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[Pink]

Welcome to the group Mandy :)

[Kathleen]

Mandy wrote: "Hi friends! I'm Mandy from Florida. I was a bookish girl in my youth and throughout college, but upon starting my career 5 years ago, I have totally let the ball drop. I'm excited to finally have g..."

Hi Mandy--I just have to say my band directors all through school held and still hold many years later a very special place in my heart. It's such a special role! Here's to some beautiful background music for your baby-running-aftering, your fabulous hobbies, and of course your reading. Welcome!

[ALLEN]

Welcome, Rita! I'm Allen and live in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
This is a friendly and varied group. I hope you like it here!

[Elizabeth A.G.]

Mandy wrote: "Hi friends! I'm Mandy from Florida. I was a bookish girl in my youth and throughout college, but upon starting my career 5 years ago, I have totally let the ball drop. I'm excited to finally have g..."

Hi, Mandy -- Welcome! Interesting you are reading biographies of the U.S. Presidents. I have decided, starting next year, to read biographies of the presidents. Which biographers do you particularly enjoy reading? Currently reading American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham and enjoying it.

ALLEN wrote: "Hello, Mandy, and welcome! I hope you enjoy it here.

I really enjoyed William Hitchcock's biography of Dwight Eisenhower:
[bookcover:The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s|352..."

ALLEN -- I'm planning on reading biographies of the presidents for next year and appreciate your recommendation you gave Mandy for the Hitchcock book on Eisenhower. Thought I would read the biographies in the order of their presidencies -- do you think that's a good way to approach this challenge?

[ALLEN]

@"Thought I would read the [Presidential] biographies in the order of their presidencies -- do you think that's a good way to approach this challenge? "

I commend you on your initiative, Elizabeth. Alas, I am too undisciplined for that approach. I have heard marvelous things about Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, parts of which, I believe, formed the basis for Lin-Manual Miranda's musical of the same name.

[Pink]

Welcome to the group Rita :)

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Hi Rita and welcome to the group.

[Enxhi]

Hi ! I’m Enxhi (pronounced as Angie), 22 y.o. from Italy. I’m currently graduating in Mechanical Engineering. My hobbies are mainly traveling, photography and reading. Classics are my favorites, of course :) nice to meet you all!

[ALLEN]

How exciting! Welcome, Enxhi/Angie! I hope you like it here. I think you'll find the people very welcoming and fairly flexible as to what constitutes a classic.

When is your diploma or certificate due?

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Hi Enxhi and welcome to the group. I'm looking forward to discussing and reading classics with you. We have just started our October group reads, hope you can join in one or more with us.

[Enxhi]

Thank you all for the warm welcome!

My certificate’s due in December, Allen. I can’t wait!

I’ll definitely try to join one of the October reads, Katy! It’s probably time for me to read Frankenstein.

[ALLEN]

You're in for a treat, Enxhi!

Is it customary in your country for most people to be graduated from institutions of higher learning at the beginning of Winter, rather than the beginning of Summer as in Canada and the USA?

[Terris]

Enxhi wrote: "Thank you all for the warm welcome!

My certificate’s due in December, Allen. I can’t wait!

I’ll definitely try to join one of the October reads, Katy! It’s probably time for me to read Frankenst..."

Welcome, Enxhi! And my comment is: You definitely need to read Frankenstein!! Way different (and better!) than all the movies!

[ALLEN]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What SHE said. Terrific book!

[Yara]

Hi! I'm Yara, 20 years old and I'm from Ukraine. I like reading, especially classics and I also enjoy watching art house movies and horrors. I'm currently learning digital drawing and in my senior year in university.

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Hello Yara. Nice to meet you.

[ALLEN]

Yara wrote: "Hi! I'm Yara, 20 years old and I'm from Ukraine. I like reading, especially classics and I also enjoy watching art house movies and horrors. I'm currently learning digital drawing and in my senior ..."

I'm dying to know a couple of your favorite USA movies, whether "art house" or not. (BTW I like classic and noir movies, too.)

[Yara]

ALLEN wrote: "Yara wrote: "Hi! I'm Yara, 20 years old and I'm from Ukraine. I like reading, especially classics and I also enjoy watching art house movies and horrors. I'm currently learning digital drawing and ..."

Well, I love Stanley Kubrick's movies, especially A Clockwork Orange and Paths of Glory. I'm also a huge fan of David Lynch, I'm obsessed with Twin Peaks, Mullholland Dr., Lost Highway and Eraserhead. And another one of my favorite movies is Titus directed by Julie Taymor. There are probably more, but those are the films that come to mind instantly. I'm not exactly sure whether it's appropriate to call those films art houses, it's just in our country we call every movie, that makes you think, an art house)

Unfortunately I haven't seen a lot of noir movies. Need to fix this)

[Yara]

Helen wrote: "Hello Yara. Nice to meet you."

Thanks, nice to meet you too!

[[deleted user]]

Hi, I'm Anonymouse. I live in Kentucky and work in a public library.

Love classics, especially nineteenth century: Dickens, Austen, Eliot, Thackeray, Gaskell, and Trollope.

Would like to try some women authors I have never read before (Fanny Burney and Maria Edgeworth).

Would also like to read more nineteenth century American lit. Looking forward to joining in the House of the Seven Gables discussion.

[Pink]

Welcome Enxhi, Yara and Anonymouse! I’m glad you’ve decided to join our group :)

I’d also recommend Frankenstein, for anyone that’s thinking of joining in. So different from what I expected.

I’m a big fan of Fanny Burney as well, I loved Evelina.

