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Oct 19, 2016 02:43AM
Hi Charlotte, I'm glad that you've joined us (thanks Hailee!) I hope you'll join in with some of our classic reads when you have the time and hopefully find some new favourite books :)
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Sorry to upset the custom, but i am ill read, with a bare book shelf, like a window shopper i simply admire covers and read simply the backs by way of introduction. Until one day my pocket allowance allows a clean copy, to be held, cos well my library can only stock so well. Thus when the groups request reached my inbox, to participate in a poll, i was hesitant to proceed clicking on titles i have never heard. of lifes of author's i know nothing about, including all their beliefs, no sir voting thus has little use in my life. i rather introduce myself to the more well read, the better connected to the family of authors, the one that can recommend a read to add benefit to my life making more personal matches, having conversed and shared in my company. Not simply what the majority decree. Then, let not my non participation be mistaken for being inactive, for I keenly look forward to what more knowledgeable people have agreed. I share my profile and thoughts so lines of acquiantances can be forged for the said above purposes of healthier books to my own development. I am enjoying my first ever read of a Thomas Hardy book, i like his subtle humor and he writes with poetic prose that makes the imagery easier to set for a novice like I. Rare find indeed, such a soft hand, and o what humor so delicately prosed so not be of show, but appreciated by the one who gives it the respectful thought it deserves - early days only 6% in.
Saad, there's no requirement to vote in the polls, or to join in any of the group reads, especially if none of the books have any particular interest to you. Read what inspires you, share your thoughts if you want to and join in here with whatever aspects of the group that you enjoy. We're happy to have you around whether you participate a lot, or a little. We all have to start somewhere as book novices, only by trying new things can we learn what our tastes are and develop as readers. If you're having trouble accessing books, then you might like to try Project Gutenberg, which has a huge online resource of free out of copyright books to choose from. Anyway, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying your first Hardy, feel free to let us know your thoughts when you're finished, but only if you want to :)
Splendid Pink, now i don't feel so out of place I shall visit the project, but for now i am ransacking Amazon's freebies, sync better no vat either on the deceased.
Mohammad wrote: "Hi everybody! I'm Mohammad from Iran! I'm a 4th year med student, so I don't have much free time, but whenever I get some I'm usually reading books or watching a football match!My favorite genres ..."
Welcome! Those are also my favorite genres. Hope you enjoy the group.
Charlotte wrote: "Hi, I'm Charlotte. Hailee told me about this group and so I followed her here. I have varied interests and when it comes to reading I'll read anything. I'm interested in history and psychology (sh..."
Welcome! So many books, so little time!
Good morning!Well put, Saad, on your first reading of a Thomas Hardy book--which one? As Pink said, glad you're enjoying it. I was reading A Laodicean : a Story of To-day until I lost my Kindle Paperwhite last year in the aftermath of a flood in my kitchen and living room caused by a burst hose on my clothes washer. I have a Kindle for PC with 334 books on it including The Laodicean. I purchased for it, less than a week ago for a buddy read in another Goodreads group, an omnibus of H.P. Lovecraft's complete fiction. Earlier this year I read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which was okay except that I didn't much like Tess.
Now reading When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi for a buddy read.
Sorry if I rambled on and on.
Jim
Hello! I'm Lulu from Texas. I love to read historical fiction and mystery/thrillers. Over the past couple of years I have been branching out more. I'm not a literary genius, but I do love a good story. Some classics that people adore, I hate and vice versa. LolI absolutely loved Tess of the D'Urbervilles and absolutely hated Madame Bovary .... just to show how horrible my opinions are! LOL.
I look forward to reading more classics and making more friends. :)
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MKay wrote: "Charlotte wrote: "Hi, I'm Charlotte. Hailee told me about this group and so I followed her here. I have varied interests and when it comes to reading I'll read anything. I'm interested in history ..."
"Wellcome! So many books, so little time!"
MKay, sorry to interrupt, welcome to Charlotte, but i do find the time is plenty, plenty enough to finish a book, only an impending natural disaster will stop I when I sail forth, and not let a nap get in the way. I have vast ambitions to read, morning, day, and night, read in the dew, read at dawn, read at dusk, read a little with a "hello google" by my side. Read under the clouds, read under the stars, read in the rain, read in the cold, read all winter long.
Welcome Lulu, I'm glad you've joined us and hope you find some new favourites. I don't think you're alone in your hatred of Madame Bovary, although personally I loved it! There's so many classics to read and plenty of room for different opinions here, after all we can't all like the same things! I look forward to discussing books with you soon :)
Lulu wrote: "Hello! I'm Lulu from Texas. I love to read historical fiction and mystery/thrillers. Over the past couple of years I have been branching out more. I'm not a literary genius, but I do love a good st..."Hi and welcome Lulu! I also like historical fiction and mysteries/thrillers but of late I've really branched out and have been reading a lot of classics! This group really boarders your classical reading horizons! I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here! Happy reading! :)
Jim wrote: "Good morning!Well put, Saad, on your first reading of a Thomas Hardy book--which one? As Pink said, glad you're enjoying it. I was reading A Laodicean : a Story of To-day until I ..."
