Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[Gordon Comstock]

Welcome Charas, great to have you here. As a teacher, it is always my hope that students find reading fun for themselves. It doesn't always happen. In one of my classrooms, I had over 500 volumes for them to look through and only had a few who would even pick them up.

I have found this to be a great place with many great minds and a wealth of diversity. Enjoy.

[Poetess]

Hello Charas, welcome in here! I`m certain it`s magnificent.
Keep in touch!

Welcome Poetess. I hope to get to know you too. I hope you like it here. I'm bloody into Emily Dickenson too.

I`m so glad about it, thank you Virgil! Is it your real name?

[lostdog]

hello everyone...I found this site by accident a few days ago when I was looking for a map of Russia circa 1812 so I could plot out the comings and goings in the book War and Peace which I just finished reading. No map here, but clearly lots of interesting people and ideas. It seems like it is not a slam kind of place where people would put others down. I'm enjoying reading the various posts. I'm 61 yrs old..."that guy is really old" My wife and I live on an island in the San Juan Island group, which is in the waters of northwest Washington State next to Canada and Vancouver Island. I drove bus in Seattle for 28 years until I was old enough to retire. When I retired we moved here, I took care of my mother here until she died a year ago in January. I love to read. I read a lot on my breaks when I was driving bus, classics, Melville's Moby Dick, what ever turns up from American lit, and I have always liked reading Latin American authors like Carlos Fuentes. I have only a high school education graduating in 1964. I was a political activist especially in my youth. Civil rights, anti war, peace and other causes which still interest me. Biographies interest me too if they arn't to tedious. The ones I don't like seem to revelle in tracking what someone ate for dinner and who said what to excess. yuk. I have 5 grown children the youngest is 25 yr. My other main interest is music. I've been trying to learn to play saxophone for the last few years. I have a small group that I play with. It is probably the thing that keeps me most involved. I have to really work to learn music. We are learning mostly jazz tunes, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and others, and also some Klezmer and other stuff. our object is to have fun and learn new stuff, and we do. I'm very fortunate to be where I am and to be able to do what I like after all those years of working to support family. I split a lot of wood here, literally and figuratively (sp?) We have a very old cat named Gramshi who sleeps all the time. That is the intro, short form. Nice to meet you all.

[Pensive]

Hi poetess, lostdog and Gordon Comstock! Welcome to the forum folks!

[lostdog]

Thanks for the welcome, Pensive. There is a lot for me to learn on this site, including how to use it well. i looked to read the short stories yesterday, but couldn't find them. Also, it seems that if one asks questions about lit, more likely to get responces. I guess that's easy enough, but where to ask them?

[Gordon Comstock]

Thanks for the welcome, Pensive. There is a lot for me to learn on this site, including how to use it well. i looked to read the short stories yesterday, but couldn't find them. Also, it seems that if one asks questions about lit, more likely to get responces. I guess that's easy enough, but where to ask them?

lostdog, you are found. Just ask and these wonderful folks will help you get to where you are going. Need something, they will take care of you.

[JackShea]

Not sure if I am doing this correctly but...HI! I joined this site to learn. After years in an alcoholic haze it is a joy to see the sun. So many things I seek to understand. But...onward and upward as they say. Anything else...Just ask.

All the best,

Jack

[calientestephie]

hello, my name is stephie just signed up, i was just wondering if anyone would refer me to a good interesting book to read. i just read Smack and i'm finishing up on Love Janis. Its Janis Joplin's biography. i'm all about music and such
it'd be cool if someone replyed cause i'm not sure on how these threads work out thanks! peace

[charas]

Thanks for the kind welcome Gordon and Poetess. There's so much to read here that I'm sure it will be a while before I have anything to add. But it should be a fun ride!

Cheers everyone,
charas

[dramasnot6]

Hi Jack! Welcome to LitNet. I'm sure,after already seeing your very nice poem, you'll make an excellent contribution to this forum! What type of Lit do you like?

Welcome calientestephie! THere are hundreds and hundreds of good books out there, what type of genra(horror,sci-fi, historical,etc.) are you interested in? Have a nice stay at LitNet!

[Raiv]

Hello, everyone. I'm a high school student with a penchant for reading, and stumbled onto this forum purely through chance. It was a great coincidence, because I've always wanted to read and participate in broad, critical discussions — can't be sure yet if my needs will be satisfied by this place, but I have a good feeling.

I'm not terribly well read, unlike, I'm sure, many people here, but I do try to read most days. With any luck, my participation around here will increase with time.

[alhara]

why raiv? hmmmmm

[Poetess]

Welcome all.

[Dark_Fire]

yo yo yo

[soleann]

Hello!
I came across this website by accident, and got excited about it instantly. I read a lot of books but hardly ever get the chance to discuss them with anyone, so I'm happy if I get to do that here.

I'm from Finland, so my native tongue is Finnish. Sometimes it gets hold of me and my English grammar gets all mixed up -- I appologize in advance, because it's bound to happen some time when I post something here.
Otherwise I can speak English practically as well as Finnish, because my education has always been in English; however, this year I've changed to a Finnish-speaking school. (My mother was getting worried about my Finnish skills...)

My interests include art, literature, animals and history. I'm interested in languages also; I'm taking French at school. My favorite book perhaps is Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, but the range of books I read is wide.

Well, I hope I can eventually become active in the conversations going on on this website. I'm usually not the active kind in forums and such, but I'm hopeful about this one.