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Heeeeeeey.

Okay so I'm not sure what I'm gonna use this for yet, but I know I'm at least gonna use it to keep track of my reading challenge, and to rant and yeah. Lol. We'll see.

Hi Athena! :-)

Hi Athena... hope your day is great

Perfect things to use it for Athena. I've got to say that Jack gets an A for setting this thread up for us to get to know each other. I love it.

Yes Jack take a bow.... wohoooo
Hey Glenda... just wanted to stop by again... Couldn't get on most of the day... glad the site is back up... I was having withdraws.

Lol, me too Denisa.

:P

So as an update, i finished a book last weekend, and I'm currently reading and .
I am starting to write my next book for my cap stone project. It's going to be awesome and hopfully really long and... informative I guess. :P My first Historical fiction. heh.
I'm also going to texas this week for Nationa Honors Choir and I'm really excited. I've never been to texas before. I hope it goes well, I'm considering keeping a journal, but we're only going to be there for like 4 days so... i dont know.

Oh Athena do keep a journal..... yes yes.....even a hour sometimes brings wonderful happenings...I want to read Entice so I will be looking forward to what you have to say about it.. AND good luck on your writing project... Keep us updated..

That's a great idea to keep a journal and yes, please do keep us updated. :)

Look!!! I wrote a poem/ short story thing. It doesn't really make any sense. But oh well. :P


Love-Sweet

There once was girl named for her voice,
Which was as lovely as a birds sweet chirping and as quiet as the whistling wind.
She met a young man at the age of 14
And they two fell deeply in love,
But the trouble with men is they never quite learn how to control their great big hearts.
So one day when the girl was just twenty,
Just after she just had a baby,
The man who had loved her, who had held her and sheltered her,
Took a dagger that hang on his belt,
And with a big surge of fury,
Stabbed her in a hurry, but made sure there was no doubt of her death.
Then he mourned every day and he mourned every night for the woman who had completed his life. He cursed her beloved, and he swore his revenge, though revenge was never served.
And thus was the tale of a girl and her lovers,
A girl by the name of Love-Sweet

Btw for John Flanagan's Rangers apprentice series, I recommended it to kids, teenagers and Adults of all ages. Especially though who like quick reads and fun adventures. I have really enjoyed reading these books with my little brother and my mom, and I think that most people who like to laugh would enjoy these books too... :) just sayin'.

Athena wrote: "Look!!! I wrote a poem/ short story thing. It doesn't really make any sense. But oh well. :P


Love-Sweet

There once was girl named for her voice,
Which was as lovely as a birds sweet chirping and..."

It does actually make sense and well the iamge was certainly there in the readers mind.. I think it was pretty good...he kept her his until death

Mhm

Wow, that's brill Athena.

<------- clapping and waiting for more..

lol. nah. i need to think up something... anyone wanna give me a topic to write about? :P

also, for anyone who has read the whole Eragon series, is it worth reading? I'm not gonna read it for awhile, but I've been trying to convince myself to go back and read it at all. Should I do so? Or is it a waste of time? Why or why not?

Just finished Entice on the plant from Hawaii to Dallas. It was pretty cool.

So I really enjoyed the book but I only gave it four stars because it didn't make me cry. There are sad parts, but I didn't cry... I feel like I should have, but I didn't. Blah. I recommend it to those who enjoyed the first two books. There's a real development of character in Zara, thank goodness. And it's a nice growth of character.

good morning Athena... how is life this am? So would you recommend that a person read all three or were they okay as stand alones?

hey Kyle.... how are ya?

Kyle life is ever changing excitement full of lits bits of everything..
And you?

wear a seatbelt.... i do now...

hahaha well that will work too...

so Kyle... do they have any open Mics where you live?

oh... well if I send you some nerve... would that help? i guess I am kinda crazy. It doesn't bother me. hmmm what if you got up there and well...pictured them all wearing their bathing suits at a formal party? Naw that wouldn't work out.. you would just crack up laughing huh?
I posted one on my corner, a poem... I have read it at a open mic before.. I have only done it a few times as.. the nearest one to me is like 40 miles away...

ah thank you... you are so sweet... and you should consider doing open mic.... I just sent you a google of nerve.. (a google is a 1 with a million zeros behind it)

please do post them, I would love to read some of them

Denisa wrote: "good morning Athena... how is life this am? So would you recommend that a person read all three or were they okay as stand alones?"

They are definitely not stand alones. Heh. I definitely recommend reading all of them, but only if you like some major, twisted teenage drama. And I mean MAJOR... At least in my opinion...

People! Lol. Don't pollute my topic. ;)

hmmmm well teenage drama is a given at different times in my household. I have two teen daughters and although they are not very dramatic some of their friends are. You know one thing that surprised me with these teens... the guys can be just as dramatic... Hope you day goes well and thanks for letting me know about the book,..

