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thank you so much bibliophilia and robinhood 3000. your advice is very helpful and much apreciated
Hi
I guess that i will introduce myself. I found this website looking for info on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and I decided that maybe I finally found a forum that I like.
Well anyway here is a little something about myself. I love to swim and to read and I have also started collecting different things to do with books and movies. (I am trying to own all Matt Damon movies, Nora Roberts books and a lot of the classsics!) I am a senior in high school and we have 2 months left. When i go to college i am going to study English and Secondary Education, because i want to be a middle school English/ Language arts teacher! Also one day when i have enough money saved i want to open a bookstore.
So there you go a little bit about me!
:) LitGeek :wave:
Hi LitGeek, welcome to the forum. Keep on posting and I hope that you will like it here!
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hey, whats new? its so cool that you want to be an english/ language arts teacher cuz i want to be a novelist/journalist. although, i am only a sophmore :lol: but whatever! but you sound very interesting
Warm Welcomes to all the newbies, too many to list! :wave: :wave: :wave:
hi there, i'm just trying to lengthen my message to at least 10 characters. oh, well...
popy
Hello. I found this cite looking for free online literature. I think I've become attracted to the forums more than anything else. I am also interested in the fact that the Bible is not only available for people to read, but it is also not being ridiculed and/or disparaged 24/7 in the forums. Thanks! (I'm really enjoying your signature, Pensive, can you tell me it's origin?)
Hi SGrace, Welcome to the forum. My signature is from Lord Of the Rings.
I hope that you will have a very nice time here!
Hi to all :) Just trying to post here. I am interested mostly in Italian literature. Anyone else? Curious to hear various opinions on books, Italian and not.
:wave: Welcome to the forums:
Popy--Hi.
Shout Grace--Glad you're enjoying some religious discussions here. It is great having the whole bible so easily searchable right here on this site isn't it?
Letizia--Ciao! Benvenuto al Literature Network. Is there any Italian lit. you're particularly into? I'm a student and specialize in English Medieval and Renaissance literature, but also read some Italian literature, mostly older poetry (like Dante, Petrarca, Ariosto etc.) that fits in with the period I work in (I'm not fluent in the language, but I can get by with a little help from the dictionary). We've got some other people here who like Italian literature and/or know the language and there's at least one native Italian here that I can think of, so there might be interest if you started a thread about your favorite Italian authors. By the way, who's the lady in your avatar? She looks familiar but I can't quite place the artist.
Hi, I'm Malkatoj. (The J is pronounced like a Y.)
I'm new here, and very happy about a real literature forum. The other ones I've found have all been dead. I'm mostly a philosopher, and also quite interested in Shakespeare.
Glad to see all of you! I am a girl grad in Lit in Shandong University, PRC. There is rare Chinese guest in this forum, I guess. I happen to run into this page, and maybe I can make some friends here, so first, I would like to introduce myself.
My English Name
As to my English name, initially, I took the conventional one as “Linda”, but it is so commonplace, as it is easy for every Chinese woman surnamed “Li” or “Lin” to choose “Linda”, so I was resolved to do something different, even original. It has taken me long time to find a satisfactory name, though I had once browse pages of name lists attached to the Oxford dictionary. Before, I was always pondering on this “headache” question as “naming” myself. I think it should represent me and can stand for me.
When we learnt American literature, “Benjamin Franklin” struck me as a successful self-made man. He was a charismatic statesman with foreign affairs maneuver, a physicist, an inventor, a writer. He set up the first library in the early America. His autobiography have inspired the youth all over the world, including me.
On the other hand, as a girl of some ambition, maybe fanciful, I am longing to fly high, to compete with anyone, free from prejudice. I would admit just lose, if it is not because of my sex. I have seen such victims. When I graduated from college, I had collected some enrollment information. It was evident that if a man and woman are on the same footing, the man candidate is rather preferred. Yesterday, a girl Graduate English major told me, some school would rather remain the post vacant until the coming of next-year man student, than a woman. That is the icy cold fact.
Thirdly, “Lin” is my Chinese family name; I respect its authority and all the history it carries on. In the ancient time, the Lins were home to the east coast of China. And since young I know, Lin Zexu was the national hero on the history record in the Opium War against the British invaders.
So I just combine these images together, to make up “freemanlin”.
After a long time, I discovered that some native English speakers are named “freemanlin” and they are man. But I make no change to my name. I hope I can combine the advantage of male with my feminine characters. In the competitive society, I hope I can stand out one day.
It’s a long introduction, thanks for your time!
Hi Linda, Welcome to the forum. I hope that you will have a lovely time here!
Ciao Love! I am interested first of all in the XX century Italian literature, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Tommaso Landolfi. But I read classics too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love
The lady in my avatar is Maria de' Medici, unfortunately I don't know who is the author.