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Thanks, Greg :) It's nice to have finally carved out some time to get back on here.
Hi everyone. My name is Gloria and I am in my senior year of high school. I have spent my past three years in Beijing, China with my family. Regretfully, I have not spent as much time as I would have liked reading great books, but I am making that up as quickly as I can! In addition to great literature, art, and music, I also love science, engineering, and learning in general.
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Chinook wrote: "Hello all, thought I'd reintroduce since I've been absent for about a year? Things have gotten mildly crazier around here - Kait's an active toddler, my husband left the military and got a new job ..."Military wife, toddler, new job, new house and you still find time to read? Girl, you are my hero! You are doing something right! :-)
Mimi, I agree! I have a dog, husband, no kids, same house & same job for 15 years and I'm challenged by lack of reading time! Need to make changes....
Welcome back Chinook! Good luck with the house hunting :)And hi to Gloria!
Hello guys, Im Austine from India. New to reading actually, heard of this site and wanted good book recommendations.
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Welcome Austine! If you participate in the threads, I'm sure you'll get plenty of those! :)
Thanks for the welcome! This group is so much fun. Now I always have the feeling that I ought to never feel bored because I've added nearly a thousand books on my to-read list since I joined goodreads. My year's been spent mostly applying to US colleges, keeping up grades, and becoming a Tolkiendil. A great play I've read recently is "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard.
Welcom Austine!@Gloria, I am guessing that a Tolkiendil is a fan of Tolkien. If so, I am also one! I also am a fan of Tom Stoppard -- he was one of the first of our Group Drama playwrights so if you want to hear about some of his other plays, check out the thread below:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Hi everyone! I am Afreen and I am from India too (shoutout to Austine! :D)...just joined this group because iam really interested in reading more classics and literary fiction this year and just wanted to say this group has amazing challenges and book choices ! So happy to have found it!
Greg wrote: "Welcome Afreen!"Thanks Greg!
Gloria wrote: "Thanks for the welcome! This group is so much fun. Now I always have the feeling that I ought to never feel bored because I've added nearly a thousand books on my to-read list since I joined goodre..."Gloria, I loved Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. Feel free to come on over to our Drama section, we're currently reading Irish playwrights.
Hi allI love reading good writing of all sorts. I am in Canada. I have a teenage son who started reading almost out of the womb
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Welcome DJ and Natalie!DJ, my mom went through hip replacement so I can sympathize with you! You will have plenty of reading time during recovery as well. Do you listen to audiobooks? They might come in handy while you are doing PT after the surgery... In any case, it sounds like you read mostly nonfiction, so make sure you take a look at our nonfiction folder:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...
Hi, I'm Karin, as you can see. I'm a Shelfari refugee and have followed some of my favourite groups here. However, I'm also looking forward to finding a few new ones. I've already put A Prayer for Owen Meany on hold because I've been meaning to read it anyway (pun unintentional).I'm a somewhat eclectic reader, but don't read all kinds of books. Also, after age 40 I started "cheating" and usually read the ending before I'm done to see if I want to finish the book. So many books, so little time. I would have been well and truly horrified to do that when I was growing up or in my twenties.
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Angela wrote: "Dear Readers,I am a former journalist/ media manager, currently a publisher. I am excited to be a part of this group. ..."
Welcome Angela. We have a strict no-promotional posting rule here so I have deleted your post but please feel free to write a new one that follows our rules.
Hello! I am obviously a total book worm (probably the same as all of you are too :)). I really would love to expand my list of books and possibly share my favorites with others like me. Thank you and I'm so glad to be part of the group :p
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Hi Hailey,
Welcome to the group, glad to have you with us:)
Rowena wrote: "Hailey wrote: "Hello! I am obviously a total book worm (probably the same as all of you are too :)). I really would love to expand my list of books and possibly share my favorites with others like ..."Thank you very much!
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Hi everybody,I have a broad range of interest in several genres, but my resolution this year is to read more literary works and thought this group might help me in that quest.
Thank you for having me!
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It is my pleasure to join this group. I am Shashi from India, based out of Chennai.Looking forward to some good interaction and interesting conversation about books. I love reading about Psychology, Spirituality and Literary fiction as well as Haiku - The worlds's most popular style of Poetry originated in Japan.
Cheers!!
Welcome, Shashi. We hope you enjoy the group. We are strict in this group about no self promotion so please can you remove the reference to your own book in your message introducing yourself.
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Great to see you back Chinook! Best wishes to you, your husband, and Kait!