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Hi, my name is Tommy and I'm from Massachusetts. I'm 39 years old, and I work as a librarian. I hold a B.A. in English lit from UMass, though I've never used it for career purposes. I love books, so being a librarian is perfect anyways. My chief interests are English, French, American, and German literature, from the late 18th century/early 19th century (Frances Burney, Sir Walter Scott, the Banims, Austen, Stendhal, Edgeworth, and Balzac), the Victorian period (Dickens, Thackeray, Lord Lytton, Trollope, Eliot, the Brontë sisters, Collins, Gaskell, Charles Reade, Flaubert, the Kingsley brothers, Charles Lever, William Carleton, and Gerald Griffin), to roughly the 1920s (Woolf, Hardy, Fontane, Chopin, Howells, Gissing, Zola, Henry James, Bennett, and George Moore). The poets I love are Cowper, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Clare, Tennyson, and Hardy.
My nickname here comes from a favorite novel of mine by the great German writer Theodor Fontane. My other interests are science, and English, Irish, French and American history from the middle ages to World War II. I avoid discussing or writing about politics, race, religion, and sexual preference at all costs. I have no prejudices, but I've found these subjects to be fraught with anger and argument. Thanks for reading, and have a great day. Feel free to ask me questions or give me advice.
