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[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Wow Andie! Welcome. So cool that you are studying languages. Welcome to GoodReads too. I spend way too much time on here. I look forward to your comments.

[Janina]

Hi, I'm Janina. I live in the Bay Area (SF), but am originally from Germany. I'm older than I think I should be, have 3 kids and 1 cat. I haven't read many English classics yet and would like to get to know more. I think I need someone to push me a bit in that direction. Usually, I read a lot of Fantasy/Scifi/dystopian YA and a bit of everything else. (I try to avoid Romance & Crime).

[Ffi]

Hello! I'm Ffion and I'm from North Wales. I'm currently on a gap year but I'm off to study English Lit next year at uni (which is unbelievably exciting). Hopefully this group's encouragement will get me to read a few more classics so I can hold my own next year! I love playing tennis and making a fool of myself at squash!

[MK]

COOKIE (Andre, me too! heh)!! And ... COCOA!!!!

Wowwww, welcome everyone! :) Gavin, Leanne (I recognize you from Lit Expl! Hi!), Andie, Janina, Ffi, Pink Avenger aka Lauren, and Jackie, so nice to have everyone join us. Should be some fun read discussions!

[MK]

Lorena wrote: "I am glad that more members are joining this group.
Who likes cocoa? I am preparing some for all :)"

Me too! And ... me! :D

[Sherevan]

Hi, all my name is Sherevan, I am from Illinois, I am in my first year of College. I love reading classics, science fiction, fantasy, a little science and anything else. Any time I get a little tired of a genre I switch to another, right now I am reading Oedipus by Sophocles and Illiad by Homer. I look forward to reading any comments you guys make.

[MK]

Hi Sherevan :) Welcome!

[Jane]

Hello. Thank you so much for your recent welcome. I am 64, semi retired, live near NYC but have lived in New England, North Carolina, DC, VA and near Chicago. Work with music programs with the institutionalized elderly, have started up my French again but know some Spanish and am a former social worker. Husband a per diem Television news writer, have 2 twenty something sons, one with Fox news, one with Microsoft. Looking forward to getting to know you. When and where do i post my readings of the classics and does John updike count as contemporary classic?

[Diane]

Hi all! I am Diane from Missouri, USA. I am a wife, mother of two, and avid knitter. My kids are finally reading on their own so now it is time for me to get back to reading some wonderful classics. I am looking forward to reading with you!

[Thaïs]

Hello! I'm Nechama,from the U.S. I'm a history major. I like music, books, and movies. I can't wait to read and discuss classics with you guys!

[Rachel]

Hello all!

My name is Rachel, and I live in Dallas, Texas. I work at a mortgage company by day, and at night am working on getting my teaching certificate. I am wanting to become a middle school English teacher. I was estatic to find a group that was devouted to the classics because I know for sure I need to brush up on my classic novels.

When my nose it not in a book, I am hanging out with my boyfriend, family, and friends. I am a movie buff, and love catching a movie at my local indie theater. Also, I love sports and enjoying cheering on my Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars, and Kansas Jayhawks.

Can't wait to start discussing all these wonderful books with y'all.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Wow! What a fun bunch of new members! Welcome all. Hopefully I welcomed you by PM too. So excited to get our 1000 members and I look forward to the new voices in our discussions along with our older voices too.

[Elia]

Hello!!! I'm Elia. I am from Barcelona and I've just started reading in English so my improvement is very slow.
Currently I am reading Jane Eyre, and despite my constantly looking for words in the dictionary, I am sincerely enjoying it.

Hope didn't make too much mistakes in the comment -.- .

[Kalpesh]

Hi I am Kalpesh. I am from India. I am new to Goodreads and this is my first (and so far only) group. I am very interested in classics and hope to be an active member

[MK]

Lots more New members! Hello to Jane, Diane, Nechama, Rachel, Elia (wow, no, I would not have guessed reading in English was new to you! Well done! The only thing I'd change was 'too much' into 'too many' :) ), Miranda, and Kalpesh (this was my first group after joining goodreads too!). Welcome! To you all. :-).

[MK]

To all of our fabulous New members :-), I would like to extend a particular invitation to you all to join our Scavenger Hunt!!

Or, if you'd rather not 'join the hunt', to at least consider contributing two new items to our tally sheet of items to collect :D. One of our participants is almost finished with BOARD TWO, which is the Board currently still open to add-ons (both Boards are open to new hunters joining, though). I'd like to give Apoorv more items to hunt up ;-). Can't make it too easy for him! LOL!!!!

I also invite you to join any of our challenges. They are all open for new participants (for the 'Collecting Dust' challenges, sign up at the most recent month posted).

