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hi to all,
I am new in this forum.I used to have another nick but when I wanted to log in I saw that I have been banned.
Anyway, let me introduce myself.My name is "Ahmet", I am from Turkiye working as an English teacher at a primary school.
I love literature, that's why I am here.I try to write my own stories and love examining literary texts.
Wow, so many members already. :p Hehe, welcome everyone!
Hi everyone, I'm also new...hmm, I should choose a good avatar for myself! I'm not a lit student but I'm an avid reader, especially of classic American and English texts.
I just joined and I would like to say hi
I have been reading up on the features on this site and hopefully i can get used to it real quick. I have an interest in learning about poetry.
Hey people, I was doing some research for the International Baccalaureate Organization's Extended Essay assignment (basically a thesis paper for high school students who enter into a program to take classes of a higher standard--or some crap like that) and I stumbled upon this.
The topic of my Ex. Essay is the effect of time imagery on Edgar Allan Poe's tone in various short stories ("The Masque of Red Death," "The Tell-Tale Heart," et al) and if you can offer any help on that it would be GREATLY appreciated.
I have to say, I've been looking for a forum like this for a while, but this is the only one that I thought I'd feel comfortable with--not too many people, but enough and some of them seem knowledgeable and intelligent, and easy to navigate--so I decided to join.
Also, I fancy myself a poet and a writer so I'll probably post some of my stuff on here soon.
Hope to make a few new friends here and I promise I don't bite, so contact me if you like.
Hi muy name is Ireland, I am new here wanted to stop and say Hello.
welcome brextyn33.
Hello, all friends here.
Well, i have no idea how to start my self-introduction.
I'm Bill, from China.
Glad to be one of the members in this forum.
Hi my name is Jo and I also new to the Forum. I am from Australia and I am looking forward to getting the most out of this site.
And a warm welcome to all our new members! Enjoy your visits here and happy reading all! :)
welcome joreads and billwen.
hello everyone . i thought id introduce myself as im new on this site .
my names Glenn , im 36 and from a county called suffolk in east anglia , England . i have got two young children that live with me half the time which keeps me pretty busy. the other half of my time i spend reading and now studying for a degree in literature that i should have finished last time round .
i have always enjoyed reading from a young age , novels poetry and biographies mainly .
just wanted to say i have enjoyed reading these forums the past couple of days and i am glad i found this site.
welcome glenn71.:)
you will have a good time here. this site is really nice.
Hello everyone,
Just thought I'd drop in and introduce myself: I'm Nía; 22 years old; female; living in the UK.
I'm studying for a degree in Literature and am currently enjoying 'Fiction Writing' and 'Poetry' modules.
I'm so grateful to have found a place like this - I look forward to getting to know some of you a little better!
~ Nía
Hey there, Nia! I'm sure you would, all of us here are enjoying! You should join the party! :banana:
Hello everyone!
I would like to introduce myself on account of joining your forum so hi all and greetings from Poland. My name is Tomasz. (19 years old male)I hope this forum will be wonderful opportunity to discuss literature especially becasue I'm going to study it for next 5 years.
See you on commenting old and new threads.
Hello all,
I am from Bangladesh. My first language is Bangla. I don't know English very much. But I am learning. I am a teacher of Bangla language. I am very happy joining with you all. I am male & 34.
Many thanks
hey there susanta. welcome.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Susanta
and i am from bangladesh too. i am sure you will have a nice time here.:D
Hi,
I'm an American living in Malaysia.
I teach English and I love to read.
I also write fiction based on my experiences and poetry.
Glad to be part of this forum.
hey all, im new to the forums. by the way, I loved dracula, any related reading?
Hi everyone! I'm Angie, I live in Wild and Wonderful West Virginia, but I've lived all over America (thank you Uncle Sam). I'm a college student at Fairmont State University; history major, English minor. Also, I'm a veteran of the USAF, a single mother, and I own my own salon. I've been making people beautiful since 1995, and will always do some hair...I just wanted to break the typical hairstylist image and be smart and pretty. haha
I love to write, poetry seems to be the genre I've fallen into over the years, but my true passion lies in memoirs (fictional/non-fictional) and fiction. This semester I'm in 17th c. Literature and would love some opinions on "Paradise Lost."
Currently, I'm writing a paper of the importance of history in literature. I'm analyzing the characters of Adam, Eve and Satan. Any opinions or persecptions would be fabulous!
Wecome Angie. That is quite a history. You sound like a great addition to our forum.
Good evening! or good morning, or good afternoon, I guess depending on where you are lol. I'm in Seoul, South Korea at the moment, and it's late at night here.
