The Lit Net Monthly News

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[FONT="Book Antiqua"]October 2009[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]Welcome to the October edition of The Literature Networks online newspaper. Every month, we will keep you updated with information regarding threads, contests, Book Club and lots more!
Happy Reading.

[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]Forum Book Club[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]

The Book Club is now reading the October Horror Read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47220[/url]
The Vote for the November Philosophical Novel is now in full swing.
[url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46596[/url]
Its also Nomination Period for the December Crime Fiction Read [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47227[/url]
The Forum Shakespeare Discussion Group is currently starting on Henry IV Part I. Pop over to the sub forum is you are interested in participating in the Discussion or any other forum Discussions. [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=5895[/url]

The Forum Book Club is always happy to have new participants. If you are interested, you can find it in the Reading section of the Forum Index page.

[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]Official Forum Contest[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]

The October Elimination Round is now open. Please don’t forget to send in your entries to Scheherazade.
[url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47219[/url]

[I][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][CENTER]Unofficial Poetry Contests[/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

The Personal Poetry forum is one of Litnets’ most active forums and comes complete with a sub-forum dedicated to poetry games and contests. We have three very popular poetry contests located in the sub-forum; The Picture [URL="http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23675&page=42"]Poetry Contest (continued…) [/URL] , [URL="http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23444&page=34"]The Form Poetry Contest [/URL] and [URL="http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38056&page=4"]The Subject Poetry Contest[/URL]. Why not pop in and give it a go. You might just win!
The current winners are;
Form: Qimissung
Picture: Undecided
Subject: Alakungfu
Congratulations to you all!

[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]Featured Personal Poetry[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]
This month we have selected three poems from The Personal Poetry Forum, posted during the month of September, to feature in the Litnet Monthly News! I hope you like them too!

[B]A Study on Chronography By The Rider[/B]

Eyelids can bring night far quicker than the sun
But day's length remains measured eternal,
Eternally promising a mileage immeasurable
By foot falls, or flight times.

Less understood, is this distance,
By old cartographers then by young lovers,
For on a map's rose, which direction points the hour hand?
Can eight bells truly face the bearer North?

With such a legend I understand
Why some fools choose to sleep it off;
Forgo the bearing wait above, and cross the mighty Atlas path,
And dream with both eyes closed.

Instead darling, stay awake and think of me,
Set your watch by the ticking of your heart;
The faster it beats, the closer I am to you.

[B]The Evening's Wine By NickAdams[/B]

The evening's wine stains the table,
As evening kisses stained our lips.
I held her under the Red Maple,
As leaves and bodies shook and slipped.

[B]View From a Starbucks By DanBierce[/B]

Rain won't slow the cell-phoned suits
or pop-and-beer-can scroungers
while cardboard pleas for handouts
compete with potholes
sunk by the jerk and shimmy
of the city's non-negotiable fault.

The boom-bred girl of the corner knows
of no kind monkeys. The one she sticks
into her tattooed ankle
bites and twists. She tilts
back her head, open-mouthed,
tries to tongue drops
of junk-ill sky

as the sidewalk tune of the unknown minstrel
is blown or strummed towards Puget Sound
to be caught in the pigeon's filthy craw,
sucked into a cup of la-dee-da latte,
or falls to the crumbs
of another nice try.

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[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]Featured Members Profile[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]

Each month we will be sifting through Litnets member profile pages and selecting one as our Featured Profile of the Month. So get personalizing, decorating and designing your profile.
This months profile of the month is Lulim [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/member.php?u=43392[/url]

[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]Blog of the Month[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]

Each month we will be selecting a blog and awarding it the title of Blog of the Month right here in Lit Net Monthly News.
This months Blog of the Month is Helga’s Day in the Life [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?u=2076[/url]

[I][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][CENTER]Featured Threads of the Month[/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

Every month we will feature different threads and games. This months Thread of the Month and Game of the Month are:
Thread of the Month is Tomorrow I Will… [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47484&page=5[/url]
Game of the Month is X and O [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44924&page=75[/url]


[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]Lit Net Book Reviews[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]

This month’s book review was randomly selected from the Write a book Review sub-forum in general Literature.

[B]The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. by Haruki Murakami[/B]

This is not a casual read. Set a couple of weeks aside if you're going to start, be prepared to lose your way more than once. With a book like this, you must trust the author and hope he knows what he is doing, and that he will resolve everything in the end.

The twists and turns of the plot are impossible to record here and I am not sure they are all relevent. Toro Okada, the main protagonist, leads an ordinary and blameless life. Then his wife disappears. His efforts to find her are unfocused and surreal, involving sitting at the bottem of a dry well for days, researching the war in Manchuria and meeting people with psycic abilities. Most of the book is spent relating these character's seemingly unconnected stories, but he needs to hear them in order to have the strengh and knowledge to find the place where his wife is and bring her back to the normal world.

As you read you really have to keep faith that this is going somewhere, fortunately the writing is of a high quality, and all the characters are interesting and have interesting stories to tell, so you have enough to keep you going to the end.

I will give it a 7 out of ten, a difficult read but worth it, - just.

By Prendrelemick

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[I][CENTER][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]October Birthdays[/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER][/I]

Here are this months Litnet birthdays! Also, don’t forget that many of these members will be sent an interview, so look out for the [URL="http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36273&page=4"]Getting to Know You thread[/URL].

Happy Birthday!
Guzman, Gothman, Balehead, my name is red, Il Penseroso, NickAdams, Morad, Mir.

[I][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][CENTER]New Additions to the Site[/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]
There are some new quizzes added to the forum by Logos. If you have some free time on your hands, why not give them ago! [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/quiz.php?catid=1[/url]
There have been some recent upgrades to the forum. If you are interested in seeing what Admin has now created and changed, please follow the link below. [url]http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45417[/url]

[I][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][CENTER]Letters to the Editor[/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

There are none for this month. Why not send in letters next month about what you have thought of the Lit Net News over the last year!


[I][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][CENTER]Blog and Customized Profile of the Year Nominations[/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

The Blog and Profile of the Year Nominations!

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The Lit Net Monthly News will be one year old in November and to celebrate a successful first year, we are asking YOU to nominate and vote for YOUR favourite Blog and Customized profile.
In the month of October, we will open up the nomination period. Please forward your nominations to me via PM.
In October the top ten nominated will be added to a poll for you to vote.

The rules are simple;
-You can not nominate/vote for yourself.
-Once you have nominated/voted you will not be allowed to change your choices so be very sure of your choices.
-Any members found to be requesting other members to vote or nominate for them will be disqualified from being in the run for Blog and Profile of the year.
-Forum members are requested to not alter their profiles during this two month period, especially if theirs is one of the final top ten. Your profile may have been been nominated for a certain reason and alterations may remove this reason. Of course if yours is not one of the final ten, you can continue to alter to your hearts content.
-This is open to ALL forum members who have above 50 posts.

The voting Period is under way! Only one and a half weeks to go so please visit the Threads in the General Chat section of the Forum and vote for your favourite!
Any queries dont hesitate to PM me or leave a message on my Profile
The Litnetter

[I][SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"][CENTER]Special Thanks[/CENTER][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

I would like to thank everyone who helped contribute to the Newsletter, whether they were aware they were contributing or not!
Also a special thank you to all those that subscribe to the newsletter.
Yours truly
The Litnetter