Hello!
I'm a Master's student at Oxford, studying creative writing. I currently live in Vancouver, BC and occasionally make money writing for magazines and teaching after-school creative writing classes to teenagers. Exciting, I know.
Cheers!
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Hello!
I'm a Master's student at Oxford, studying creative writing. I currently live in Vancouver, BC and occasionally make money writing for magazines and teaching after-school creative writing classes to teenagers. Exciting, I know.
Cheers!
Hello
I am a long graduated English Major, seeking to get back to her literature loving roots. I live in Portland, OR and I work in the insurance industry (basically an underwriter) and love reading, writing and taking care of my husband and son.
I look forward to further conversations.
Cheers!
Hi Im Eva, a small publisher based in New York; I am publishing books, movies, and music from Berlin. The next book will be "Mark Twain in Berlin". I am also a journalist and an author. My last literary book was "Manhattan Moments", and my last book is about the Tea Party.
I'm here to share knowledge via story &inspiration with poetry like this I wrote for a gal starting to learn guitar..caution, my writing is somtimes slightly erotic! Here's a taste:
Hinterwinter Music
white peaceful & bright the sun shines
gleaming gold from the deepest of mines
music plays from strings vibrating from your astute hands
that lights all hearts in the park as if in a paradise of fruit & sands
sounds from playing bring around children by a fountain
as finishing the song you feel as if just climbed the highest mountain
later we sell cinnamon rolls homemade & perfect smiles we receive like beautiful tiles
with roses around we kept inside, at night show our love in the snow
as a sunflower grows in Spring, inside energy flows until eyes are aglow
& plz enjoy this too, mostly i'm interested in nature, truth, expansion & love so be honest with what you think!
Food paradise
fields of oats & abundance in many notes
apples blooming by every road
falling & jumping from trees peaches grow more than in a marsh does tadpoles & toads
Green houses shoot up life in oreganos & basil & the water that sprays around dazzles
as light effuses the land & levitates lifeforce in splenderous giant & succulent strawberries
that are used in fruit salads with brown sugar from mammoth canes
reaching the sky as the cherry & durian trees on many lanes
chaga mushrooms on lots of trees glowing bright white
used in teas along with rooibos & mints perfuming the land as lavender & lifts all as wind to a kite
Hello there, I just joined your forum because it seems like a good place with good people :)
I have been told that lists are good so:
- I am 25
- I live in the UK
- My love for literature / English was recently rekindled, on an epiphany type basis (after five years of full time employment, I came to the stunning realisation of what I want, which is to be a teacher)
- In terms of what I 'do' in my spare time, well another list is really in order but currently I'm TRYING to keep a handle on the following: writing some fiction, writing some music, learning project management, learning German, learning to maintain my motorcycle, learning to ride my motorcycle, drawing (bad) pencil portraits, joining an athletics/running club, volunteering at youth groups, volunteering at cub scouts, planting trees, applying for jobs left right and centre (this in advance of applying for a teaching degree, later in the year), brushing up on my world history, brushing up on my literature, getting pretty good with Christian apologetics, flying to visit my girlfriend every few weeks - and generally trying to be grateful for things too.
I'm looking forward to getting involved here, so take care and see you around :)
Hello Readers All!
I am a Latin and Greek teacher from London. I enjoy reading a variety of literature and discussing prose and poetry with other readers, so this seems like the forum for me.
Ben
laughter, light and love... :grouphug:
Hi I'm Paige. I'm 16 and i love reading. Though i don't read as many classics as i should, i love the fantasy worlds created by authors like Tamora Pierce, Christopher Paolini and Brian Davis. I love :driving: and doing stupid things with my friends. Movies are awesome (any Sherlock Holmes fans??) and tv is cool. Other than that, I'm a pretty simple person
Hello everyone. I am an English major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I love to clean, cook, decorate, make things, etc. My favorite book is The Scarlet Letter. My favorite author is J.R.R Tolkien (I am an unapologetic LOTR fan) and I am currently reading Walden and Civil Disobedience by Thoreau for academic purposes (and for kicks. I love my transcendentalists) and, when the rare bit of free time comes by way, I am in the middle of the Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin.
