Good for you. I went back for engineering classes as an adult--work related more than interest. Sure is different, isn't it, mixed in with all the kids. I had a blast--most of them were great. Hope it works out for you.
I'm a student after 15 years of being a stay home mother. I believe we can have it all, just not all at once. Now that my kids are a little bit bigger I can do something for myself.
Most of my reading in non-fictional. My favorite book for just reading/re-reading at random is Walden. The second is The Tragic Sense of Life. The latter is a bit philosophic/theologic but Unamuno just writes well so I enjoy randomly reading a paragraph here and there. Right now I just started reading The Grateful Dead and Philosophy. I gathered from a reaction I got on the forum it isn't considered serious reading but I've found the Open Court popular culture series quite elucidating when it comes to philosophical issues. After all, the really interesting philosophers where just commenting on their times. I am thinking of revisiting something of Dostoevsky for the next fiction piece. I enjoyed him quite a bit in my college days but with the exception of Crime and Punishment I haven't read him for decades. Yes long overdue. That's the trouble with reading choices--something new or something old. You reading for lit classes as a student or a teacher?
I know what you mean. I don’t belong to any other forums and I didn’t really plan on joining this one. I lurked around to get some ideas about stories I was reading for literature classes. I find that I like everyone here pretty well. I wonder what books you’ve loved and what you are looking at reading. My reading list is just growing right now. I don’t have any time to read for pleasure.
Yes, overall it seems to be a decent place--not as many wits and twits as on other forums but enough to make me wonder (and laugh). I enjoy reading other peoples' take on the books I've read--makes me want to revisit them. Mostly I came on to get some suggestions toward authors I've never heard of. Never hurts to expand the choices. I never expected to actually sign up, yet alone post. Not something I usually do.
It’s a close match with my e-mail. I was pregnant with my fourth child and I was looking for a nursery rhyme name. It wasn’t my first choice, but I didn’t really know what I was doing and it was the name that worked. Are you enjoying the forum?
sorry I never got back go you. I just realized this is a two way thing. I just thought people stopped by and said hello and that was it. So what made you pick the name Motherhubbard?
great name!
