Introduce yourself to the group

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Yes, very good things.

[Cameo]

Ohh... Something you need to share with the rest of us? :p

[Lannister]

I'm glad you're back too, Sarah. The Pritkin fans are taking over and Mircea needs his defenders!! ;)

[Cameo]

Pffss! Don't you be tellin' slander Lanni! ;)

[Lannister]

Hahahaha! I like to cause trouble sometimes! ;)

[Cameo]

Oh I know you do, you little homewrecker ;)

[Mai]

Hello everybody, I'm Maeve! I actually used to be a mod on this group but I let it slide in a major way, which sucks, but here I am back again to rejoin all the fangirling. As it's been so long since I was on here, I'm basically a newbie again so I'd better reintroduce myself:
1) I'm in Ireland right now.
2) my favourite books are The Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, I can't recommend them highly enough to anybody who likes fantasy. Also I love all KC's book, naturally.
3) my avatar is a picture of me playing Zidler in a school production of Moulin Rouge. Fear my mighty fake moustache.
4) currently my celebrity crush is Dylan O'Brien from Teen Wolf because he is adorable and hilarious. Or maybe Steven Amell from Arrow, for the same reasons actually.
5) it would be easier to name desserts I don't like, but I do have a major weakness for banoffee pie. Magically delicious.
6) something to share? Ummmm, I guess, that I'm studying French and German in uni, so if there are any French or German speakers who ever want to chat to me, that'd be cool, cause I love practising.
Bonus: team Cassie. She may be May favourite female character of all time tbh.

So. That's me. Nice to meet you guys. Again :)

[Duca]

Hi Maeve! I can't remember if I ever met you before, way back when I wasn't too active in this group myself but your name sounds vaguely familiar so I must have seen you around :D! We're glad to have you back! Always good to have more people to fangirl with :3

I'm Duca, currently only part-timing as a receptionist, finished my english lit degree 3 years ago. Apparently I'm also an optimist, according to Lanni! Although I've always thought of myself as a pessimist because either I'm always right or pleasantly surprised (got this right off tumblr lol). Which is the optimistic look on pessimism. So I'm optimistic about being pessimistic. Or something XD
Also I've watched the trailer for Constantine about 12 times today. I'm a big Constantine fan. Reading the comics is on my to-do list.

[Mai]

Thank you! I was probably active around the time you were inactive. Two ships passing in the night, lol. I never fancied the movie but with this TV show, I can foresee myself becoming a Constantine fan.

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Lannister wrote: "I'm glad you're back too, Sarah. The Pritkin fans are taking over and Mircea needs his defenders!! ;)"

That's unacceptable. I shall punish them all. ;-)

Maeve wrote: "Ummmm, I guess, that I'm studying French and German in uni, so if there are any French or German speakers who ever want to chat to me, that'd be cool, cause I love practising."

Here! Me! *jumps up*

I'm German and I speak French which I should practise more.

This thread could be interesting for you as well.

We also had French and German discussion threads. They are archived now though.

Do we have any Japanese (speaking) people here?

[Mai]

Oh, well in that case, guten Tag! Wie geht's?

[Ashley]

Hi, I'm Ashley, I just joined.

1. Where in the world are you?
New York

2. What's your favourite book/series?
Too many to list. Right now I'm loving the Kate Daniels series, the Lymond chronicles, the grisha trilogy and anything by Karen Chance of course.

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?
Same one as on my tumblr.

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?
Tom Hiddleston

5. What's your favourite dessert?
Anything chocolate

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?
Midnight's Daughter was the first urban fantasy book I ever read.

[Lannister]

Hi Ashley, welcome to the group!

That's really interesting that you picked the Lymond Chronicles as one of your favourite series. It's been on my radar for a while and I actually ordered the first book a few days ago, though it hasn't arrived yet. I'm interested to give it a go, though I think it can be a little hard going at first?

I love that Midnight's Daughter was your first UF book! Personally, I think that's a great introduction to the genre, though a lot of people prefer the Cassie series round here. :) I love Kate Daniels too.

I hope you'll join in the conversations and tell us what's your favourite KC book/characters and so on. We've just today started a look back at all the Q & A posts that KC's published over the past three years, so if you aren't familiar with them, you should take a look as there's tons of new information there.

Look forward to chatting with you. :)

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome to the group, Ashley! :-)

The KD series is one of my faves as well.

Hope to "see" you in the threads.

[Ashley]

Lannister wrote: "Hi Ashley, welcome to the group!

That's really interesting that you picked the Lymond Chronicles as one of your favourite series. It's been on my radar for a while and I actually ordered the first..."

