Books & Authors - September 2007

They learn about each other's cultures, i.e. holiday celebrations, food, etc. One thing I do remember is the non-Jewish girl helping to make Matzoh ball soup. I think it was called something like Best Friends or My Best Friend. I would have read this book around 1972 or 1973. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please post an answer. Thank you!

2007-09-07 22:49:56 · 5 answers · asked by frenchfryer46 1

How do the New York Times best-selling authors get started? What kinds of things are involved besides writing that an aspiring author should know about in the publishing world? Is it more like a hobby or more like a business/political venture?

2007-09-07 20:14:31 · 4 answers · asked by Andre 7

2007-09-07 20:09:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been a writer for about 15 years now, and I am 29 now. I really want to make writing (screenplays, novels, short stories, and sitcoms) my lifes work. How would I get on at like a newspaper as a freelance writer? Or how would I get my stuff looked at? I would really hate to think that it all about luck and the whole "being in the right place, at the right time...".

HELP!!!

2007-09-07 19:11:47 · 6 answers · asked by sarasbigdaddy 1

How do these lyrics contribute to the voice of this memoir? how does music affect frank's experiences? how does it continue to influence his memories of his childhood?

2007-09-07 18:30:05 · 2 answers · asked by lil miss advice 4

how do his experiences in America affect his years in Ireland?

2007-09-07 17:54:53 · 3 answers · asked by lil miss advice 4

I'm looking for someone mythical, magical, and just like the Harry Potter Series. I'm HEARTBROKEN! I haven't finished the last book yet, but I'm sooo upset because I don' t want it to end. The how horcrux things really cool, and the creatures they fit into the series. I'm looking for another book like that, I've thought about Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, are there any others. I also enjoyed exploration stories like Indiana Jones type and The Princess' Bride, Willow, and stuff. Any books like that?

2007-09-07 17:53:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

personal essay, academic essay, poetry, anything really.

thanks!

(p.s. i like prizes!! scholarships, cash, etc. is nice!! and something with some amount of credibility, k?)

2007-09-07 17:13:04 · 4 answers · asked by Ella Sea 2

What do YOU think science fiction is? Fantasy? Fiction? Do you think it could be a prediction of the future?

2007-09-07 17:00:21 · 10 answers · asked by meganreeves 3

I need to pick three nonfiction books for my Sophomore Honors English class. My two choices include Night by Elie Wiesel and The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Toliken. I realize that the last one is a fiction book but my teacher made a exception because I have been wanting to read this for a long time. For my third choice I previously picked "Freakonomics" but now I am having second thoughts and I want to read something more historcial. So my question is which Charles Dickens book should I choose David Copperfield or A Tale of Two Cities? Keep in mind that I have never read any of his work before and I want to make the right choice. Have you read either and which do you perpher? I appreciate the help.

2007-09-07 16:44:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I take critical writing in high school. My teacher likes papers to be real. When he reads it, he wants to feel like someone is talking to him.

I somewhat lack it. What ways could i make a writing style the best?

2007-09-07 16:41:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

but not sure if i should, she goes through alot to get to her destination, and i'm not sure if her dying would be just tragic or disapointing.

i have two different ideas for an end. one where she dies and the other where she lives. but the one where she lives is kinda cheesy. any one got any advise?

2007-09-07 16:27:55 · 9 answers · asked by Guitar_chick 4

books written by popular stand comedians or comedic actors?

2007-09-07 16:20:27 · 6 answers · asked by TheDoor 2

please give me the title and the author!

2007-09-07 16:08:52 · 12 answers · asked by BlueSmiley 3

What is your favorite Madeleine L'Engle book?

2007-09-07 15:42:47 · 14 answers · asked by nubiangeek 6

Can't get through Dickens. Christian books are nice. If it's a new release, my library probably doesn't have it. Remember, I AM 12!

2007-09-07 15:22:26 · 19 answers · asked by coliatheiscool 1

I have read pretty much all of the novels I'm going to read in school which are classics. From George Orwell's '1984' to John Steinback's 'Grapes of Wrath'. I would have to pick 'A Separate Peace' because that was read in my English class. I love Leper and Finny but hated Gene. I didn't like how the story ended though. It could have been better.

