Today, as Dreamwidth enters open beta, has been like a beginning of a really good conference (sometime I think I am a sad academykle hedjog) where I keep bumping into people and being very glad that they're here too and feeling that there are interesting things going to be said and good conversations going to happen.

Also, at one level it is just ( Read more... )

Being slightly more coherent today, I realise I was supposed to post this in my own journal rather than as a comment.
This is a meme where you ask about people's Interests (from their profile). Comment on this post, and I'll pick six of yours, and you explain them on a post you make. Then you post this on your journal and it becomes a never ending ( Read more... )

From jonquil:

Interests:

George Gissing
A fascinating late C19th novelist: I think I was originally inclined towards him by the write-up by Walter Allen in The English Novel (which for quite some while was my guide to works beyond the obvious canonical writers). Okay, the urban Mr Gloomypuss to match Hardy's rural one, with much more class bitterness. But ( Read more... )

From thewriteratwork, 3 interests, 3 icons:

Interests:

Alison Lurie
A novelist I have been reading for rather a long time now, and continue to enjoy. Her oeuvre is relatively sparse for how long she's been at it. Also writes on children's literature (her academic field), and there's a book by her on the language of clothes.

History of medicineThis is endlessly ( Read more... )

3 interests, 3 icons, from wychwood
Interests:
AfghanistanThis started, more or less, because I became the in-house expert-person on archives relating to Afghanistan in the job I was then doing. And as a result I actually went to Afghanistan for several weeks, after the coup, before the Soviet invasion, when I didn't really manage to find out that much ( Read more... )

Pursuant to memery from lillabularo, who asked me to expatiate upon one of my six interests that no other lj user shares.

Constance Holme: early C20th novelist who wrote novels set in Westmorland, but they are not about timeless rurality but society undergoing change as a result of technology, improved transport, decline of local economy (emigration to ( Read more... )

via boxofdelights

Look at my LJ interests. Pick one that you find confusing or intriguing, and comment here. I’ll explain what it means and what makes it significant to me.

Then, if you want, please post this in your own LJ, if you’d be so kind, so that I can learn about your interests, too.

LJ interests do not distinguish between 'reading' (passing eyes over text and taking in information) and 'Reading', 'one of the most vibrant and successful towns in the South of England'.

I wonder what other homonymal confusions there are.

Because these are all about moi:

( The interests one )