Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[Welcheren]

Welcome to the site, Welcheren. You'll find no shortage of otherworldly creatures here. :) Actually, LitNetters read a very broad spectrum of literature. I'm big on classics and history, but there is usually something for everyone. I hope you enjoy yourself here. Welcome again.

Thanks for the welcome guys.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Will. Glad you're finding the site a good resource.

[ElizaD]

Hi everybody.

I am an Anglist from Wuerzburg (Germany). Rereading Episode 11 of Ulysses (Sirens) I wanted to ask a question about the deaf waiter Bald Pat, which I shall do in an appropriate forum in a few minutes. Till then, best wishes to all of you!

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, ElizaD, and good luck with your quest.

[ElizaD]

Thank you. May be you know the answer?

[Pompey Bum]

No, I'm sorry. I've never read Joyce. There are some here who have, though, so don't hesitate to start a thread. :)

[BEL6]

Hello! I'm literary critic on Polish forum and begginer writer. People told me to go away, so I'm looking for other languages' forums to improve myself as cultural human being.
Sorry for my English, especially for comas. I'm putting them as it's proper in Polish. Also my grammar isn't correct but I hope to learn from everyone here.
I hope to be useful!

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet! Sorry you were not welcome in your Polish forum, but here you are most welcome!

[Pompey Bum]

Witamy, BEL6. Are you really under my bed? How scary! Anyway, never mind the dummies from the other site. It's nice to have you with us.

[BEL6]

Thank you, Dreamwoven, Popmpey Bum! I really appreciate! It's nice to see Polish words here. :)
I'm not really angry or depressed. They had the right to send me away - at some point instead of only reading their literary work, I forced them to learning and thinking. It seem to be hard nowadays. ;)
Indeed I am. Under every bed on this world. It's like being in someone's mind but much funnier. Can't be seen and defined where but I'am somewhere.
Alright! It's time for me to read!

[Pompey Bum]

Indeed I am. Under every bed on this world. It's like being in someone's mind but much funnier.

Well, be careful of the dust bunnies down there, okay? And don't let my wife see you. :)

[DonMany]

You are more than welcome here BEL6, and your critique is very welcome also. You must be very thin to fit under my bed. hahaha

[DylanK]

Hello, everybody.

My name is Dylan Klingensmith. I'm only fourteen, so I don't myself very high when it comes to writing. I'm here to write my stories and post them to see what all of you have to say and to criticize anything that needs work. I'm a fan of role-playing games, books (obviously), and making the darkest jokes mankind has ever seen. I may or may not have a bit of a self-esteem issue that I'm aware of yet can't seen to control.

That's honestly it. I wish you all a very good day.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Dylan. It's great to have you with us. I want to warn you that the critics here can be very sharp, so if you have a self-esteem issue you may want to prepare yourself. (They're mostly a bunch of wankers, though, so who cares what they think, right? :) ) See, I have a problem sense of humor, too. Welcome to the site in any case.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome Dylan!

[Ozzman]

Hi, everyone, I'm Ozzie. I'm a high school student(will officially be one in September) and I'm new to the world of literature. I mainly read speculative fiction, and I'm open to suggestions of any genre. In addition, I love cartoons, if that helps with making your acquaintance ^.^

[Pompey Bum]

Hey Ozzie. Welcome to the site.

[Dreamwoven]

Hi Ozzie. Welcome. Is High School the equivelent of the Swedish Gymnasium?

[jekodama]

Well, hello, everyone, I'm Jessica. I'm from Venezuela, Latin America, and I found you guys through Coursera's Creative Writing course. I'm happy to be here :)

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, Jessica.

[turtleman]

Hello from me Mike from TC

[WildSwan89]

Hi everybody! I'm Chiara and I'm from Italy. I love books and the job writers do, always inspiring with their thoughts and their knowledge. ..and I like literature forums too: I found this one looking for one of Lawrence's poems, and here I finally got its meaning. .. so thank you all for sharing and discussing topics, I hope I can contribute too :)

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome Chiara/WildSwan. You too, turtleman. Please make yourselves at home!

[heartwing]

Hello. I am Meg. I am a writer and have published some really short pieces here and there in various journals on the internet and in print. I'm looking for ways to revisit some classic works of literature, works I don't remember now or which I found a "creative" way of finishing when I was in school.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, heartwing!

[heartwing]

Thank you, Dreamwoven! Good to be here.

[Sam Smith]

Hi, everyone. My name is Sam, and I am an A-level student hoping to become a known writer in due course (no rush) . It's great to hear all these different points of view and I'm looking forward to participating too. For now I am not as well read as I'd like to be (are any of us?) but I will keep reading. Also, I've noticed my overuse of parenthesis in this introduction mais c'est la vie (oh well).
Good to be here.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome Sam, and don't worry (too much) about excessive use of parentheses, which won't bother (many of) us and certainly not me (much). It's (truly) great to have you here. Enjoy yourself (within moral limits). :)

[Saya1]

Hi..!!!! I'm new here so guide me ....Im currently preparing for my major in English literature .... I want to learn many things from you all...thanks

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Saya. I hope you find what you're looking for here.

[Tú Ngu Ng]

Hi everyone. Glad to meet all of you. I'm Tú from Vietnam. Have a nice day :)

[DonMany]

Welcome Tu. Hope you enjoy yourself in this group.

[DonMany]

Hi Saya. I am sure you will find all the help you need here. Good luck.

[DonMany]

Hello Sam. You can only learn by making mistakes. All of us do, (most of us anyway). Keep posting and you will keep improving. Sadly I don't come in as often as I would like to. It is great to see all the new ones coming in, and all the (older) ones welcoming them. Good luck Sam.

[heartwing]

Welcome Sam, Tu, and Saya.

[cleverusername]

Hi all,

I'm looking for some new authors to read. I have varied tastes, I enjoy everything from translated Chekhov works to Stephen King to Agatha Christie.
The last "new" author I read was David Mitchell. I read Number nine dream which I found to be entertaining but a abrupt.

Any suggestions.........

[Dreamwoven]

You just have to follow your own taste in literature. Welcome, and good luck!

[Pompey Bum]

Any suggestions.........

Burn the Stephen King? :)

Just kidding. I think Clopin likes Checkhov, so you two may have some interesting talks. I'd suggest Dostoyevski and Tolstoy if you haven't read them already. I was considering David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks but couldn't quite make myself buy it (it looks too much like Stephen King on acid). Welcome to the site in any case. What would you recommend?

[ClassicalLover]

Hello~ My name Is Missy, sometimes I go by Jack, I am a HUGE nerd for classical lit! I could spend hours pouring over my copies of The Grapes of Wrath, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness and Ect. and Ect. I want to be an English professor someday, but not till I have had a chance to travel and satisfy my immense wander lust. I love to draw, sing and write. I enjoy video games, anime and manga. My favorite pastimes include swimming and volleyball. I love to discuss and debate (nicely). I write poetry and novels, along with one or two short stories. I am so bad at intros..... I just reall really really love classical lit. Mainly 1940's and earlier at this point, however there are totally some awesome contemporary writers.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site Missy/Jack/ClassicalLover. Literary nerds R us, so you should be right at home. It's nice to meet someone with such broad interests and enthusiasms. I look forward to conversing with you.

[souveek]

Hello everyone! -Unrolls the huge roll of paper - Here it goes!

I am proud of my parents who among several other things, had introduced me to wonderful world of books, and that too in three languages allowing me to explore the unknown territories while sitting in the safety of my bed.