2007-09-07 15:16:12 · 21 answers · asked by 12Grey14 4

I would really appreciate it if anyone out there could help me pronounce any of these names from alexandre Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS... especially Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan...
For the former three, does one pronounce the "s" at the end of their names? One of the only things I know about French is that one does not usually pronounce the "s" at the end of a word... are these names the exception?
Thank you!

D'Artagnan
Athos
Porthos
Aramis
Planchet
Grimaud
Mousqueton
Bazin
Milady de Winter
Cardinal Richelieu
Comte de Rochefort
Louis XIII of France
M. de Tréville
Constance Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux
Queen Anne of Austria
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham)

2007-09-07 15:09:19 · 6 answers · asked by newsiesno1 3

This is to Madeleine L'Engle who wrote some very wonderful books. I love her books and I hope she had a very nice life. Anyone who cared or loved her books may write here. Rest in Peace Madeleine L'Engle.

(if anyone has a negetive thought in their mind please refrain from writing it here. thank you)

2007-09-07 14:53:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I love to write and read. I would love to write like a short story or something of that sort. I can descrip the characters easily and the setting outloud in words, but when I put them on paper they sound chessy. Help! Thank you.

2007-09-07 13:44:14 · 5 answers · asked by Callie R 1

2007-09-07 13:37:38 · 28 answers · asked by dougietrotter1945 3

not extreamly common names...

2007-09-07 13:29:27 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some are opposed to this view using books such as harry potter as examples but others think books like the chronicles of narnia present magic in a good way. What do you think?

2007-09-07 13:22:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i love writing anything i just want to make it more interesting

2007-09-07 13:14:10 · 9 answers · asked by SAMANTHA 1

2007-09-07 13:10:33 · 6 answers · asked by dianadee17 3

I've been writing a fantasy novel for at least 5 years now. And the problem is I write a whole bunch of pages, and then go back and revise it the next day. Is this an ADHD thing, because then I'm doomed!

By the way, "fantasy" does not mean sexual fantasy, but magic spells and elves kind of stuff.

Let's hear from all the aspiring authors out there!

2007-09-07 12:55:10 · 8 answers · asked by Rapunzel XVIII 5

The women in my family have been keeping personal journals for the last 100 years. The only time that anyone other than the journal writer sees it is when that writer dies. Then the others of the family put it away for 25 years. At that time, it is taken out and read by the other women in the family. I am approaching the time when my grandmother's journal will be taken out and each one of the women in my family will be allowed to read it. What do you think about that?

2007-09-07 12:31:40 · 12 answers · asked by Praire Crone 7

I'm very talented at writing, and i have been writing short stories and such since I was 14 or so. I haven't gone to school for writing, but is it still possible that if I wrote a book (which is what I want to do) that it would get published...?

2007-09-07 12:02:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I love to read silly teenage girl books. I have read the Clique series, the Twilight series, the Georgia Nicholson series, the mates dates series, harry potter, inkheart, inkspell. I like any genre!

2007-09-07 12:01:59 · 22 answers · asked by Hockey_Chick 1

“ARGH!! I am sick of this! We are walking in circles for hours,” yelled Nicholas. “What on earth were you thinking, anyway?! Getting us killed?”
“I said I am sorry, I really am. I didn’t know it would go that bad.” whispered Francesca, trying to calm her brother down. “This place is spooky! We should find a way to know where we are.”
It was a huge forest-like place, surrounded by oak trees, which casted their stocky, shadows over the antique houses. All the houses looked alike, standing on a single tiny floor, polished in the same dull brown color.
Nicholas and Francesca were paralyzed in their places, looking around, hoping to find someone answer their calls of help.
“I don’t know what we should do, Francesca!”
“Well, we can try knocking on doors again.”
“But we have already knocked on every door! What are those people? Dead?”
“Maybe they are sleeping.”
“Sleeping?! We cried out, asking for help for hours…. They are definitely dead.”
“Nicholas, stop it! It isn’t funny!”

2007-09-07 11:13:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous