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[LauraT]

Hi Silvia! A lot of italians lately!!!!

[Leslie]

Welcome Silvia!

[Amber]

welcome silvia. have fun and happy reading! :)

[Leann]

Thank you, Dhanaraj! I too love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is on my to-read list. Like many others here, I shop for books more quickly than I can read them.

Hi, LauraT. Thanks! I need to broaden my reading as well.

Good to see you here, Silvia. I've only had the pleasure of being in Italy (Lago di Como and Firenze) for 8 days. I absolutely loved it!

[Amber]

hey leann welcome to the group! Have fun and happy reading. ^_^

[Dhanaraj]

@Leann: If you are interested in magical realism of Italo Calvino, you should also read his Our Ancestors trilogy. And, of course IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER is a masterpiece.

[Jenny]

Welcome Silvia!

[Leann]

Thanks for the recommendation, Dhanaraj. I will check it out.

[Shirley]

Welcome Leann and Silvia, hope you enjoy the group!

[A]

Hi everyone, my name is Alper, and I joined this group because I like to read :)

I was looking to add some more activity to my GR life, since I really enjoy the websites interface, and this seemed like a good place to start.

I'm in my last year of highschool, I've read throughout my childhood but lately I've acquired a new found taste. I'm trying my best to visit all the classics, must-reads, and so forth, while enjoying myself along the way with the occasional light reading, or fantasy fiction. I enjoy non-fiction too, philosophy, history, politics, economics, are all topics I enjoy reading about.

So yeah, that's me , nice to be here ^^

[Leslie]

Welcome Alper! Hopefully you will find plenty to keep you busy reading here :)

[Jenny]

Welcome Alper! Jump right in!

[Amber]

Welcome alper happy reading!

[Tracey]

Hello Silvia and Alper welcome to this great book club. :)

[LauraT]

Welcome Alpert! Glad to have very joung person with us - at least you like so very joung to me woman of middle age!!!!

[Bionic Jean]

Welcome to Colleen, Tina, Leeann, Silvia, and Alper! I think I've already chatted with you, Leeann!

Hope you all have fun in this group! We are very diverse with our reading so it's a great place to be :)

[David]

Hi,
I am David. I am retired and live in Kentucky with my wife of 45 years and our two German Shepherds. We are life long readers, (us, not the dogs-they just read minds) but since we retired we are discovering how many treasures we have missed. We are also revisiting some of the books we read and loved years ago and discovering how much our understanding of them has changed.

[Charbel]

Welcome Colleen, Tina, Leeann, Silvia,Alper and David!

[LauraT]

Welcome David! How I'd love to be retired and have more time to read - maybe because I'm having a lot of problems at work! But in Italy tgey're yearly postponing retirment age and I think I'll manage only to get to the cimitery by then!

[Amber]

welcome to the group david! Have a great time and happy reading.

[Leslie]

Welcome David!

[Tracey]

Welcome David. This is wonderful new people all the time. :)

[Jenny]

Welcome David! I have to confess that I've been secretly having a little crush on your dog ever since you've joined the group a while ago ;) I kept coming across your profile picture every time when looking through our members. And there's two of them? Lucky you!

Feel free to jump right in, if you haven't already!

[Cathie]

Hi, I'm Cathie! I'm a native Chicagoan, mom to two soon-to-be adult daughters with the household run by our 13-year old snobby feline, Autumn. I recently joined the group and am looking forward to expand my to-read list.

Having joined Goodreads since 2012, I've expanded my genre from thrillers and chick lit to Gothic, magical realism, historical fiction, and food writing.

[Leslie]

Hi Cathie, welcome! I'm curious - what is food writing? Is it like restaurant critics or more like cookbooks?

[Amber]

welcome to the group Cathie. I hope you have fun here and happy reading! So greetings from TN. ^_^

[Cathie]

Leslie wrote: "Hi Cathie, welcome! I'm curious - what is food writing? Is it like restaurant critics or more like cookbooks?"

Thanks Leslie! The food writing books I have enjoyed were about "a cook's life" whether they worked in a restaurant or ran one, memoirs of home cooks that that includes recipes, stories about certain food, like the american pie and tacos. I have read one book from a restaurant critic's perspective.

[Cathie]

Amber wrote: "welcome to the group Cathie. I hope you have fun here and happy reading! So greetings from TN. ^_^"

Thanks Amber! I am looking forward to the reads!

[Leslie]

Cathie wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Hi Cathie, welcome! I'm curious - what is food writing? Is it like restaurant critics or more like cookbooks?"

Thanks Leslie! The food writing books I have enjoyed were about "a c..."

Oh, sort of like Julia Child's Christmas Memories With Recipes or My Life in France.

[Amber]

No problem Cathie. (Gives her a thumbs up).

[Tracey]

Welcome Cathie enjoy the group. :)

[Cathie]

Leslie wrote: "Cathie wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Hi Cathie, welcome! I'm curious - what is food writing? Is it like restaurant critics or more like cookbooks?"

Thanks Leslie! The food writing books I have enjoyed ..."

Yes...that would have been a faster explanation. I couldn't help but share!

[Cathie]

Tracey wrote: "Welcome Cathie enjoy the group. :)"

Thanks Tracey!

[Allison]

Hi all! I'm Allie from Michigan. I've been a Goodreads member for two years now but recently deleted all my groups I wasn't having much fun in and joined ones in which it looks like I'll participate a lot more, so here I am! :)

I love attempting the challenges but I don't get to the library much or they never have what I want so sometimes I don't always finish them. But I try real hard! lol. Looking forward to meeting new friends and of course, talking books! The current monthly read (Rebecca) is a fabulous one btw.

[Tracey]

Hello Allie welcome and I'm sure you will enjoy it here. :)

[Allison]

Thanks Tracey!

[Leslie]

Welcome Allie! I love challenges too, but sometimes I overload on them :) In addition to our Around-the-World challenge, check out the Theme Challenges here, which should give you plenty of flexibility.

[Allison]

Thanks Leslie! I've already snooped thru the challenges :)

[Leslie]

Allie wrote: "Thanks Leslie! I've already snooped thru the challenges :)"

Feel free to set up a thread in our 2014 Personal Challenges folder to chronicle your own challenges if you want.

By the way, I love your avatar/icon picture!

[Allison]

Thanks! Isn't it fabulous ;)

[Bionic Jean]

Welcome David, Cathie and Allie! Hope you all have fun in this group :)

[Amber]

Welcome allie! Have fun here and happy reading! :-)

[Jenny]

Welcome Cathie and Alli!

[Silvia]

a great thanx to all of you guys, it feels nice to be welcomed by so many of you...just a little correction...i do live in italy but i am slovac ...

[Jenny]

Silvia, even better, because that means I can ask you about literary recommendations by Slovak authors, since that is a bit of an educational gap on my part. I just looked through a Wikipedia list of Slovakian authors, and they are all new to me, so any hint as to were to start is very welcome! :)

[LauraT]

Welcome Cathie and Alli, hope you'll find somthing to chat about and read in hiere. I'm sure you will!!! And Silvia, Jenny's right: we need someone expert in that literature

[Sarah. B]

Hello everyone. I`m Sarah from Wales and just joined this group. I love reading and joined the group to try to get some good book recommendations. I read most genres but am not so keen on romance and chic lit books.

[Leslie]

Welcome Sarah! You will get plenty of recommendations here I think. Feel free to join in any of the discussions or browse and lurk at bit.

[Amber]

welcome sarah! I hope you have fun here. :)

[Allison]

Thanks everyone! :)