However, for most people, books have always been a source of recreation and entertainment where I live. People believe that one can have a serious career with lot of potential only if he/she is a doctor or an engineer. Studying literature is not something serious! After all what's the big deal in flipping the pages of a few cute books with beautiful covers, reading a few stories and poetry. That's not studies! That's fun. And that serious studies cannot be fun, can it? Basically, if you aren't minting enough money after your education, it seems your line of studies is not good enough.

So, I studied what by social norms would lead to a lucrative career. The only thing that felt amiss was that I was rarely with the books that I loved, any more. And then when everything was going right as per social norms, I wanted to do something different. Something that the social norms would glare at! I wanted to read books. I wanted to study literature. I wanted to teach literature at some point!

I started reading books ... more than what I have ever read. Science fictions.. Y&A Bestsellers... Murder Mysteries...Legal thrillers.. and then I was bored.. bored of the same plots being twisted and re-bottled under a new title and those becoming bestsellers.

I decided to try something else. Why not try something that has been praised and loved by generations of book addicts? The classics, may be! William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells may be? And then I felt I was in my place. I felt I had so much to explore.. about those times when these books were authored, of the life of people in those times through these works of fiction. And my lost urge to learn about literature started to build up again. I want to teach literature to kids.. but I need a formal education for the same.

How is it like to study literature formally? Is it as good as studying it as an amateur? Does it give you sense of freedom? Does the experience get even better? To study formally or not to study is the question.

Pompey Bum we met the other day! Nice to see you again!

[Dreamwoven]

Sounds like you are already well into your subject. Welcome and well met!

[souveek]

Sounds like you are already well into your subject. Welcome and well met!

Thanks for the welcome Dreamwoven! I hope to see you around and converse more with you regarding the books and stuff!

[Merkava120]

Hi, I'm Merkava120, a history and book nerd. The name comes from an Israeli tank I find particularly beautiful looking, and the 120 is the caliber of its gun. I'm from the middle of the USA, lived in one spot my whole life.

As for books, I have to admit am not a person who gets into a book easily - I have to be totally drawn into it so completely that I can't not finish it. I really like classics, especially 19th century ones, because of how well they can suck me in. I love getting deep into a book and thinking about all the morals and lessons that are taught in it, so I find it really hard to enjoy a book without that inner depth and commentary on the human condition. My favorite authors are Twain, Wilde and Hawthorne.

Often I find that I get to the end of a book and want to go talk about it with lots of people, but I'm rarely able to. That's why I dug up this forum - I just finished reading A Connecticut Yankee etc, and can't wait to find someone on here to talk about it with.

Can't wait to get into this site, it all looks really interesting!

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, Merkava!

You would probably like Julie Orringer's book The Invisible Bridge, set in Hungary in the second world war.

[TheShrink]

Hey everybody! I'm TheShrink, so i'm actually a doctor beginning my speciality in psychiatry.... Thus the name :D
I checked in here to see what y'all got to say :D and maybe get some book recommendations of course. My favorite authors are John Steinbeck (Im from California), Ernest Hemingway (i lived in Europe for a while) and F Scott Fitzgerald (Tender is the night is about a shrink ;) ). Oh and of course i like to read me some Freud and Carl Jung hahah. I don't get to read too often now, always knee deep in medical books and journals...

[tailor STATELY]

Howdy all y'all ! Welcome from the California Gold Country.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[R Srinivasan]

Hi I am a percussion player.I play an instrument called Mridangam,a carnatic music drum.I started my career as a Lawyer.Can anybody guide about me about the following: Rabindranath Tagore has composed 11 compositions based on Carnatic music,what are those and its carnatic equivalent

[ClassicalLover]

I LOVE YOUR BUNNY SUIT Pompey Bunny! I Came here looking for people with similar interests, so I am really excited to converse as well!

[Pompey Bum]

I LOVE YOUR BUNNY SUIT Pompey Bunny! I Came here looking for people with similar interests, so I am really excited to converse as well!

Thank you. It's meant to represent the duality of innocence and cynicism--for me in any case. Here's the source:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5giw9np7c

[ablejoso]

Hi!
Let me start by saying I would have called my present here a direction of God if the forum had been spiritually concentrated. However, it remains justifiable if I say God directed me here because literature is the greatest means of reach-out employed by God. So, with the knowledge that I'm here by God's direction, it is a pleasure to be with you guys.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, ablejoso. You will find theists and atheists aplenty here. There is a religious lit forum, too, which you may want to check out. Nice to have you with us.

[GF Washington]

Hi Everyone. I am GF. I am a former English teacher who is anxious to engage in some literary discussions! I will be commenting more at a later time. I am currently just exploring the site and I must admit that it is quite comprehensive and interesting. I look forward to being here!!

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome GFW. I look forward to talking with you.

[Larry Alexander]

Hi, I'm completely new to this forum. I'd like to create a blog, but I can't see how to do it. Anybody help?

[Larry Alexander]

Hi there, I'm completely new to this. I'd like to create a blog but I can't see how to do it. Anybody help?

[Dreamwoven]

Hi Larry and welcome. On the first page of this website - http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forum.php you will find blogs in the third heading along.

[Larry Alexander]

HI thanks for replying! I've found the blog area but I still can't see how I can create a blog, it doesn't seem to say anywhere. Also, how can I delete posts? I accidentally posted my first message twice and I'd like to remove one of them. I clicked on the "edit post" button but there's nothing to say how to delete it. I've checked the FAQs but they're really not very helpful. It just basically says 'you can delete your posts by clicking the edit button' but nothing else! Same for the blog, it just says 'if you're allowed to post blog entries...' but then nothing to say how you get to be allowed! Sorry for all these questions before I've even started but I have to say it's not really very user-friendly or easy to navigate your way here if it's your first time. Feeling a bit useless quite honestly.

[Dreamwoven]

Its not entirely simple using the blogs, I started one but haven't made a single post. When you click on blogs the first option is "My Blog". You just have to feel your way forward. I started by reading one of the blogs There are some good blogs here, my favourite is "Memories of the 28th Century" by PeterL.

[Larry Alexander]

I've been looking through the blogs section and there's some really interesting stuff. Maybe I'm even less technologically-minded than I thought, but I don't see "My Blog" when I got to blogs. And I still can't see how to delete a post! Anyway, I've started finding my way around the site and posting, so it's fun anyway. I'll check out the blog you suggested, thanks.

[BooksLovers]

Hello everybody !
Here to share some ideas, get some usefull information.
I love all kind of reading, so I'm sure i'll be happy here :-) I'm also the webmaster of a of book exchange website.
That's all I think :-)

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome, BL. Look forward to learning more.

[TheEdge]

My name is Agboola Israel. I'm from Nigeria and I'm 17 years old. I also love writing and reading a LOT. And I'm interested in every writer or/and reader here either female or male. I'll be posting my works soon!
Message me, I'll appreciate it.

[Dreamwoven]

Look forward to seeing you works posted!

[Danik 2016]

I've been looking through the blogs section and there's some really interesting stuff. Maybe I'm even less technologically-minded than I thought, but I don't see "My Blog" when I got to blogs. And I still can't see how to delete a post! Anyway, I've started finding my way around the site and posting, so it's fun anyway. I'll check out the blog you suggested, thanks.
Larry,
I think most of us don´t master the mystery of deleting a LitNet post. I just delete what I have written and then put 5 dots or "double post" on the message (there have to be at least 5 written characters or you former message will be restored).

As for the blog, I just had a look. I think you have to click on any blog of the ones listed on the right side of the forum overview. Under the commands you find "blog settings" and then you can costumize your own blog.

[Dreamwoven]

TheEdge, I've sent you a message!

[Cassie Hughes]

Hi Everyone

I'm known as Cassie and I just thought I'd pop in here to say hello.

I am an avid reader and take my e reader with me wherever I go as it's so much lighter than trying to carry a library! I usually have 3 or 4 books on the go at the same time.

