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papajoe
08-16-2009, 01:08 PM
Hi there. I just joined and wanted to say hello to everyone. This looks like a very interesting forum with an incredibly broad range of discussions. I came upon it by accident yesterday while doing a Google search for an explanation of Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings, which I found elsewhere on this site.

I have been retired for about seven years, so I suppose that makes me older than many of the members here. That's great. My wife and I live in Canada.

A great deal of my time is spent gardening, reading and listening to classical music. I also love walking, cycling and going to my yoga class every week.

Recently I finished reading Ken Follett’s World Without End, David Rotenberg’s Shanghai, and Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes. All excellent reads, I thought.

At the present time, I am reading The Art Thief by Noah Charney. This is Charney’s first novel and contains a lot of interesting information about the art world.

I am looking forward to our future discussions about books and other things.

Sheujade
08-16-2009, 03:47 PM
Welcome! I'm new here as well.
The problem with me is, I'm a writer not a reader. I'm usually walking around with a #2 pencil in my hair and look everywhere for it when I have an idea.

Anyhoo...welcome to the forums.

*Holds out her right hand for a firm handshake*

papajoe
08-16-2009, 06:25 PM
Thank you very much. And good luck in your writing endeavors. I hope that you keep at and don't get discouraged. You just never know what you might come up with.

All the best to you.

Bye for now.