Books & Authors - February 2007

Suggestions, advice, critique, criticism...just please don't tell me they are "good" without an explanation. Thank you.

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2007-02-17 05:03:19 · 10 answers · asked by Marilyn Green 3

In the Princess Diaries books, who is Mia Thermopolis first boyfriend?

2007-02-17 05:00:19 · 4 answers · asked by yumi_yune 2

I forgot what it was called, but I remember it had to do something with a woman named Belinda. I know it wasn't the Anne Rice(Rampling) book. She lives in New England, her family has a *I think* a clam business. I remember that towards the end she married someone from the other one so they can merge the business and they picked on him because she seemed to be more in charge than he was.

This is driving me nuts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If it would help I remember the cover being like and emerald green.

2007-02-17 04:59:50 · 1 answers · asked by ? 2

I really like the twilight series...but I finished those a while ago and am looking for a good book.
P.S.-I really like love stories

2007-02-17 04:44:02 · 7 answers · asked by Daffny c 1

On Sylvia Plaths tombstone it says "Even admist fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted." Is this a self-penned epitaph or is it from another poet?

2007-02-17 04:40:35 · 3 answers · asked by girlsetsfire 1

I often read books that are witty and touching. NO ROMANCE though. Just books with a lot of surprises and that keep me guessing!

2007-02-17 04:36:36 · 19 answers · asked by m&ms 1

I own a copy of the play that was copyrighted in 1895, and it has the code of arms on the front. it also has a misprint of Shakespeares name, spelling it Shakspere. I'm just curious as how much I could get for it.

2007-02-17 04:34:42 · 7 answers · asked by applebeeluver13 1

Any free downloads out there?

2007-02-17 04:30:43 · 1 answers · asked by count_dr 2

2007-02-17 04:24:04 · 1 answers · asked by mella 1

2007-02-17 04:15:41 · 6 answers · asked by jc c 2

Whats the name of the book that depicts, in a humorous way, the imperial nature of both superpowers England and France when they were carving up Europe between them... A well used illustration depicts Europe as a Turkey with two nationalities represented as soldiers at a table carving it for themselves.

There are many more of these which make the book superb, I am looking for either the book's title or the illustrator. The book has had positive separate reviews in national newspapers here in the UK a short time ago, when it was released.

2007-02-17 04:06:10 · 2 answers · asked by Richard P 1

Loss of Reality in Cyberspace, Belief in Fictional Characters, Teenage Girls and Identity, Suspension of Disbelief and the Internet, Online Communities (MySpace, facebook, Sims, SecondLife) and reality or lack there of... If you have any suggestions, please let me know. The title of my work in progress regarding this question is going to be something like "Teenage Girls Make Brashares' Characters in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Reality" Thank you!

2007-02-17 03:53:33 · 2 answers · asked by tiff_scifi 3

i'm reading this book called "great expectations" by charles dickens. i am a very slow reader! does anybody know a website or download i can get to have the CD read out loud? and be able to burn the CD?? if you can help i would greatly appreciate it. thanks so much!!

2007-02-17 03:46:58 · 1 answers · asked by nicolle 2

My memory of this book is very vague but I will try to describe it to you. The heroin is a young girl (between 10 and 14, I'm guessing). She finds out that her grandfather invented something to allow him to see into the future and he saw a lot of suffering for humanity. he built a lot of robots who were supposed to get rid of the suffering but by doing so he eliminates the future of humanity completely. Seeing that the robots are going to take control, he tells his grandaughter she must stop them, and in order to do that she must undergo some surgery, possibly to become a robot herself so that she will live long enough to stop them. She has her spine and brain removed from her body and supplanted into the robot's body. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

2007-02-17 03:38:25 · 3 answers · asked by Marilyn Green 3

Im basically on the 120th page [just started today] and I'm not fully sure about it yet. I don't know where the book is going. I just want to know if its basically worth reading.

2007-02-17 03:35:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

As part of a university project I want to sum up the onlookers/readers view of Kurt Vonnegut, in either a piece of jewellery (and yes I know its very unlikely he would be interested in ornamentation!) or a piece of small metal ware.

I'm thinking maybe focusing on the story line of one of his books, an aspect of his personality, or views on politics e.g. on George Bush etc... What do you think?

What's most interesting about him in your opinion???

2007-02-17 03:30:24 · 8 answers · asked by Dreamin 2

I dont mean the sequals, cause I have read the sequal, but
Is there any books that are similar to it.
I just love the stoy of the human falling in-love with a fantacy being.
Or just anything like it. and can you give me a quick summary of the book if you suggest one?

