Introduce yourself

[beelzebubble]

Hi I am an old lady (59) named Janet and live near Philadelphia.
I used to love reading and was quite a prolific reader (three or five novels a week).
Now it is very hard to snag my interest but Stevie and Liam have both given me enjoyable suggestions.
It is odd how Texas is getting all our snow. We had a nor'easter come though this weekend and left no snow. Not even the dreaded black ice on the roads. A couple hours into the storm it switched from snow to rain and the temperature went up. My co-workers still didn't show up for work just as if it had been a real nor'easter.

 

[tiganeasca]

Uh-oh. If 59 qualifies as "old," I'm afraid to think of where that leaves me.

 

[Stevie B]

Hi I am an old lady (59) named Janet and live near Philadelphia.
I used to love reading and was quite a prolific reader (three or five novels a week).
Now it is very hard to snag my interest but Stevie and Liam have both given me enjoyable suggestions.
It is odd how Texas is getting all our snow. We had a nor'easter come though this weekend and left no snow. Not even the dreaded black ice on the roads. A couple hours into the storm it switched from snow to rain and the temperature went up. My co-workers still didn't show up for work just as if it had been a real nor'easter.

Uh-oh. If 59 qualifies as "old," I'm afraid to think of where that leaves me.

Young at heart?

 

[Benny Profane]

It's my turn now.
I already introduced myself for some members, but there are anothers who don't know me yet.
Hi, my name is João (John in English) and I'm brazilian. I'm 32 years old (33 years on March 17).
I have a BA in Economics and my dream is to have a MA and PhD in Economics outdoors of my born city (and, If it is possible, out of my country) and (maybe) a BA in Linguistics and PhD in Philology too.

I'm pursuiting the diplomatic career now (I'm studying very hard everyday).

I found this forum when I searched about the Nobel Prize in 2017 (it's been a while, of course), but I didn't have the enough courage to do a register. LOL.

Literature has been my therapy since 2018 when my former girlfriend brokedown our relationship. "There are some wrongs that will became good" as we say in my country! LOL! Before this, I didn't use to read a lot (I usually read something).
It has been helping me to face some adversities such as death of my father (6 months ago today) and these pandemics situations.

My daddy was a poet and a teacher of Mathematics. He published 13 books of poetry, was a colaborator in some literary groups, edited and participated in anthologies etc, but he is obscured yet.
I want to do an anthology in his memory.

Ah, I'm writer too. I want to publish my works as soon as possible.
I have many ideas for my books and I have tittles for 15 or 16 books in all styles: poetry, play, novel, short story etc.
My first book will be poetry (free verses, white verses, sonets, metric verses etc) and will be about the liquid modernity and the new social relationships. It's 70% concluded.

I'd like be a translator too, principally of slavic languages.

PS: My nickname is a tribute to a Pynchon's caracther (Benny Profane is from V.)

 

[Stevie B]

Hi I am an old lady (59) named Janet and live near Philadelphia.
I used to love reading and was quite a prolific reader (three or five novels a week).
Now it is very hard to snag my interest but Stevie and Liam have both given me enjoyable suggestions.
It is odd how Texas is getting all our snow. We had a nor'easter come though this weekend and left no snow. Not even the dreaded black ice on the roads. A couple hours into the storm it switched from snow to rain and the temperature went up. My co-workers still didn't show up for work just as if it had been a real nor'easter.

3-5 books a week must have been a challenge, though such a reading pace is exactly what I need to deal with a growing backlog of unread books.

 

[Leseratte]

Uh-oh. If 59 qualifies as "old," I'm afraid to think of where that leaves me.

And me!Sniff!

 

[Stevie B]

It's my turn now.
I already introduced myself for some members, but there are anothers who don't know me yet.
Hi, my name is João (John in English) and I'm brazilian. I'm 32 years old (33 years on March 17).
I have a BA in Economics and my dream is to have a MA and PhD in Economics outdoors of my born city (and, If it is possible, out of my country) and (maybe) a BA in Linguistics and PhD in Philology too.

I'm pursuiting the diplomatic career now (I'm studying very hard everyday).

I found this forum when I searched about the Nobel Prize in 2017 (it's been a while, of course), but I didn't have the enough courage to do a register. LOL.

Literature has been my therapy since 2018 when my former girlfriend brokedown our relationship. "There are some wrongs that will became good" as we say in my country! LOL! Before this, I didn't use to read a lot (I usually read something).
It has been helping me to face some adversities such as death of my father (6 months ago today) and these pandemics situations.

My daddy was a poet and a teacher of Mathematics. He published 13 books of poetry, was a colaborator in some literary groups, edited and participated in anthologies etc, but he is obscured yet.
I want to do an anthology in his memory.

