Introduction & Welcome Thread

[Teanka]

Hi all,
My name is Anna and I'm reading a lot of sci fi and fantasy. I really like the list of books on your to-read list (as well as read or want to read a lot of items from your bookshelf) which is why I decided to join. I'm also in the middle of rereading Gardens of the Moon with the Beyond Reality group so might as well comment here too. And it's great to see that you try to follow the series through to the end (like Eternal Sky and The dagger and the coin , I will be glad to read these).

[Kat]

Hi Anna!

Glad you found us :)

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Welcome Anna. I knew there was at least one other Malazan group read going on, but I wasn't sure where.

[Teanka]

Rob wrote: "Welcome Anna. I knew there was at least one other Malazan group read going on, but I wasn't sure where."

There is also another one in Fantasy and Sci-Fi Readalongs group, but they are already on Deadhouse Gates. Funny that everybody came up with the same idea, but I've wanted to reread the Malazan from the beginning for a long time.

Glad I found you too:)

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Yeah. We don't really plan anything. People just come up with stuff to read and we make it up as we go along.

I did a big group read with the Malazan Fallen group over 1.5 years ending last May. That group is a good resource for the series as we have spoiler free discussions of every chapter along with spoilery discussions inside of tags for those who are rereading to point out all the foreshadowing.

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

[Justine]

Hi Anna and Robyn :)

[Teanka]

Hi Justine:)
I saw that there was a group solely dedicated to the Malazan series. That must have been interesting, thanks for the link, it could prove useful.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

You're Welcome.

[Peter]

Hi all my name is peter. I'm fairly new to goodreads and was looking for a good group to join as sadly no one around me likes to read (especially SF/F). This group turned up in the discussion section back when I was reading The Broken Eye (woot Brent Weeks!) and again now that I am reading The Blade Itself. I poked around a bit and it seems pretty chill here so I joined up. (:

Looking forward to hopefully having some good discussion with you all! (;

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Welcome Peter.

Feel free to jump into those discussions as you read. It's been a bit on The Blade Itself, but I think it was fairly popular with the group. I hope you enjoy it. The whole trilogy is pretty good IMHO.

[Scott]

Welcome Peter! I thoroughly enjoyed the First Law

[Kat]

Welcome Peter!

This is my favourite group, I hope you"ll like it here :)

[Justine]

Hi Peter! I'm lucky to be in a house/family of readers all of whom love fantasy and sci-fi ... although there are times when we have had some rather smackdown disagreements over things. Also some awkward silences and use of codewords and hand signals at the dinner table or on Skype when trying to discuss books that some of us have read and others haven't and don't want to give out spoilers. It's actually kind of funny sometimes. :)

[Peter]

Thanks all for the welcome! (:

[TS]

Hi everyone, I found this club via Alex's updates. I see that the group is going through the Malazan series which I am also doing at the moment. Used to be quite a reader during my school and uni-days but my reading dwindled significantly when I started working. Been trying to catch up about a couple of years back after getting my Kindle. I find that eBooks enable faster reading progress.

I love the discussion posts on Goodreads and find that I frequent Goodreads more than Facebook of late.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Hi TS. Welcome.

[Kat]

Hello TS, welcome to the best group on GR :)

[Scott]

Yay! New blood for the Malazan read! Welcome

[TS]

Thanks for the warm welcome! :)

[Celise]

Hello! Just wanted to join to read the Malazan series with some support. I just finished Memories of Ice! I also love anything fantasy/sci-fi.

[Kat]

Hi Celise, welcome to the group!

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Man Malazan sure is bringing in the new recruits. Welcome Celise!

[Kat]

Soon we'll need a second cookie jar...

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I'm Quick Ben in the Malazan group. :-D

[Kat]

My boss calls me Cookie, but that's not very kick-ass...

[Ramza]

Hi there! Alex brought this group to my attention when I voiced my enthusiasm for carrying on with the Malazan series after a pleasant first GotM read. I'm liking it here already :)

I'm not really that much of an intensive reader ('cause of time-consuming obsessions I can't shake off, I'm afraid) so I might never be able to keep up with scheduled group readings, but in any case I'm still eager to discuss these books with y'all!

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Welcome Ramza. Don't worry about keeping up. Some people in the group read a crazy amount. They'll still respond to your posts, so jump on in as you get to each discussion section.

[Scott]

Welcome, indeed!

Agreed with Alex, we all kind of jump in where we can.

If Rob is Quick Ben, probably makes Alex our Whiskeyjack.

Marine nicknames for everyone would be awesome.

[Scott]

*or maybe Kalam

[Justine]

Hi TS, Celise and Ramza :)

Kat, I think Cookie can be a kick-ass name...maybe it is meant ironically?

[Sky]

"She's a stone cold cookie killer"...Its got a good ring :)

[Justine]

Oh, that's IT! :)

[Cami]

Hello! My name is Camila, I'm from Argentina and I found out about this cool named group when I followed Alex, and glad I did. It's exciting to be here, everyone seems really nice :)

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Man Alex is popular. Maybe he's staging a coup..

Welcome Camila.

[Cami]

Rob wrote: "Man Alex is popular. Maybe he's staging a coup..

Welcome Camila."

Maybe he is! Haha. Thanks Rob. I see you're a coder. I am too, not as good as you though. I'm pretty sure you are the first coder I've met in GR.

[Sky]

Camila wrote: "I'm pretty sure you are the first coder I've met in GR."

But not the last! Actually I think there are a fair number of programmers in this group.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I'm not sure whether to groan or laugh at last few jokes...

And I know a ton of programmers on good reads, though to be fair most of them are people I knew before/outside of goodreads because I've worked with them.

And I've been coding for over 10 year professionally which is a bit scary typing out. The biggest thing that separates good and bad developers in my opinion is how well you can problem solve and debug code.

It helps if you're good at learning too, because most days I'm learning something, even 10 years into my career.

[Sky]

Now you went and made me feel old, Rob :)

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Sky wrote: "Now you went and made me feel old, Rob :)"

LOL. I thought you were younger than I was. :)

[Sky]

I'm 41 and have been programming professionally for over 20 years :P

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Man..that's ancient in our line of work. ^_^

[Sky]

Rob wrote: "Man..that's ancient in our line of work. ^_^"

:P One day soon I will grow a long grey beard. Just gotta wait for more grey to come in.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Lol.

[Justine]

Grey hair is sign of magic use...that's what I tell people anyway. :)

[Sky]

:)

[Justine]

I had to think of something! My hair started going white at 20! What else could cause that except magic use? :)

Wait...don't answer that...:(

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

White at 20? Interesting.

[Justine]

Yes...magic use or excessive reading, or the combination of the two could have caused it I suppose...:)

[Justine]

Hugo noms out if anyone is interested BTW:

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/04/2015...

[Ashley]

Hi, I'm Ashley... I joined this group because I'm in desperate need to converse about books and looking into branching into genres outside of my comfort zone. It seems I will need to catch up with the series you guys do, so I may be just lurking for awhile. nut I will participate in discussions once I catch up.