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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

Future Reflections (MGMT)

Well, to each his Own! I wonder if you like this poem by Frost? It always seems to have something in common with The Red Wheelbarrow' to me.

The Secret Sits

We dance round in a ring and...

I can't figure out where the 'triadic line' comes from though I went through the posts. Could you be more specific, please?

The Lost Child


by Sitor Situmorang (Indonesian Poet)

In the midday heat
a speck appears on the lake.
The anxious mother runs down to the beach
to welcome her long-awaited child.

The story is 'Sleepy' by Anton Chekov. This site has it as an etext.

I can give you the names of quite a few novels, but I don't think any of them are likely to be avilable online- My personal favourite would be Christa Wolf's German novel Kassandra English...

Oh, yes- a lovely one- I have reread it several times too! If by any chance you can get hold of her book Boston Jane- grab it- its fantastic! The one I have just finished- and absoluetely LOVED is...

Oh, Madeline L'Engle was incredible all right. I have been trying to collect all her works- those for children at any rate- I trid one of her "adult" books and was rather dissapointed. But her...

Agreed, Kit (We did agree that I could call you that, didn't we?;) The giver is an incredible book.

By the way I am coming pretty close to having a complete collection of Newbery award and Honor...

Yes, it's great isn't it? i'm reading Princess Academy now- Great entertainment!

Yes, Idril, as Snow Queen says, you are certainly not alone! I love Wuthering hehts and think its a fantastic novel, but if you need to talk about the romance alone, it is not romance but obsession....

Ok- the review url is
http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=006000942X
Someone tell me why it doesn't show up in my original post!

Well, if you are serious, which I really find hard to beleive, ;) this book is written for you! How to Read Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. To Quote from a review;
"It is a common situation...

Yes- The Phantom of the Opera is really SOMETHINg else! And I rather think I'd have made a different choice from the heroine's- but then one can't tell until one really experiences a particular...

Project Gutenberg has about 4 Angeloa Brazil Titlesw online now. I'm not sure about May Wynne.

Ghosts of my Yesterdays

I walk with the ghosts of my yesterdays
Those yesterdays when my steady diet was dark blue poison
And yet, and yet, no today can be worth as much
But I do not decry...

By the Earth's Corpse


I

"O Lord, why grievest Thou? -
Since Life has ceased to be
Upon this globe, now cold
As lunar land and sea,
And humankind, and fowl, and fur

Thanks more than I can say for this wonderful piece of writing and for the debate it as generated. The title is what my rants are usually about till I get tired of arguing and stop. But this has...

I read the summary of the Changeling- now I am Dying to get my hands on it!

You're quite right - both Headless Cupid and Witches of Worm were Honor books. I slipped up there.:blush: My favourite still is Libby on Wednesdays though. Have you tried that one?
I have'nt got...

Yes- certainly Bridge to Terabitha. I bought extra copies at sales as gifts!
I liked The Runner- but My favourite was Homecoming.

Thanks a lot. I share the opinion that mugging up "theory" unless you know what to do with it is a totally useless activity. I am trying to focus my course as much as possible on using the concepts...

Well, being a College Professor, who "does" literary theory not to feel important, but to enhance my understanding and enjoyment of a text, I must express my dissent, Vrgil. There may, indeed there...

I didn't have THAT problem- nobody in India when I was studying would have even thought of assigning one of these books as a set text. It was Enid Blyton all the way! Things are changing now- but...