007-02-03 16:04:50 · 19 answers · asked by janna w 2

My character is a mean, cold-hearted person that does not believe in mercy or helping the poor people inhabiting his land.

His birth name is Cleman Reynard, meaning merciful, pure, love, honest, incorrupt.

Cleman comes from a family that believes everything that he does not. He despises his family and the family's sympathy for the poor and later kills his father and changes his name.

He will later on in my story change his name into Dralco (from Draco, a star constellation that LOOKS like a dragon but is really a snake-he betrays a couple friends) Dralco is a sadist and later becomes known as a notorious masked killer.


So throughout the story which should I refer to him as. I get confused in the beginning, because the readers do not know that you will change his name or anything. But when he does, I don't want to call Dralco as Cleman either.

2007-02-03 15:58:01 · 5 answers · asked by beast 1

Last name of Dorothy is found in book only....not in movie.

2007-02-03 15:57:04 · 13 answers · asked by ldsholcomb 1

ok i like aspire to be as great as Poe.

i luv his works

i write short stories all the time

most of them dealing with the macabre

and with complex symbolism

my only problem is i don't feel like my stories are LONG
enough

and i was just wondering if any one knows how short poe has written?

how long was his shortest piece?

thanks

2007-02-03 15:52:07 · 10 answers · asked by anne 2

My number one enemy is Sparknotes.com... i think the idea of a quick and easy way for students to slack off their word is sickening. And this is comming from the views of a 16 year old girl... I, personally, fear the day that some of these people around me start making decisions that impact other peoples lives... I had a highschool senior as me to explain 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' to her... and they were assigned to read the easy, modifyed version... and she was an Honor student!!! I read the original version a few weeks before start of my freshmen year and understood it.. im not saying im smart or anything, cuz my grades reflect that im not, but im saying that its sad that a highschool senior on Honor level classes is lazier than a 14 year old girl!!!

I know plenty of CP students that, instead of reading the assigned books, go on the internet and get the summary of the book and still pass with as good a grade as the students who read the assigned books and then some!

2007-02-03 15:51:18 · 11 answers · asked by janna w 2

What is the most interesting,useful,current book you have read in the last 6 months.........................

2007-02-03 15:49:46 · 17 answers · asked by breenras 2

2007-02-03 15:48:51 · 13 answers · asked by diamonds_are_forever<3 3

Okay i have a fan fiction, and i need to ask, Okay, so i have this charectar- Molly, and shes in london and she has a boyfriend, and his brother are both in love with her as she is with the both of them. Plus, she ans his brother have already...um..*cough* ;) anyway, she seems to get along well with her and his bro, but her and her b/f are great together, i dont know what to do...HELP!!! so answer me this: Should Molly stay with Her boyfriend, or Go with his brother?

2007-02-03 15:42:26 · 5 answers · asked by Grey_Sweater 2

2007-02-03 15:32:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am trying to write a songfic for a fan fiction website...a songfic is a story based off of song lyrics....any ideas for songs or plotlines??? they need to be about Harry Potter characters, and it can be any ship you want.....feel free to add original characters too! thanks so much! havin' major writers' block!

2007-02-03 15:30:07 · 6 answers · asked by hpffwritergirl 2

Back in middle school, at the beginning of each year we took a placement test which descided your reading level. Then you were set a certain number of books to read from within your reading range and you had to take tests on them to get a certain number of points.. it was stupid.. but i always had a high placement to the point that my level and required number exceded the number of books within the range in the entire library and my teachers had to bring me books from the highschool library and sometimes lower my range..

Im not boasting this... cuz it just proves im a nerd.. im explaing this because now im reading a book thats soo difficult that its like french and latin.. i can get the basic idea of what french and latin texts are saying.. but verbatum i can't tell you what it says... if i hadn't read the script and saw the movie 'Pride and Prejudice'... i couldn't tell you what the crap is going on except for the basic jist of the chapter!!!

so i wanna know what its level is!!

2007-02-03 15:27:14 · 2 answers · asked by janna w 2

can anyone tell me his thoughst about significant events during his time period?
-political views?
- "-isms" and his thoughts about them (i.e. totalitarianism)

how he affected the events of his time?

how he communicated his ideas to other?



basically i need to make an outline about that stuff for an essay

so examples and LOTS OF HELP is nice

=D

2007-02-03 15:18:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

who have read God Stealer by F. Sionil Jose? wat's the signficance of the GRECIAN URN in the story? or in general, what's the significance of a GRECIAN URN?

2007-02-03 15:13:43 · 1 answers · asked by jarren i 2

A book or a Sage legend of Herman Hess?