[Jim]

Welcome to the group all newcomers!

Jim

[[deleted user]]

Thanks Pink and Jim!
@Pink, will rustle up a copy of Evelina. Thanks for the recommendation. 🐁

[Darren]

Welcome everybody! :o)

Yara - I'm a big Kubrick fan too - were you aware that Paths of Glory is a book? I wasn't!
oh, and The Killing (aka Clean Break)
I have both near the top of my TBR pile as we speak...

[Yara]

Darren wrote: "Welcome everybody! :o)

Yara - I'm a big Kubrick fan too - were you aware that Paths of Glory is a book? I wasn't!
oh, and The Killing (aka Clean Break)
I have both ne..."

No I didn't know it either. Must read it then! What's your favorite Kubrick movie?

[Darren]

Yara wrote: "...What's your favorite Kubrick movie?"

aaargh! you can't ask me that!
not Lolita or Eyes Wide Shut, but pretty much any of the others
probably The Shining, but I do have a soft spot for The Killing

[Christopher]

[Darren]

Christopher - nice!

I also collect movie memorabilia, e.g.:

and

[Yara]

Darren wrote: "Christopher - nice!

I also collect movie memorabilia, e.g.:

and
"

Oh, that's so cool!

[ALLEN]

DOCTOR STRANGELOVE is my fave, too: In the title character's native tongue, *Doktor Merkwuerdigliebe* -- was Werner von Braun really that natsy?

Loved THE SHINING and have a special place in my heart for PATHS OF GLORY.

Severely disappointed with EYES WIDE SHUT, the American version of which added c.g.i. nudes to block out the other nudes.
Why can't we have honest pictures, too?

Y'all get dried out yet, Donut?

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome to the group Yara and Anonymouse.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Paloma wrote: "Hi I'm Paloma I'm 18 and i love reading classics, my favorite is the catcher in the rye. I hope I'll make some new friends here and I'm excited to talk about classics!"

Welcome to the group. This is the place for reading classics with others.

[Felicia]

Hi! My name is Felicia and I live in sweden. I have just started to become interested in reading classics, before I have mainly read YA. I joined this group to maybe get some more motivation to read classics.

Some of my TBR:s are A tale of two cities, The great Gatsby, The beautiful and damned and Great expectations. If you have any suggestions of books suitable for someone who is a beginner in reading classics and also is not a native speaker of english it would be much appreciated!

PS: I am new to goodreads so I hope I have not done anything wrong!

[ALLEN]

Hi, Felicia! Welcome! You should have capitalized the "S" on the name of your native land, and similarly capitalized the titles of books. But never mind that -- you picked some fine novels to put in your TBR list. I wonder who recommended them to you?

[Pink]

Welcome Paloma and Felicia :)

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Felicia you are most welcome! The classics are a great way to learn the beautiful flow of the English language; I wish we all still spoke that quaintly. You have some great choices so far! Send me a friend request then you can peruse my classic lit bookshelf. I think I have close to 500 books on there. And don’t worry about doing anything wrong: be happy, be respectful, and share!

[ALLEN]

Paloma wrote: "Hi I'm Paloma I'm 18 and i love reading classics, my favorite is the catcher in the rye. I hope I'll make some new friends here and I'm excited to talk about classics!"

Hi, Paloma! I understand that some middle- and high-school students in the USA dislike reading CATCHER IN THE RYE, but when I read it many years ago I thought it was great! Welcome!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Darren wrote: "Yara wrote: "...What's your favorite Kubrick movie?"

aaargh! you can't ask me that!
not Lolita or Eyes Wide Shut, but pretty much any of the others
probably The Shining, but I do have a soft spot ..."

Love The Shining and Paths of Glory. And The Killing. And Spartacus! And Dr. Strangelove. And 2001. And Full Metal Jacket. So hard to choose just one...

[Tanvi]

Hi Everyone
Nice to meet you all !
I am Tanvi from India, I am 24 and recently started working.
I love to read and classics are my biggest guilty pleasure, other than that I love mythological and philosophical fictions
Hope to have lots of lively discussions here 😃

[Pink]

Welcome to the group Tanvi :)

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I didn’t realize there were so many Kubrick films! I wonder how many I can find on Netflix

[Tanvi]

Thanks Pink!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Hi there Felicia & Tanvi! Welcome to the group. Glad to meet you here.

[Tanvi]

Thanks Katy! :) :)

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Tanvi wrote: "Thanks Katy! :) :)"

You are welcome, I'm looking forward to reading & discussing books with you.

[Tanvi]

Same here.
I too am looking forward for exciting discussions!

[Ashley]

Hey everyone, my name is Ashley. I am a working mom, with three children! I spend my morning and evening commute reading. I tend to read a lot of young adult fiction, two of my favorite authors are Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain, or author similar to them. I have always wanted to begin reading the classics but never did it, so here it goes!

[Loretta]

Ashley wrote: "Hey everyone, my name is Ashley. I am a working mom, with three children! I spend my morning and evening commute reading. I tend to read a lot of young adult fiction, two of my favorite authors are..."

Welcome Ashley! Glad to have you "Catching up on Classics" with us! Enjoy! 😊

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

Ashley wrote: "Hey everyone, my name is Ashley. I am a working mom, with three children! I spend my morning and evening commute reading. I tend to read a lot of young adult fiction, two of my favorite authors are..."

Hi Ashley. Glad you joined and hope you enjoy it. There are many good books on the book shelf to read, and the discussions really add a lot to my reading experience.

[Pink]

Welcome to the group Ashley :)