Ok thanks for the info will do !!!:-)
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Ok thanks for the info will do !!!:-)
Hi everyone,
This is just a brief introduction.
I am 50 years old. I am a self taught (or should that be "self teaching"? I'm not sure) artist. (Abstract Painting)
I live and paint in Porthleven Cornwall u.k
I'm afraid my social skills are minimal.
I have recently started reading more so picked up a whole bunch of "Classics"
from the library sale.
You all sound like interesting people.
Oh I forgot to say, I worked for a long time in a psychiatric hospital and then as an art teacher.
Kind regards-Charles.
You are welcome. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dbowen73
Hi bookworm! Welcome to the forum. :D
Hi all!
Love to read, no favorites.
welcome to litnet, xy&z. interesting username.
Huge welcome to all the newcomers here. You will enjoy your visits here, trust me! :)
Greetings! I am a going-to-be librarian and Internet geek. I actually found this forum through a project for work, where I'm looking for short stories either in the public domain or that I could track down the authors for and request permission to use the story for a puzzle/storytelling fundraiser event...
My favorite authors are Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Shannon Hale, Neil Gaiman, Vivian Vande Velde, Robin McKinley, Patricia C. Wrede, Patricia A. McKillip, Holly Black, and Charlaine Harris... to name but a few.
Aside from reading books, web comics, comic books, graphic novels, and a few choice blogs, my hobbies include playing online games, learning the electric bass, and web organizational tools (ex. Flickr, LibraryThing, 43 Things, etc.).
I look forward to exploring this site thoroughly! :D
Hello, I've been a member for some time now, but spent it contributing to threads- it's an addiction.
I'm a twenty-five year old college student. I just completed the first semester of a psychology major, which will lead to a career in psychiatry and neurology.
I've had an inactive interest in writing until the beginning of this year. I'm a fan of Hemingway and Borges. And thanks to suggestions from this forum, I'm readin Light in August ... wow! I didn't k now what could satisfy me after reading Waiting for Godot, but this did nicely.
I read Sanctuary earlier this year and concluded that Faulkner is a
powerhouse. I'm reading Molloy next, but can't wait to return to Faulkner- The sound and the Fury or As I Lay Dying ... I'm thinking Knight's Gambit ... but, Wild Palms, Absolam Absolam and Go Down Moses all sound good- so many, so, so many.
Well... hi.:)
I have been tryin to get more into stuff like this online, i play to many games and, i fear my imagination will soon be gone. But well im a teenage boy, what else to do?
I play games and i am very eager to win anything and everything possible... but ya know... doesnt always work. The gaming world has gotten mean and i have decided to lay of X-box live for a while and read somthing...
Other than games i play football and hang out like any other teen. I act stupid around my friends, because, they are all not that smart, but i am accualy kinda smart id like to think.
My dad is on this site all the time so i figured i would try it out, and if you catch me using lol's and other internet/texting slang, it is a habbit...
Welcome, Welcome to the Black Parade.. kidding. Welcome, Nick! I hope you'll enjoy your time here in Litnet.
Helo, everybody! I'm Reccura, a new member here.. kidding...
Well, welcome, Mehrune! I hope you enjoy it here!
I don't know about what particular user name you are talking about, but it's all about interpretation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
I don't know if you had a chance to read Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco). But there you can see different meanings for different people, depending how you interpret signs and symbols, numbers and letters.
But - thanks for the welcome!
XY&Z reminds me of the thing we learned in history, the "X,Y, and Z affair" that little event during the French Revolution...
Hello all, and welcome to the site.
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...ys/welcome.gif
(even if you have been here for a little while already! :D )
hey!
I am a Czech student and I am looking for someone who knows or teaches the American literature. I have to write quite a big work and I need to read some of the English speaking writers (British / American - I prefer this). As I will have to read a lot of his / her work, I need it to be short stories if possible. And an easy language to understand, like Kate Chopin, or Sherwood Anderson.
My knowledge about the American authors is not so wide so I would very appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
kvetinka
Welcome Kvetinka. I like that name by the way. It has a very nice sound to it. What particular era of American writers are you looking for? I would say that Ernest Hemmingway is not so difficult to read for a foreign student. If you would prefer a female writer, perhaps you might want to try Edith Wharton. What kind of work is your project?
Hello All,
I'm very glad I happened upon this site. I'm a college student (will be a soph) and I'm trying to decide what to do with my life, or at least my years spent at school. The initial plan was to be an English/French double major as these subjects come most naturally. Otherwise, there's philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and environmental studies which also divert me. My courses in literature this year greatly disheartened me. I hope to use this summer and this site to decide if my passion for literature can be reinvigorated. My gut says yes, and I think it's already begun.
This semester I studied almost exclusively British modern poetry. It was rather draining. My favorite poem I studied was Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi." I just finished reading The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and it made me very happy. Anyone have anything to say about this book or Ms. Stein? I was disappointed to see she doesn't have a thread devoted to her.
I love the word assonance, and also finding it at play within poetry.
Alrighty, there's my intro. I'm off to explore other threads.
