Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hi all
Randomly saw this site - independently working on a mid life education. Tastes run eclectic but tend not to care for pop lit -- with some exceptions.

Welcome LaurieN. No shortage of midlife characters here (including yours truly); and we're all eclectic, at least till the transformer blows. Please make yourself right at home. :)

HI everyone.

I'm new in this forums. I hope to have a good time with everyone. I'm from Mexico and I like the literure in differents lenguage, specially in english. Excuse me if my english isn't good at all, i stiil practice this lenguage. Greetings to all.

Hola Aldo! You are most welcome here. :)

Dear Community Members

I say HELLO to ALL
I introduce myself as an Author.

Thanks!
Swadesh

Welcome Swadesh. It's nice to have you with us. Please make yourself right at home.

Evening, community members :)

Just popping by to say Hi. I currently find myself in a shortage of people with whom to freely ramble on about this or that story or topic. Moving to a new city and taking a job from home are not so conducive to enriching conversations!

I've used the site before when in need of some literary entertainment to kill some idle hours in between lectures, but never the forum. Hope to have some interesting (in the most open sense of the word haha) chats here :)

Welcome to the site, InkDrought. There's no shortage of free rambling here, so may you find that for which you seek. :)

Hi All,

I am CoenW and I am quite new here. I don't consider myself as a good writer of literature, but I like creative writing, collaborative brainstorming, and exchanging ideas with aspiring writers and readers.

My favorite genres are mystery and screenplays. Hope everyone one is doing well!

Till next time!

Welcome to the site, CohenW. People aren't always the best judges of their own work, so perhaps you are a better writer than you think. :)

Hi all! I'm new.

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Привет Margerma! Welcome to the site. You will find many lovers of Russian and English literature here. Do you enjoy current or classic literature (or both)? In either case, you will find like-minded readers on LitNet.

There is a German lady here named Kiki who is a professional translator (and a really nice person). Maybe you two can share trade secrets with each other. Are you out there somewhere, Kiki?
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Thank you Pompei, I enjoy both! There are so many interesting people and curious thoughts on this forum, it seems I will spend here a lot of time!:-) hopefully, I fill find Kiki as well! Thanks for kind words.

Hi Pyrrhonic! I'm old. Welcome to the site. :)

Hi all!

I'm new to this forum and I'm looking forward to posting stories and reading your work.

Hello everyone. I seem to have been a member for a couple of years but have never introduced myself. Sorry. I'm in lovely Shropshire in England and have always loved reading above most things. I can't imagine a life without books. My current read is the Collected Stories of Henry James in the Everyman Library. I was fortunate enough to pick up 170 volumes of these lovely editions last year and am slowly working my way through them. Hope you are reading something good. Have a lovely day wherever you are.

Hello everybody, I'm Hugo. Why am I here? Hmm, I work in the advertising industry as a translator (German -> English) and a copywriter. BUT I'm here because in my spare time I am writing my own stuff and it's always nice and constructive to share this experience and examples of work with likeminded, intelligent and nice people - so basically I want to get feedback at some point. I also love to give positive and constructive feedback, so I'm here to contribute too.

What's more, the internet is a crazy place and I found I come across loads of things that I would never normally think of simply googling myself, so I'm also here to get inspired by you and to see what you're all listening to, reading, eating, doing, etc.

I'll shut up now. All the best !

Ah, behind again! Welcome LMT, WA, and Skagboy. There are one or two other translators on the site, Skag, so perhaps they will find you. No, no shortage of crazy ideas here. :)

Hiyo!

My name is Wolfé, I am a friendly wolf living in the United Kingdom but originating from Poland. I write (well, attempt to write) mostly General Fiction, but I read most everything. I also like Manga, Anime, Programming and Systems (Network) Administration. My favourite authors are Haruki Mukarami, a Polish author called Andrzej Pilipiuk. Ive read too many books to like one the most :D I listen to many different types of music, but mostly Classical (Janacek, Schubert, Elisabeth Schwartzkopf), Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and the more modern Nujabes), Post Rock (World Ends Girlfriend, MONO) and Swing (Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra).

I hope you all welcome me to your abode~

Greetings to all of my fellow writers

Hello All

I'm brand new here and will gladly (and soon) share some of my writing with you: I've just recently launched a new and fairly experimental publishing project and any echo at all from you will be of great interest to me and correspondingly appreciated.

Thanks & Peace
FREI

Wow! This is the place I've been looking for pretty much all my life!

And so I shall introduce myself...