[Apoorv]

LOL MK, bring it on ! Hehe ! :P

To the new members, kindly do join in the scavenger hunts (both boards if you may.. ofcourse with due permission from MK).. its an amazing way to read your books more intently and ofcourse at the end of it you get to show off your hunts O:) LOL ! (Kidding :P)

MK and all the other contributors have come up with some really interesting items to find.. I urge you to join in.. more the participants, more the fun ! :)

Let's go scavenger hunting ! :)

Here are the links to both the boards once again for reference and ease for the access to the same :
Board One : Scavenger Hunt : BOARD ONE
Board Two : Scavenger Hunt : BOARD TWO

[Kyle]

Howdy! I'm Kyle and I live in Austin, Texas (USA). I like reading classics, and I'm looking forward to discussing them with the group.

I'll add a couple items to the Board Two hunt.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome, welcome all! Hope you join in our challenges/games & book reads. So excited to get to know each of you.

[MK]

Teeeheeeheeee ... thanks for linking them both, Apoorv! And, of course, to all, yes, join both boards, please! No permission needed :D

Thanks to Kyle and Miranda for joining the hunt! And for having new items to be collected, in the scavenger hunt :)

[MK]

Kyle wrote: "Howdy! I'm Kyle and I live in Austin, Texas (USA). I like reading classics, and I'm looking forward to discussing them with the group.

I'll add a couple items to the Board Two hunt."

Oops, I didn't say hello and welcome! So, howdy! Glad to have you join us :)

[Hana]

Hello everyone! I am Hana. I live in Germany, but I wasn't actually born here but that's a long story.I love to read everything except for Fantasy (HP is the exception to that one, but I can't stand the rest). The only thing I (probably) enjoy more than reading is writing. I am seriously busy, especially while NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNoWriMo, but I always find time to read a few hundred pages every day. And because I'm starting to rant I'm just going to finish it off with saying that I really look forward to discovering classics with all of you.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome Hana. Glad to have you reading with us.

[Fernando]

Hey, everyone! I'm Fernando Santana. I live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

I am a businessman and, in my free time, I like to talk about books and literature. I also love coffee, music, cooking, and Fidel and Cássia, my two dogs. I like to be at home, especially because reading is one of my favorite activities.

I didn't really have time to read much when I was in college, so I've been trying to catch up since I graduated three years ago. I had heard of GoodReads then, but only now did I join this community. I haven't even added all the books I've read to my shelves.

I love literature because it provides us with a wide array of experiences and feelings. Because I am Brazilian, I can't help but love Érico Veríssimo, Machado de Assis and Jorge Amado. They are, to me, the very best in Brazilian literature and in literature in Portuguese.

I also love García Márquez, Mia Couto, Saramago and Faulkner. They are the authors of the best books I've read so far.

Poetry draws me like nothing else. My favorite poet is the Brazilian genius Manoel de Barros.

I hope I can learn with and from you guys. This seems to be a very nice community and I feel very welcome. Kathy even sent me a welcome-to-the-group message!

[[deleted user]]

Hello to the group,
My name is Greg. I live in Idaho. I noticed you also do Kathy. A special hello to a fellow Idahoan.

My reading interests are mainly contemporary then classic literature. This is a new development for me. Literature was always a dirty word that I had trouble spelling. Now though, I find I would rather read the good stuff.

I do occasionally read science fiction/fantasy, non-fiction and will even enter into genres that I rarely visit (presently reading Lonesome Dove, what a great book).

Beside Lonesome Dove I am also reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

I may not have joined but for the books you are reading this month and next. Slaughter 5 and A Clockwork Orange. I recently read both and was blown away. I can't praise them enough. I would love to add to the discussion. I am not here just for those two though. Now that I have joined I plan on enjoying the group for some time. BTW, my hesitation in joining is only due to the time technology seems to take away from life. I try to limit it.

As I alluded to, my reading interests have changed. What a wonderful thing to have happen at this point in my life. I suddenly have countless books available to me that I have never read or never heard of. It is a sad thing when ones reading interests hit a wall. What I have is the opposite. The world of books is wide open.

I look forward to being part of the group and sharing discussions about our books.

I will close with a small sample of some of my favorite books.

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Something Wicked This way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Sea by John Banville
Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

And my all-time favorite author, although I don't read him much anymore, Ray Bradbury.

Greg

[Catherine]

Hello everyone! Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Catherine and am from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. That's below Delaware and between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. I'm an Adjunct Instructor at two local colleges and teach English (Composition and Literature) and Communication (speech). Reading is my favorite hobby and I can be found at any time with a book available: paper book or digital on Kindle, phone, tablet, etc. This group caught my attention because you are focusing on the classics and yet don't seem stuffy or snobby. I'm looking forward to discussing some great books with you.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Fernando wrote: "Hey, everyone! I'm Fernando Santana. I live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

I am a businessman and, in my free time, I like to talk about books and literature. I also love coffee, music, cooking, and F..."