When I was younger I used to write a lot of poetry but stopped when I began my nurse training and have only taken up writing again in the past couple of years. Firstly with poetry and more recently with short stories and flash fiction. I have also been known to dabble in fanfiction for my sins.

Hopefully joining this site will help me learn how to not only improve my own writing but also widen my reading interests and introduce me to new authors and genres I may otherwise have missed.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome Cassie. It always amazes me that my IPad carries a library on it. Is flash fiction when you get a hand full of words and have to make a story with them? Welcome to the site in any case.

[Cassie Hughes]

Hi Pompey. Thanks for the welcome. Yes, with flash fiction the number of words often varies and there seems to be no set amount but can go from a diminutive 55 words upto and including a more wordy 1000. I usually find it easier to stick to writing between 100 and 500 words.

[tailor STATELY]

Howdy! Cassie Hughes.

Please don't be shy about sharing your poetry and entering our poetry contests: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?7131-Poetry-Games-amp-Contests .

There is also a movement to get some LitNet poetry into a book form; the content being chosen among current LitNet poets who desire to have their poetry added: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?85019-The-LitNet-Poetry-Anthology-%96-submit-here .

Both the contests and the book are a bit on the wane for now but only because we lack enthusiastic contributors.

Looking forward to your contribution to LitNet,

Oh. And another howdy to all and sundae ! (sic)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Cassie Hughes]

Thanks for the welcome tailor.

I'll definitely think about the poetry contests but I'm not sure I am good enough for a book yet. :)

[Woodpecker16669]

Hello everyone, Daniel here.
I have been writing since I can remember but just now my friend talked my into sharing my writings. I am 19 years old. I am from Colombia (South America, not Columbia), I am a student and I work with a proffessorin the investigation field.
I hope you all enjoy how I spend my time when I am not studying, reading or working.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site Daniel/Woodpecker. Please make yourself at home.

[Pound of Life]

Hello people. I am a total noob at writing and don't read a lot of books but wanted to try posting stories, so that's it.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, POL. Your science fiction story is interesting so far. I hope you keeping going with it. :)

[Pound of Life]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that someone read it.

[Pompey Bum]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that someone read it.

You're welcome. You've had 22 views so far, and you are sure to get many more. You've got a readership. So what happens next?

[Pound of Life]

Story wise... I don't know entirely yet, it's a work in progress, I'm writing down any ideas I get and hopefully I can fit them in the story.

[biblophile]

Hello fellow book lovers I am new to this site. I am a life long booklover. I have my own library of about two thousand books. I read mostly 18th and 19th century litature, as well as Homer, Virgil and the like. I enjoy history and bios. I also enjoy music and art.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, Biblo. There are many people here with similar interests, so you should fit right in.

[arabianstories]

Hello friends!! Are you interested to read Arabic Stories, I love to read. Please share your favorite stories with me .

[Dreamwoven]

Any particular ones you have in mind?

[PetSounds]

Salutations! I've only scratched the surface of literature, but hopefully I can contribute something of value. Favourite authors are P. G. Wodehouse and Ernest Hemingway.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome PetSounds, and make yourself at home.

[Macey]

Hello everyone!! I have been wanting to start writing for a while but kept talking myself out of it. Recently, I gave it serious thought and just went for it. I started a blog about a week ago and I absolutely love it. I have posted stories almost everyday. It's kind of addicting. I am a customer service specialist at the company I work for, and all I can think about is getting home and writing the next story. I finally found something I'm excited about doing. I have come to this site and have read some posts and like the community here. I like making homemade crafts for family and friends for gifts or just for fun. I am at a point in my life where I am trying new things.

[Danik 2016]

Wellcome, Macey, make yourself at home. There are a lot of activities: short story threads, poetry, discussions, games, etc.

[Dreamwoven]

You can also write a blog here on LitNet. There are some that have been going for many years now. I any event, welcome, Macey, to LitNet.

[jayfoe44]

Hi everyone. This is my first day on this site and I'm hoping for great things. I love literature and, in fact, all art: dance, music, graphic arts, literature, etc. I graduated from college in Virginia, spent ten years in the Marine Corps and then 30 years in the non-pc computer business, finally retiring to Las Vegas, where we now live. I'm hoping that this site will allow open discourse without the vile anonymous hate, bigotry and discourtesy on which much of the internet now seems to thrive.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet Jayfoe. What's the non-pc computer business? Sounds intriguing.

[ksyfullah07]

Hi Guys,
I am Khaled and finally I am here. I love reading and sci-fi is my most favorite genre. I hope I will be a good part of this forum and will let you know my thoughts and reading.I wish to gather some knowledge through this great forum.
I love reading. Fishing is my hobby. I also love to travel from here and there.
I am a Engineer and completed my B.Sc. in Civil Engineering degree about four years ago.
I am from Bangladesh, a land of green beauty with numerous rivers and the longest sea beach of the world, Cox's Bazar.
Have a good day.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to the website Khaled.

[Chillingworth]

I'm joining this admirable forum on something of a lark, having found myself here at the latter end of a protracted Google search for the meaning of a certain allusion in Dostoevsky. While I typically like to keep my online interactions at a minimum, it suddenly occurred to me as potentially worthwhile to share my incurable habit of reading with somebody new and as-yet unmet.

Like "Virgil," whose post I perused below, I concluded my academic career (so far) with a Master's Degree in English, against which I was shrewdly and vehemently advised. While earning this degree (the last of four), I was granted the incomparable privilege of teaching a Freshman writing class, in which I insinuated at every opportunity portions of the literature that has defined my intellectual life, as well as those few hours of pleasure with which life has deigned to assign me.

My reading, at this or any other time, follows no particular pattern or discernible logic. In the last couple of weeks, I've read a collection of English verse, Bullfinch's Mythology, the first part of Don Quixote, and Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard, while my trip to the library this afternoon found me with an armful of Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellows, and the aforementioned Russian. It has lately become a diversion of mine to tackle the library alphabetically, picking up any work that my conscience tells me I ought to have read by now, but haven't.

Thank you for suffering my presence here. I look forward to many happy greetings.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, Chillingworth. I guess your pattern of reading is much like many others on this forum. The main thing is to enjoy it.

[SarahNaylor]

hi myself sarah naylor

[SarahNaylor]

my self sarah
i am author at www.truthquestion.com and truth and dare questions site.

[Aestivius]

Salutations, fellow poets, authors and writers.

I am Alex, but usually go by Aestivius whenever I am online. Been a poet and author for the past 20 years or so. Finally got around last year to making a website to host all my poems, short stories and novels. The website in question is called myriadlaves.eu, but is currently somewhat under construction to me having to redesign the website.

I have been working on and off on about 3 novels currently, whereof one is an adaptation of an epic poem I wrote a couple of years ago called Wyrmsbane, written in the style of Beowulf, orthographically it's Modern English, but grammatically and vocabulary-wise it's closer to Old English and Middle English. I strove with the project to contain as Anglo Saxon a vocabulary as possible to stick as close to the inspiration as possible, but this endeavour resulted in a text far too impenetrable for any new readers or people unfamiliar with the vocabulary. Thus a sort of middle ground had to be found, whilst still preserving the archaic diction. Indeed, the novel is as much a linguistic undertaking as I've had to revive some older words as well as an authorial one of trying to write a story without making it sound too much like tushery as well as keeping my character as unstereotypical as possible.

[Saxophone]

Greetings, friends.

I'm Charlie, and I often have urges to write poetry or short fiction. I went to a doctor, they said if they remove it I'll be just a business person, which really is quite a lot less than I'd like to be.

