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  • Writing Activities Re: Worst Ending line EVER!

    Fifty years passed.

    May 11, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: The YWS Classics List Nominations

    (I actually had to watch the Grapes of Wrath movie in like eighth grade but I'm trying really hard to forget it so I can read the book properly.) Oops, ...

    Apr 30, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: The YWS Recent Books List Nominations

    A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle Of course, that was a series, right? At least, I recall that books such as A Swiftly Tilting Planet and A Wind in ...

    Apr 25, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: YWS Classics Debate

    Now, I dislike Dickens, as many do, but he was a literary mastermind. If anything of his should go up there, it should be A Tale of Two Cities. To ...

    Apr 25, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: The YWS Classics List Nominations

    East of Eden - John Steinbeck ^^DUH. Okay, so I just got into Steinbeck, so I haven't read a lot of his stuff yet, but East of Eden was truly ...

    Apr 25, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: YWS Recent Books Debate

    OMG YES The Perks of Being a Wallflower! That was pretty much the best thing in teen angst literature...ever. Not sure about the Da Vinci Code. It wasn't a great ...

    Apr 25, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Lord of the Flies

    As others have said, yeah, it's one of those books you sort of have to read, but may not like. I read it my freshman year for English class. I ...

    Apr 17, 2007
  • Poetry Discussion Re: "Emo" Poetry vs. Good Poetry

    Or, which is another thing to consider, Emo poetry takes into no consideration the fundamental pieces of poetry: structure, rhythm, rhyme, flow, verses, and the many others that I have ...

    Apr 14, 2007
  • Poetry Discussion Re: "Emo" Poetry vs. Good Poetry

    Well, there's certainly a difference in what the terms "emotional" and "emo" are describing. Emo poetry just isn't original. Even if you can relate to the feelings being expressed in ...

    Apr 13, 2007
  • Poetry Discussion Re: Sylvia Plath

    Pah. People who dislike Sylvia Plath are just insecure about their own darker sides. She is a lovely person.

    Apr 5, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Life by Haiku

    To wake up much too early, to leave lamp on, to press face to window.

    Mar 18, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Life by Haiku

    Saturday and I can't seem to put myself to good use. It's so cold.

    Mar 17, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Books you used to love

    I used to ADORE Redwall. I watched the TV show on PBS and I was disgusted that it didn't match the book very well. Brian Jacques also has a book ...

    Mar 7, 2007
  • Poetry Discussion Re: "Emo" Poetry vs. Good Poetry

    Emo poetry is to preoccupied with being "emo". While the point of poetry is to present emotion, it has to be done subtly and in a way that makes the ...

    Feb 27, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Life by Haiku

    I miss the old house and the way the night air smelled out of the city.

    Feb 27, 2007


Turn your demons into art, your shadow into a friend, your fear into fuel, your failures into teachers, your weaknesses into reasons to keep fighting. Don’t waste your pain. Recycle your heart.
— Andréa Balt