My turn to welcome you. Your English is very good, by the way, for a non-native speaker. I am sure that discussions here will help you polish it even more.

I still haven't read The Other Bolyn Girl , though people keep encouraging me to since I teach Tudor literature. Maybe it should go on the summer reading list. One of the historical fiction writers I enjoy is Tracy Chevalier. She's best known for her Girl With a Pearl Earring , but she's written som...

Hi anthem--I can see the temptation to read War and Peace over again, partly because it is so long. There are so many points where I realized I wanted to think about what I was reading in terms of an earlier scene and wished I had taken more careful note of when that was so that I could find it agai...

I'm new to these forums, so this seemed like a good thread to start with. Someone was just telling me I should read something by Edith Pargeter the other day, given the additional recommendation here, maybe I'll look it up. I've just recently re-read Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest to teach,...

Hi, Joz. You are right, 'tis I. Thanks for the nice introduction. Shame that you've mislaid your Chaucer. I actually hadn't checked the kindle editions for him yet (just got my kindle this last Christmas). Look forward to more literary discussions with you on these boards.

Thanks, Suzzane.

Hi, an online friend from another forum recommended this forum so I thought I'd come over and check it out. I'm a life long bookworm about a year away from finishing a PhD in English Literature with a specialty in poetry and Medieval & Renaissance Lit. This means I'm a total Shakespeare nerd, bu...