I'm thinking of posting some poems for general feedback. Be as strict as you like. I'm very well aware of the fact that, were it not for the internet, I would fantasize about becoming a writer a lot less.

Nice to meet everyone.

[Saxophone]

Salutations, fellow poets, authors and writers.

I am Alex, but usually go by Aestivius whenever I am online. Been a poet and author for the past 20 years or so. Finally got around last year to making a website to host all my poems, short stories and novels. The website in question is called myriadlaves.eu, but is currently somewhat under construction to me having to redesign the website.

I have been working on and off on about 3 novels currently, whereof one is an adaptation of an epic poem I wrote a couple of years ago called Wyrmsbane, written in the style of Beowulf, orthographically it's Modern English, but grammatically and vocabulary-wise it's closer to Old English and Middle English. I strove with the project to contain as Anglo Saxon a vocabulary as possible to stick as close to the inspiration as possible, but this endeavour resulted in a text far too impenetrable for any new readers or people unfamiliar with the vocabulary. Thus a sort of middle ground had to be found, whilst still preserving the archaic diction. Indeed, the novel is as much a linguistic undertaking as I've had to revive some older words as well as an authorial one of trying to write a story without making it sound too much like tushery as well as keeping my character as unstereotypical as possible.

Wow, that's some undertaking. I envy your devotion. Good luck!

[TheEgyptian]

Hi! I'm a writer with a passion for English Lit, especially medieval and interwar, some Victorian and I love Shakespeare and Spenser too.

[Dreamwoven]

So you are into 16th century literature. Welcome to Litnet.

[chuckcharles]

Hello ! I'm amandine, I study history but my first love is literature. Sadly my friends don't like to read and discuss about literature, so it's why I'm here now ! I hope to learn more about books, authors, and I start to write a few weeks ago so maybe I will also improve my writing too.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site. There is no shortage of people who love to discuss literature here, so jump right in. As it happens my first love is history, so perhaps we can have some interesting discussions, too. Are you studying any particular historical period?

[chuckcharles]

With pleasure ! The first two years was to first acquire more knowledge so the courses focused on the four main periods (mainly Europe history). But this year I have specialized myself in history and archeology, so I mainly study the ancient history by concentrating on Rome (Republic and Empire), Greece and Egypt (pharonique, Ptolemaic and Roman).

[Pompey Bum]

Very exciting. I studied classical and early Christian history long ago (I'd have gone on to the Byzantine period, but it hadn't happened yet. :) Since retirement I've read more broadly in European and a small amount of American history. Not having any professors to keep happy, I am able to read thoroughly enjoyable but antiquated historians like David Hume and Francis Parkman (I haven't read Macaulay yet, but I've picked up a complete set at Project Gutenberg). I also enjoy some modern Cambridge and Oxford historians. I've reached the point where I find history I know the least about the most interesting. But I guess Reformation weirdness is also a perennial favorite.

Have you managed to take in much field archaeology? A lot of the promising areas must be closed off nowadays.

[chuckcharles]

I'd love to study American history (partly because of the american literature), if you have any authors/books to suggest? Four of my classmates are retired and attend classes only because they love history, I admit that I envy the freedom to study without contrainte. Sometimes it is frustrating to study only one period/country "professionally", there is so much to learn and so little time. Cambridge and Oxford historian are the best in my eyes, especially for classical history (even if the Sorbonne is not bad either ;)).

Before this year I made excavations on prehistoric and medieval sites, but this year, thanks to my teachers, I will be in Italy and Greece ; Unfortunately (for us) it seems that the excavations in Egypt by foreigners are increasingly limited, so I do not think I can go any time soon.

[Pompey Bum]

I'd love to study American history (partly because of the american literature), if you have any authors/books to suggest?

Yes, I can make some recommendations. What I'll do is to revive the site's long neglected history thread and respond there so we don't tie up the introductions thread. Here is a quick link to it in case it gets buried beneath other threads.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?81055-History-Histories-and-Historical-Novels

[SavvyKidd]

Hello! I stumbled across this website as I was researching on Masculinist Literary Theory for my thesis. I go by Hazel, and am currently an MA student (working on my thesis lol). And of course, I have yet to find any worthwhile literature on Masculinist Literary Theory but so far I love this website!

[Danik 2016]

Hi SK,
Welcome to the site. What would be your subject of research? I mean, are you researching on specific authors or is yours a theorical thesis?

[SavvyKidd]

Hi!
I'm writing specifically on Lewis' work Babbitt. I just happen to be using this theory alongside it.

[Dreamwoven]

Babbitt seems to be an interesting book. I must read it!

[Suzar]

Hi y'all!
.....I just like talking about books and poems sometimes, so here I am!

[Pompey Bum]

Hello, Suzar. Welcome to the site. Talk away! :)

[Athena-The-Real]

Hi, I am Athena, I am a new writer, I am a fan of horror and enjoy psychological stuff. I enjoy anime, video games and cooking. (Also writing if you haven't guessed). I hope I enjoy my time here ^^.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome Athena the Real. Great name! I hope you enjoy your time here, too. :)

[FrankZugg-Klown]

My best for everybody! I'm an artistic painter, writer, and love art in all its expressions...
I like theater, Comics, Movies, and Novels and short stories.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, FZ-Klown. Make yourself right at home. :)

[JenniferLockman]

Hi everyone!

I'm Jennifer, a girl that addicted to writing and studies Journalism at UCLA (University of California).

Would be glad to have a new friends here.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, Jennifer. We are an eccentric lot, but you could probably find a friend or two here. Nice to have you aboard. :)

[jeweldodier]

Hni every one, I am Jewel dodier from austin/texas.

[Dreamwoven]

welcome, jeweldodier, sounds fascinating - can you explain your work?

[TestYourNeurons]

Hi everyone! I love reading and I've made a YouTube channel where I sometimes make quizzes on books..

I've made a quiz recently on Harry Potter https://youtu.be/TlTuhnsXs7E and one on The Little Prince! https://youtu.be/v3eGLrwC_1c :)

[Danik 2016]

Welcome Neurons and Nguye.I hope you enjoy the forum!

[atteq]

Hi. I am Ateeq. I have been teaching English for Literature 17 years. I have 9 publications and my M.Phil research focused on the Jungian Psychoanalysis of Gulliver's Travels.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome, atteq, to Literature Forums. I hope you will enjoy your visits.

[Ela.Em]

Hi everyone. My name is Ela and I'm from Germany. I LOVE reading good books, especially the works of the Bronte Sisters, Jane Austen, Emile Zola, Tolstoi, Gustave Flaubert (and so on...). I am very excited to get to know some interesting new people in here.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, Ela. Jump right in! :)

[Dreamwoven]

Ela, your English seems to me to be perfect. Even if German is your first language!

[Ela.Em]

Thank you very much.

[Tweed&Tartan]

Hello Everyone ! I am a french student in English Culture (Literature, History & Language) actually living in the North of England.

I am absolutely obsessed with English Literature, a few of my favorite authors are Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë & Oscar Wilde. I am also very interested in Russian Literature and love the works of Leo Tolstoy & Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

I wanted to be part of a community obsessed with books and have the chance to expand my culture and knowledge about World Literature. I hope to meet a lot of new people and have a lot of discussions about my favorite subjects!

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet T&T. This is a big website with many interesting nooks and crannies. Explore it and find out.

[Shikha Arora]

Hello everyone,

I am a communications professional from India. I have been writing a lot for my work but not for myself. Recently, I joined a creative writing course and it has helped me in developing interest in writing once again. I do not consider myself a great writer but trying to learn more about it. I have started reading lately, and currently I am reading The end of Karma by Somini Sen Gupta. Look forward to learning a lot from everyone here.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome, Shikha, to Literature Network Forums, it is a friendly place you have come to!