Welcome, PML. Reading over the few posts you've written, I think you'll make a great addition to this forum. You seem to be thoughtful and informed.Quote:
Originally Posted by PMLondonderry
And I'm also a fan of Martin's Ice and Fire series. Check out this thread for discussion and some heated debate that took place.
Thank you very much! I appreciated your other welcome in the Postmodernism thread as well. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandi
I haven't been able to finish the series yet (or even finish the first book yet!) since I have so many other books on my plate from school but I would love to take part in that discussion. I will pop by soon. Thanks again for the warm welcome!
Sure. Watch out for spoilers in that thread. I almost always give a spoiler warning, but not everyone else does.
Hi! I'm 35 and have enjoyed reading for the most part of my life. I also write a bit. I've studied cultural history, and have many interests. Also many favorite authors and books.;)
Well Hi there!
I am new here, so I still need to get used to everything hehe
I am particularly interested in Charles Dickens, he is my favourite author. If anyone knows about some interesting threads concerning him please let me know hehe :D
A lot of people say that Terry Pratchett is the Dickens of the 21st Century, do you think so?
Hi Everyone
I am a research Scholar working on Nadine Gordimer.
I have been an ardent lover of literature throughout my life and will continue loving it till the last day of my life.....
I am interested into the writings of other writers based in South Africa.....as I am working on the novels and short stories of Gordimer...It will be a great help to me if i get a chance to know about other regional and little known writers of South Africa besides the big giants like Mphalele, Guma, Coetzee (I know he is based in Australia these days still he has his roots there in SA) and Steve Biko.
Cheers
Hello to all... my intro... well, love music, photography, surfing and good wine + good reads!!! Yes. I'm one of the weird ones who still likes a good paperback novel or a trade book with me at my bedside or on the train!! Hobbies: photography both in color & B/W. Fav books: usually sci/fi or good bio works/
Fav stories: Erotica
Over & Out!
hello.i love shakespeare's plays.thats all for now
hi I'm Luke, i live in the mountains of Wicklow in the Eastern province of Leinster in Ireland, not too far from the Irish Sea and often at certain times one can connect with a sense of mythology what with sea-mists and the long view through the pines ... I think America must be a fantastic country to produce a writer like Cormac McCarthy who I think is pretty much unsurpassed in modern fiction writing ... perhaps JM Coetzee's earlier work is as awesome but i feel blessed on the planet at present to have two living greats among us ...
anybody come across an American writer in the same league as McCarthy?
Hi,
I've chosen this nickname because I'm not a native English speaker and would like to improve my English by reading English literature and, I hope, by talking about it here in this forum.
I excuse myself in advance for all my grammar and spelling mistakes. Please feel free to correct me. I'm always grateful for any helpful hints concerning my English.
Learner
Hello, my name is Zachariah. I enjoy literature, as does everyone else on this forum, I would assume. Some of my favourite authors are Kafka, Daniel Quinn, Neil Gaiman, Nabakov, Beckett, Gene Wolf, and quite a few others. I enjoy writing in my spare time and am looking forward to discussing literature with people who share my passions.
hye dis is hiya. i am a new member of ur interesting family.
i am a student of literature who is really enjoying enlish literature. i just totally love it. i even love writting amd am a v big dreamer. i love the world whose name is imagination
Hi Everybody I'm a new member in this forum
I'd like to be a good reader of books but i do not really manage to do that
One of my main focus today is "Moon Palace" by Paul Auster , If Anyone can help me in my research i will be grateful to receive his/her addition .
Thank You so much For your attention. :)
Hi,Best regards to you all.
Just for the sake of posting my very first comment, here goes.
Hi everyone, Kartik here. Reading has been my most cherished hobby for as long as I can remember, and some of the most beautiful memories of my childhood revolve around a book.
Whiling away time lost in the innocent world of kid detectives, mythical creatures and far-away magical lands as I was nursing a fractured leg, spending hours blissfully lost in the aisles of a favorite bookstore, waking through entire nights during my vacations, desperate to reach the end of the latest masterpiece I'd endeavored to finish.