I hope you enjoy the lymond chronicles! The first book is a bit hard to get into, but after a hundred pages or so I couldn't put it down. I'll definitely go check out those Q&As, thanks for telling me about them :)

[Ashley]

Sarah ♥ Vutch forever ♥ wrote: "Welcome to the group, Ashley! :-)

The KD series is one of my faves as well.

Hope to "see" you in the threads."

Thanks so much :)

[Lindsey]

Hi All, my name is Lindsey and I've just joined the group so I thought I would introduce myself. :)

1. Where in the world are you?
California

2. What's your favorite book/series?
My favorite series is actually the Cassie Palmer series currently, though I also enjoy the Kate Daniels series (Ilona Andrews).

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?
Well, I technically haven't chosen one...I'll get around to that eventually. :)

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?
It's hard to pick just one... I'm a big fan of Hugh Jackman

5. What's your favorite dessert?
Anything dark chocolate

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?
Hmm...aside from reading, my other favorite hobby is world travel. I've been to 13 countries so far, and will be visiting Italy in September. :) I try to escape from work long enough to make at least one international trip a year.

[Kathleen]

Hi, Lindsey. Please jump in and start posting. It's a friendly group.

[Lannister]

Hi Lindsey, welcome to the group, I'm really glad you decided to join! :)

So I know you like the Cassie books best and that you're a Pritkin fan, so I can't ask you about those. So, here's a Very Important Question: Who's sexier? Mircea or Marlowe?

Tricky, huh! ;)

[Lindsey]

Lol, hmm. I feel like I must have missed something in prior books that would make that a closer contest, because I'm just not recalling a lot of sexy scenes featuring Marlowe. ;) Mircea on the other hand...

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome to the group, Lindsey! :-)

[[deleted user]]

Where in the world are you?

I am from Leitrim Ireland.

2. What's your favourite book/series?
Ans) Dory's Books

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?
Ans) I am watching the Show Vikings at this time and love Athelstan

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?
Ans)George Blagden and Shannon Leto

5. What's your favourite dessert?
Ans) Death by Chocolate

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?
Ans) I love meeting new people who enjoy the same types of books and having a good chat about them. I can be quite and mite only post what books I am reading at time put most the time I love a good chat

Bonus question for those who've read both the Cassie and the Dory books:

Are you Team Cassie or Team Dory?

O Man thats a hard one. Hmm I started off reading the Dory books so I have to go with Team Dory as I find them so fun and good reads.

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome to the group, Karen! I'm looking forward to chatting with you! :-)

[[deleted user]]

Sarah ♥ Vutch forever ♥ wrote: "Welcome to the group, Karen! I'm looking forward to chatting with you! :-)"

Thank you :-)

[Lannister]

Hi Karen, extremely belated welcome to the group! (I've been MIA for a couple of weeks.) Yay for another member of Team Dory!

Look forward to getting to know you. :)

[[deleted user]]

Lannister wrote: "Hi Karen, extremely belated welcome to the group! (I've been MIA for a couple of weeks.) Yay for another member of Team Dory!

Look forward to getting to know you. :)"

That's Ok I now how life can be :-), Thank you for the welcome :-), Can't wait to talk books with you too

Karen

[Shelita]

1. Where in the world are you?
Mobile, Alabama

2. What's your favorite book/series?
Guild Hunter Series by Nalini Singh (absolutely love this)

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?
It's simple and complex at the same time. Wholly it is strong, the petals/ pieces are fragile.

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?
Jason Momoa, Idris Elba, or Ian Somerhalder

5. What's your favorite dessert?
Chocolate Cake

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?

Bonus question for those who've read both the Cassie and the Dory books:
Are you Team Cassie or Team Dory?
Team Dory

I have only read the Dory books and I was wondering how big of role does Mircea play in the Cassie books. I want to read the Cassie books and I think it will be weird with him going from father figure to lover. How up to date are Cassie's books to Dory's

Thanks in advance to whoever answers these questions, Now I am going to go and play around in the group.

[Lannister]

Hi Shelita, welcome to the group! Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself. :)

I'd definitely recommend you give the Cassie series a go, though she's a very different character from Dory. But if you like Mircea, you've gotta give them a shot. Mircea's arguably the best character in all the books, and you get a fuller picture when you see two different perspectives of him. Cassie understandably has a higher opinion of him than Dory. He is a very central character in the Cassie books, along with Mage Pritkin who has legions of fans!

I like hearing from people who've read the Dory books first, because their attitude towards Mircea is often different to those who read Cassie initially. First impressions are often hard to shift, and if you were introduced to Mircea as a Dad character, it's hard to see him as the seductive vampire of the Cassie books!

I hope you'll give them a try anyway, though I will say Touch the Dark is probably KC's weakest book (it was her first). As for timeline, the Dory series is slightly ahead, but the next Cassie book (Reap the Wind) is expected to catch up, so the timelines should be more or less concurrent (so I believe.)

