Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[xsteff1991x]

Um, I don't like posts like this lol but I'm steph, I usually just spell it steff for the ease of it... I am 17, studying literature and a literature/language course aswel lol

[WanderingGirl]

Hey, everyone! I'm from Ireland, and I have just turned 15.
I love reading and writing, otherwise I wouldn't be here.... My favourite author/book is Emily Bronte with her only book Wuthering Heights.

[amalrachid]

hello i am palestinian but i live in lebanon.

[Zee.]

Hey, everyone! I'm from Ireland, and I have just turned 15.
I love reading and writing, otherwise I wouldn't be here.... My favourite author/book is Emily Bronte with her only book Wuthering Heights.

You should talk to Niamh, she's in Ireland

[saddness2003]

Hi I am new member in your nice site i hope that i can find my subjects in learning more about your language.







thanks a lot>

[stellaf]

I am New in this forum and I just want to make some friend with the help of this site. If you want to be a friend of mine please reply.


Stella

[zhangka8384]

hi , everyone , I am Eric, I come from China, it is my pleasure to be a part of you. I am interested in O Henry. I love sports in my spare time.

[Niamh]

Welcome to the forum everyone!!!

[dafydd manton]

All Hail -one new member crawls out from under a stone, somewhere in England, to found out what the rest of the world reads. We in this sceptred Isle tend to be a bit conservative, and the education system stills drills Shakespeare, Bacon, Chaucer, Dickens, Anthony Trollope and a few other classical English writers. The thought of doing Steinbeck, say, at school would have aged teachers swooning in the clas-room, then throwing themselves under a passing double-deck bus.
I have been brought up with a lot of the great Welsh writers, starting obviously with the Mabinogion, a catalogue of very early Celtic writings, then later poets like Dylan Thomas, Idris Davis, Housman and others. Much of Welsh literature is still produced in Welsh, which is the oldest European language, a matter of much pride in Wales.
I try and write myself, but having seen the thread about the worst writer in the world, stop searching, lads and lasses, I'm here!! I am also a photographer, working mostly with local stuff in the City where I live, Sheffield.
I love Rugby Union Football, speaking Welsh, and I collenct different translations if the Bible, my oldest dating from 1641. I have some in German, Russian and Obviously Welsh.
I'm looking forward to learnig lots from this Forum, and hopefully expanding my horizons beyond the North Sea. Thanks for the welcome

[oopsycandy]

Hello all
ok I'm 29 female and in the midlands in England. I've always always loved to read about pretty much everything so am looking forward to spending time here x
Daffyd I studied Of mice and men in school (a few years ago and badly mind )

[zbss]

Hi! hi hi hi hi

[Joreads]

Hi everyone and welcome

[Aroungaschan]

Hi everyone!
A little crisp breeze from California to all of you!
I am a college student and majoring in engineering
but that does not mean I do not read books! I enjoy
reading occasionally when I have the time for it.
I did not like reading when I was in middle school
or high school but my senior English teacher, who is
now good friend of mine got me started on literatures.
Anyways, I look forward to having great discussions,
chats, and fun times in this community!
Cya!

[Bev]

Hi there. I'm from Canada, Montreal to be exact, and I'm a classics student by love of it, rather than for grades. I am retired and taking regular undergrad Classics classes, but not for credit. I was an English teacher at a junior college here for 32 years, and I taught the Odyssey and Greek myth in my course. It's nice these days to sit with the students for a change and learn Roman literature. I am currently reading the Aeneid, and find it very much like the Odyssey and the Iliad, especially in the way that Virgil borrows many of Homer's ideas on things. For example, he has Venus clean up the recently-shipwrecked and therefore messy Aeneus before he meets Dido; Homer had Athena do the same thing for Odysseus after he was shipwrecked and about to meet people.

[dafydd manton]

Hello all
ok I'm 29 female and in the midlands in England. I've always always loved to read about pretty much everything so am looking forward to spending time here x
Daffyd I studied Of mice and men in school (a few years ago and badly mind )

I have to confess that much as I love Steinbeck, he makes me feel uncomfortable a lot of the time, so I don't read as much of it as I should. I think that it's too close to reality to be treated as fiction, even if it is. (Sounds a bit convoluted, that, but I hope you know what I mean). As I get older, now 54, I'm getting more into poetry. It won't be long before I'm wearing flowing clothes, carrying a daffodil and quoting huge chunks of "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".