Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

so nice to find this site. it's a wealth of information for a despot like myself who generally searches old anthologies for a simple answer. poetry is my favorite genre, though i do digest almost all lit. and find i nearly always catch a glimpse of something i hadn't seen before. obviously, i am most influenced by the lake poets ( wordsworth, coleridge, southey). whether mostly from like mindedness or mutual , umm, indulgences i'll say, this is the most lyrical most cadenced for me. sorry ( i hate diatribes, too). anyway, hello, and i hope i can help someone, and they me.

Welcome to lit-net! I'm a newcomer myself

Hello, I'm Jesse, used to be Jesus, but someone wrote Jesse on my birth certificate, well, that's another story, but I'm glad I'm here. I was an avid reader, until I discovered alcohol, drugs, and whatever. But I would like to get back to reading and this place has so many of the books,authors, poets and Poems I read as a youth, I've been reading it for over a year, but today I decided to join up.

and welcome to you as well... San Antonio, eh? Give Riverwalk my regards... spent quite a few nights debauched on the Paseo del Rio :)

Good evening, fellow readers - what a find this site is! I've been reading since I was about four years old which is more years ago than I care to remember and more books ago than I can begin to remember. (But give me a title and I'll tell you in a flash if I've read it.) I read most things but prefer modern novels, get twitchy if I haven't got a book on the go, can't walk past a book-shop and have a shelf of yet-to-be-read books for a rainy day. Will I fit in, do you think??? I'm really looking forward to joining fellow readers (from all parts of the world by the look of it) and exchanging book experiences.

Hello everybody.

Hi, new here, just thought I 'd say hello :)

It is nice to know that there are a lot of people who share the same views as you , I have always been intrigued by words and their power. I would love to be a writer one day and this is my first step towards it. People say that world is becoming a global village and a small place because man has conquered distance and the technology has got us together,but i don't agree to it .I think that we are moving away from each other as is the universe and we don't have much time to actually be there for some one, infact we getting lonelier.:)

Hello all!

I am heard about this forum through another forum.

About me... well, I, like everyone else here, love literature. I love to read all sorts of types of literature, analyze them, and talk about them. I also love writing my own pieces.

I am a high school senior and cannot wait for college. Dance is my life, and everyone will be very aware of that fact as I post more.

I look forward to meeting everyone and hope to contribute well! ^_^

Welcome Lakeside! :wave:

Hi djy! :wave:

Welcome Kasie! :wave: lots of readers here!

Welcome Amundsen! :wave:

Hi Em1ly! :wave:

Hello Numero! :wave:

Welcome Emily Bronte! :wave: This is the place for you!

hi everyone

Hi I am a British New Zealander. I have a bachelors of Fine Art and have done a post grad (PGCE) in art and design. So why am I here? I can draw well but, being an art history student in New Zealand I prefer abstract art like Dan Flavins, Frank Stella and photography. I am planning to do some work but it takes time.
Well besides art painting and photography I have a passion for reading. I am reading Sylivia Plath which I stole from the staff room table a few weeks ago.
I work as a supply teacher in outer Essex. I do a lot of supply for English, and languages , French,Spanish and German. Yes and I speak bloody Italian and no ones does it!
English is great to teach. Now I want to get some enrichment for myself. I promised to do the literacy paper at Cambridge University, but cannot find the time but still this job keeps me immersed with the classics and I love all the poetry.and the quotes sometimes stuck on the walls.

Here's one from me:

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, weare not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, 'Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.' The real fear should be of the opposite course. -Gail Sheehy

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Originally Posted by Schwapzure

Just got registered. I was looking for some inspiration for my classes and decided to hang around for a while. I can relate to what Virgil said in his intro piece. I've got over 200 college hours myself. When I went to college, my life was laid out in front of me. However, the longer I went, the less sure I became about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I finished college with a B.S. (you can interpret that however you want) in Management with a minor in business. I went to work for about a year and then one evening in July I was sitting on Top of the World in Rocky Mountain National Park, watching the sun go down and I realized that what I was doing wasn't very fulfilling. There had to be more to life. I quit my job, moved back to Oklahoma and re-enrolled in school to work off a degree in English and education. I have been aggravated plenty by what goes on in the world of education but I have never looked back and wished different about what I do in the classroom. Do you want to know what is really funny about all this? I've spent the biggest part of my career teaching computers! I've finally found a position where I can have the best of both worlds because not only do I get to teach computers but I get to teach English as well. I know that my bank account will never be very big but I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams when one of my students I haven't seen in ten years gets in touch with me and tells me that I was an important part of their life. Teaching truly is the only profession that allows a person to live forever. Long after buildings and monuments crumble and our own bodies turn to dust, the things that we pass on to our students, not only the lessons but also the advice, is kept alive for the next generation.

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Schwapzure I too teach supply teaching I have just joined today. I totally agree with you --teaching is the most rewarding experience I teach a lot of English and have been using this site inspiration.I hope i can meet more like you-- you have said my thought aloud--inspired

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Originally Posted by bookseller

I'm just now reading Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and just today purchased The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell. I was just surfing around for information on Elizabeth Gaskell when I found your site.

I'm a bookseller for a major chain. I live in Southern California with my husband of 28 (almost 29) years. Our son is a fourth year student at UCLA. I'm first and foremost a bookworm, and I feel I have fairly eclectic taste. It's probably obvious that I love the Brontës and their ilk. (I'm more a fan of Charlotte and Anne than Emily).

some favorite titles:

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Following the Equator by Mark Twain

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

(I'm sure I'm missing some favorite titles. I love so many books!)

My favorite genres are literature, popular fiction, travel literature, books about books, biography, and mystery.

I think I was born to be a bookseller. I love my job! I even handsell books to friends when I'm not at work, lol!

I'm also an avid Bookcrosser. (If you've not yet heard of bookcrossing.com, check it out!) I am MissTree on Bookcrossing. (If you join, I'd appreciate being listed as the referer.) We are a very fun, eclectic group of people whose main hobby is to spread literacy and good vibes by leaving books (labeled with an identification number) in public spots for people to find. The finder may remain anonymous. The hope is that, whether anonymous or not, the finder will write a journal entry describing his or her experience with the book. It's even better if the finder releases the book in his turn for someone else to find and help the book continue its journey.

I guess that was a pretty long introduction, lol, so I'll stop here.

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hi bookseller I like your choice of books