2007-02-03 15:06:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i read 2 kill a mockingbird and i have 2 do a book talk on it. im wondering if u by any chance have any idea about hte authors message, and the purpose of the book.
thanx

2007-02-03 15:04:31 · 7 answers · asked by supergirl 2

what do you think the minimum pages in a chapter should be? i mean i know it doesnt have to be ery long and what not, but id like just a guestamate

2007-02-03 15:01:10 · 5 answers · asked by sweetgiggles1225 1

The author of the play called Hating Alison Ashley

2007-02-03 14:59:35 · 3 answers · asked by ~♥Lavendaluva♥~ 3

Has anyone read the Book of Questions? If someone was to write questions from that book onto this site would it be considered plagerism? Some of the questions are very interesting and could be answered differently according to one's circumstances. It alot of fun when you go on long drives and have the book with you and answer some of the questions.

2007-02-03 14:55:58 · 2 answers · asked by Luann C 2

2007-02-03 14:49:46 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Its called "The Price of Loyalty", and It's coming out on May 29, 2007!!

2007-02-03 14:44:46 · 4 answers · asked by Mj 4

I am beginning to think I have lost my mind. There was a book I read when I was a child...it was called "Monkey Town, Pig City". I almost positive that was the title. The main character was a little girl with very long hair. Her parents had told her when she was very little that if she never told a lie, they would never cut her hair. The premise of the story is that she has a club, called Monkey Town, but due to the lies of a jealous classmate...a rival club is formed called, Pig City. The story continues with their antics towards each other. It is quite funny at times...but the heart of the story is quite serious. It meant a lot to me as a child. It was the first time I truly realised how cruel children can be, and how words and deeds that may seem so insignifigant to one person can be devastating to another. It taught me a sensitivity to the people around me. I have children now and would love to share it with them. But I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does it sound familiar to you?

2007-02-03 14:33:33 · 5 answers · asked by silentscreamer 4

Which of Nora Roberts' books was the first to be made into a TV movie? I thought is was Sanctuary. According to the LifetimeTV Nora Roberts quiz, the first starred a member of the cast of ER. No one from ER was in Sanctuary. Now my curiosity is peaked, HELP!!!!

2007-02-03 14:23:19 · 1 answers · asked by Shunda 6

i need ideas to suggest to a book club, preferably about tolitarian society and dystopias or actually just really good books that arent boring and make you think really hard and are totally deep. DONT PUT 1984, ANIMAL FARM, FHARENHEIT 451, ANTHEM, or WE. or LORD OF THE FLIES

2007-02-03 14:20:28 · 14 answers · asked by picklestra 2

taking it would be wrong
The things I think about
I know are bad and wrong
God, to you I'm shouting
Save me! I've suffered so long
Your love, Your grace they comfort me so
Please God help me!
I've no where else to go!

2007-02-03 14:20:08 · 3 answers · asked by godsgirl200718 3

I have to ask this. I've read the His Dark Materials trilogy and I've read most of the Harry Potter series, but I cannot decide which one I like more. So I'm asking, which one do you like more: Harry Potter series or His Dark Materials trilogy and why?

2007-02-03 14:19:21 · 4 answers · asked by Vasilly 3

A fire is ignited
Inside this heart
it gives no love
This pain, it starts
Inside my head
It makes me forget
The meaning of my life
I want out of it
Will my true self come back?
Will I stay locked up?
Fearfully living in this world
becoming corrupt
My mind is gone
Control is no longer mine
My life is pointless
I live on a thin line
God please get me out
Of the trap that I'm in
I put myself in there
Now my life is a sin
Help me to find it
the life that I lost
Get me out of here
Please God, at any cost!
God, I love you with all I am
but my life is just wasting
What now must I do?
with this pain I am facing
From happiness to pain
I am daily tossed
God get me out
For I am truly lost!
God I need you so much
I'm confused,lost, and sad
don't know where to go
I need you so bad
My life for you seems like nothing
I can't bear to live anymore
If I can't live for God
What am I living for?
This temptation's force
is so very strong
I must refuse to take it

2007-02-03 14:19:12 · 4 answers · asked by godsgirl200718 3

atleast 24 lines long
okay for teenagers to understand
and funny would help
but not stupid because its for school
oh and it has to be published
please and thanks

2007-02-03 14:14:39 · 3 answers · asked by crazyyyCHICK 2

2007-02-03 14:01:55 · 23 answers · asked by Melanie 1

Please include key details and ending.

2007-02-03 13:40:55 · 3 answers · asked by KM 2

2007-02-03 13:40:46 · 3 answers · asked by ELISE DA BEAST! 2