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[B the BookAddict]

I recently retired in my late 40s; an Australian bookworm, I also quilt, swim and I walk RSPCA dogs in my spare time. Literary fiction is my fave but I do read other genres. I have two boxer dogs and two cats so something's always happening at our house.

[Tawanai]

Ankita wrote: "What is your real name Tawanai??? I mean if you don't mind......"

It's Taiba...

[Angela M]

Happy to see you here , my friend Bette . And all if the other new members . I'm reasonably new here myself and it a nice place to be .

[Jenny]

Welcome Bette! Feel free to jump right in! Looking forward to seeing you around!

[B the BookAddict]

Jenny wrote: "Welcome Bette! Feel free to jump right in! Looking forward to seeing you around!" Happily trawling the threads; everyone seems really lovely here. I love a good book chat:)

Angela Always Reading wrote: "Happy to see you here , my friend Bette . And all if the other new members . I'm reasonably new here myself and it a nice place to be ."

Hi there, my book-buddy:) So you're back in 40F, what a bummer. "26C here" she says smugly:)

[Bionic Jean]

Welcome Bette! Hope you have fun here :)

[Leslie]

Welcome Bette!

[Ankita]

Welcome Bette....

[Tracey]

welcome Bette hope you enjoy it here. :)

[Charbel]

Welcome Bette!

[B the BookAddict]

Thank you for the warm welcome, everyone:)

[LauraT]

Bette Book Babble wrote: "I recently retired in my late 40s; an Australian bookworm, I also quilt, swim and I walk RSPCA dogs in my spare time. Literary fiction is my fave but I do read other genres. I have two boxer dogs ..."

Glad to see you here Bette. All my envy though: I'm in my late 40s and won't be able to retier for other 20 years minimum!!! I've always said that Australia is my dream land!!!

[B the BookAddict]

LauraT wrote: "Bette Book Babble wrote: "I recently retired in my late 40s; an Australian bookworm, I also quilt, swim and I walk RSPCA dogs in my spare time. Literary fiction is my fave but I do read other genr..."

It is pretty amazing but when you live here, you get used to it. Although I am an early riser, I bless each day the alarm clock doesn't force me out of bed.

[LauraT]

Bette Book Babble wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Bette Book Babble wrote: "I recently retired in my late 40s; an Australian bookworm, I also quilt, swim and I walk RSPCA dogs in my spare time. Literary fiction is my fave but I do ..."

I'd get used to it pretty soon!

[Hot Mess Sommelière ~ Caro]

Hi everyone! I'm Caro and I joined the group because I really really want to read the Lymond series but I'm really bad at reading difficult series with long books in it so I thought I might join the buddy re-read of Lymond in this group to help me get through it :)

[Charbel]

Welcome Caro!

[Shirley]

Welcome Caro! I hope you enjoy the Lymond readalong! I find readalongs are great when you need some support in reading a long or "difficult" book.

[Hot Mess Sommelière ~ Caro]

Thanks! I'm hoping that with he read-along, the series will read like a dream :)

[Leslie]

Caro wrote: "Hi everyone! I'm Caro and I joined the group because I really really want to read the Lymond series but I'm really bad at reading difficult series with long books in it so I thought I might join th..."

Welcome Caro! I am glad to have another member join in my Lymond readalong :-) Hopefully you will find lots of other things to enjoy in the group as well...

[Hot Mess Sommelière ~ Caro]

Thanks for the welcome Leslie! I'm sure I'll find lots of things to enjoy here, starting with the Lymond and Persuasion buddy-reads :D

[Suzan]

Hay everyone!
I've been a member for quite some time, but haven't really posted on here just yet. I only thought it would be appropriate if I did so first.
My name is Suzan, I'm 22 years old and I'm from the Netherlands. I'm a student of English language and culture hoping to graduate this year. I'm also hoping to be doing a master's degree in English literature.
I'm very excited to be reading and discussing books with you guys :)

[Leslie]

Welcome Suzan! Glad that you decided to "delurk" :-)
By the way, I like your hat!

[Daniel]

Hey everyone, I'm new to Goodreads. None of my friends are really into reading so I thought it would be good to meet some like-minded people here. I was browsing through some of the groups and this one looked great!

I'm looking forward to getting to know you guys and experiencing some awesome books together.

[Leslie]

Welcome Daniel! Feel free to jump in on any of the discussions. You will meet a lot of bookworms here! :)

[Tracey]

Welcome Caro Suzanne and Daniel. Yayy! You all picked the right group! lol I hope you all enjoy the group and it inspires you to read lots of wonderful books.

[Shirley]

Welcome Suzan and Daniel, hope you enjoy the group!

[Charbel]

Welcome Suzanne and Daniel!

[LauraT]

Welcome Caro, Suzanne and Daniel!
This is the right place to be in of you need some friends to ralk about books - or to read along long series of novels!!!