[AnthonyDavid11]

Hi, there. Glad to be on the forum. I have four books on amazon and working on a fifth. I hope to learn plenty from this site and look forward to the interactions. Thanks for having me!

[Dreamwoven]

If you have published books you are already well on your way. Welcome to the forum, AnthonyDavid

[JennaLang]

Hi, It's nice to be able to discuss literature with someone finally! I'm wondering if any of the rest of you have trouble finding people to have these conversations with?

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, Jenna. No, I don't find many people who want to talk with me about literature, but hey, to be fair, I don't want to talk with them about Pokemon. Nice to have you with us. :)

[Dreamwoven]

The field of literature is so vast that its often the case that well-known books, like Moby Dick, have only been read by a few of us. There is a whole thread about this book that is still active, though I have never read it. It just takes 2 or 3 interested who have read it to keep it going. There are also threads on serious non-literature subjects, like Astronomy and Cosmology.

[Pompey Bum]

The field of literature is so vast that its often the case that well-known books, like Moby Dick, have only been read by a few of us. There is a whole thread about this book that is still active, though I have never read it.

Come on in, DW. The water's fine. :)

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2701

[ThePhoenix222]

Hi! My name is Sammy and I am an administrator for a charity. I'm not very confident in my writing but my fiancé has been encouraging me to write more so I thought I'd join a forum to read, write and hopefully get some feedback. And meet some new people too! I'm a huge fan of graphic novels, Neil Gaiman and audiobooks. I also used to write Fanfiction for the tv series Supernatural. I'm looking forward to getting to know some of you and to reading lots of new stories ��

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Phoenix. I hope you find what you're looking for here. :)

[Damián Bernard]

Hi everybody!

My mother tongue isn't english. I read books in English and I was looking for a website where I could post my many doubts. Sometimes I don't understand a sentence and I will open a thread. Hopefully you can help me out. I'm currently reading "The girl in the blue coat" by Monica Hesse. I love it!

We will see each other often.

Cheers.

Ps: don't hesitate to correct my mistakes, thanks.

[Damián Bernard]

Hi again! How can I open a thread?

Thanks!

[Dreamwoven]

Go to the Literature Network Forums http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forum.php, there is a list of topic headings, choose the one you want to start a new thread in, say General Literature, http://www.online-literature.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?4-General-Literature, on the top of that page it explains +Post New Thread, click that and choose a title for your thread. Thats about it.

[Pompey Bum]

Hi everybody!

My mother tongue isn't english. I read books in English and I was looking for a website where I could post my many doubts. Sometimes I don't understand a sentence and I will open a thread. Hopefully you can help me out. I'm currently reading "The girl in the blue coat" by Monica Hesse. I love it!

We will see each other often.

Cheers.

Ps: don't hesitate to correct my mistakes, thanks.


Welcome to the site, Damian. :)

[lifeisart]

wow that part is i newly discovered.

I'm Ilker, 23.
I'm not native speaker of English, and am from Turkey. i like sharing ideas and reading other people's ideas about works.
Also, i feel a bit lost about art and literature, i have many questions about them! If i have any mistake in my writing (except for capital ''I'' :P), please correct me :).

I was reading A Tale of Two Cities, but i just stopped reading it. Now i'm waiting for my next book's shipping, my next book is ''B A Paris - Behind Closed Doors (English version)''. I think of reading books in English to broaden my knowledge of vocabulary and grammar.

Sincerely, Ilker

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome again, Ilker. Nice to have you here.

[Graybush]

Hey everyone,
I'm at a point where I finally am making an effort to write. It was something I wanted to do for over 20 years. Now I am making time for it. I have decades of experiences and ideas, so now the work of putting pen to paper.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to the LitNet forums, Graybush. You have the right attitude, slowly does it!

[C.P. Harrington]

Greetings all! I'm a brand new newbie who recently found this site. Hello to all!

[Dreamwoven]

Greetings, C.P. and welcome to LitNet!

[Dreamwoven]

This is excellent, welcome to LitNet!

[AnnaBlanch]

Hi! I'm a newbie here and I wonder - may I share the book with job search tips here?

[Dreamwoven]

Hi, AB, Share what book? And f you have any job search tips you can certainly try. Anyhow, welcome to the forums!

[Pompey Bum]

No, go get your own. Just kidding. Welcome to the site. :)

[HeartsWoven]

Hi everyone

I know a little bit about a lot of things and not a great deal about anything. I'm here to share and to learn through shared knowledge. This seems like a wonderful community and I am happy to be a part of it. = )

Based in the United Kingdom. Eats a lot of chocolate. Guided by a dream. Pleasure to meet you.

[Pompey Bum]

Very nice to meet you, too, DW. Welcome to the site. :)

[semyonovna]

Hello. Currently in high school, not excellent at introductions, and with a penchant for 19th century literature. Pleasure to be here.

[zainab.iq]

Hello everyone,
I am Zainab from Iraq, I have an MA degree in English Literature/NOVEL. And now I'm teaching at a college in Baghdad. i'd like to join this forum to talk about literature and to help each other having new ideas.

[Dreamwoven]

Great, Zainab, welcome to the forums!

[Sufi]

Hi all, My name is Sufi Bhodisattva author of "Awaiting the Golden Age". Hope to have great chat here. I am from Lithuania (Europe), constantly on the road, currently going to the Kingdom of Mustang to get further inspiration to write the second book:).

[Jhawk]

Hello just joined mostly looking for inspiration on what to read. I get certain moods when I look for certain styles of writing... sometimes prose poetry type like laurie Lee. .. sometimes humour like Jerome K Jerome. .. sometimes beautifully written historical fiction like vardis fisher. So that's why I am here. Hi!

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome, Sufi and Hawk, to the LitNet forums!

[zainab.iq]

thanx

[zainab.iq]

thank you all ..wish to have great joy and information

[mandm11]

Hi every one! It is just an introduction message!

[Pompey Bum]

Hi mandm11! This is just a welcome! :)

[LovingWanderer]

Hello everyone,

in my wanderings I past by your open door and I decided to peek inside. What I am looking for are good reads and discussions but, if fate wills, I will not reject the rare and invaluable gift of friendship.

I dare say it is of no use to present my self thoroughly here as there will not be any want of space on servers any time soon and I will be more than willing to tell about my narcissistic self when the circumstances will be more convenient.

Better to start, then, with what I am looking for. I recently finished reading "The Golden Bough", a book which has planted a lot of seeds in my mind, an already fertile ground. What I am looking for now is something specific to continue on such thread. I am not looking for erudite studies of anthropology from a different (even though "The Golden Bough" is also this) but something as insightful and written in such an elegant and accessible manner. I do not have an university background in humanities and, for how obvious it could seem to a specialist, I know not what read would most suitably follow.

Should you have any suggestions, do not hesitate to run to me calling as loud as you can.

Goodnight!

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, LW. I have a bad knee so I don't do much running these days, but if you enjoyed The Goden Bough and would like more elegant but eccentric scholarship, I suggest The White Goddess by Robert Graves. Hope that helped.

[LovingWanderer]

Thanks a lot, I will look for this book!

[D.J.Nickolas]

Hello everyone. My name is Daniel, and I just found this site through a poetry class I'm taking. I'm very excited about this discovery; I had no idea a site like this existed.

Speaking of a class, I have to get to one, so it's just "hello" for now.

