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Post by sammybluejay on Dec 21, 2011 22:39:23 GMT -5
Hello, ladies and gentlemen! Just thought I'd pop by here and introduce myself. I've been considering joining the board for a while but haven't had any spare time with exams and essays until this week. So! Here I am. My name is Sam(antha), the story about which is apparently that my mom liked the television show Bewitched so much that she decided to name her daughter after the main character. Unfortunately, I have never been able to wiggle my nose and make magic, although I swear I'll accomplish it someday. I'm an English major at Wilfrid Laurier University, up here in Ontario, Canada. I'm actually entering my last semester of my last year of the degree, which is super exciting and super nerve-wracking at the same time. I've found out that I especially have a thing for Victorian lit, fiction and poetry alike. But I'm of course open to basically any kind of lit you can throw at me, particularly if it's dystopian. I'm also a huge fan of YA fiction. I am also a huge believer in the power of grammar and spelling! To the point where I annoy some people with it and my brother has always thrown his essays at me to edit. Welp. That's all I can think to write here. I hope to make some friends and have some good chats here!  |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Dec 22, 2011 0:46:48 GMT -5
You a hockey fan? That's no comment on your Canadianness, but rather the fact that I'm a huge Blackhawks fan and am always looking for new blood to join in the depressingly ill-utilized hockey fans thread on the boards here. Regardless, welcome. My mum also chose my name from the media, though mine was from the credits of a very strange movie. No idea who it is I'm named after. I'm more proud of my birthday anyway (same as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Laurence Olivier!).  Victorian lit = AWESOME. Taking that class next semester and looking forward to it. What are your favourite novels from the time period, and do you also enjoy the Romantics? |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 22, 2011 2:59:50 GMT -5
Yaaaaaay, new person! Welcome to the Fez. Please post EVERYWHERE.
Also, huzzah for grammarians! You will fit in well. And YA and distopian genres are super big these days. I assume you're a Hunger Games fan?
I'm Nora -- I can wiggle my nose, but nothing supernatural has ever come of it. Except that one time, but... well, I've been forbidden to talk of it.
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Post by sammybluejay on Dec 22, 2011 22:38:21 GMT -5
@dodger Thirteen: I'm KIND of a hockey fan, meaning I get really excited whenever I actually watch it but other than that I'm kind of meh. Maple Leafs are my team.  Even though they usually suck... As for Victorian Lit, I absolutely love The Picture of Dorian Gray and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, as well as any Edith Wharton novels although she spills into the Edwardian period. Also, Dracula is totally amazing. The Romantics are OKAY, depends on what I'm reading though. I read Zofloya for a romanticism class and absolutely loved it, but I find a lot of it a lot dryer than Victorian Lit. I love the dark-twistiness of a lot of VicLit. And onlyaworkingtitle, YES I LOVE THE HUNGER GAMES ANSVLJSDIJB okay. Now that that little bit of fangirling is out of my system, I absolutely love that series and I am SUPER PUMPED for the movie! |
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Post by sammybluejay on Dec 22, 2011 23:24:37 GMT -5
ALSO, for Victorian Lit, I do like Dickens. Great Expectations is my favourite.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 23, 2011 0:19:34 GMT -5
And onlyaworkingtitle, YES I LOVE THE HUNGER GAMES ANSVLJSDIJB okay. Now that that little bit of fangirling is out of my system, I absolutely love that series and I am SUPER PUMPED for the movie! Do we have a thread for the series yet? If not, I need to get on that shit... |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Dec 23, 2011 23:20:18 GMT -5
I'm actually reading Dorian Gray and Great Expectations for the VicLit class next semester. Read them both before, but have to study them again next semester.
I'm a Keats fan myself, though if I weren't, the Four Weeks with John Keats class I took a few summers ago would have been entirely too much torture for one person.
Not a fan of Dickens, though. I don't get the appeal. Great Expectation was really the only one I could appreciate.
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Post by sammybluejay on Dec 24, 2011 0:04:46 GMT -5
I haven't read a huge amount of Dickens myself, but I did love GE and Hard Times as well. I meant to read A Christmas Carol this year but never got around to it, got sucked into too many other books...oh well.
My VicLit classes also really got me to appreciate poetry haha. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Robert Browning, Tennyson - love 'em all. Especially Robert Browning and his twisted dramatic monologues! Wilde's poetry is also on the eerie side, he really liked to compare women to marionettes. I don't think I appreciate the poetry of any other era as much as Victorian.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Dec 24, 2011 3:46:46 GMT -5
I'm a Keats fan myself, though if I weren't, the Four Weeks with John Keats class I took a few summers ago would have been entirely too much torture for one person. ahfewa;hfafKEATSasgharkgka I WANT TO TAKE THAT CLASS |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jan 4, 2012 23:25:16 GMT -5
Yay, another Canadian. Welcome!
Also Endora rocks my socks. So.
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Post by sammybluejay on Jun 5, 2012 13:18:36 GMT -5
So I know I vanished off the face of the earth for a while there but I think I'm back...though the board seems kinda dead now.  I'm gonna run around and post everywhere! |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 5, 2012 22:19:11 GMT -5
Yaaay welcome back! Hopefully summer vacation will bring some of the fez back.
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Even though they usually suck...