I am a university student studying game design and development, and I am an enthusiast of stories and storytelling! I for one chase my dreams to my heart's content, and one such dream is to be a major part in fantasy literacy. I know that it sounds crazy to have such a high goal, especially with all the work and commodities I grow to become a leading game designer, but as I said... I don't just look up at the stars... I chase them, and with burning hope and great passion... I become one with the stars, shining brighter than anything to be seen!

I seek those who hide in shadows... who live a tragic life of misery... I keep them beneath my fallen wings, and hold them tight within my embrace...

A direct quote from me, to those who are at the bottom of the sea and who has lost everything... "To live a life without loss; Without loss, there is no living. You are the most lively person I have ever known..."

Hi everyone!

I am new to this website, and I am also new to the English Literature subject. I hope I will learn some good things from the website as well as you all guys. I have just started studying literature, so I have very little to say about what literary books I like to read and which are my favorite authors. I hope to study literature little each day and will accomplish my goal.

Wish me good luck and I too wish you good wishes to all guys!

Thanks to the Google search that have showed me this website. :)

Cheers!

Hi, everyone! I recently completed my Master's in English literature and am currently taking some time off from academics. Along with some other things, I plan to finish reading everything that I've had on my wishlist for the longest time. Looking forward to some stimulating discussions here :)

Hello,
I'm a literature-obsessed writer, I've also worked as a teacher, tutor, mental health worker, etc. I also love playing sports, trekking through the deep woods listening to an audio book (I have about 500 books loaded on my ipods) writing songs, singing, discussing film and music, studying history (especially Roman history, the American Civil War, Plutarch, and my favorite nonfiction writer, Will Durant), science, philosophy, religion, MMA (yes, I do love martial arts too), basketball, soccer.
Favorite writers of drama and fiction: Shakespeare, James Joyce, Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Chekhov, Homer, Cormac McCarthy, Dante, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Lorrie Moore, Willa Cather, Austen, Virginia Woolf, Isaac Babel, Robert E. Howard (sword and sorcery nerd growing up), Borges, Mailer, DH Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh.
Poets: Shelley, Eliot, Frost, Yeats, Wordsworth, Rilke, Tennyson, Browning.
Critics and essayists: Harold Bloom, Susan Sontag, Gore Vidal, David Denby, Anthony Lane, Pauline Kael, Montaigne, Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone), Robert Christgau (rock music).
I just love talking literature, music, film, the process of writing, etc. I'm eager to chat with you.
"How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live." Henry David Thoreau.

Hi everyone,

I registered today and I would like to say hi. You can call me Pixie. My love with literature began when I was in 6th grade. I remember, we started with this poem by Robert Frost and though I was immature enough not to grasp the beauty of it, I loved it like a child loves snowflakes. And since then whenever I read literature I am filled with this tremendous joy that all the darkness around me diminishes like the ring of an eclipse. Life is short and if you want to life an eternity at a jiffy books are your salvation. In real life I am working with a local television channel as a reporter and presenter. I like to imbibe the beauty of literature in philosophizing the ugliness reality brings with it. My favorite genre is mystery apart from classics. I plan to write a novel someday.

Hello everyone,

Today is my very first day and I'm very excited to be studying literature and look forward to learning something new each day. Currently, my goal is to become an occupational therapist in the long term, but reading and writing is something I have always enjoyed. I look forward to interacting and learning from everyone and everything here.

Hello to everyone. My name is Mary Hoden. I am a professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. I've joined the forum to further my secret desire - to be a published author - but I have no idea how to do it! Any and all advice is welcome. Meanwhile, I hope to learn from all of you.

Hello everyone, I'm a newbie here. Hope to meet new people and to learn something in this forum.

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." Let us all share happiness, encourage one another and have faith.

Have a good day ahead! :)

--LinaAnne

HI, I'm new here too. I like reading books and listening to music (prefer ballad)
I don't have a specific favourite author. However, I really admire Stieg Larsson and love his Millennium Series.
It is awsome!!!

Hi Everyone,

My name is Tyler and I am brand new to this forum. I suppose the purpose of my online existence is simply to become inspired and feed off of all of the great writers that are outchea putting thoughts and feelings into stories. I also wouldn't mind making a friend or two.

thanks

Hi everyone.

I've always been a reader but mainly non fiction. Three years ago I read The Count of Monte Cristo and it ignited a passion for fiction, particularly the classics.

I would post more but the super blood moon has just started.

