Hiya! Hope it's okay to pop my head in here - the commenting feature over on LT is, er, less than impressive.
I'm always piss-my-pants ecstatic when someone discovers the joy that is LibraryThing. :) It's become the number one website I check every day and I spend quite a lot of time there. I used to be a hardcore reader as a kid and then sort of got pulled into other things in my teens. LT has been instrumental in getting me going again, although I suspect that has more to do with my anal-retentiveness than anything else. :P Adding books gets addictive really quickly! I also just find the statistics features really fascinating. Have you tried the Unsuggester yet? :)
I gather comparative literature is your minor? What's your major, if you don't mind me asking? I'm English translation/Complit. :)
Random ramblings.tulimeeriaJuly 2 2010, 05:22:12 UTC
Adding is a-okay - I've added you back. :) My journal-keeping skills are a bit rusty, but I'm trying to get back into the game. I have a reading tag if you're looking for book-related posts.
I'm a fourth-year but I also started this minor subject this year. I'm guessing we've done the exact same courses, although you seem to be further along. :) I picked Putkinotko as well and thought it was definitely one of the highlights of my Finnish classics cocktail. Right now I'm wading through 12 Western literature classics - Don Quixote is killing me! :P
Re: Random ramblings.kossageJuly 2 2010, 09:05:11 UTC
Yeah, I finished all 25 study points' worth of basic studies in one year. We had a rather hectic pace but luckily we could skip some books and instead take analysis courses which meant writing essays but reading less books.
I did an analysis course of the Western literature classes (with the lecturer Sami Simola from the University of Tampere) so we only read a few short stories by Alice Munro, Ernest Hemingway, and Giovanni Boccaccio, and The Trial by Franz Kafka, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and In Search of the Past 1: Combray by Marcel Proust. In the end we wrote one 5-page essay about some other work (I chose Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard).
Good luck with the 12 novels. I'm sure you'll do fine. ^_^
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I'm always piss-my-pants ecstatic when someone discovers the joy that is LibraryThing. :) It's become the number one website I check every day and I spend quite a lot of time there. I used to be a hardcore reader as a kid and then sort of got pulled into other things in my teens. LT has been instrumental in getting me going again, although I suspect that has more to do with my anal-retentiveness than anything else. :P Adding books gets addictive really quickly! I also just find the statistics features really fascinating. Have you tried the Unsuggester yet? :)
I gather comparative literature is your minor? What's your major, if you don't mind me asking? I'm English translation/Complit. :)
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I'm a fourth-year but I also started this minor subject this year. I'm guessing we've done the exact same courses, although you seem to be further along. :) I picked Putkinotko as well and thought it was definitely one of the highlights of my Finnish classics cocktail. Right now I'm wading through 12 Western literature classics - Don Quixote is killing me! :P
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I did an analysis course of the Western literature classes (with the lecturer Sami Simola from the University of Tampere) so we only read a few short stories by Alice Munro, Ernest Hemingway, and Giovanni Boccaccio, and The Trial by Franz Kafka, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe and In Search of the Past 1: Combray by Marcel Proust. In the end we wrote one 5-page essay about some other work (I chose Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard).
Good luck with the 12 novels. I'm sure you'll do fine. ^_^
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