THANKS

2007-02-17 03:29:15 · 2 answers · asked by Daffny c 1

It's a Holocaust book that I read in probably middle school... I don't know the author even. But, it's about this younger girl who is living with her grandparents in Poland maybe. Then, the Nazis come and take them away. The book focuses mainly on the train ride over there and how brutal it is. I think one of the main characters die on the train... the grandma perhaps...? It ends with them arriving at the camp, getting separated, and then with them going to the showers that are really gas chambers. I know this is pretty vague, and a lot of Holocaust books are probably similiar, but any help is appreciated, because I haven't been able to think of it for years! :) Thanks!

2007-02-17 03:24:11 · 5 answers · asked by JessC 2

2007-02-17 03:11:00 · 9 answers · asked by LuvLucy 1

I am writing this for a project, not really for serious publishing (for as my deadline inches closer, my writing becomes more hurried and less like proper writing). It's a small adventure story about a panic-attack prone boy named James and his journey through London to try and rescue his kidnapped friend. Along the way, he picks up some interesting help: A formidable blind cult leader, an immature immortal woman, a heavily religious arsonist, a beautiful but absent-minded crossdresser, and a man with secrets coming out his ears--almost literally.

It's something of a cross between humor, drama, tragedy and just plain silliness. Let me know what you think by visiting this address here, http://www.fictionpress.com/~twentysixcolours and clicking on "Mind the Gap". It seems not many people are interested in the story, and I would really like some more feedback and whatnot from as many people as I can round up. Thank you!

2007-02-17 03:06:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-17 02:40:45 · 6 answers · asked by brittley 1

don't think of this as morbid, just a curious question

2007-02-17 02:34:45 · 8 answers · asked by Tuco 3

i have read a story about a circle which has a missing part, and it search everywhere, while it was searching a butterfly came to this circle and asked the circle to sing,.... and in the end it found its missing part but didn't want to have it, because it couldn't sing any more...... Can u tell me what is the name of the book?

2007-02-17 02:27:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-17 02:25:46 · 12 answers · asked by reader 1

I already read Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Kinley MacGregor. Angela Knight. If you read any of the above authors, can you tell me some of your other favorites?

Thanks.

2007-02-17 02:21:34 · 3 answers · asked by tampateresa 2

Please help me find out the mistakes and all. Also, you can say what you think about it.

No moist cloud covers an ever scorching sun
naked with fury it burns Saharan sands
hot and harsh winds blow intense and stun
who seeks water in midst of desert lands

The traveller finds desert unforgiving
he scours for pure waters many crave
in blistering winds that left none living
lost, he searches about his own grave

Into his open face dirty breezes throw
gasps heated by smokey fuming air
each breath carries many a debris flow
as currents his lungs can never bear

Gathering gales rain sand from the skies
dust showers pile many upon it unseen
Beneath dry barren layer the only life lies
he roams above unknowing and unkeen

For the tiniest drop thereforth he wanders
nothing to drink but dense clouds of dust
then occurs a mirage which halts meanders
he runs and it's blown away by a sudden gust

Much waves of the most waterless things
strike and vanish upon the falling sands
parched throat speaks no tongue nor sings
sunburns wither his tired legs and hands

Thirst forbids his further hopeless travels
with the frantic airborne sands flies time
quickens when wished slow, he unravels
urged on, it slows down into a snail in slime

His minds are whirled as he drowsily breathes
beaten, he sheds ashes upon the ground
rock crumbling he circles in endless wreathes
He is lost in the haziness of a grim mound

The flying sands hovered and passed
from nowhere a pristine rainforest appears
an Eden paradise by which he walks past
toward the desert's midst he disappears

2007-02-17 02:13:43 · 16 answers · asked by Cornesan 1

i have a project and i need ur help here are all the charactes...
1)grace
2)jake
3)angela
4)turtle
5)d.deere
6)f.baumback
7)S.pulaski
8)otis amber
9)judge ford
10)sand m southers
11)chris
12)theo
13)bertha crow
14)doug hoo
15)Mrs. Theodorakis
16)Mr. George Theodorakis

2007-02-17 02:04:44 · 3 answers · asked by beck s 1

I love The Harry Potter series because JK Rowling is an amazing author and reading the books make me wish that one day Ill get to go to Hogwarts!!

2007-02-17 01:29:30 · 12 answers · asked by Rachel 3

can you tell me name of realistic novels
for example
night and dawn by elie wiesel

2007-02-17 01:29:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

in like one day, it's due today.

2007-02-17 01:17:32 · 12 answers · asked by space monkey 2