Welcome one, welcome all! :wave: :wave: :wave:
What a nice web site, with such interesting members! They
read Dickens, Yeats, and (ahem) Goethe (in translation)and Robertson Davies. Perhaps ol Auntie has found a home here.
hi, i m tuly, i m afraid i have the ability to introduce myself for i have only 7 posts! here are lots of friends like me.i have finished graduation a month ago and next moth will get admitted to MA in literature.i have learned french foa a year and now planning for German.I dare not say anything else only a short question-why is so people are here behind an unreal name and image?
Sooo nice to hear from someone a word addressed to me, thanks! I think that I do not have any specific era of American writers on mind but I would like it to be modern. Well, let´s see if I can make myself clear. I will have the example of E. Hemmingway - he does not seem to me as someone easy to read, it has got quite a lot of words from a particular background (marine talk, medical talk) and I would spend a lot of time looking up everything that would be necessary to understand it well. Neither the subject of war or fishing attracts my attention.
Please do not take this bad. It is not a critics. I myself, I am just trying to make clear what I am looking for.
Anyway, I will have a look on that female one you told me, E.W.
My project is supposed to be done on 40 pages. It should concern the work of an English writing author. And they want to make me think, the teachers, to come up with my own thoughts, with something provocative. You see, I need to find something I can be inspired by to deal with this extreme amount of pages.
if better, contact me on: [email protected]
Thanks for your help!
BTW: this nick name, i just grabbed something that I happend to think about. There are another places to post the explanation of a nick name, so shortly: "little flower" in Czech.
a big hello and welcome to all the newbies! Hope you enjoy your time here on Litnet! Its not just a site, its a community!
Welcome All!!!! :wave:
Hello everyone. I am sooo excited to have stumbled upon this site. I absolutely love to read the classics. I am glad to see that their are sooo many people like me. I am currently reading DHL Women in Love, and Wila Cather O pioneers. And now a little more about me>>>>I am a happily married Mom of 3 beautiful children...all under the age of 6. I have my under grad. in Liberal studies with a concentration in English. I am currently studying for my teaching test, in hopes, to be a high school English Language Arts teacher. So, in closing, I look forward to the reading of more books and the meetings of more people!!!!:yawnb:
Hi. I'm also glad I've found this site. I love most types of writing. Ever since I was really little I have always admired certain books and writers including Dostoyevsky, Henry James, J.D Salinger, Sylvia Plath,Saul Bellow,William Styron and John Steinbeck etc. I could go on forever. I am currently at senior school in North England but I hope to study English and philosophy at Cambridge. I can't think of anything else to say except hiya!
Hello and welcome!:wave:
I hope the new folks come to love the site as much as I and so many others do. Hope you enjoy! :)
Hi. it is toataly enchanting to be able to have my own page. If you are wondering who I am, you'll just have to keep on wondering. That's one of my specialties. I am at the moment trying to write a book, my good friend Andya is helping me, and is the one who introduced me to this. This is a toataly blithful website. I like lots of differnt kind of music, celtic, vocal, and my favorite music country. But I am toataly into fantisy. As I call myself a Fantisy Freak and a Country Freak. i have written several several poems and one or two songs (none of them published.) I will give you something to think on as i leave. if you died to night, what would you leave behind you when you go? think deeply apon this and answer this carefully. i will be intreged to find out. i must depart for now. Peace, a friend, Amanda Rea.
p.s. Atra esterni ono thelduin. if you want to know what i am saying you have to read the book "Eldest".
Hi - I'm new (obviously!) and may be more of a lurker than a "real" contributing member. I enjoy many different genre both of prose and poetry as well as music. I guess I'm generally eclectic.
About me - Orthodox Christian, Wife, Mother, Grandmother - and happy in all those roles. Currently disabled, but I was a RN back when. Have advanced degrees in nursing from 3 different universities, but nursing isn't my only interest. I'm "into" computers, woodworking (less now that I'm disabled), politics (don't get me started, I'm ***very*** conservative), and visiting with my virtual friends on various fora, although I seldom post much.
Glad y'all are here.
Hey everybody. I'm new here, so I figured instead of just creeping around looking for something I felt I could contribute to, I would introduce myself. Just because that's the kind of lady I'm not... Moving on.....
I'm from Alberta. My friends all hate to read. My dad and my brother hate to read and my mother reads the stupidest books ever written. So I needed a place I could discuss literature and hopefully find some people with the same tastes I have. I really really really dislike Shakespeare...alot. I love George Orwell and Edgar Allen Poe. Ummm. Forums are fun! YAY!
Hi everyone, welcome! This place is abso-spiffin-lutely gorgeous!
Hellow there Andya. i'm just sending this to see how my profile looks. how do you like my fairy?
very nice my friend. Try private messaging me though, this thread's supposed to be for introductions. I'll pm you first so you can see how it works ;)
hellow there all you anchanting creatures of the world i'm still a new creature to this world, but i can promise you this is most enchanting. i'm just writing thi to show my of the magical creature friends how my blog looks. thanks for looking at this. Peace, Argentlam
Hey there, I'm new to the Literature Forum, glad to be here that's for sure... I live in a remote area of Australia, so there is precisely no-one to discuss literature with, much less Gustave Flaubert, my main man-of-letters. Love to hear from anyone at all interested in Flaubert, Hardy, Orwell, and any/all poets. I love Hafiz and Emily Dickinson particularly. Salutations, G.
