Introduce yourself

[ande]

Say hello to everyone.

[marquezreader]

hello to all ... what a great topic for discussion.

[Timbuktu1]

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ande wrote:
Say hello to everyone.

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Hi everyone. I am a 58 year old mother of 3 and former teacher who is enrolled in a Great Books Program at a university. It has been a dream of mine to read these books and it's been 1 l/2 years now of making my dream come true.

I'd love to discuss the books with any like-minded people out there. This quarter we're reading The Odyssey and The Republic. I'd read excerpts of both over the years but this is the first time I'm going straight through.

Hope to hear from you soon!

[karinlib]

Hi all,

My name is Karin, and I am a bibliophile. I am looking forward to reading everyone's book suggestions.

Thanks,

Karin

[karinlib]

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Timbuktu1 wrote:

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ande wrote:
Say hello to everyone.

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Hi everyone. I am a 58 year old mother of 3 and former teacher who is enrolled in a Great Books Program at a university. It has been a dream of mine to read these books and it's been 1 l/2 years now of making my dream come true.

I'd love to discuss the books with any like-minded people out there. This quarter we're reading The Odyssey and The Republic. I'd read excerpts of both over the years but this is the first time I'm going straight through.

Hope to hear from you soon!

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I have to the Great Books at home. It is wonderful that you are taking the opportunity to read the books. My favorite one by far is Gulliver's Travels, by Swift.

Karin

[Timbuktu1]

Good to hear from you. I read Gulliver's Travels in college, 40 years ago! Reading these works at this age... they're entirely different. I do remember enjoy Gulliver a lot. Maybe I'll get a chance to re-read it soon.

[Cvr2Cvr]

Hello!

I am a 41 year old working mom of two young sons (3 and 8) who spends most spare moments reading as much as possible. I started a ladies book club about 5 years ago and we have really grown as readers and friends. I am hoping this discussion group can complement my book club reading and give me ideas for suggestions to the group. Looking forward to joining in...thanks for including me!

[ande]

Greetings and welcome to Book Explorers!

We've been compiling a quite the list, as you can see.

Ande

[LoracSer]

Hello, my name is Carol and I live in New Jersey. I love to read, so much so that I saved $180 with my B&N membership last year. That means I spent..... I just love to read. I am looking forward to discussing what I read with the members here, I am just not sure exactly where to start. I have been investigating the site, to figure things out, when I came upon this thread to introduce myself. I guess you should all know that, as much as I read, my spelling and punctuation are horrible. You will have to get used to that, my boss tells me I am comma crazy. Well I will go back to my investigating, I hope to speak with many of you in the future.

[ande]

Hello, and welcome to Book Explorers!

As you can tell if you've wandered about this club we talk about all things books: buying them, recommending them, spying on people reading them, putting them down, just reading them. Plus, I often urge Explorers to have a look at the books recommended by the Literary Ventures Fund, the foundation of which I am the editorial director.

Happy reading and talking about reading.
Ande

[Timbuktu1]

I can relate to how you feel about having "saved" so much money. Sometimes I wonder if Barnes and Noble realizes that the "savings" figure might actually discourage future buying! I know it has for me!

[ctobeyk]

Hi, I am delighted to discover like minded people who love to discover new books and do not limit the genre as long as the books are well written. Now, where do you keep your "read it" and "skip it" lists? I just finished reading Attonement and having not rseen the movie, loved it. You must read it to the last page to fully appreciate it. I cannot imagine that the movie will do it justice. I have picked up a few of his books and found them not so interesting.

[ande]

And we are delighted that you found us. Welcome to Book Explorers!

You are right -- we are a free-flowing, non-judgemental community of people who love books and all things books.

If you go to my #1 blog entry you will see the JUST READ IT LIST. 

The JUST PUT IT DOWN LIST is in the #2 blog entry.

Do you find these lists helpful? There's always room for friendly debate.

Thanks for joining us.

Ande 

[pagedove]

Hello, I'm a 47 year old mother of 3 wonderful daughters (26,20, and 14) I live to read and I read to live. I am an aspiring writer and now that my children are fairly grown and on their own I spend much more time at pastimes such as this and also on my writing. I live in New Jersey and have my BA in creative writing and literature. I have been published in a local magazine and currently I enter competitions in my literary magazines with short stories. Nothing yet, but I've read so many stories about all the rejections that our most beloved authors have recieved that I will not be discouraged. Nice to meet you all, and I am looking forward to our future discussions. PS-ok I do have to work and so I run a construction company with my husband. We've been in the business for 25 years but this is the first time I have committed to it on a full-time basis. So far so good!

[ande]

Welcome! You are officially a Book Explorer now.

Thanks for your many thoughts and various posts today. You just jumped right in and I hope that encourages all of you on the sidelines who are reading the posts to join in. There's no right way or wrong way to comment and if it makes you feel any better I never did anything like this until B&N signed me up to blog and trailboss this board.

Don't be shy. It's lots of fun. You can share your deepest insights or simply tell us what that guy next to you on the bus is reading (Book Snoop).

Join us!

Ande

[dnicholl]

Hey ya'll,

Texas librarian here, always looking for biblioholics like myself to discuss and share thoughts about books and reading. I look forward to the discussions.

DLN

[ande]

Hey to you, too! And welcome to Book Explorers. Would you tell us about your library and a bit about being a librarian?

Ande

[mrsronaldweasl…]

hi everyone! im 21 years old and i like a bit of everything. a bit of reading, a bit of art, a bit of writing, a bit of this and that. i absolutely love meeting new people and of course hearing other people's thoughts on life, love, etc. im all about good conversation. ;p

i hail from the Harry Potter Book Club.

Call me MrsRw.

and id love to get to know you all.

have a great day everyone.

[ande]

MrsRw:

Welcome to Book Explorers! Thanks for joining us.

Ande

[psychodragon]

Hi everyone.  I'm a 24 year old bibliophile with too little time and so many books to read.  I look forward to the discussion.