Yahooie! Welcome, Roshannarose, Rosemarykaye, and PatH! It's holiday gift to see you all here already!! I know Joan K is on the way in, too, this is quite exciting!
Yes you sure can, Roshansarose, we won't officially start taking nominations until January 1, and when that day comes, we hope you'll tell us (1) something about each book, and (2) more importantly, what about that book commends itself to YOU? Why would you like to read it or see us read it?
I love discussions of the contenders, sometimes after people get through making a case for a particular book, if it does not win the first time, I find myself reading it anyway. This is very exciting.
Oh and do translate Χαίρετε? Is it hello? I can see you'll be invaluable if we read a Greek author, yahoo!! When delivering Mobile Meals for years I learned a little Greek from the gentleman who ran the restaurant which cooked the meals, hahaha I got good at Yasou, and how are you and some short replies. I could not master thank you, or was it excuse me, but that was the pitiful extent of it, it was SO fun, but I must have had a pretty good accent because when I'd call him on the phone he'd pause and launch into fluent Greek.
Rosemarykaye, I think that's true of a lot of us, not having read the ancients in translation since a young age, when we had to. This is going to be great because everything means more to me now than it did when I was 18. AND you can understand things more, I think. I could be wrong, we're about to find out. hahahaa It's just a different focus, based on life experiences, do you all agree or not?
Yes Shakespeare (and I'm no Shakespeare scholar, we need one to jump in here) apparently drew heavily from Plutarch for his Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, for 3. I'm a total Plutarch freak anyway, but I keep leaning back to the Odyssey which we've not done in 15 years in 2011, what a story! AND anxiously looking at the Aeneid which we've never done here at all. The Aeneid scares me, I'll be honest, but we've had more requests for it than any other.... but...er.....let's see what YOU all think.
Wasn't it Shakespeare who said "little Latin and less Greek?" I'm ashamedly Week on the Greeks, tho Plutarch is a Greek, and I hope to, when we're through, have learned a lot I can use. At least I will know when a reference is made to "Frogs," what those in the know are talking about! (I hope?) That's such a good feeling!!
Welcome, ALL!