[Pompey Bum]

Great to have you with us, DJ. :)

[Krissy Fairing]

Hi guys! My name is Krissy. I'm a sixteen-year-old aspiring author. I've been writing on other sites like fanfiction and fictionpress for about five years (I've always loved literature). This is my first time on this particular site, but I'm always looking to better myself. So hobbies... Hm, here comes the list.
Firstly I love reading, writing, and anything in between. I love art, I can sketch very well as I've taken many classes both online and in school for it. I'm an okay painter but I never really had a passion for it. Though I can look at any kind of art all day (with a few exceptions). I love, absolutely love, to bake – especially bread, which I only started recently (my moms not too happy about it. She told me she's already gained ten pounds from it and that if I cook anymore I'm grounded, lol). I love music as well. I play piano and guitar—self taught—since I was twelve. I sing, mostly at church, competition, and other things. Last year in a duet me and my component won fourth at state level. I'd love to do a solo but I just can;t sum up the courage. My favorite subjects in school are literature and history. I think I love history so much because you can take a lot of that and incorporate it into writing. I also for some reason like biology and I'm probably going to take AP biology this summer since I'm taking regular biology right now.
I'm only sixteen years old so I don't have my entire future planned completely, but I have a few ideas. I've always loved the study of blood, in a totally non creepy way. Just the way that blood cells work together to do the most basic functions and how they can mutate and cause things like cancer. Plus I've non alot of friends and family member who have been affected by cancer and if I could do anything to help I would love to. So I really want to go into pre-med for college (I'm looking at Baylor University (I live in Texas so it would be in state tuition) and if I get accepted to a medical school then I would like to go into hematology or hematology-oncology.
Other dreams I have for my future would be to own my own publishing company. This would be my main dream becasue it's my true passion. I'd also like to run a little bakery on the side. No matter what I do I want to write a book/book series one day. I'm currently working on a book. I'm going through the outlining process. And I'm an absolute outliner. I will live and die by my outlines. Plus I love to do rigorous character backgrounds and characterization. I also get all my plot turns and all that good stuff. I stated really getting into writing in seventh grade when my English teacher gave me back my paper (with 110%!) and told me it was a beautiful paper and that I should really look into writing as a career. She then read the paper outloud and I made half the girls cry *evil laugh*. Then she read it to all the high schoolers, too. Talk about an esteem lift. It was a sad story though. It made me sad writing it. However, I'm also realistic and I know that writing as a career is not very realistic. But that won't stop me!!!
Bye guys. Hope to make friends on here.

[Pompey Bum]

Hi guys! My name is Krissy. I'm a sixteen-year-old aspiring author. I've been writing on other sites like fanfiction and fictionpress for about five years (I've always loved literature). This is my first time on this particular site, but I'm always looking to better myself. So hobbies... Hm, here comes the list.
Firstly I love reading, writing, and anything in between. I love art, I can sketch very well as I've taken many classes both online and in school for it. I'm an okay painter but I never really had a passion for it. Though I can look at any kind of art all day (with a few exceptions). I love, absolutely love, to bake – especially bread, which I only started recently (my moms not too happy about it. She told me she's already gained ten pounds from it and that if I cook anymore I'm grounded, lol). I love music as well. I play piano and guitar—self taught—since I was twelve. I sing, mostly at church, competition, and other things. Last year in a duet me and my component won fourth at state level. I'd love to do a solo but I just can;t sum up the courage. My favorite subjects in school are literature and history. I think I love history so much because you can take a lot of that and incorporate it into writing. I also for some reason like biology and I'm probably going to take AP biology this summer since I'm taking regular biology right now.
I'm only sixteen years old so I don't have my entire future planned completely, but I have a few ideas. I've always loved the study of blood, in a totally non creepy way. Just the way that blood cells work together to do the most basic functions and how they can mutate and cause things like cancer. Plus I've non alot of friends and family member who have been affected by cancer and if I could do anything to help I would love to. So I really want to go into pre-med for college (I'm looking at Baylor University (I live in Texas so it would be in state tuition) and if I get accepted to a medical school then I would like to go into hematology or hematology-oncology.
Other dreams I have for my future would be to own my own publishing company. This would be my main dream becasue it's my true passion. I'd also like to run a little bakery on the side. No matter what I do I want to write a book/book series one day. I'm currently working on a book. I'm going through the outlining process. And I'm an absolute outliner. I will live and die by my outlines. Plus I love to do rigorous character backgrounds and characterization. I also get all my plot turns and all that good stuff. I stated really getting into writing in seventh grade when my English teacher gave me back my paper (with 110%!) and told me it was a beautiful paper and that I should really look into writing as a career. She then read the paper outloud and I made half the girls cry *evil laugh*. Then she read it to all the high schoolers, too. Talk about an esteem lift. It was a sad story though. It made me sad writing it. However, I'm also realistic and I know that writing as a career is not very realistic. But that won't stop me!!!
Bye guys. Hope to make friends on here.

Welcome to the site, Krissy. You sound like a really intelligent young woman. It's great to have you with us.

[VanMisty]

Hello,
My mission in life is simple. I help successful people get more fulfillment in life by aligning their internal and external self. With 10 years of experience of living in Asia first as an expat then becoming an entrepreneur, having burned out, making a career transition in the financial downturn in 2008 in a new industry in a new location (from Hong Kong to Shanghai), setting up 2 foreign companies in China – finding my spiritual path in the process, closing my own GAP and spiritual awakening – finding true love I was able to find my path and balance my internal and external self. As a result I became happier inside and enjoy my life in the external world.

-Raf Adams

[shipalnomoo]

Hi. just saying hi to new community.

I like literature and that's why I am here.

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Van. The external world has undeniable charms, but at present I prefer inner life. It's cheaper. :)

[Pompey Bum]

Hey, ship! Welcome aboard. :)

[Inma]

Hi everyone, I'm a Spanish student of English Philology. I just wanted to say how glad I am that I found this community :)

[pcardillo1]

Hi everyone,
I'd like to introduce myself:

For the time being, my name is PC. When I come up with a better one, I'll let you know. As far as the avatar is concerned, I must be honest that I have never thought of an avatar before. That's why I haven't one...

What can I say about me? Well, I am European. European? Yes, I was born in Germany to Italian parents and right now I live in Spain. And guess what! I speak four languages: German, Italian, Spanish and English. What I most enjoy about languages is getting to know new idioms, i.e. their meaning, their origin, etc. So, I am open to any new idiomatic contribution...

As you can imagine, I am here on this forum because I am interested in literature, or more precisely, in people that are interested in literature.
Right now, my literary priority is Postcolonial Literature which is something that goes beyond National literature. I guess that's why it is so attractive to me. Beside books, I am a big fan of music and try to learn to play the guitar which is taking me now over 20 years.

That's all for now from a new kid on the forum

[mgr_UNED]

Hello, everyone!

Another Spaniard student here ^^

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome Inma, PC, and mgr. I have been to Cordova, PC. It was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen (and I've been around). Are you all from the same place, or is your simultaneous arrival a coincidence?

[ramojoes]

Hi there! My name is Jose Luis. I hope you are doing well!

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Jose. It's nice to have you with us. :)

[Nalvarez147]

Hello everyone!!

I´m Spanish student of English Studies (Language, Literature and Culture) and I love Literature. I love reading Shakespeare, Milton or Jane Austen... I wanted to be part of a Literature community and have chance to expand my knowledge on this fantantic world.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to the LitNet forums, Nalvarez!

[rsanzl]

Hello everyone! I would like to introduce myself by saying that I am an "amateur reader". I love literature and it is my means to evade the reality!. My hobbies, besides reading, are swimming, walking in the mountains and travelling, They help me to maintain my body and my mind in balance.
Regards,
Ruth

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Ruth. You will find few friends of reality here. :) I

[Malonso]

Hi everyone,

My name is Marisa. I'm Spanish. I've been working as a nurse for 34 years and I love literature. I felll in love with the English language around ten years ago.
I am studying now my degree in English Studies and I discovered this page by the Open University.
It's been a pleasure to meet you all and I hope we can share our interests in the future.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, Marisa!