Thanks for introducing yourself, Fernando. So nice to get to know you a bit better.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Greg wrote: "Hello to the group,
My name is Greg. I live in Idaho. I noticed you also do Kathy. A special hello to a fellow Idahoan.

My reading interests are mainly contemporary then classic literature. This..."

Nice set of books, Greg. Glad to have you here! Please feel free to add to any discussion. We keep them all open just in case someone wants to read a book on their own schedule.

BTW I hail from Middleton, Idaho. And you?

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Catherine wrote: "Hello everyone! Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Catherine and am from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. That's below Delaware and between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. I'm an Adjunct In..."

Welcome, Catherine. And thanks for letting all of us get to know you a bit better. As a bibliophil you will fit right in here.

[Kim]

Hi, Everyone! I'm Kim. I live in Missouri. If you don't see me with a book in my hand, I must be with my 90-pound puppy or in Savasana! I am excited to find a classics group!

[[deleted user]]

Kathy,
Thank you for the welcome. I live in the SE corner of the state near Idaho Falls. I have my entire life. I wouldn't want too much to be different other than I could go for the mild winters you enjoy. It is an exception this year but often the lawn isn't clear of snow until the end of April or even into May.

[[deleted user]]

Hello everybody! My Name is Gresa. I am 22 years old. I live in Tirana(Albania)and I study Mathematical And Computer Engineering. Since engineering is too difficult I may progress slowly sometimes. I just finished The Great Gatsby and it was great book. A friend invited me here and I am happy she did. :D Thank you Kathy for your warm welcome also.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Greg, Idaho Falls is a beautiful city. I was married there. And it snow that morning -- a June 3rd. That is an Idaho spring for you! By the afternoon it was warm and sunny.

Welcome Gresa! I am so glad that you bring your international flavor to the group. It is nice to have a world-wide friendship with so many different people. I am glad your friend invited you here too!!

[Laurie]

Hello! :) I'm Laurie, a 17, almost 18 years old French Canadian girl. I'm currently studying Nursing in college, which takes a lot of my time, but I still manage to read here and there (mainly on the bus going to school). I like to read of everything :)

[MK]

Hello Hana, Fernando, Greg, Catherine, Kim, Gresa (hi! I recognize you ^_^), and Laurie! Welcome :)

[Kim]

Diane wrote: "Hi all! I am Diane from Missouri, USA. I am a wife, mother of two, and avid knitter. My kids are finally reading on their own so now it is time for me to get back to reading some wonderful classi..."

Hi! Nice to meet you! ;-)

[Nakita]

Hello everyone! I'm Nakita and I'm a marketing specialist from Raleigh, NC. I've always had a passion for the classics and I've been working my way through a reading list for a while now. Always looking for new reading ideas!

[MK]

Hi Nakita! Welcome :).
heh, I see Kim and Diane must know each other already :D

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome, Laurie & Nakita! Glad to have you here.

[Jessica]

Hello everyone!

My name is Jessica. I am a junior in college majoring in English Literature with a history minor. I don't really have a set genre that I read, but I usually gravitate towards contemporary and classics.

I am looking forward to reading all the books lines up! This group is perfect for me to get a crack on all the books that have been on my To-Read List and it will be so nice to talk about them with fellow book lovers :)

[MK]

awesome! sounds like a great fit. Welcome, Jessica :)

[Jessica]

Thanks, MK :)

[Xhulia]

Hello everyone,
I'm Xhulia from Albania. I study law but also enjoy reading good books. I hope we have interesting discussions. :)

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome Jessica. Always nice to have another book lover aboard. And welcome also to Xhulia ~ I look forward to your comments in the discussions too.

[[deleted user]]

Wowo another Albanian fellow around. :P Welcome here!

[Xhulia]

Gresa wrote: "Wowo another Albanian fellow around. :P Welcome here!" :D

[[deleted user]]

Xhulia wrote: "Gresa wrote: "Wowo another Albanian fellow around. :P Welcome here!" :D"

That's the coolest reply I have ever seen..

[Haley]

Hi there!
I'm Haley and I am finishing up my MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) here in Oregon and I joined the group to remind myself to catch up on some of the classics I have been neglecting over the years. I have always been an avid reader with fantasy and sci-fi being my favored genres, but the classics are too interesting to neglect for too long :-)

[Julia]

Hi everyone,
I'm Julia and I'm currently doing my BA in History and Literature plus working a full-time job. For me, it's hard sometimes to remember to not only pick up the fast reads on my shelves, but also: the classics. I saw the group read for May is going to be Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird - a book that has been collecting dust on my TBR pile for ages now...
So looking forward to reading & discussing! :)

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome Haley & Julia.
Glad to have you both here in the group. Nice to see that you are ready to read & discuss the classics with us.

Looking forward to reading your comments.