Enjoy the group! Look forward to chatting with you and hearing about your favourite characters and scenes. It's Team Marlowe all the way for me LOL!

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome to the group, Shelita!

I agree with Lannister. You should give the Cassie books a try. It's really interesting to see those different sides of Mircea.

[E.A.]

Hello Hello XD

1. Where in the world are you?
I live in Canada. Right now, Onterio, going back to the beautiful East Cost in March XD

2. What's your favourite book/series?
Oh god that's a hard one. Lets see, all that is Karen Chance, all that is Percy Jackson, does Sailor Moon count? I mean the books not the show. My new Fav is Divinicus Nex Chronicles.

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?
Becuase it's amazing, becuase I'm amazing..lol

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?
Zac Efron, Karl Urban, and Gerard Butler.

5. What's your favourite dessert?
Cheescake, and icecream

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?
I'm in the military, I sail a lot, so I'm gone alot. I've been around the world before I was 23. I have two cats that are evil little sh*ts, but are totally awesmoe at the same time. They're just so cute! I have a thing for anime, it's been my guilty pleasure since I was probably 5. I love to write my own stories, I want to write a novel, it just seems like I never have the time :(. I'm 27, single, kidless, and loving it. I have my own home, my own things and I have no ties to anyone but the little deviles that are my furr babies. I'm a happy person, and I try my best to make everyday the best memory possable.

Bonus question for those who've read both the Cassie and the Dory books:

Are you Team Cassie or Team Dory?
Can I be both?


Don't stop being amazing!

Emily. :)

[E.A.]

Ana wrote: "Coruche, Portugal (town in the middle of nowhere and it's raining right now)..."

I'm orginally from a small middle of nowhere town called Fleur-De-Lys, Newfoundland. When it isn't freezing it's raining. lol. :P

[Lannister]

Hi Emily-Ann, welcome to the group. Of course you can be Team Cassie AND Team Dory! :D I'd say most people probably prefer one series (slightly) over the other, but we generally love them both. Hope you'll join in the conversations and tell us about your favourite characters/scenes etc. Have you ever read KC's Q & As. She just published a new one and we're picking over it to try to figure out what might happen next in the books! (We can be a little obsessive in this group. OK, that might just be me!!)

Look forward to chatting. I'm from Scotland and can totally relate to sodding miserable weather LOL!

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome, Emily-Ann! It's great to have you here!

Sailor Moon definitely counts. I'm a manga and anime fan myself. :-)

[Tammy]

Hello from Australia. My name is Tammy and I'm a bookaholic.

My fav series is ummmmm no I can't say cause it feels like I'm cheating on them all if I just pick one lol.
My avatar is me, so I don't forget who I am.
I'm in lust with Vin Diesel
I love pavalova 
I'm a SAHM who has to hide in a closet with her book/iPad/iPhone so my 5 kids can't find me lol.

[Lannister]

Hi Tammy, welcome to the group! Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself.

Wow, five kids! No wonder you need a break sometimes. Feel free to hide out with us whilst lusting over your favourite fictional characters!

Look forward to chatting with you. :D

[Beth]

I have been a part of the group for a while, but as an occasional lurker/joiner, so here it goes!

My name is Beth

1. Where in the world are you?
Denver, Colorado USA

2. What's your favourite book/series?
Kate Daniels, Black Jewels, Sword of Shadows, Cassie and Dory of course! I could keep going, but will stop there.

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?
It's me.

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?
Jensen Ackles

5. What's your favourite dessert?
Anything with citrus or almond.

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?
I bake all the time so if you ever need recipes or ideas let me know!

[Kathleen]

Hi, Tammy and Beth

Welcome aboard!

So, Tammy, is pavlova a dessert? What is it like?

(This tablet is acting up and may be dying. GRRRRR! Just got it in June!)

I am a big fan of the original Pavlova, who was a fabulous ballet star 100 years ago. And of the perfume that was named after her.

Beth, do you know if the pavlova dessert goes by a different name in the US, and if so, what?

I can imagine something with sponge cake, whipped creme and all kind of light, airy things.

Beth

[Lannister]

Hi Beth, welcome to the group, thanks for introducing yourself! Bakers and people with a sweet tooth are always welcome! ;)

I see you've already been posting in the Random thread, and we do have a Food Fetishes thread in the Off-Topic folder if you make something particularly wonderful and want to share. And feel free of course to join in the other discussions and games.

Look forward to getting to know you. :)

Kathleen, a pavlova is a meringue with whipped cream and fruit on top (often strawberries or raspberries). Not sure what it might be called in the US.

[Kathleen]

@Lannister Your description of the pavlova dessert sound perfect, light and luscious.

But while the description sounds somewhat familiar, I am pretty sure I've never had it or seen it on a menu. And I would have...unless maybe it is called something else here.