("...hi..." said the goblin, wondering if he'd even come to the right place is though, besides his thoughts were more on the coffee machine at this point, so he just continued "...well there's not really much to say about me, married with kids I suppose, yes that's me then..." and then something crossed his mind "...you see, the trouble in one's introduction is simply that if you never meet the other person, there's absolutely no way to prove anything since these are just words on your screen and the reader is blind by it, I mean anyone of us could be just anything then, who knows I could even be a human for that matter MYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no no just joking there, thought it was funny though...")

It's a typical night; husband's on the couch, tired from his day in the weather building that barn. the kids are upstairs doing what it is that they do on a weekend night in our rather low key life. My mind, as ever, is ready to fly.

Perhaps you will allow me to ramble a bit?

My mind, or ego, as it may be, at least has an anchor at least these days against flying off into the aery fair blue:rofl:, and so my sanity gets to have a say. The middle ages of my life have brought mixed blessings, one being the knowledge that I can improve some things, but the years of habit are a serious impediment to actually being as effective as I would like to be. Conflict, as always, is a great force in writing for me as it is any writer. I have never written as a earning vocation, but just for a good time, or to help someone. I'm not a person who worships in a building. I think that what's beyond can be found anywhere. I would go to a church, temple, mosque if I was going to hang with like minded people. but I don't usually see my tribe in most of those places and I have stopped looking. "What would Jesus do?' is good enough for me. I spent some time flirting with Jesus, in a way, and that was a trip.

Get the to a nunnery
packed my bags
ready to run away

just you go look see
for yourself
a mind set free

Through word, thought
time & patience
learning breezy views

This is a slice of my perspective.

Let's lift a glass,
dear reader
drink a toast to you,

and another swig for I,
it's more fun this way,
thanks for stopping by.

Anyway...

Hello!

This is a long time coming, but I've decided to be a little more serious with my writing (as maybe some if not most of you are on here). A quick Google search brought me to this pretty cool forum, so here I am. And I'm very excited to meet with you all.

I graduated University last Fall after spending my last semester studying abroad in Italy. I finished with a degree in Film-making (with a focus on Animation) and a minor in Art. I work full time as a Photographer and part time at an arthouse theater as a Projectionist/box office attendant. My true passion however, is Storytelling and Illustrating! Which I understand takes up more personal time than an around the clock busy bee has. Being a fresh graduate is really confusing! I want to do everything all at once, but I feel like I don't have enough lifetimes for them all!

Writing is really therapeutic :) I used to read a lot of YA and Graphic Novels/Manga in my high school years, but I've started to find myself burying myself in more serious conquests. Classics and Contemporaries alike. My list is too long to really name, but if it helps any, I'm a huge Potterhead and i find that most literary buffs I know are divided into saga categories, if you know what I mean. Luls.

Anyway, that's pretty much me right now. Nice to meet you all :)

Hello, I´m glad to find the forum. I am looking for some English teachers who could recommend me books (poetry, prose) and authors which are poplular among secondary school students in English speaking countries. We are thinking of joining a competition in recitation in English language and as recitation is not my cup of tea, I don´t know what advice to give our students. Thanks for your help.

Hi Popadicova, I am not a teacher, but my kids are in secondary school. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and various Shakespeare works; are a couple of teacher's selections. The Hunger Games series, All Quiet on the Western Front, Watership Down, and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings are recent summer choices they made.

There are some good lists on line, here is a shorter one: URL is phschool.com/curriculum_support/reading_list/high_school.html

Hi, everyone,

Nick McGlue here, fan of literature, film, and popular culture. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone.

Hi Nick, People don't have much to say here so far. :(

Howdy all y'all !

Poets: Please check out the Poetry Games & Contests at: http://www.online-literature.com/for...s-amp-Contests

Looking forward to reading everyones' contributions to the forums !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

Hi everyone! I'm a jazz pianist and writer living in NYC. As a writer my main interest is philosophy of art and I am particularly influenced by Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson (two 20th-century French philosophers) in that regard. As a reader I pretty much check out everything - to give you some idea, the books I'm in the middle of right now are The Return of Sherlock Holmes by ACD, Man, Economy and State by Murray Rothbard, Collected Poems 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur, The Complete Saki, Stromata by Clement of Alexandria (3rd century philosopher/theologian), and Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen.

For discovering new reading material I am a HUGE fan of the magazine Lapham's Quarterly and recommend that everyone check it out. I also currently subscribe to a journal called Image.

I love movies too (favorites are The Godfather, The Big Lebowski, Biutiful), and obviously music (jazz and lots of other stuff).

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I listen to a lot of podcasts - currently The History of Philosophy (Without Any Gaps), History of Byzantium, British History Podcast, Ancient Egyptian Podcast, 99% Invisible, and occasionally various comedy podcasts.