Hello....after several years of visiting this forum, I've decided to finally join and participate.
About me -- I'm 52, Canadian. I'm from Newfoundland, grew up and went to university there, and still consider it 'home' although I've lived in Toronto for 30 years now. I've always liked reading and have enjoyed literature since I was a teenager. I'm not sure how to characterize my reading habits, except to say that I never manage to read as much as I'd like to -- I guess most of would say that though. I have pretty wide-ranging tastes, I like classics as well as contemporary literary fiction, poetry, and essays. I'm the type of person who tries to take the positive from each reading experience, so while I won't hesitate to critique aspects of a book, it's not often that I truly dislike something so much that I'd give it a rating of 1 or 2 stars out of 5, for example.
I do actively seek out more obscure authors from around the world and literature in translation...probably 25-30% of the books I own are translated from another language (except French which I usually read in the original). So it's maybe unsurprising that I would find this forum intriguing
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Other interests of mine include film, sports, history, politics, geography, travel, photography, and learning foreign languages.
Since I joined after the Nobel announcement, I'll just say I haven't read anything by Annie Ernaux yet, but she seems a worthy recipient of the prize.
I likely won't be the most frequent poster, but will try to contribute a semi-intelligent comment occasionally
Kind regards,
Andrew