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Hi everyone Im new here and look forward to getting to know everyone here! :)

I'm Caroline! Hey everyone! I have a taste for classic literature and an open mind towards all types! I'm friendly and always eager for a hearty conversation!

A warm hello to everyone here in this forum. I'm studying English literature at the university of Vienna and I hope to share some experiences and thoughts and learn something new by participating in forum discussions.

I am so happy to find a group of like-minded, book-preoccupied folk -- I am currently struggling with Proust -- fending off the (ironic) sleepiness which invariably plagues me every time I attempt one of those endless, rambling sentences -- reading it in English, so am afraid that I'm missing much of the irony -- the white noise that clogs my brain ("...this is an IMPORTANT BOOK, you IDIOT) makes getting through it even tougher -- any insights??

this is ondigo asuka,
i am interested in the african literature and i have joined this forum sothat we can share the rich available experience and know quite alot and learn about africa.
so if there are people of this mind on this forum, let us start it.
hope that i enjoy the experience of the network of this community.
thanks and bye.

Hello everyone, I'm Brielle from Lebanon and stumbled onto this site to pretend I'm an English major :) Right now I'm into Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, so looking forward to discussing ideas with you all!

Hello, I'm Bill and I live in the Western part of the US. Glad to have found this site as I really enjoy reading and am looking forward to exploring the site.

Hello all,

my name is Aaron and I live in southern California in the US. I have always read obsessively but only in the lAst few years, and particularly in the last one, have I begun to read what you might call 'literature'. I also love to write poetry; when in third grade the teacher had us write poems, I was introduced to the most satisfying activity I have yet encountered. When I was thirteen I took up the clarinet and have since played it in symphony orchestras and jazz bands (though never professionally). I play saxophone, piano, and guitar, too, but not nearly as well.

I have problems with mental illness, depression and mixed-state bipolar in particular, but fortunately I am now on medication. Because of my depression (and anxiety) I am only just starting to attend the local junior college (I'm 20), which makes me feel slightly nervous that I am somehow behind in life.

I'm not working right now (though I've recently applied at the library) but would love to be able to pay my way by writing. But that is, of course, not very likely.

So I guess that about sums it up for my life story. I'm unsure of myself and worried about the future, but also potentially excited. Oh, and here are a few of my favorite authors and books:

The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy
Emma, by Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig

Hello everybody. My name is Debbie and I am a newcomer to the world of literature. I am now and have always been an avid reader of contemporary works (romances, murder-mysteries). All my life, I have read either to be entertained or to become better informed. Thus my reading has been limited to instructional materials, textbooks, romance novels, murder-mysteries and spy novels.

I have been frustrated in my earlier attempts at reading "literature" because it takes me too long to figure out what it is that the author is trying to say. That is, I have to work too hard to "upload" the information. To me, it has always seemed as though some writers write with the intention of making their words difficult to understand.

Anyway, years ago I managed (with lots of help from Asimov) to read a few of Shakespeare's plays and I would now like to broaden my literary horizons in hopes that someday I will be able to understand why the works of Erica Jong are considered literature and why the works of Sidney Sheldon are not........

I hope that you all will help me on my literary journey.

Welcome Debbie & Aaron!

Aaron, I wouldn't be worried about being behind in life. I started college a year later than most people, spent 2 extra years there, started university at the age most people graduate (21). I skipped the first year of my degree course, but still spent 3 years at uni (the middle being a year spent in industry). I graduated at 24 when most people have already started work full time, but I ended up getting a 1st class honours degree which I don't think I would have got if I had taken the traditional route. I think being a little older when you go to college/uni can be beneficial and you tend to work harder as well.

Hello everyone!

I've read on this forum for about a year, when a crazy idea hit me in the middle of the night.... WHY NOT JOIN IT?! :)

My friends call me Thomas. My hobbies include writing short stories and poetry, but I also enjoy playing the piano and violin. I am twenty years old and currently a pre-med student at my local university. My love for literature has shown through clearly in course schedule- I don't know many premeds who will also obtain a degree in literature (I'm double majoring). Aside from being a full-time student I also work two part-time jobs. I am a Pharmaceutical compounder at a local, independently owned pharmacy, and an EMT.

Most recently, my favorite writer would have to Aldous Huxley. During my summer break I read Brave New World, Island, The Doors of Perception, and The Devils of Loudun.

I also enjoy the works of Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes).

The poets I've tackled are William Butler Yeats (his complete collected poetry), William Blake (complete collected poetry), Emily Dickinson (complete collected poetry), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Various essays and poems), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Robert Frost (complete collected poetry), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Complete collected poetry), E.E. Cummings (complete collected poetry), and John Milton's Paradise Lost. I am currently working my way through the complete collected poetry of Pablo Neruda. :)

I'm looking forward to sharing ideas, playful debates and making friends with this community!

Greetings everyone... I'm new... just dropping in to say hi!

Sharonlee here... I am mostly involved in writing/poetry, graphic art and photograpry. Exploring photomanipulation more recently.

Would love to hear from any one... Peace & Friendship

Hi, everyone!
I am a high school student and I am interested in languages! even though i only do Japanese at the moment, i still would like to learn French, German and Italian, as well as other languages like Korean. umm... I like graphic books, animes and mangas but I also like reading novels like detective stories and investigation. and as you can see i always do exclamation marks! which is weird but i just do it unconsiously...

By the way guys, just wondering...why have you decided to join this site?

anyways that's all for now but hope to post more stuff later!

I actually just stumbled across this forum tonight while searching for something else on Google, but as always seems to be the case, I could not keep myself from checking it out. I am currently finishing my Masters degree, and oddly enough, the thing that pulled me in was a discussion of Joyce's Ulysses, which is the work to which I am currently dedicating the majority of my time. Hopefully, in the fall, I'll be moving on to a PhD program where I will come to the end of my English degrees, and I can begin teaching. Until then and, most likely, afterward, I'll be spending quite a bit of time with you folks. Glad to be here, and I look forward to some great conversations.

Hello, I'm The Inkwell. I enjoy fishing, hiking, camping, and cooking over an open fire. I like to spend any vacation time I get in parks or at home with a book and my laptop. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature, and I hope to continue in the acquisition of fancy, expensive receipts as I continue in that same literary vein of education.

I'm here for sharing thoughts, for learning new things, and for being of service to any who would ask for it.

Cheers!