[sowmika]

hai to every one.im sowmika from COIMBATORE, TAMILNADU, INDIA..

My hobbies reading books and internet surfing....im working as SEO ANALYST.suggest me some valuable books about psychology..

[Redcraze]

Good morning, all.

I'm an Australian man in his sixties interested in history, literature, sport. This is my first post here so I'll probably botch it somehow. Never mind, I'll get the hang of the forum eventually.

Redcraze

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, Sowmika and Redcraze. You are doing great so far. :)

[Tamago]

Howdy! I come from somewhere far, but not necessarily so in all cases; don't we all? My 'literature interests' follow subjects and genres such as Philosophy, fiction, romance, existentialism, BL, fantasy, a touch of surrealism, plays, manga (ok, you are going to say ”manga is not literature” and I cannot argue. But then you'll say, 'heck, why did you put it here in the first place then?' and I'm going to answer, most probably, 'because I sometimes read manga as if it's a sort of literature'), and, quite recently, Japanese literature. I may read other stuff as well; hell, I actually do.

It's my second time on this site; however, I cannot log in with my old account for several reasons (no matter that I completely forgot the username and password, but I've also deleted the email address I've had back then, so I'm at a complete loss in that regard. I've simply decided to register under a new, fresh account). I hope to plunge into interesting conversations here and there. And I'm actually sure I shall.

Have a nice day!

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome, Tamago, or I guess welcome back. And don't worry there are some manga fans here. Not me, but there are a few. Anyway, good to see you here again.

[Dreamwoven]

OK, I'm an old fogie, no idea what manga is...

[Tamago]

Pompey Bun, thanks for the welcome. Don't worry, I have a lot of manga buddies as it is and I get my fill of talking/discussing and overjoying over certain series and whatever else. :) it's all good.


OK, I'm an old fogie, no idea what manga is...
Simply put, manga are Japanese comics (though I do not prefer this nomenclature and I hardly use it, even for description purposes). You can read more on Wiki about it.

[Dreamwoven]

Pompey Bun, thanks for the welcome. Don't worry, I have a lot of manga buddies as it is and I get my fill of talking/discussing and overjoying over certain series and whatever else. :) it's all good.


Simply put, manga are Japanese comics (though I do not prefer this nomenclature and I hardly use it, even for description purposes). You can read more on Wiki about it.

Thanks for that, Tamago. I checked the wiki, and there is quite a lot about it. Its all in Japanese, of course.

[Press]

Hello
Am glad I managed to stumble across this interesting website. Like many writers, I have a story within me to share someday, but right now it will be great to share here with likeminded readers, writers and fellow members until I find my writing voice.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to Litnet, Press.

[Press]

Welcome to Litnet, Press.

Thank You!, Dreamwoven, enjoy your day :)

[BeachBooksBlog]

Hi, there! I'm Anna.

It was a few years ago, when I left a hectic full-time job in journalism to live by the sea with my husband, two sons and three cats. This year I bought a yellow typewriter, started to wake up with sunrise and write my magnum opus about the sea in literature. I set sail.

My beachbooksblog.wordpress.com is like a diary of my sea trips through the books. I feel inspired to share my passion with readers all over the globe.

My love for the sea. My love for the books.

I want to collect all the books in the world that mention the sea. To finish my encyclopedic journey and publish it. To open a bookshop by the sea and invite you all :)

It was February 2, 2016, when I woke up at dawn, while my boys were still asleep, and started to work on my Enseaclopedia. It was the 134th birthday of James Joyce, and the birth of my journey. Since then I wake up very early to go into my studio on the first floor of the house where I try to understand the secret of the sea.

I’m not in a hurry, because reading is something like breathing. In and out I turn the pages and enjoy the sailing through the words and sentences, through the paragraphs and chapters. Searching for the colors, sounds and moods of the sea. Searching for the ships and boats, waves and islands, sea gods and monsters, ports and lighthouses, sea birds and fishes, sailors and pirates, swimmers and lovers, ebb and flow. For the secret of the sea.

I am really glad I found this network :)

Anna

[tailor STATELY]

Welcome! and congratulations on living your dream.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[BeachBooksBlog]

tailor STATELY, thank you for your warm welcome.

[Steve Van]

So, where I sit tells much about me. I sit in the Texas Hill Country down a dead end road. I got here by way of Los Angeles, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tanzania, Kenya, BIOLA College, Michigan, Ethiopia, Kenya again, Arizona, and Tennessee. Sam Houston and Davey Crocket got to Texas before I did, but then, I did not have to take the real estate with quite as much violence as they did. My back history in Africa was as a missionary's kid and later as a missionary with my wife to Ethiopia and Kenya. I grew up listening to the BBC for all my news on short wave. My world was all of it at times. I speak English the best I can, and I can survive in Swahili. This will have to do for now. Feel free to contact me if you share some of my back history.

I hope this is the right place to do an introduction.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, Steve!

[RG16]

Hi
every one

[SaraUnzueta]

Hi everyone!
I am not very good with tehcnology but this sounds very interesting.
Regards,

[Lendo]

Hi everyone!
I am not very good with tehcnology but this sounds very interesting.
Regards,

Welcome!

[Dreamwoven]

Yes, welcome, Sara!

[laurar]

Hello every one!
Thanks for this nice welcome! I am very fond of literature and I think I have just found the right site!
I also like watching series such as Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Sillicon Valley...and so on.
I am very interested in history and current political affairs! One of my favourite books is Time's arrow!

[_benjamin_]

Hello fellow bibliophiles alike! I was looking for a great place to meet new bibliophiles. Make some new friends in the process. My name is Benjamin. And I thought I would take a look around, to see what's going.

Oh, I am having some trouble trying to upload my avatar (or profile picture). I know it has to be 300 pixels by 300. But I will have one up really soon.

[_benjamin_]

Hello fellow bibliophiles alike! I came across this site to meet some wonderful bibliophiles. Perhaps, make some new friends.
Oh, I am having a little trouble uploading my avatar (profile picture). But I should have it up really soon.

Anyways, I am currently in the process of getting my very first novel put together. I'll let you all know more details when they become available. So, I will be here as much as I can. Thank you!!

[tiptoeing]

Hi!
I'm not sure how to introduce myself...
English isn't my first language and I'm not very fluent in it, so... I guess I'll do more reading than writing here...
Merry Christmas to you all :)

~tiptoeing

[jemmyjembo]

hi every one ,

[Lectrice]

Hey,

I am Frenchi and new here :)

[Lectrice]

Hey,

I am Frenchie and new here :)

[pmartinez]

Hi everybody,

I'm Patricia from Galicia, in Spain, and I'd like to recommend you one of the books of one of my favourite authors, Paul Auster: In the country of last things.

Regards.

[Robert Alan]

Hello everyone, I like to write.

[rashidarshed]

Hello everyone. I am new member of the Forum and hope to enjoy it.

[JLR]

This is my first day here. I'm super excited to learn new things and read all of the exciting things on here. I'm not very talented at writing introductions but I joined the site to hopefully learn to be a better writer. I've posted the beginning of a short story that I have been working on which is probably one of the scariest things I have ever done, but as this is a new year, new adventures and risks must be undertaken. I'm a fairly quiet person that much prefers to be a wall flower as opposed to an actual player in this game of life. All of this is typed from my cell so I apologize for any errors. I've read sever introductions and you all seem like such wonderful people, I cannot wait to become more involved in this community. Thank you all for your time and have a wonderful adventurous day.

[AmeHau]

Hey everyone !

