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message 801: by Charbel (last edited Feb 07, 2014 08:40AM) (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Welcome Cassie, Allie, Tracey, and Sarah. It's wonderful having so many new members! Hope we get to hear from you all.


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LauraT (laurata) | 14377 comments Mod
Welcome Sarah. How I love Wales: one of my most beautifull tripp!
I'm sure you'll find discussions about books which interest you: we read so many differen kind. I'm particularly keen on mystery - just finished a good one The Shining Girls and classic - our classic group read is about one of my favourite book ever: Middlemarch


message 803: by Sarah. B (new)

Sarah. B Aww thx for the welcome. The Shining Girlssounds interesting I might take a look at it next month thanks for the reccomendation


message 804: by LauraT (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14377 comments Mod
Sarah wrote: "Aww thx for the welcome. The Shining Girlssounds interesting I might take a look at it next month thanks for the reccomendation"

If you find it earlier we are having a "readalong" right now!


message 805: by Sarah. B (new)

Sarah. B oh lol didnt realise. Am making a trip to the library tomorrow so will see if I can get a copy. thx


message 806: by LauraT (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14377 comments Mod
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Here's the discussion if you manage to find it


message 807: by Jenny (new)

Jenny (jeoblivion) | 4893 comments Welcome Sarah! :)


message 808: by [deleted user] (new)

Hi All
Just joined this morning . I was looking for an active group that has fun -sounding challenges .
I think your Themed Challenges may work best for me, since there isn't a real strict list of books to follow and a nice time frame to complete them all.
Excited to meet some new "Book Friends " .


message 809: by Tracey (new)

Tracey (traceypb) | 1193 comments Hello Sarah and Bookie welcome :)


message 810: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) Welcome to the book club Julia! I hope you have fun here. :)Happy reading.


message 811: by Charbel (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Welcome Julia! This is a great club. The theme challenges, group reads, and readalongs are a great way to get active here.


message 812: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Welcome Julia! Glad you like the Theme challenges, and feel free to set up your own personal challenges in our 2014 Personal Challenges section :)


message 813: by Bionic Jean (new)

Bionic Jean (bionicjean) Welcome Sarah and Julia! Hope you have fun here :)


message 814: by Alan (new)

Alan | 48 comments Hi Everyone, just joined the site few days ago, great to be in this group :)


message 815: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) welcome to the group alan. Have fun and happy reading! ^_^


message 816: by Alan (new)

Alan | 48 comments Amber wrote: "welcome to the group alan. Have fun and happy reading! ^_^"

Thats why I am here ;) haha


message 817: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) ^_^


message 818: by Charbel (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Welcome Alan!


message 819: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Welcome Alan!


message 820: by Terry (new)

Terry Ravenscroft (terryrazz) | 10 comments Hi
I’m Terry Ravenscroft and I write humorous books.
In 1978, on the day I threw in my mundane factory job to become a television comedy scriptwriter, I was involved in a car accident which left me unable to turn my head. Since then I have never looked back.
Before they took me away I wrote scripts for Les Dawson, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, Alas Smith and Jones, Not the Nine O’Clock News, Ken Dodd, Roy Hudd, and several others. I also wrote the award-winning BBC radio series Star Terk Two. When I stopped writing comedy scripts in 1995 I took to writing books. Up to now I have finished 15. (Although I can’t say if my readers have.)
Born in New Mills, Derbyshire, England in 1938, I still live there with my wife Delma and my mistress Divine Bottom (in my dreams).
My mother had a particularly long and difficult delivery, largely because she’d forgotten to take her tights off. I was an ugly baby, so ugly in fact that the midwife held me up and slapped me even though I was already crying. My parents decided to share equally the responsibility of bringing me up. However I proved to be a difficult baby, often throwing tantrums and crying for long spells, especially when it was my father's day for breast feeding me.
My family was so poor they couldn’t afford to buy me any clothes and I spent the first four years of my life naked, and unable to go out. Then they bought me a hat so I could look out of the window. Despite my deprived existence I prospered and at the age of five started my formal education.
I was a bright child at school as my mother had painted my head with luminous paint so she could pick me out easily when she came to collect me. A clever if highly strung boy I passed the eleven-plus at the age of nine, passed three GCEs at the age of eleven, and passed water in bed until the age of fourteen. Due to the latter, plus a south-facing window and the central heating being on all the time, there was usually a rainbow in my bedroom and this gave me an early interest in meteorology. To find out more about the subject I went to the local library and asked if they had a book on it but unfortunately the librarian thought I said ‘metallurgy’ and consequently I spent the next two years wondering what extracting metals from their ores had to do with the weather.
My education completed - in the girls toilet with the town bicycle - I began my first job when I took out articles at the law firm of Beckett and Hargreaves. The articles in question were a silver paper knife, a gold pen and the cash box from Becket and Hargreaves' safe. When I appeared in court the judge said, “I suppose you think that was funny?” I didn’t, but as the judge seemed to think it was I thought I’d take up writing humour for a living.


