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  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Various dialogue extracts for approval

    Thanks for the very detailed critiques. I was a bit scared that you'd all hate it, with it being so out of context and so on. I see where you're ...

    Dec 20, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Various dialogue extracts for approval

    This user has been banned and her works removed from YWS.

    Dec 18, 2008
  • Media Reviews Re: Great Expectations

    Hi :) I did this for my Eng Lit GCSE and really couldn't warm to the book, but I put that out of mind and told myself: Look, have an ...

    Dec 13, 2008
  • Randomosity Re: Would you rather?

    God, and I'd tell Him I don't like His politics. :roll: Einstein ... well, he'd just make me feel stupid. :oops: [In the case of a massive 'flu virus that ...

    Dec 13, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Tipping The Velvet {one}

    Hurrah! This is my kind of fiction. Fabulous --- not perfect but fabulous. :shock: I loved the whole old-fashioned feel to it; the way it was the written, the dialogue, ...

    Dec 11, 2008
  • Media Reviews Re: What is the Best Book you have read...

    I'm an absolute classics-nerd, so would have to say Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte or Middlemarch by George Eliot. In terms of contemporary fiction, I loved Atonement by Ian McEwan, ...

    Dec 8, 2008
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: Love in Kanyakumari

    Thank you, you are too kind! I agree with you -- on rereading, I like it still but see that it is hurried piece, unexplained in most parts and a ...

    Nov 30, 2008
  • Historical Fiction Short Stories Re: Piano Forte

    Hi, Winter's Twelfth Night, and a merry welcome to YWS! I must say, what a fascinating little tale you've written; really enjoyable to read. It reminded me a lot of ...

    Nov 29, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: First night in Ecuador

    Hi, Caroline. I'm sure there's no rule on it, but don't you think it's a bit daft to post such a small piece? Is there nothing more to it? Or ...

    Nov 26, 2008
  • Romantic Short Stories Re: [deleted]

    Hello! You've written such an endearing little tale, CastlesInTheSky; I did worry it might be one of those soppy "Wait for me! Hold me close, oh my love" stories that ...

    Nov 26, 2008
  • Media Reviews Re: What I am reading

    Certainly sounds more interesting than Twilight , I must say. I take it that it's not a well-known book? ... And, er, good luck! :P

    Nov 26, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The opening page to my novella

    Thanks for the critique, CastlesInTheSky. I am so relieved you liked it! I was seriously having my doubts, you see, because it's something I started with no planning after giving ...

    Nov 26, 2008
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The opening page to my novella

    This user has been banned and her works removed from YWS.

    Nov 23, 2008
  • Randomosity Re: What Are YOU Reading?

    Just finished Half Broken Things by Morag Joss. What a beautiful, thought-provoking read. Now I'm re-reading Jane Eyre , but also reading Stephen Fry's autobiography, Moab is my Washpot and ...

    Nov 23, 2008
  • Media Reviews Re: Historical Fiction

    Hi, Merry_Haven. If you're interested in the Regency period, then may I recommend a charming book, Rosetta by Barbara Ewing. It's set in England and then Egypt. Doesn't fit the ...

    Nov 22, 2008


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