It took me a while to find this introduction area, and I've already started making posts elsewhere. I'm American and halfchilean, from central Illinois (my dad's a farmer), I enjoy writing and am working on a fantasy book overhere--160 pages and counting w00t. I just recently discovered this forum when my dad sent me an email with a Yeats poem and a link to this place. The Yeats poem was most excellent btw. Just looking around for good discussion on writing and maybe reading and looking to meet some like minded individuals.
Welcome to you all, look forward to seeing you in the forums! :)
Back after a prolonged absence :)
Some of you already know me, but I have not been around for quite some time. A tremendous workload has made it very important to me to use my time as efficiently as possible, and the sad fact is that this place lost out when I went through my list of priorities.
The burden has not really lessened, but I'm beginning to get to grips with things now, so I hope to be around more often from now on.:thumbs_up
/Claes
It's good to see you again Claes. I hope to see some more of your pictures soon. ;)
CLAES!!! Welcome back!! :p :)
hi, how do you do all i`m reham i`m new here i hope to be a good community i hope for all of you good luck
Welcome to our new members, and it is nice to see you again, Claes! :)
Hi, everyone
As you can see I am a huge Dickens fan and I am not afraid to show it. I like other writers as well such as Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and Edgar Allan Poe. I have always been a bookworm and absolutely love reading. I am in my first year of an Education Studies and English course as I want to be a Primary school teacher specialising in English. Next year I will be doing Childrens Literature (including Philip Pullman and C.S. Lewis!) as a module and I am looking forward to that.
I am married and have two children and hope to pass on my love of literature to them;) ;) :thumbs_up
Hello,
I stumbled across this site the other day, and I had to join. I was raised by two English professors, and after many years of resistance to all things literate and lovely, I have given in to the fact that a love for musty, dusty old words is my birthright.
I particularly like Elizabethan poetry and old detective novels, but I'll read nearly anything...really, anything from Hesiod to instruction manuals for objects I don't even own--I don't discriminate.
Hello all,
I joined this forum about... 20 minutes ago and Im somewhat lost but I am sure I can find my way. I am most likely one of the youngest here, I attend a High School in Manchester, England and from an early age have been fascinated with English Literature.
I lead a fairly busy lifestyle and try to cram in as much reading as possible. I enjoy Shakespeare's work, Jane austen, Gothic Novels and admittedly...the Harry Potter books (oh come on.. who doesnt?). At the moment Im addicted to a series of Romance novels by Julia Quinn which I would recommend to all as they have cheered up this sad sad geek for nights on end.
Not really much to say in all fairness... Im currently studying for my GCSE's and have opted for History, Geography and French (English lan./lit. is a core subject obviously) and Im targetted for A's/A*s (waah).
I have JUST completed my first section of English coursework on Romeo and Juliet and achieved an A* (Shut up bragging woman...). Would I be able to post that on here somewhere? Mainly so people can tell me what an amateur I am surely.
Sorry... told you Im a total dork.
Im pretty friendly, have a cracking sense of humour and I listen to punk rock/alt. rock. Not one of the most popular people in my school but I wouldn't have it any other way :)
For the future I am hoping to teach Eng Lit in higher education and lets just see where I go from there.
Thankyou for reading this terribley unarticulated (is that an actual word?) rubbish.
Anna.
Hello Everyone,
My name is Lauren Larue and I am posting my very first blog on this site, right now, as you are reading it, it is a first and a first and a first. I am a fashion designer living in Queens, and I am really delighted to have found this site because I miss being able to discuss books in a semi-structured setting. I have always loved creating stories and I love illustrating my favorites. As a kid I made lots of puppet shows where I wrote the story, made the characters' likenesses and invented voices for each one. As I neared the end of high school, I sort of jumped into studying fashion because I felt that I would be able to nurture the visual aspects of my creative little mind and that I could take English and other classes as a minor... Well wouldn't you know, but my school miss-processed my English AP grade and kept signing me up for the wrong classes, and never helped me fix the problem till my last year there, so I ended up not studying my favorite subject all through college, well not in class anyway. I had read what is now one of my favorite books during that period, Been Down so Long it Looks like Up to me, by Richard Farina, and like my friend Gnossos I felt that I was somewhat exempt from most troubles. I loved that book from the minute I read the first chapter in a thrift store and bought it for a dollar. The man at the register told me that he read it a long time ago, and not to be surprised if it changed my outlook. And it did.
Well anyway, enough about me, its nice to meet you all and I hope that this is the beginning of a fun and enlightening relationship without all the coodies.
love,
larue
Hey, I'm new here! I'm Kelsey. I'll be 16 in a week and a half (yay!), and am currently a sophomore in highschool. I have a strange hunder for writing. I'd love to do it for a living, and I really want to start reading more (besides Rowling and Dessen), and as I do so I find myself needing to form and share opinions on what I read...so now I'm here and I really don't have much to say at the moment. Hi!