[Jenny]

Welcome Caro and Daniel, and Suzanne: great to see you here too! :)

[Elsbeth]

Hi all!
I'm 40, married and have 2 kids (son Yannick = 8, daughter Annika = 5). I work a few days a week in a bookshop (since 2 years, before that I worked in the small post-office which was inside the same shop - I've done that 12 years).
When I'm not busy with work, household (yuk...) or my children, I mostly read (historical) novels, thrillers, and classics. My challenge for this year is 64 books (last year I read 54), among which at least 35 classics - books written before 1930 something (so far I've read 15).

[Bionic Jean]

welcome to Caro, Suzanne, Daniel and Elsbeth! Hope you all have fun here :)

[Leslie]

Welcome Elsbeth! Historical fiction, thrillers, and classics sounds a lot like my reading - all that is missing is the sci fi/fantasy! :-)

Feel free to join in any of the discussions or reads!

[Elsbeth]

Leslie wrote: "Welcome Elsbeth! Historical fiction, thrillers, and classics sounds a lot like my reading - all that is missing is the sci fi/fantasy! :-)

Feel free to join in any of the discussions or reads!"

Well, I've just recently start to discover those. I've read a classic which sets on Mars (A Princess of Mars and one of its sequels The Gods of Mars) I really enjoyed those (to my surprise)! I'll at least have to read the next one in the series (the series is called Barsoom), because The Gods of Mars has an open ending.
I don't know if you consider The Chronicles of Narnia or the Harry Potter - series as fantasy (probably, come to think of it) - I really loved those. So your and my reading are even more similar!
(In fact, I've just looked: it's 71 % ;)...).

[Alannah]

Welcome new members.

[Leslie]

Elsbeth wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Welcome Elsbeth! Historical fiction, thrillers, and classics sounds a lot like my reading - all that is missing is the sci fi/fantasy! :-)

Feel free to join in any of the discussi..."

I read the first Edgar Rice Burroughs last year but didn't continue with the series (so many other books to read!). I was a little surprised that he wrote sci fi as I had known as the author of the Tarzan books. Did you know that his hometown changed its name to Tarzana in his honor?

[Elsbeth]

Leslie wrote: "Elsbeth wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Welcome Elsbeth! Historical fiction, thrillers, and classics sounds a lot like my reading - all that is missing is the sci fi/fantasy! :-)

Feel free to join in any..."

No, I didn't know that! Thats funny! I downloaded a few Tarzan books, but didn't read them yet. I didn't know there where so many of them!

[LauraT]

Welcome Elsbeth. Did I miss it or you didn't tell where you're from? I'm so curious!!!
We try to read one classic every two months, so give a look at that discussion if you like novles published before 1930! We are about to start Persuasion

[Andrew]

I'm Andrew from Canada. Always looking for new recommendations. Especially classic literature.

[Jenny]

Welcome Elsbeth and Andrew!

[LauraT]

Welcome Andrew!
One of my favourite author of classic is L.M. Montgomery!!! Before I die I HAVE to go to PEI!!!

[Shirley]

Welcome Elsbeth and Andrew!

[Elsbeth]

LauraT wrote: "Welcome Elsbeth. Did I miss it or you didn't tell where you're from? I'm so curious!!!
We try to read one classic every two months, so give a look at that discussion if you like novles published be..."

No, you're right, I didn't tell you where I'm from...
I live in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, just a few kilometres from Germany.
I read Persuasion in january and really loved it (better than Emma, which I read last month. I just like Anne better than Emma ;).
I like L.M. Montgomery, too. One of my challenges for the coming 3 months is to finish some series, among which Anne of Green Gables. I think I read 3 or 4 of that serie. Still 2 or 3 more.

[Leslie]

Welcome Andrew! You will find plenty of variety here, including quite a few classic readalongs, if you want to join in. Laura & I are both big fans of Victorian English books but we aren't the only ones:)

[LauraT]

Elsbeth wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Welcome Elsbeth. Did I miss it or you didn't tell where you're from? I'm so curious!!!
We try to read one classic every two months, so give a look at that discussion if you like novl..."

I love Neijmegen! I had friends living there - now they're in Antwerp. And as you say Persuasion is definitly better than Emma, but don't say it to critics!

[Andrew]

Thank you! I've never actually been to P.E.I. Myself, but hopefully someday. :)

[Tracey]

Welcome Andrew

[LauraT]

Andrew wrote: "Thank you! I've never actually been to P.E.I. Myself, but hopefully someday. :)"

Ok; we'll organize it together ;)

[Bionic Jean]

What is P.E.I. please? I am baffled. :D

And WELCOME to Andrew :)

[LauraT]

Jean wrote: "What is P.E.I. please? I am baffled. :D

And WELCOME to Andrew :)"

ARGGGG Don't you know where Anne of Green Gables lived and thrived??? It's Prince Edward Island!!!! ;)

[Bionic Jean]

LOL! Chris has just said I was showing my ignorance of the Classics there :) Thanks for the information. (I haven't read Anne of Green Gables since I was about 12.)