My interest has veered towards non-fiction today (largely history, sociology and linguistics) but prose is still what excites me.
Looking forward to interacting with fellow bibliophiles.
How delightfully modest of you to talk like that, you write flawlessly! I'd puff my chest, dig a flagpole into the ground, shout out Tarzan-style, and then proceed to party for days if I ever realized I'd reached that kind of a level in German. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Learner
Good luck, by the way.
Hello everyone, I'm very glad that I've stumbled upon this forum during my internet travels. I'm currently reading Dante, which I love. I have a vast literary taste, not quite set on one specific genre.
Hi Everyone.
First of all sorry for my broken English. Not much time ago I started to study English because I wanted to read my favorite authors in their own language. After a while I thought a forum could be a good chance to improve my new skill, so I came across this forum and I read some verse and short story. I liked them. So this is why I am here now.
By the way this is my first writing in English.
About me I dare say that I can love many things within five minutes, several things within some day or some week, but there are just three things I love forever, that is my wife, books and good wine.
It was nice meeting you.
Hi I am new here and actually stumbled across this site by accident but I am so glad I did. I found my love for reading late in life and now I have my BA in Literature. I am currently working on my masters degree in Education and my teaching certificate for secondary education. I will be teaching literature one day very soon!!! I look forward to looking through this forum even more and seeing what everyone has to say!
Hello everybody!
My name is Michael Porter. 'Micky Fudge' was my father's pet name for me when I was a child. He also called me 'Mick Mack Fudgelorum', but I thought if I chose that as my username you might doubt my sanity. If I were compelled to name my favourite poem, I think I would have to choose 'New Year Letter' by W H Auden, but then I would regret not having chosen 'Strange Meeting', or 'Dover Beach', or Barnfield's 'Sonnet 11' or a whole host of others.
I'd like to share two poems with you. The first is one of the Harper's Songs from Ancient Egypt. It's addressed to a young man by a girl who loves him. Egyptian girls called their lovers their brothers.
Come to me, my brother,
Like a charger on the battlefield,
Like a bull to his pasture,
For the heaven is sending us love
Like a flame spreading through straw,
And desire like the swoop of the falcon.
The second poem comes from the Finnish Kanteletar. A girl longs for the return of her soldier:
Should my treasure come,
My darling walk by,
I'd know him by his footsteps,
Recognise him by his tread.
As mist I'd go out,
As smoke I would reach him,
As sparks I would speed,
As flame I would fly.
I'd kiss his mouth
Though doom stared him in the face,
I'd drape my arms round his neck
Though death had hold of it,
I'd stretch beside him
Though his side were all bloody.
I hope you like these poems.
Dickens is the Dickens of the 21st Century, Nightowlpip!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightowlpip
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Hi, my hobies include not much other than watching the odd football game and playing basketball, oh and music, i love anything to do with music. my favourite book is The catcher in the rye. dont know why. and this page seems to be getting alot of view and replies, anyway of spreading the word of my short story? Dannyp03 'New York' is the story :)
Hi, my name is Ally. I love victorian novels, especially those by Dickens and Brontės sisters, I'm nice to be here!
Hi, I'm new here.
I'm not a native English speaker, having great interest in reading literature,especially ancient works like The Iliad and The Odyssey, and I hope to improve my English and enrich my knowledge about literature from discussing and exchange ideas with other users here.
http://www.heritems.info/avatar4.jpgVery nice! Very useful!
hey all,
my name is alan. i am bookaholic. i have been sober for two hours [since breakfast, when i finished penelope lively's how it all began].
can't believe i've never joined a book forum before.
my favourite authors would be ray carver, thomas hardy, michael connelly, and john macgahern.
i particularly love detective novels [a guilty pleasure] and a well-written short story.
Hello, everyone! My name is Francisco, you may guess by my name that english is not my first language, and actually that's right. I am uruguayan, so I speak spanish. I am twenty years old, and I study literature. I want to learn from you, and express my views referring to some books, as well. I also would like to improve my english. I am fond of a lot of authors: Oscar Wilde, Homer, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Goethe, Sade, Dostoievsky, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Voltaire, and, frankly, I must be forgotting someone important to me also. I think I have no favourite author, I love too many of them. I like listening to music, especially gothic. I love Christopher Nolan's movies, especially Following and Memento. I hope to find this virtual space to be an interesting, delightful experience. Dark regards.
