Congratulations to our BINGO winners! The last Alte of this school year has been published and the BINGO-boards handed in by all our hopeful writers. And it turns out we have three winners! Maxim Trevelyan https://s33.postimg.cc/wqoxngdnz/Maximsmall.png Shiloh Adlar https://s33.postimg.cc/izkgkubr3...

Oh Sky! You just reminded me! That's true. When taking audiobooks into account - and especially those you fall asleep too, I am sure it's actually more likely to be the Nightrunner series for me. And for me it's definitely a cost thing; I just don't have the chance to get as many audiobooks as I nee...

I am not aware of any that exist other than the ones you already mentioned, but I would love to try a game that is fully immersive like you describe. It does have its pitfalls of course, but I can also see a lot of potential in it. If for instance you have to move in Reality to move in the game, it ...

Re-reading is a funny thing. Because usually it's a book we know very well that we keep coming back to. At least that's how it is for me. I don't want to re-read it because I forgot what it was about, quite the opposite: I want to re-read it because I remember very well and want to experience it aga...

The end of term is coming very close indeed and most of us are likely scrambling to get those last minute assignments in. Many might even have muggle school deadlines coming up. So while it's still in fresh memory (and for those of us who are still struggling to make it in time!), I'd like to know w...

Very happy birthday Jenny!

I hope it will be a great one and a great year to follow

New words are invented all the time and some even begin to make their way into popular usage. Muggle is one of the words from our very own Harry Potter Universe to have made it's way into more wide-spread usage, going beyond the books and entering the mainstream. This led to the word being added to ...

Happy birthday Kaitlyn! Hope it has been an awesome one!

Hi, I am Gail Allen, and I am a second year Ravenclaw. I have always absolutely loved mythologies, so seeing that there was on on Greek Mythology I kind of had to take it. So far it's proving very interesting and I don't regret for a moment that I decided to take it! Other classes I am taking this t...

Happy birthday Will!
Hope you've had a great one!

The Drabble Babble Challenge Drabble (n.) = "an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length" One theme will be announced per issue. Participants will then write a small piece of fiction (or non-fiction) about that theme. What's the catch? The submission must be ...

Alte is accepting entries for it's last issue of this school year. Make sure you're part of it!

Happy Birthday Rorey!! I hope you have a wonderful day!

I wish you an awesome day dear Twinsie!
May it be otterly filled with joy.

Yes! That happens to me too. And it's absolutely horrible. With me it's very often snippets of Christmas songs that get stuck when we're talking about songs getting stuck that I didn't even like to begin with - because let's face it, when I get a song stuck on my brain chances are I won't like it af...

Happy birthday Arielle!

I hope you had an awesome day!

Today is the birthday of one of the most well known authors of fairy tales in the world. Most of us have read at least some of the fairytales he was written, or watched movies made based on them. They are so ingrained in culture that many people might not even realize they know them. But if you've e...

It's the 1st of April and that means: April Fool's Day! I've not told any outrageous stories this year... Or have I? *looks mysterious and cheeky, and waits while everyone checks all previous posts she made today* But that made me wonder, what are some April Fool's Day stories you've seen through th...

What does your book case look like? Is it neatly sorted with all the backs in a neat and even row and authors sorted alphabetically, or are they all sorted according to height or colour perhaps? Or are you like me and have more of a system of "If I can cram in one more book here, I will!" ...

We often hear about these books - particularly in school. And I've often wondered... what exactly do people understand by it. What is a classic to them? Of course there is something with age to many of them, but then, people already said Harry Potter was a classic before the last book was published,...