Ah, I'm writer too. I want to publish my works as soon as possible.
I have many ideas for my books and I have tittles for 15 or 16 books in all styles: poetry, play, novel, short story etc.
My first book will be poetry (free verses, white verses, sonets, metric verses etc) and will be about the liquid modernity and the new social relationships. It's 70% concluded.

I'd like be a translator too, principally of slavic languages.

PS: My nickname is a tribute to a Pynchon's caracther (Benny Profane is from V.)

Mathematics and poetry would appear, at first glimpse, anyway, to be at opposite ends of the spectrum. It's wonderful that your father was able to find a home in both worlds. Good luck with your own writing. I wish I shared your drive and determination to write and publish, but I suppose I'm destined to remain an undiscovered master of the form. ?

 

[Benny Profane]

Mathematics and poetry would appear, at first glimpse, anyway, to be at opposite ends of the spectrum. It's wonderful that your father was able to find a home in both worlds. Good luck with your own writing. I wish I shared your drive and determination to write and publish, but I suppose I'm destined to remain an undiscovered master of the form. ?

Well, my father always said "poetry and music became from Mathematics. When both are far apart from its, they only became solfeggios and free words".
My dad was rigid about metrics, rhymes and rhytms and formulated a poetry without pens and notebooks. I've never seen such ease in count syllabes as my father had!
He wrote dozens of personal achrostics (for friends, colleagues etc) and his inspirations were Castro Alves (his personal hero), Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Gregório de Matos, Manuel Bocage and Trobadourism (and Literatura de Cordel - a kind of poetry very common in my region - Northeast from Brazil - whose booklets hang over clothes line).

About me: my first one book will be called Logorreia (Logorrhea) and my influences include Jorge de Lima, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Ezra Pound, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Gisouè Carducci, García Lorca, Vladimir Maiakovski, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, OuLiPo and Philosophy.

And thank you for your praise!

 

[Liam]

I see we're having an open door day at the forum today,

Welcome, old friends and new, and I hope that you stick around as members of our deeply connected, if sometimes cantankerous community,

 

[Benny Profane]

Welcome, old friends and new, and I hope that you stick around as members of our deeply connected, if sometimes cantankerous community,

No way, @Liam! Here isn't a cantankerous community! LOL!

I found this forum very welcoming about different cultures, gender and sexual options and politic views.

Many members are LGBTQIA+, for example, and there aren't homophoby, xenophoby, etnocentrism, racism and toxicity here!
That's a relief!
Reddit, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are fully of evil isms and obys and don't allow a good conversation about Literature.

 

[Liam]

I'd like be a translator too, principally of slavic languages.

Which Slavic languages are you interested in, Benny?

 

[Liam]

Now it is very hard to snag my interest but Stevie and Liam have both given me enjoyable suggestions.

A compliment of the highest order! Thank you, my friend, ?

 

[Benny Profane]

Which Slavic languages are you interested in, Benny?

Czech, Polish, Serbian and Russian.

 

[Liam]

I found this forum very welcoming about different cultures, gender and sexual options and politic views.

Oh yes, I'd say we are all very welcoming on that front, I meant more on questions of literature... As my former professor once told me about academic in-fighting: "When people have little to lose, they turn into monsters..." ?

 

[Stevie B]

A compliment of the highest order! Thank you, my friend, ?

Yes, I'm usually chastised by friends for my film recommendations. Fortunately, most of my friends aren't readers so that can't grumble about my book recommendations. Glad to know, beelzebubble, that some of those books have resonated with you.

 

[Michael!]

It's my turn now.
I already introduced myself for some members, but there are anothers who don't know me yet.
Hi, my name is João (John in English) and I'm brazilian. I'm 32 years old (33 years on March 17).
I have a BA in Economics and my dream is to have a MA and PhD in Economics outdoors of my born city (and, If it is possible, out of my country) and (maybe) a BA in Linguistics and PhD in Philology too.

I'm pursuiting the diplomatic career now (I'm studying very hard everyday).

I found this forum when I searched about the Nobel Prize in 2017 (it's been a while, of course), but I didn't have the enough courage to do a register. LOL.

Literature has been my therapy since 2018 when my former girlfriend brokedown our relationship. "There are some wrongs that will became good" as we say in my country! LOL! Before this, I didn't use to read a lot (I usually read something).
It has been helping me to face some adversities such as death of my father (6 months ago today) and these pandemics situations.

My daddy was a poet and a teacher of Mathematics. He published 13 books of poetry, was a colaborator in some literary groups, edited and participated in anthologies etc, but he is obscured yet.
I want to do an anthology in his memory.

Ah, I'm writer too. I want to publish my works as soon as possible.
I have many ideas for my books and I have tittles for 15 or 16 books in all styles: poetry, play, novel, short story etc.
My first book will be poetry (free verses, white verses, sonets, metric verses etc) and will be about the liquid modernity and the new social relationships. It's 70% concluded.