I call myself Sandy. I grow up in Maine, but escaping what I thought in those youthful years was dreary confinement, I began traveling for the next 25 years. I have lived in both the Northern and the Southern States. After trekking through Mexico, and ranching in Texas, we tried farming in Prince Edward Island where we raised livestock and kids. I home schooled all five of my children. My oldest is 24 and my youngest is 8. While preparing three for college, I have been working on my own degree for the past 6 years. My first love is literature, right next to history, which means reading literature is my chosen method for understanding the past. All the great cannon of works interest me, and I have passed this love of literature down to my children. We have great discussions about what we are reading. Our days are enriched with quotes, references to characters, analyzing philosophies, and critical reviews of current books. A favorite recent discovery was Henry Beston who wrote of Maine, The Northern Farm , and Cape Cod, The Outermost House . His love of nature, written with the heart of a poet and a sage, inspired me to drink deeply of the sights and sounds of life. His love of the small farming community rekindled a longing for my birthplace, so to fulfill an old dream I traveled to my birthplace this summer. My sister and I camped out on the coast of Maine, kayaked in the waves, hiked the shores, and caught up with dear old family members. I was returning full circle, back to my roots, and all that I had lost by running away. It has taken me more than 30 years cherish the meaning of home. So there it is -- a quick capsule of me.
A big welcome to all the new members! :wave:
Welcome back Claes!
Hi :) My name is Elena and i'm from Romania. right now I'm still a student, though i plan on finishing next year. i love reading and writing, and even though I've read a lot of books i still have trouble answering that annoying question: what's your favorite book? most times i think it's impossible to pick only one when i loved most of them but for different reasons.
I don't have many hobbies but the ones i have my friends tell me i turned them into small obsessions. i like photography and almost never go out without my camera, another thing i really like is skating, be it on the ice or the concrete.
well that's about it. i hope i didn't bore you too much.
Hello,
I just want to say hi! and do some introducing.
I am Ton and come from the Netherlands. I am 57 years old, married, with 2 sons.
I put the name of James Joyce down as my favorite writer, but it would be better to say that I can't really choose, I love all english, dutch and german poetry, thomas pynchon, burroughs, shakespeare, books on history, elizabethan and jacobean drama, anglo-saxon poetry, and-so-forth, ad infinitam.
I buy books at a greater speed than I can read -sigh- (mainly second-hand though) and am blessed with a wife that looks on with tolerant smile as I pile the walls and floors of my house full :smash: .
It means that sometimes they have to go to charity or the house would burst at the seams.
Hey everyone!
I'm Leslie. I'm a senior in high school right now, taking AP English Literature. My favorite book would probably be A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving or Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.
I used to read everything I could get my hands on, but now that school has taken over my life, I've only been reading what I'm required to read. I'm trying to change that. Haha.
Hi, ^_^ I am Veronica, but I am mostly known as Jinx, due to the fact I happen to Jinx a lot of things. I am 17, and female. I am also English but I can speak Frech.
I am at college right now doing my A Levels, I am studying English, History, Ethics, Philosophy and Law. When I am older I hope to be a teacher, or to many invent something random that will make me a fair amount of money.
I live not far from Liverpool with my mother and simlings, I do not have a father as such, but I have a good friend who is like a dad to me.
I can be rather random at times, however I know when to be a good girl. ;)
I am taken, sorry boys ;), I have been with my Kris now for over a year, I am in love, and I do not know love is, if anything I would find myself manybe a little bit like Tess is towards Angel sometimes, I am on that level of devotion to my boyfriend, I really would do anything for him, and love him no matter what. It may seem silly, but I do not care, it is my feelings at the end of the day.
I am very happy with my looks, but maybe I should be a bit more concerned about my weight, however everything says it is a girls thing to be thinking they are fat all the time... ¬_¬
I am a rather big fan of music of any kinds and laguage, however I have a big thing for Japanese rock. I play piano, drum, bass, flute and a little bit of guitar, I would like to play a fair few instrements from around the world, I would love to make a band with each known instrement!
I love anime and manga, Death Note was rather good, but the ending kind of disapointed me, Chobits was good, however Bleach kicked ***! ^_^
I love RPGs such as final fantasy and kingdom hearts, I love my PS2, however I am not too fond on the PS3, but a few good games seem to be coming out on it. I like nintendo and microsoft, [yes kill me if you must] the X-Box has taken my heart! Halo is something I could play on all night long, I love online games, I would love .hack to be a bit more common where I live.
I love books! I could read anything you give me, as long as it is in English or French. ^_^ I am quite good at those languages. My favorite novilist would have to be Steven Kings, however Thomas Hardy was rather good.
I feel I have told you a little bit too much, and I fear that after all this typing no one will actually read it all.
Well e-mail me if you want to know more.