O no Jim, that is an awful lot of books to read on PC, I too have experienced the benefits of a kindle the ealier keyboard version. Does the paperwhite work at night or does it require a side light?
You do have to be careful, I recommend wrapping a clear polyester bag and making it waterproof if your going to be near water, i 've made a special retreat out back water tight, fighting away the British winter, but still within acceptable standards of Amazon Fire use, and breathing in the fresh air, fresh oxygen to the brain helps comprehension. Having said that once the kindle simply sat on my bed and when I got up the codes had frozen, but Amazon promptly sent out a replacement.
I am reading Far away from the madding crowd. Ahh the folly of the tumbler, i've wrestled too with the storm of dirty water and cross contamination, to be spun again and again, no can't say I am but a fan of the conventional washer. I take a slower pace to life, I clean a single garment by the hand, at first it was frustrating, I made an error reproducing the pounding of a motor straining, but as I watched the peaceful brisk of the wind, and appreciated the drops from a natural shower, I appreciated the constant gentle draining away of filth in nature. Like a statement to the police, i swore then, in my oath, i shall not ever return to the motor - do what they may.
I will check out Tess_of_the_D_Urbervilles, high praise from Lulu too. i like the title of the book you mentioned last Jim, but i rather investigate Thomas some more.
Good day.
Hello! My name I Matt. I live in New England and love the history up here.I have been a huge fan of classics now and one of my favorites are 1984 and The Outsiders.
I am big on the dystopian fiction for a while too such as Fahrenheit 451 and A Clockwork Orange.
My favorite classic book is definitely The Great Gatsby since its nice cool roaring 20s lifestyle makes it so great. It has a lot of great symbolism in it too.
I am a huge fan of 2 very talented authors named Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, I'm sure you've heard of them before. My favorite work of Stephen King would be The Long Walk because I just love the characters and I still miss them to this day.
The first two books that got me into reading and made me very interested in Literature were The Outsiders and And Then There Were None. I was assigned them in school and I've been reading ever since.
Welcome Matt. You have definitely read a lot ignore classics already so you have come to the right place. Hope you enjoy the books we have in the group and looking forward to seeing you.
Matt wrote: "Hello! My name I Matt. I live in New England and love the history up here.I have been a huge fan of classics now and one of my favorites are 1984 and The Outsiders.
I am big on the dystopian fict..."
Hi Matt! Excellent book, The Outsiders. One of my all time favorites! I liked 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 too. Glad you're here! Happy reading! :)
Saad wrote: "MKay wrote: "Charlotte wrote: "Hi, I'm Charlotte. Hailee told me about this group and so I followed her here. I have varied interests and when it comes to reading I'll read anything. I'm intereste..."
Yes, I try to always have a book with me to read everywhere, but I do feel as if I will never get read as much as I want t read. :)
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Hello, everyone. I'm Beta from Brazil, living in the US for nearly 15 years and most importantly, an avid reader.From, primarily the classics, down to drug facts. I just can't stop. Glad to see many of the books suggested are already in my library, so it'll be nice to revisit them. I read as many as 3 books at a time. I don't know how to concentrate in just one. Thank you & make time to read!
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From, primarily the classics, down to drug facts. I just can't stop. Glad to see ma..."
Welcome to our group Beta -- always great to have another bibliophile in the group.
Bem venida, Beta. Glad you joined. Looking forward to seeing you here and I hope you enjoy reading the classics in this group.
Welcome Beta!I also usually read more than one book at a time too!
Beta wrote: "Hello, everyone. I'm Beta from Brazil, living in the US for nearly 15 years and most importantly, an avid reader.From, primarily the classics, down to drug facts. I just can't stop. Glad to see ma..."
Hi and welcome Beta! Enjoy and happy reading! :)
Welcome to the group Matt and Beta, I'm glad you've both joined us :)
Good morning. I am Glynn, originally from New York and just moved to sunny Florida a little over 2 years ago (and still acclimating.) I like to read lots of stuff. Recently I joined a challenge on another group to read books about Ireland and/or by Irish authors. I started reading "Portrait of the Artist" which I had read a really long time ago, and realized how much I enjoyed the classics. I see you guys are reading "Picture of Dorian Gray" next month so I figured why not join in! :)
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Welcome to the group Charlotte, Jim, Lulu, Matt, Beta and Glynn. I hope you all have fun in this group :-)
Glynn wrote: "Good morning. I am Glynn, originally from New York and just moved to sunny Florida a little over 2 years ago (and still acclimating.) I like to read lots of stuff. Recently I joined a challenge on ..."Welcome Beta and Glynn! Glynn if you ever want to try some other irish works i highly recommend the Crock of Gold by James Stephens and the Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.
I can't say i thought much of Dorian Grey but hope you enjoy it :) .
