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Hi everyone!
A little crisp breeze from California to all of you!
I am a college student and majoring in engineering
but that does not mean I do not read books! I enjoy
reading occasionally when I have the time for it.
I did not like reading when I was in middle school
or high school but my senior English teacher, who is
now good friend of mine got me started on literatures.
Anyways, I look forward to having great discussions,
chats, and fun times in this community!
Cya!

Hi there. I'm from Canada, Montreal to be exact, and I'm a classics student by love of it, rather than for grades. I am retired and taking regular undergrad Classics classes, but not for credit. I was an English teacher at a junior college here for 32 years, and I taught the Odyssey and Greek myth in my course. It's nice these days to sit with the students for a change and learn Roman literature. I am currently reading the Aeneid, and find it very much like the Odyssey and the Iliad, especially in the way that Virgil borrows many of Homer's ideas on things. For example, he has Venus clean up the recently-shipwrecked and therefore messy Aeneus before he meets Dido; Homer had Athena do the same thing for Odysseus after he was shipwrecked and about to meet people.

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Hello all :)
ok I'm 29 female and in the midlands in England. I've always always loved to read about pretty much everything so am looking forward to spending time here x
Daffyd I studied Of mice and men in school (a few years ago and badly mind :p)

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I have to confess that much as I love Steinbeck, he makes me feel uncomfortable a lot of the time, so I don't read as much of it as I should. I think that it's too close to reality to be treated as fiction, even if it is. (Sounds a bit convoluted, that, but I hope you know what I mean). As I get older, now 54, I'm getting more into poetry. It won't be long before I'm wearing flowing clothes, carrying a daffodil and quoting huge chunks of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".

Welcome to litnet, all! :)

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I have to confess that much as I love Steinbeck, he makes me feel uncomfortable a lot of the time, so I don't read as much of it as I should. I think that it's too close to reality to be treated as fiction, even if it is. (Sounds a bit convoluted, that, but I hope you know what I mean). As I get older, now 54, I'm getting more into poetry. It won't be long before I'm wearing flowing clothes, carrying a daffodil and quoting huge chunks of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".

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First of all, welcome to the forum! And I can understand what you mean by 'feeling uncomfortable' while reading Steinbeck's works. But I don't see why anything close to reality shouldn't be treated as fiction. Fantasy, no. But fiction, yes.

Hello everyone, I'm new to this site. I've always enjoyed writing poetry and prose and have recently been writing alot of short one to three page stories. I was looking for a place online to begin publishing them so I started a blogspot blog called "Created Writings" where I've been publishing my literature. I also looked around for a place where I could share my work and find work by other authors and this seemed like the site which was most relevant to my concerns.

I'm looking forward to spending some time on this site.


-Rob

This seems like a good place to talk to others about the written world. It's wild to have forums like this to talk to other people who actually read and even like to talk about it. This should be a good experience. It's nice to be with your own kind sometimes.

Hello everyone. I just now registered. I will be using O. Henry's short stories in my ESL listening class at Namseoul University in South Korea. I will be interested in locating some quizzes on O. Henry's short stories.

Hello everyone! I am Miray from Turkey. I study English language and literature at University of Kocaeli in Turkey. I have been looking for some websites that will be useful at my studies and have found this forum at last. I hope that I will have some help from you all when I need it:)
Thank you...

Welcome one and all! :)

I'm very pleased to have found this site. It's nice to have a place to meet aspiring writers. Thanks for having me and have a blessed day.:)

Hello :)

I was searching for somewhere I could share my love of Russian literature and came across this site. I'm currently reading Anna Karenina, but I'm more of a Dostoevsky fan :thumbs_up

Hi everyone.
"There must be a place where people who read lots of books gather, right?", that's what I thought. Well, I came on this forum (after I stumbled upon it) to find out how do different people (who read books) look on life in general, and maybe to exchange couple of words with them.

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