:)

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Hi Athena, Denisa!"
hello...

who wants to see the beginning of my character for my capstone project????????


EVERYONE DOES!!!!! lol.

Name: Valterra "Val" Avariella
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Personality: Afraid of Life, quiet, doesn't ever speak up, like to stay home and read no matter the weather, has a fear of abandonment. (still working on this... it will develop in the story)

Background: When she was six, her father left her and her mom. It was really emotional and devistating, and left her emotionally scarred. She grew up watching her mom get remarried over and over again, though said mother never stayed with her husband for more than 3-4 years. She's been at the same school her whole life, refusing to move away because she doesn't make friends easily, and because she knows everyone there. She's had a crush on one of the boys in her class for a really long time, but never had the courage to ask him out or show him that she is interested, afraid that he'd leave her like her dad. She's currently in junior year of high school and she is scared for the end of the year because then she'll be going into senior year ad she isn't sure what she's going to do with herself after high school, though she knows that she needs to start making decisions.

Thanks. :D

I don't wanna add too much to the personality... Mostly cause she's gonna develop and hopefully become stronger and more independent throughout the story... It'll be interesting...

Yar. :P I'm hoping it works for me... I've never done this before and I'm hoping she doesn't get even MORE scared of life... You know? I'm an ammeter writer... And I'm not sure I spelt that right... Lol

Amateur* lol. I'm excited though. I can't wait to be able to get into the Hawaiian archives to research my fam tree... Cause then I can actually start writing.

Athena wrote: "who wants to see the beginning of my character for my capstone project????????


EVERYONE DOES!!!!! lol.

Name: Valterra "Val" Avariella
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Personality: Afraid of Life, quiet, ..."

Sounds like a interesting character that could develop in different directions...

:)

Hello, Athena. Just dropping in to say hi; and great poem. Kind of dark like my daughters writing. I really liked it. :)

:D thanks so much!

Just finished during the plane right back from Dallas. Was soooooo good. Ugh but i hate it when series ends. I get so emotioal. The book itself made me cry so i gave it 5 stars. But I started to cry more when it ended, because i knew that was it. No more Astley and Nick and issie and Cassidy, and I can't remember Issie's boyfriends name, and of course Our main character: Zara! :D I loved the series and i recommend it to anyone who can put up with a slightly indecisive teenage girl who has romatic problems and so one.

I'm currently reading , but i dont like it very much... I'm reading it for school though so i have to. *sigh* at least it's short... the story is good but i can't handle the writing. i understand it will get better but still.............

I'm gonna start and im expecting it to be just as good as the other ones, though thats not saying much. I really like them, but i think they could have been written better. :P

Athena wrote: "Just finished during the plane right back from Dallas. Was soooooo good. Ugh but i hate it when series ends. I get so emotioal. The book itself made me cry so i gave it 5..."

I also am reading a book for school and have been on it over a week... ackk.. usually I read a book in a days time... The plot is good but there are a lot of awkward sentences and some that have over 25 words in them... I keep telling myself... "I can do this" the weird thing this book won a award... maybe its just me... Reading Salvage the bones

Oh. Interesting title....

And I changed my mind I'm not gonna read passion yet. I'm gonna read

So decided I can't read The Color Purple. It's too graphic for me... I feel kind of bad because its an English assignment but because of my past experiences I can't read it anymore...

Yeah... Thankfully the reading I just did was mostly letters... So no emotional scarring just yet.

Yeah... Emotional scarring avoidance takes skill... Bleh. But it's hard when the book is an assignment in class...

I don't understand why you'd read a book like this with a bunch of teenagers... I mean like I don't care about the language, but like usually teachers would be like, "oh that language is inappropriate," or something stupid like that. And yet they're making us read this... I don't understand!!

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Good, that's good. We must avoid emotional scarring at all costs. My past experiences dictate that I should."

Thanks for the warning, won't be reading that. Sounds as bad as that movie Mel Gibson did re the Crucifixion. Took me weeks to get over that movie. Told my mother she wasn't to watch it as it would upset her her. Pass thanks.

Yeah I heard the movie was okay. It's the book I can't handle.

Anyway, I'm gonna go to bed. Night night!

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Actually, I liked the movie The Color Purple a lot. The Passion Of The Christ is one of my all time favorite epic films. I thought Gibson did a fantastic job.

It did upset a lot of people. I foun..."

That's just it, it was a very good movie. One doesn't realize that "flay" isn't just a word, it's something that actually happened. My problem is that I have too much empathy for people and animals. It's the type of movie I shouldn't watch at all as it upsets me for weeks afterwards. I cried in King Kong, because I felt that they took him out of his environment then wanted to kill him when he acted the way he would in the wild. Man cannot leave things alone, they always have to interfere. Then when it doesn't react the way Man wants it to, then they kill it.