Welcome genevie! Sounds like some great texts
Greetings all you fellow travellers in the universe of literature!
I have enjoyed following some of the threads here in the forum for a little while: The thread dedicated to reading and discussing D.H. Lawrence's collected short stories one at a time is a tour de force; very interesting to read for the personal insights, and an inspiration to undertake a personal reading of Lawrence's short stories. The book of the month project is also a wonderful idea, and I hope to be able to participate in the future -- Wilde is up next, is he?!
As to me, I do not know that there is so very much to tell. Like many before me, and around here, I live a quiet life of desperation. Film, literature and music are the things that keep me sane and propel me through life. Unfortunately I have no personal friends or acquaintances, who share these passions. So, the internet it is -- how fortunate that there are places like this forum, and how really sad that it in many ways is the only recourse to meet and discuss something as central to life as literature.
I am a young Dane (who is perhaps not so young any longer), who has chosen to reside in Sweden. My years so far have been scattered across the Western hemisphere -- Germany, Virginia, Denmark, Chicago, Michigan, Bruxelles, very briefly London, and now Malmö. As far back as I can remember, I have always had a love affair, if not with literature as such, then at least with the written word, the telling of stories. At 15 I discovered "literature," at 25 I was convinced that I would eventually make my way through all of world literature (for a while I was a little like the young girl in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, who is going through the card file at the library, and reading everything in alphabetical order), a dream-ambition that I gradually abandoned over the next decade. And now, I just read...
As mentioned, film is another great passion of mine, and I have been a fairly active member of www.criterionforum.org for the past year. Finding that I have enjoyed that experience, and actually learned a lot, I decided to find a similar forum dedicated to literature. That is really the story so far. I look forward to being a member here, and sometimes hopefully contributing something to the discussion.
Hi all! Enjoy yourself here. :)
Hello there! I am so exited I found this site!
I am afraid I am horrible with this forum format. I have recently been accepted into an online program for Writing and Literature and need to improve my posting skills. That would be the first reason I began searching for a literature site the other of course is because I love books.
I noticed that a few of my postings appeared in some very odd places… I think I may have discovered why – I was not watching the dates and it seems I may have posted a couple replies to old messages – yet they showed up at the end of the thread. Like I said I am new to this so please bear with me.
Here is my introduction. I am a mother and soon to be a grandmother (September). I am a custodian at a small college. I have also been attending classes there on a part-time basis and quite frankly I am tired of the slow progress, hence the transfer to an online college where I will keep a full course load. I originally majored in English with the intent to become a high school teacher; however I decided I would prefer a college setting.
My hobbies are cake decorating, drawing, watercolor painting, bird-watching, gardening (not the edible type) though I hope to create one someday, and of course reading.
I enjoy the tranquility of my back-yard bird habitat. I can boast that on one occasion I was blessed with the presence of the following birds: A Rose-Breasted Grossbeak, Yellow-Bellied Woodpecker, Nuthatch, a pair of Cardinals, three Mourning Doves, several Wrens, many Hummingbirds and Gold Finches, and an Indigo Bunting.
I love to learn anything new. I am also a do-it-yourselfer… which is good since my husband drives a semi and is only home one day a week.
Well there it is. If you see one of my postings and it seems out of place please understand.:blush: I will improve.
Welcome Stefanie! :wave: :wave:
Don't worry, you'll catch on quickly. :D Sounds like you've got some great hobbies. Glad to have you!
Hello All!
Like Stefanie, I'm horrible with this forum format, so you've been forewarned.
My name is Christopher and I'm 24 years old. I was born in Toronto, Ontario and now reside in Kitchener, Ontario. I've travelled quite a bit over the years having driven across Canada and some parts of the United States, and I even lived in British Columbia for about 5 years.
I'm fairly active and run and work out a lot. I'm also planning to run a 10k Marathon in September. I believe it's got something to do with Octoberfest but I'll admit I don't know too much about it. I also like to write short stories and do draw occasionally.
I've only recently started reading for leisure again after about 6 or 7 years, and I still find it's much more enjoyable than sitting in front of the TV.
Most recently I finished The Great Gatsby & Death of a Salesman, both which were immensely enjoyable. Last night I ordered Ulysses by James Joyce and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, so I'm looking forward to those.
Anyway, I'm happy to be here, this seems like a very friendly community. :)
Ciao,
Christopher
Hello. I'm Ana, I'm 16 (soon I'll be 17 :P) and I'm from Portugal.
So far, I'm really enjoying the forum. lol I love to read and I love to discuss everything about books. That's one of the reasons I joined this forum.
I know: probably all of you will see a lot ot mistakes on my postings because english isn't my first language. I also joined this forum to develop my english skills and to have more contact with the language.
Nice to meet you all. :)