NowInBuda
08-19-2013, 06:55 AM
Hello everyone - So this is my first post on the Literature Network Forums. Hopefully the first of many.
I've been searching around for some time now for a forum with this kind of focus and scope, one where I can more or less browse the archives like books upon a library shelf and feel comfortable or at home in this funny digitized world. In any case, I'm glad to have at last stumbled upon this website, and I've been having a swell time so far familiarizing myself with some different threads.
Maybe a little bit about me: I'm Canadian. I was a student of English literature for 3 years, officially (although I've been interested in the topic since I was a teenager, since reading Catcher in the Rye at the age of 15 and spending the next couple weeks pondering life and not knowing exactly why). Anyway, earlier this year I went to study in Scandinavia, and afterwards decided that I'd rather travel than return home immediately. I guess I feel that I'm learning more while travelling than in a class room.
So I don't use the expression "dropped out of school," but at least to my friends and family and people that I meet, this is exactly what I did.
In any case, while I was living in Scandinavia I enjoyed a beautifully-situated residence on the edge of a glorious, green, and hushed national park. It allowed me a lot of time to read, and write, and in those few months I absorbed more poetry than I think I ever have in my life up to that point. English bookshops and tea nooks abounded in that quiet city, too, and my time there was astoundingly peaceful.
So I set off to explore Europe feeling a great deal like Bilbo Baggins being goaded from his Hobbit hole. But its a vast and thrilling world out there, and still feel now like I'm getting my traveller's feet wet.
At the moment I'm living and working at a hostel in Budapest for an as-of-yet undetermined interval (hence the username). All in all, a situation like this allows me a lot of spare time and reliable internet access, so I've decided to take to internet forums to, I guess, fulfill my craving for literature that can be so neglected while constantly travelling about.
I guess that's all the important stuff for now.
I'm looking forward to posting more, and getting to know this fascinating community :p
I've been searching around for some time now for a forum with this kind of focus and scope, one where I can more or less browse the archives like books upon a library shelf and feel comfortable or at home in this funny digitized world. In any case, I'm glad to have at last stumbled upon this website, and I've been having a swell time so far familiarizing myself with some different threads.
Maybe a little bit about me: I'm Canadian. I was a student of English literature for 3 years, officially (although I've been interested in the topic since I was a teenager, since reading Catcher in the Rye at the age of 15 and spending the next couple weeks pondering life and not knowing exactly why). Anyway, earlier this year I went to study in Scandinavia, and afterwards decided that I'd rather travel than return home immediately. I guess I feel that I'm learning more while travelling than in a class room.
So I don't use the expression "dropped out of school," but at least to my friends and family and people that I meet, this is exactly what I did.
In any case, while I was living in Scandinavia I enjoyed a beautifully-situated residence on the edge of a glorious, green, and hushed national park. It allowed me a lot of time to read, and write, and in those few months I absorbed more poetry than I think I ever have in my life up to that point. English bookshops and tea nooks abounded in that quiet city, too, and my time there was astoundingly peaceful.
So I set off to explore Europe feeling a great deal like Bilbo Baggins being goaded from his Hobbit hole. But its a vast and thrilling world out there, and still feel now like I'm getting my traveller's feet wet.
At the moment I'm living and working at a hostel in Budapest for an as-of-yet undetermined interval (hence the username). All in all, a situation like this allows me a lot of spare time and reliable internet access, so I've decided to take to internet forums to, I guess, fulfill my craving for literature that can be so neglected while constantly travelling about.
I guess that's all the important stuff for now.
I'm looking forward to posting more, and getting to know this fascinating community :p