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Leja

  • Fiction Discussion Re: Most Disturbing Books

    The Color Purple I don't even remember who the author is. I see why it was important to the curriculum, but it is never in a million years something I ...

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: When do you write?

    Late at night when everyone's asleep and there aren't any distractions.

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Which authors/books do you hate?

    Oh gosh, if I ever see Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter again, something drastic will happen. I mean, five pages of one sentence? Come on!

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What are you reading at the moment?

    I have in my posession Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and a book by Orson Scott Card. I have yet to begin either of them, but ...

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What makes a great book?

    YES MEEP HIT NAIL ON HEAD with why Harry Potter is so likable: because it exists in such an intriguing world. I think that the setting of the book should ...

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: At what age did you start writing and

    Wrote my first stories in first grade (and got laughed at when the teacher read them aloud), decided I wanted to be a writer in fourth grade, when I was ...

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Books you used to love

    Awww, the Redwall books! I read every one of them in middle school, but now I can't even get through the first few pages because my taste in genres has ...

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Ultra-short Fiction

    She sits on the shelf, watching as I walk into the room, always vigilant, always alert. Nothing I can do will go unnoticed, and her glass eyes will be sure ...

    Mar 31, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Northanger Abbey

    Alright, I just finished reading Northanger Abbey one of Jane Austen's lesser known novels (and possibly her first, although it was published posthumously). At first, it seems to be the ...

    Mar 30, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Ultra-short Fiction

    I'm no good at sarcasm, no not at all. You ask me a question and I reply with a sickly sweet smile, but when my back turns, my face falls. ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Animal Farm

    I read this book for my freshman English class and totally loved it. Satire is totally up my alley, and even though some of it made me really sad, I ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Uglies

    This series is near and dear to my heart. What I love most about it is that Scott Westerfeld doesn't appear to shove the story into one specific category: sci-fi, ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Language books?

    Alright, this is probably not quite what you're looking for, but I'll share anyway: if you go to off of 's Wales page, there are audio and transcribed lessons for ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Media Reviews Re: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

    This is a book for the hopeless romantic in all of us (myself included). It's definitely not the best-written book I've ever read, but after I finished it, I turned ...

    Mar 29, 2007
  • Writing Activities Re: Life by Haiku

    drama drama hoy always seems around the bend looking just for me

    Mar 28, 2007


The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.