This is an introduction to the newest contributor to this blog, John Sutherland. I met John through Twitter (his handle is @Bogga) and have found him to be a very insightful guy. I hope that what follows is one of many blog postings that we see from John, and I am sure that we will all benefit from his wisdom!
My name is John Sutherland and I will be a new contributor to the wecomparebooks.com blog. I am a Graduate Student at the University of Colorado at Denver, pursuing an M.A. in English with a focus in teaching writing. My Bachelor’s Degree was earned at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, which was a B.A. in History with Minors in English and Geography. My hope is to regularly contribute to two things on this site; book reviews and writing for the “back to school” advice columns. My reading is quite extensive as I am typically working my way through five of six books concurrently. I am currently working my way though the Harvard Classics series (which can be found on wikipedia.org), reading various religious texts, histories, and fiction…in addition to any gaming material I need to work on as I am an avid gamer as well as a scholar. I am also, naturally, an aspiring write hoping to be published within the next year, even before I finish school. Concerning my experience with College, I received my B.A. way back in 1994 so it has been nearly a full fifteen years since doing so. My reading and study regimen over the past several months are in order to reacquire the necessary academic state of mind to return to College after such a long absence. I intend to blog my experiences about going back to school after such a long absence. I particularly wish to discuss the GRE with you, the readers.
Aside from reading and writing, my interests include PC and Console gaming, role-playing games, historical simulations (a.k.a. wargaming…a dying medium), playing guitar rather badly, a great love for music in general, horror and science fiction movies and novels, and NFL Football…although being a Raiders fan is quite frustrating. I very much look forward to starting and subsequently hearing from our readers. Thank you and have a wonderful day!
John