Now I *must* find the recipe on line and try it! May have to wait till I get back to a full kitchen, though.

Anyway, thanks for the description.

And thanks, Tammy, for mentioning it!

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome to the group, Tammy and Beth! I'm looking forward to chatting with you. :-)

[Lannister]

Kathleen, there's loads of pavlova recipes kicking around. This one looks particularly spectacular! :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cro...

[Kathleen]

Ooooh, Lannister, thanks!

So anyone know if "corn flour" is the same as what we call "corn starch" in the US?

Is "caster sugar" the same as our "powdered sugar"?

I'm guessing that " double cream" is what we in the US call "heavy cream," yes?

"Speak the same language" is a relative term, isn't it?

[Lannister]

Oh man, I often have this sort of problem translating from US recipes, where everything is measured in cups!

On the cream, yeah, I'm fairly sure that would be your heavy cream. It's the thickest sort of cream available.

Caster sugar isn't powdered sugar (we'd call that icing sugar). I believe it's called superfine sugar in the US. Its texture is somewhere between regular and powdered sugar.

Wikipedia tells me corn flour and corn starch are the same things.

Hope that helps. Happy baking! :)

[[deleted user]]

I joined the group, but I am no longer recognized as a member when I try to look for unread comments. I don't like to post a lot of likes/dislikes on the web, because of privacy issues, so I didn't fill out this questionnaire. I am enrolled as Nancy, and I hope to be able to access unread topics again. Thank you.

[Lannister]

Hi Nancy, you're definitely recognised as a member of the group (you wouldn't be able to post otherwise!) I think this might be some sort of Goodreads notification bug. It's not something that we in the group are doing. You're certainly not being blocked in any way. Notifications aren't something group mods have any control over.

You could check in the GR support group to see if anyone has had similar issues:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[cristel-is-reading]

Well, I've going through some threads in this group before I noticed this one, so maybe some of you have already noticed me around. Anyway, here I go!

1. Where in the world are you?

Im in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2. What's your favourite book/series?

My favorite book of all times is The Hobbit, and my favorite series is Cassie's (So, Team Cassie, he) =)

3. Tell us why you chose the avatar you have?

...

Ok, I'm on my way to fixing that.

4. Name a famous person that makes you swoon?

More people that I can count, and most of them don't even exist. But I like the elegant, slightly villanous type. I'm currently drooling over Lestat de Lioncourt =D

5. What's your favourite dessert?

A big bucket of strawberries with cream :9

6. Anything else you want to share about yourself?

Umh... I'm a big Rosier fan (don't kill me, please), to the point that I even roleplayed him in games with a friend several times xD

And that'd be all, I guess. Anything else of importance, time will tell! I hope to have fun and make friends here =)

[Lannister]

Hi MadameGin, welcome officially to the group! :) Thanks for introducing yourself. I like Rosier too, but I'd love to hear more about this roleplaying game you did ...

I also love elegant, slightly villainous types ... you know, like Marlowe. :P

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

Welcome, MadameGin! It's great to have you here. :-)

Mmmhh, now I want some strawberries but that's difficult in winter.

Elegant, slightly villainous type sounds good. ;-)

[cristel-is-reading]

Lannister, Sarah, thank you very much!

Marlowe is my second favorite in KC's universe, so yay!

And about the game... Well, this girl is my RP partner (I've trying to drag her to goodreads without success), so we did a lot of stuff together, not only about the Cassie world. Basically it would be more like collaborative writing as well as roleplaying: We think up some guidelines to give the story some direction (what is it going to be about, what things do we want to happen for sure, which other characters are we allowed to control from time to time), then we start. When we think we're reaching something that feels like the end, we put the story together by selecting each one's best POVs, and then we just... store it xD We've been considering publishing them as fanfic. But it doesn't feel right, like, we like reading what we did, but just because we know what it's supposed to be. It would be weird for a fanfic reader to have the POV change every five paragraphs or so, less sometimes xD Anyway, the final result often differs a lot from the original, because we've talked it through, and invested time to edit things that maybe were a little OOC, or changed things for others that just sound better, etc. It's pretty fun!

In the Cassie world, (and I'm talking about main characters here, not pairings!) we did some Pritkin/Rosier stories, Rosier/Cassie, Mac/Pritkin, Augustine/Casanova (this was pure crack! xD), a real funny Rosier/Casanova, and a memorable Artemis/Rosier (It was a little difficult because there's so damned little information about her, but it ended up pretty well, I think. At least we had fun n.n).

You know, you just gave me ideas. I may want to try to play Marlowe one of these days, just to see what happens!

[Sarah ♥ dog crazy ♥ , Mircea's Moderatrix]

This sounds like a lot of fun!

Maybe you'll like our two-sentence fanfic thread.