message 821: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) welcome to the group terry. have fun and happy reading!


message 822: by Charbel (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Welcome Terry!


message 823: by LauraT (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14377 comments Mod
Welcome Julia and Terry!!!


message 824: by Jill (new)

Jill | 6 comments Hi my name is Jill. I am joining this group because I love to read. My husband and I resigned our jobs a few years ago and are now working with women refugees on the Thai/Burma border and traveling. Its a wonderful life but since most people don't read English, I miss reading books and talking about them over dinner. So I'm joining to hear about books I haven't read and talk to people about them


message 825: by dely (new)

dely | 5214 comments Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill. I am joining this group because I love to read. My husband and I resigned our jobs a few years ago and are now working with women refugees on the Thai/Burma border and traveli..."

Welcome Jill! You are in the right place ;)


message 826: by Tracey (new)

Tracey (traceypb) | 1193 comments Terry, Alan and Jill welcome to the best group on GR.. imo :)


message 827: by Charbel (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill. I am joining this group because I love to read. My husband and I resigned our jobs a few years ago and are now working with women refugees on the Thai/Burma border and traveli..."

Welcome Jill. What a fascinating life you must lead!


message 828: by LauraT (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14377 comments Mod
Welcome Jill! And I agree with Charbel: fascinating life yours must be. A bit demanding I think as well!


message 829: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Welcome Terry and Jill!


message 830: by Bionic Jean (new)

Bionic Jean (bionicjean) Welcome to Alan, Terry and Jill :)


message 831: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) welcome to the club Jill. Have fun and happy reading!


message 832: by Jill (new)

Jill | 6 comments A bit demanding always interesting, but sometimes just as mundane as anyone else's. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm enjoying exploring all the discussions.


message 833: by Bionic Jean (new)

Bionic Jean (bionicjean) I hope you are describing your current life there, Jill, as opposed to this group!! LOL


message 834: by Jill (new)

Jill | 6 comments yes indeed lol


message 835: by Bionic Jean (new)

Bionic Jean (bionicjean) "Always interesting" certainly fits this group too though, Jill. I've read lots of books I may not otherwise have come across. Hope you have fun here :)


message 836: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 14747 comments Mod
Welcome Jill.


message 837: by Nina (new)

Nina Kaytel | 1 comments Hello every one. Until I purchases a Kindle, I was limited to commercial fiction -- anything you find in your grocery store or drug store. I live in a small town with no book stores *gasps*.


message 838: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) hey nina welcome to the group. I hope you have fun here. :)


message 839: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 14747 comments Mod
Hi Nina, welcome to the group. Nice to meet you, my name is Alannah. :)


message 840: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Welcome Nina!


message 841: by LauraT (new)

LauraT (laurata) | 14377 comments Mod
Wellcome Nina! Think that I live in a small town... in Italy! Ebooks are my mainly read!


message 842: by Paola (new)

Paola Hi! I'm Paola (from Italy). I love reading but moreover I've recently realized that I really love "chatting" about my readings and I think that people living with me are getting tired of listening at me about books so I think it would be better to chat on GR about the beautiful world of reading! ;)


message 843: by Alannah (new)

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 14747 comments Mod
Hi Paola, welcome to the group. It's lovely to meet you.


message 844: by Leslie (new)

Leslie | 16369 comments Welcome Paola! We seem to be developing quite an Italian contigent :-)


message 845: by Shirley (new)

Shirley | 4177 comments Welcome Nina and Paola, hope you enjoy being part of this group!


message 846: by Charbel (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Welcome Paola!


message 847: by Charbel (new)

Charbel (queez) | 2729 comments Welcome Nina!


message 848: by Amber (new)

Amber (amberterminatorofgoodreads) welcome to the group paola. I hope you have fun here. :)


message 849: by Bionic Jean (new)

Bionic Jean (bionicjean) Welcome to the group, Nina and Paola :)


message 850: by Jenny (new)

Jenny (jeoblivion) | 4893 comments Welcome Nina and Paola, feel free to jump right in!


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