Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[LjerkaP]

Hi, I'm Ljerka, I come from Croatia, Europe. Great to have access to this forum.
I work as an interpreter, my native language is Croatian, B.A. in English and Polish languages.
Married, a son of 15.
Love reading...
don't we all?

[Virgil]

Welcome Ljerka. I hope you like it here on lit net.

[LeahAnn]

Hi,
I am 21 years old and love to read, unfortunately most of the people closest to me never even think about picking up a book. Which is why I joined this site to talk about literature, outside from my classes at the university. It is a pleasure to be apart of this.

[NNoah3]

Hello everybody,

Seems like if I have to introduce myself again .
I wasn't able to be here for a long long time , but I'm here again .
I wish all my friends remember me

Have a nice day!!!!

Nicole

[Pensive]

Hello everybody,

Seems like if I have to introduce myself again .
I wasn't able to be here for a long long time , but I'm here again .
I wish all my friends remember me

Have a nice day!!!!

Nicole

Surely, we do remember you!

Welcome back, NNoah!

And all newbies, receive my warm welcome!

[toni]

Welcome LjerkaP and LeahAnn and hello NNoah!

[Niamh]

hey i'm niamh! I'm almost twenty four years old, and was born and raised in Dublin city, ireland!


I'm a big fan of all things literary, and have a small collection of rare and antiquarian books, including a copy of Homers Iliad translated by Alexander Pope dating 1806, and The complete works of Thomas Moore 1901 with John McCormack, the tenors, signature in it.


I Studied Cultural and Heritage studies in college, which means i studied a broad range of subjects like Theatre Studies, Film studies, irish literature, geology and archaeology to name a few! I spend two years as an archaeologist and now supervise five busy bookshops in Dublin Airport, where i get 30% off all books which unfortunately means i waste most of my wages before i even leave the office!


I'm a big fan of the anglo-irish literary revival, and the early history of the Abbey theatre which gave us the plays of W.B.Yeats and J.M.Synge.


I signed up to be a member of this site after i stumbled across it a few days ago, and think its a great place for people who are interested in reading to share their wisedom!

happy reading!
Niamh

[SummerSolstice]

Wages spent on books are never wasted! ^_^

Me, I have no job, and thus no wages, and buying a book takes two or three week's worth of allowances... but if I ever had that much together at one time, and was to buy a book with it, that wouldn't be wasted either!

[Niamh]

i dont mind spending money on books, i mean i'd rather spend lots of money on books than on something that wont last an hour or a day. but i've got so many at this point i think it would be nicer on the limited space in my house if i started going to a library! I find it hard to go a few days without having a book in my hands. I'd probably buy two or three a week. my boyfriend on the other hand has been reading the same book for almost a year.

[The Quill]

Hello to you all.
I grew up never understanding just why most of the other pupils in my school saw any type of English class as a punishment. I would look at my timetable, see Double English Literature lesson and just know that I was in for a good time. I am forever grateful to my tutors and their love of the subject, which inspired me to read and gain a little understanding and massive amounts of enjoyment from the written word, throughout my life.
My children and all three of my granddaughters have had books held in front of them before they have even been able to focus with their eyes. We have all spent and continue to spend, some of our best moments together sharing a book or two.
I look forward to being a member here and hope to share some 'best moment' times with likeminded folk.
Best regards

[Ariadne]

So....my name is not really Ariadne (I guess you could tell), it's really taken after the Greek myth (I used this for quite a while back when I was role-playing on a Harry Potter website when I was 12)...but I think it's cute nevertheless.

I'm a highschool student, or well, it's my first year and I'm studying in the IB (or it's more like pre-ib, and next year I start the actual thing) which, for those who don't know, is this snobby and annoying English language diploma (I say snobby because my teachers make such a big deal about the whole thing just because it's in English).
My native language isn't English, but I have been speaking it since I was 7 or 8 so in a way it got better than my own native tongue. Apart from English, I also speak Romanian and a bit of French, Spanish and Finnish (oh and I dabble in Japanese at the moment, I started the course in september and during the summer I had an intensive course in German, courtesy of my mother, but I don't recall anything o.o).

I'm a big myth and legends fan, and I've always liked fairytales, though nowadays I think they're rather frightening and I don't understand how I could have been so swayed by the magical part that I didn't notice their cruelty.

Other than that, I admit to reading all those girly YA books, or most of them, my favourite being Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (it tells about vampires, and I looooove vampires!).

Anyways at the moment I am wading through Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", while trying to make sense of Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost (I am being masochistic here, as I hate anything to do with poetry >_<) and to relax I am reading a book called Famous Trials and I just started The Anthropology of Numbers (yes, I am fickle, I can't stand to read more than a chapter or two about the same thing, I need to read different things...which is why I usually read the same book twice because I don't understand a thing the first time ._. bad habit).

Oh and should I tell my hobbies too? I like ice-skating. And I nap a lot too. Oh and for some reason I tend to hit into things a lot.

Uhm...that's about it! (sorry if this was too long ._. )

[Logos]

Welcome all you newbies! happy to have you here!

[Pensive]

So....my name is not really Ariadne (I guess you could tell), it's really taken after the Greek myth (I used this for quite a while back when I was role-playing on a Harry Potter website when I was 12)...but I think it's cute nevertheless.

I'm a highschool student, or well, it's my first year and I'm studying in the IB (or it's more like pre-ib, and next year I start the actual thing) which, for those who don't know, is this snobby and annoying English language diploma (I say snobby because my teachers make such a big deal about the whole thing just because it's in English).
My native language isn't English, but I have been speaking it since I was 7 or 8 so in a way it got better than my own native tongue. Apart from English, I also speak Romanian and a bit of French, Spanish and Finnish (oh and I dabble in Japanese at the moment, I started the course in september and during the summer I had an intensive course in German, courtesy of my mother, but I don't recall anything o.o).

I'm a big myth and legends fan, and I've always liked fairytales, though nowadays I think they're rather frightening and I don't understand how I could have been so swayed by the magical part that I didn't notice their cruelty.

Other than that, I admit to reading all those girly YA books, or most of them, my favourite being Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (it tells about vampires, and I looooove vampires!).

Anyways at the moment I am wading through Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", while trying to make sense of Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost (I am being masochistic here, as I hate anything to do with poetry >_<) and to relax I am reading a book called Famous Trials and I just started The Anthropology of Numbers (yes, I am fickle, I can't stand to read more than a chapter or two about the same thing, I need to read different things...which is why I usually read the same book twice because I don't understand a thing the first time ._. bad habit).

Oh and should I tell my hobbies too? I like ice-skating. And I nap a lot too. Oh and for some reason I tend to hit into things a lot.

Uhm...that's about it! (sorry if this was too long ._. )

I am glad to know more and more people who are interested in Harry Potter series.

Have you by any chance tried Greek mythology? It is great!

And welcome to the forum, Ariadne, The Quill and niamhking!

[kathycf]

A warm welcome to all the new folks I am sure you have found an online home.

I Studied Cultural and Heritage studies in college, which means i studied a broad range of subjects like Theatre Studies, Film studies, irish literature, geology and archaeology to name a few! I spend two years as an archaeologist and now supervise five busy bookshops in Dublin Airport, where i get 30% off all books which unfortunately means i waste most of my wages before i even leave the office!

happy reading!
Niamh

Very interesting, Niamh. What a varied array of subjects. You remind me that I must dig out my copy of Riders to the Sea. I also like your avatar (I like Froud too) and must agree with the sentiment expressed about where all the greats come from. (Can you guess I am of Irish descent? )

[Bueller]

Greetings all. Will be mostly lurking and looking for good historical fiction.