Well to start I love to write and read, which is why I'm here. Not going to lie I do love to write more than reading, but not by much. I am a proud "fur-mother" (cringe) to 12 animals. I love them all. I also am starting my very own small animal rescue here in my city (and it will be my city's first !)

I mainly am writing short stories right now and I've even written a pure dialogue short story that I'm pretty proud of, not to toot my own horn lol.

I'm looking forward to the advice and fun this forum will bring !

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome, AmeHau. Animal Rescue sounds interesting. Lots of pet dogs and cats get terrified of fireworks, we get woken up at Midnight on New Years Eve, every year by the Swedish fireworks.

[aNn0]

Hello....eveybody...
am ANU ANTONY.
newbie here.
just want to introduce myself. u can call me Anu.
am a post graduate student in English literature...nd from India..
and want to be a part of ur discussion forum...



Thank you.....

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome to LitNet, aNn0!

[Bookman12]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the forum so I guess this is the place to start! What can I say? I love books, reading, writing, languages and singing. I also play a bit of sport but nothing too serious, just a bit of tennis and swimming whenever I get time. I work in customer service by day, and read a lot by night! That's about it really. I'm looking forward to hearing about what other people are reading and enjoying in the world of literature :)

Cheers

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome and greetings, Bookman12.

[Dreamwoven]

We all have our likes and dislikes, its quite normal. Welcome to the forums!

[kinzvlle]

Hey all, just a new member who enjoys to read and write. I`ll be poking about.

[Dreamwoven]

Welcome, kindred spirit!

[Mary Lutenist]

Good evening to all!
I’m so happy to discover this excellent forum!
My childhood dream was to become a professional musician. My mother was a piano teacher and I grew up among Mozart, Chopin and Stravinsky... Unfortunately I had soon to face that this life was not meant for me as I suffer from stage fright. I’ve been keeping on playing music but as an amateur; for 5 or 6 years I’ve specialized in ancient music and I’ve sung and played the lute. I felt in love with English music at the beginning of my music studies and it has become the heart of my repertoire since.
I changed my professional plans and took a job as a secretary, nothing interesting but it made me a living. For the last years I’ve wanted to resume my studies but had no idea about what to do. And suddenly last year, I had the revelation: and what about English?! I could not believe I had not thought about it beforehand. Sometimes the answer is just under your nose and you can’t see it.
I’ve realised I do not know English literature so well, please feel free to send me any advice, I would be glad to discover new authors and books! I’ve just finished “the Good Terrorist” by Doris Lessing and now I’ve been reading “the Awakening” by Kate Chopin.
I know French and Russian literature well. My favourite book is “The Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov. I’m 37 year-old-French woman, my name is Marie. I hope I did not make too much mistakes, I’m sorry if I did (please don’t hesitate to correct me)
Hope to hear from you soon!
Marie

[ErrantKnight]

Hi there everybody,
Just thought I'd introduce myself. I enjoy reading and writing and I have great editorial skills. I just don't get a chance to use them much at my regular job so I plan to use them here. I look forward to giving and receiving feedback of the creative works posted here.

[ErrantKnight]

Mary, you wrote a very interesting introduction. And your English is fine. I am new here too. I studied English Literature at UCLA. Great reads: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, The Scarlet Letter by N. Hawthorne just to mention a few classic.

[Net_books]

Hello I'm new to this and wanted to introduce myself.

Interest:
Art, Reading, Movies, Crochet and currently learning BSL


I'm an English Lit. and Philosophy student in my 3rd year of my undergrad course at Brookes Uni. My favourite book is Just Listen, written by my favourite author, Sarah Dessen. I joined this Literature Forum because I'm doing an Independent Study module for Eng. Lit and thought it would be great and helpful to have like minds to bounce ideas off of. I'll be looking at animals in Children's Literature, I'll make a separate post about it in my details later on.

Just saying hello :)

[jjabrams]

Hi GUYZ!

Excited to be part of this forum just joined today and I think this is the first one that i actually already feel like part of the community already. Just reading some of the discussions on the forum even on "tough" subjects like religion i am thrilled to see a intellectual discussion and expression of views that is honest and genuine. This is looking like a great place to expand on my own knowledge and impart what i know.

Thanks Mods, admin and whoever runs these forums I really appreciate it being here.

[T_M]

Greetings!

I stumbled upon this forum when I was in the midst of Ulysses and wondering what other people thought of the book. I wasn't sure I would finish it, had a hard time understanding it and began resenting all the official opinions of the experts espousing it as a great work of art and a "must read"! And now months later...I find myself thinking about it and motivated to read it again. Go figure. Anyway, I was a fairly avid reader during and shortly after college...then lost touch with the literary world while raising a family and working on my career. Kids are mostly grown now (chronologically but only somewhat emotionally :-) and I have rediscovered my love of reading. This forum has been a great resource to me to help direct and develop my list.

[szwirner]

hello im sebastian. Hi

[roncool]

Hi folks Ron here. Nice to meet you all. I am a published author and ardent reader of books. I love to talk about books, and writing. I presently teach in school. That's it..

[Sush]

Hello people ...It's really love to be here among so many inspirational people...I would love to learn more from you.

[Bakiryu]

Hi everyone! I wouldn't say I'm a newbie, but I haven't been here in a very long time.

[YesNo]

Welcome back!

[siobankelley]

Am I doing this correctly? It's taken me the better part of an hour to get registered. Now there are no obvious instructions on how I start a thread. Can't find anything extant sooner than two years ago. Help? Anybody? Just looking to keep my brain combed with intelligent conversation and swapping ideas and experiences with performing, directing, designing and viewing Shakespeare. Any takers?

[siobankelley]

Hello back! I just joined. I'm a retired and currently very bored Shakespearean actor, director, producer, designer, coach and fan of all things Shakespeare. Looking for intelligent conversation, observations, experiences, etc to keep my brain combed. My name's siobhankelley

[siobankelley]

I just joined about half an hour ago. I'm not certain if I'm doing this properly. At any rate, I'm a very bored and retired Shakespearean actor, director, producer, designer, coach and fan of all things Shakespeare. Looking for intelligent conversation, observations, experiences, topics to discuss to keep my brain combed. my username is siobankelley

[siobankelley]

Virgil Love the 'Books are embalmed minds' ! I'm looking for intelligent conversation, observations, experiences performing, directing, coaching or viewing Shakespeare. I'm bored and need to keep my brain combed. My user name is siobankelley

[siobankelley]

roncool Hey there! Just joined. Looking for intelligent conversation, debate, observations, experiences performing, directing or viewing Shakespeare. My brain desperately needs combing! I'm siohankelley

[siobankelley]

Sush I just joined! Am looking for intelligent conversation, debate, observations, commets, experiences performing, directing, coaching or viewing Shakespeare. My brain desperately needs to be combed. I'm siobankelley

[siobankelley]

Bakiryu I just joined! Am looking for intelligent conversation, debate, observations, commets, experiences performing, directing, coaching or viewing Shakespeare. My brain desperately needs to be combed. I'm siobankelley

[SAFI]

Hi everybody,

I just join this forum. My name is Youness and I'm here for discovering and sharing viewpoints about any interesting topic. French is my tongue language but even if my English could contain grammatical errors, it doesn't mean that I'm a negligent guy.

I look forward to have a fruitful exchange with all of you

Greetings

[csguy]

Hello!

I'm a former computer science major who as changed majors to English and Literature. I read a lot, however for years, neglected the classics so I searched for a cool community to talk about literature and it looks like I've found one. I'm looking forward to getting recommendations and participating in discussions that will allow me to thrive in my new academic journey.

[Lev Myshkin]

Hello. As my thread still hasn't been approved, I thought I'd post here. I'm Dominic and I'd love to talk to more people who love classic literature.