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Lauren

  • Writing Activities Re: Post Funny Stuff You Wrote As A Kid

    These are all very funny :D No offence. I was about eleven/twelve when I wrote these. Scarily not that long ago. Back then I suppose I thought myself a poet!! ...

    Jan 28, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: A poll

    Wuthering Heights was . . . good. But I wish both MCs had died at the end. They do, don't they? Heh. I'm only judging by the movie I saw, ...

    Jan 22, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Book in a sentence

    ^^ I have that book, wisemann. Couldn't get into it though :( The Night Following: Woman kills woman in hit and run; with guilt tormenting her, she repents by replacing ...

    Jan 20, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

    Just reread this book and came back to here. I'm cringing at what I wrote. Came back to the book with a less critical and, I hope, more matured, eye. ...

    Jan 19, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Book in a sentence

    The Outcast --- Lewis' adored mother dies tragically and his father shows him no affection, which leads to his downfall, showing that love is a vital ingredient to a good ...

    Jan 10, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: Book in a sentence

    Ooh, this looks like fun. Half Broken Things: Lonely old woman makes family of strangers and lives delusional life with them in manor house.

    Jan 10, 2009
  • Writing Activities Re: letters from your characters

    Lauren, Look. I'm going to be honest. I can't just be expected to linger in some kind of limbo while you try and overcome your writer's block with reading. I ...

    Jan 7, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: A poll

    For me it's Charlotte. I love both Jane Eyre and Villette and couldn't finish Wuthering Heights---I mean, it was good, yeah, but a bit silly. Plus I hated Heathcliff :roll:. ...

    Jan 7, 2009
  • Media Reviews Re: The Kiterunner

    My mum has this book and raves about it. She's always lending it out to her friends like it's the best thing ever. Apparently it's a beautiful but sad book. ...

    Dec 23, 2008
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Who are your influences?

    1. Charlotte Bronte --- Reading Jane Eyre was what got me into the classics and books previously seen as too 'heavy going'. Haven't looked back since! Is also great influence ...

    Dec 23, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Media Reviews Re: The Forgotten Garden

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

    Oct 15, 2008


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