I'd like be a translator too, principally of slavic languages.

PS: My nickname is a tribute to a Pynchon's caracther (Benny Profane is from V.)

Hi João, we seem to have a lot in common. I also have a background in economics (my day job) and literature(my passion). I double majored in college and got a degree in French literature. Maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but for some time I have noticed a similar beauty and elegance in math and language (although the latter is far more pleasurable). It takes real skill to express an idea beautifully and concisely in both fields.

I've also dreamt of translating in my free time, but I think there is no shortage of French translators. I jokingly set myself the goal of reading "In Search of Lost Time" in the original by time I turn 30. It's not going so well, but there's still hope.

 

[Benny Profane]

Hi João, we seem to have a lot in common. I also have a background in economics (my day job) and literature and (my passion). I double majored in college and got a degree in French literature. Maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but for some time I have noticed a similar beauty and elegance in math and language (although the latter is far more pleasurable). It takes real skill to express an idea beautifully and concisely in both fields.

I've also dreamt of translating in my free time, but I think there is no shortage of French translators. I jokingly set myself the goal of reading "In Search of Lost Time" in the original by time I turn 30. It's not going so well, but there's still hope.

I'm glad to read it, my colleague.
In my country, we don't have a minor degree here (only full degree), but I attended some classes of Classic Philosophy, Sociology and Law (we call Optional Disciplines/Classes). I had an oportunity to study German in my BA, but I wanted to get out of the University soon. LOL!

I'm learning Frech on this year! It's very hard, but has a similiarity with my native language and In Search of Lost Time was the best book I read in my life!

 

[ctbzz]

Hi all,

My name is Cat and I am 27 years old from the US. I've been here a few times checking posts, but figured I'd join and try to contribute a bit! Looking forward to discussing some reads, adding books to my to-read list, and I kind of found myself fed up a bit with Goodreads reviews and reddit discussions of some books I've read, so I'd been advised to come here instead. I also might have been recruited via the lovely @redheadshadz, who happens to be my fiancé ☺

Some of my classic favorites are probably Crime and Punishment, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying (went through a phase for a bit), and I'll toss Moby Dick in there too, though I certainly had ups and downs with that one... but I still think of it all the time, lol. But I'm currently reading A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford and my first Can Xue book, which has certainly surprised me, in a good way though! Will be good to be here and branch out on my future reads.

 

[Stevie B]

Hi all,

My name is Cat and I am 27 years old from the US. I've been here a few times checking posts, but figured I'd join and try to contribute a bit! Looking forward to discussing some reads, adding books to my to-read list, and I kind of found myself fed up a bit with Goodreads reviews and reddit discussions of some books I've read, so I'd been advised to come here instead. I also might have been recruited via the lovely @redheadshadz, who happens to be my fiancé ☺

Some of my classic favorites are probably Crime and Punishment, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying (went through a phase for a bit), and I'll toss Moby Dick in there too, though I certainly had ups and downs with that one... but I still think of it all the time, lol. But I'm currently reading A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford and my first Can Xue book, which has certainly surprised me, in a good way though! Will be good to be here and branch out on my future reads.

Welcome, Cat, and congrats! I see you're a fan of the classics, and I imagine Red had some influence in your selection of a Can Xue book . It's nice that you cited Crime and Punishment as one of your favorites. I imagine many people avoid that book because they think it would be a heavy slog of a read. I was surprised to find it quite modern in style and even humorous, at times. Faulkner, on the other hand, I struggled with as an undergrad (many years ago), and I haven't revisited him since. I recently picked up a copy of Absalom, Absalom! to remedy this situation. Any thoughts on that book?

 

[ctbzz]

Welcome, Cat, and congrats! I see you're a fan of the classics, and I imagine Red had some influence in your selection of a Can Xue book . It's nice that you cited Crime and Punishment as one of your favorites. I imagine many people avoid that book because they think it would be a heavy slog of a read. I was surprised to find it quite modern in style and even humorous, at times. Faulkner, on the other hand, I struggled with as an undergrad (many years ago), and I haven't revisited him since. I recently picked up a copy of Absalom, Absalom! to remedy this situation. Any thoughts on that book?

Haha, yes Red definitely got me onto the Can Xue book... And convinced me to add one or two more of hers to my to-read list too ? And yes, I think C&P is my favorite for all of those same exact reasons. As for Faulkner... I will unfortunately report that Absalom, Absalom! is the big one I haven't read yet. I picked it up a few months ago and read the first page and just sighed. I had a much more enjoyable time with Go Down, Moses and As I Lay Dying. Though maybe I should try again.