An initiation on a forum is always a mixed bag of feelings. You feel honored to be part of an intelligent organization of peoples, yet you feel a certain sense of nervousness to be starting from scratch. It is a hard emotion to put a finger on, but I do hope to contribute my thoughts and philosophy to this forum.
As this is an introductions forum, introductions are in order! :)
I am a student in middle school who loves to read. Don't underestimate that power of youth, as many adults have a jaded and irreversible pessimistic view on society and life. I am into motorsports, mainly, and like the noise and chaos which lifts you from the moody angst of philosophy and ideas. However, I do like to explore a philosophical side of myself. I like graphic design, as in typography and computer art, as well as computer science, reading (obviously), philosophy, psychology, and studying different views of human life. I am also a huge dog fan! :wink5:
I feel like in a society of deep thinkers and readers it is okay to be a homosexual. I'm gay and I really don't care what others think about that, as long as it doesn't limit my life in a way that is meaningful. I'm not out of middle school, and you can imagine the difficulty of being openly gay in middle school, especially being a boy. I think being shunned from some groups really was good in a way, because it made me think about the philosophical, hidden side of society and gave me some more thinking time. So in a sense, I'm glad I came out, because it gave me some time to think things over.
Being in 7th grade, I am probably vastly underread compared to some of you veterans on this forum. I frequently skip around books, but I've come up with a regime to sticking to one book. The book I'm reading right now is To Kill A Mockingbird. I've put Atlas Shrugged off until I'm finished with a couple others, because everyone knows how long it is. Again, I'm vastly underread, so here are some classic books I have read, and what I've thought about them...
1. 1984 (George Orwell)
My favorite book of all time. Undisputed king of dystopian science fiction, my favorite topic. It changed my outlook on life forever.
2. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Orwell occupies my top 2 on my list because of his fierce writing style, rather like mine! This is a great, stirring book as well.
3. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Had to read this book for school. I skipped 1/4 of it, so my information may be a little bit off, but I did love this book. I only skipped for the sake of getting it done in time. It was very good and symbolistic, from what I've read in it.
4. Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
Probably the most relaxing and down-to-earth book I've read in a long time. It is a very light, relaxing read, and is very beautiful in it's language, too.
5. The Catcher In the Rye (Salinger)
I need to come back to this one. I read it when I was 10, and didn't fully understand it. I need to come back to it, and maybe I'll get it.
6. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Not a huge fan of Steinbeck... dragged on forever. Just for the sake of knowing what happened at the end, I used SparkNotes! :wink5: It was extremely boring.
Of course, I've read many other books than that, but I like to focus on the classics. Some books I plan to read and discuss are, in no particular order...
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Brave New World
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Atlas Shrugged
5. Catch-22
6. The Great Gatsby
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. East of Eden
9. The Joy Luck Club
10. Slaughterhouse-Five
11. Things Fall Apart
12. A Clockwork Orange (if my parents will let me...)
13. War and Peace
14. Shakespeare's Works
15. Homer's Works
16. Beowulf
17. Grendel
Dystopian literature is my favorite genre. :wink5:
See you on the forums!
Hi everyone, i am Foxx and i just joined you. I do hope this here is gonna be a great place to be. Love you all!
Hi everyone. New here. A great fan of P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Herriot, and Damon Runyon to name but a few among many. I dare not leave out Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde from the many category, however. Presently I'm enjoying 'Just Enough Jeeves' ...but is there ever? Thankfully this tome is upwards of 700 pages so I anticipate many happy times enmeshed in prickly situations with the likes of Bertie Wooster, Bingo, Boko, Uncle Percy, the twins...and on we go.
Lindy
Welcome all! So happy to have you here :)
My name's Jake and I just recently got into reading again. I am reading Franny and Zooey for school and am soon reading Hemingway's short stories and East of Eden