Glynn wrote: "Good morning. I am Glynn, originally from New York and just moved to sunny Florida a little over 2 years ago (and still acclimating.) I like to read lots of stuff. Recently I joined a challenge on ..."Hi and welcome Glynn! So glad you've joined us to read the classics and to have great discussions with members! Enjoy and happy reading! :)
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Hello everyone, I'm from Minnesota USA. I am a fan of Sci Fi, but as of late, I haven't been reading. To the point were I will always play a video game instead of reading, even a silly phone game. Recently I have noticed that I have become entranced with my gaming that I don't write or read at all anymore. I decided to join your group in hopes that with a bit of self motivation I can at least start reading again. When I was a younger man, reading was a large part of my life; even if it was mostly star wars books.
Hi all, I live in the UK and would describe myself as a 'bad weather reader' (I read the most during the darker months). I'm fairly new to classics but have recently decided that I would like to read as many as I can and hope that joining this group will help me identify as many as possible. I've read a few classics over the last few weeks and an early leader for favourite is 1984......
Welcome Glynn and Mark!@Glynn
Your challenge to read books from a particular country looks really interesting! Do have fun with it!
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Mark wrote: "Hello everyone, I'm from Minnesota USA. I am a fan of Sci Fi, but as of late, I haven't been reading. To the point were I will always play a video game instead of reading, even a silly phone game. ..."Hey Mark! Welcome! I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here! Happy reading! :)
Si wrote: "Hi all, I live in the UK and would describe myself as a 'bad weather reader' (I read the most during the darker months). I'm fairly new to classics but have recently decided that I would like to re..."Hi Si! Happy you've introduced yourself! I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here! :)
Hello everyone. I live in the UK in Nottingham. I read many classics when I was much much younger and it's about time I read them again and some new ones.Thanks for my group membership.
Hi Jane!I read a few of the classics when oi was very young as well.
With this group I'm re-visiting them with "older eyes" and reading classic titles that are new to me
Jane wrote: "Hello everyone. I live in the UK in Nottingham. I read many classics when I was much much younger and it's about time I read them again and some new ones.Thanks for my group membership."
Hi Jane! Happy to see you here! Always good to re-read classics and some new ones as well! I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here! Happy reading! :)
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Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "Welcome Glynn and Mark!@Glynn
Your challenge to read books from a particular country looks really interesting! Do have fun with it!"
Thanks Andrea. It will be fun. There's also a similar Japan challenge happening.
Wreade1872 wrote: Glynn if you ever want to try some other irish works i highly recommend the Crock of Gold by James Stephens and the Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien. "Thanks Wreade1872, those look interesting. :)
Hi. Delighted to have found this site and looking forward to getting stuck into some more classics. I am a huge, no, HUGE Dickens fan and have been saving a couple of his works to finish the set whilst gorging on some crime thrillers and modern classics to fill the gaps. Just finished the Booker list from last year and now thinking of giving Hardy a go on various people's promptings, or maybe try and cram in some of this month's challenge....Thanks for listening!
Andy wrote: "Hi. Delighted to have found this site and looking forward to getting stuck into some more classics. I am a huge, no, HUGE Dickens fan and have been saving a couple of his works to finish the set wh..."Hi and welcome Andy! You'll find many Dicken fans here, so with that in mind, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here! Happy reading!! :)
Hope I'm doing this right.... Everything takes me awhile to learn and practice a lot because I had a stroke at 40 and life changed in a second. (Took 3 years to relearn how to read, but it takes longer than it used to.) I'm Kim from Indiana, have a delightful, very engaging daughter who has the nerve to live out west, but stays in touch.
I enjoy books of all kinds, but because my deductive, investigative skills had to retire with my health, I read a lot of crime, mystery, suspense these days, but also history and genealogy.
I'm happy to be here because there are so many classics people will refer to and somehow I missed them all. This will encourage. Hi all
Kim. E. wrote: "Hope I'm doing this right.... Everything takes me awhile to learn and practice a lot because I had a stroke at 40 and life changed in a second. (Took 3 years to relearn how to read, but it takes lo..."Hi and welcome Kim! You did everything perfectly! Not to worry! I love crime, mysteries and suspense books too but, I've missed so many classics that joining this group has helped me rectified that! I'm sure you'll love the books that we read and the discussions we have! Jump in and enjoy yourself! Happy reading! :)
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I'm so glad that both of you found us here and decided to join us. I'm looking forward to discussing & reading books with you.
Kathy wrote: "Welcome to our group Andy & Kim E. I'm so glad that both of you found us here and decided to join us. I'm looking forward to discussing & reading books with you."
Thanks Kathy - me too. Have had Hardy recommended here and by other friends so now downloading this month's challenge and looking forward to some new, similar minded influences...
Wow, a lot of new members this week. Welcome to all of you.
Welcome to the group Mark and Si. This group if definately good for helping to motivate you to read and identify great classics!
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