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Barbara M
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Mar 23, 2016 12:52PM
Welcome to PBT Flo! I'm sure you'll not only find book on your TBR to fit the tag, but also add books to your TBR in ways you've never imagined! My very first PBT challenge (the very first!) was dragons. I thought I was finished before I began but decided to be a good sport. I checked out what others were recommending and chose a book. I totally enjoyed it! Now, I can't say I've embraced dragons or even fantasy as a favorite but I'm no longer likely to shun a tag just because it's not something I'm used to. It has really stretched my reading limits.
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Welcome, Flo! I felt the same as you, I always felt restricted by other groups because of the narrow focus on a book, so I've never been active in any group I joined until PBT. The freedom within the guidelines is perfect, and the people are just great. I'm sure you'll have a good time!
Flo wrote: "Thank you! I'm excited to get started soon! Though after looking at the first ten books on my list, I had fewer female authors than I thought. :P My son just accepted an internship in NYC, and if..."
Thank you so much, Flo, for those ideas! I especially appreciate you pointing out where not to go. We are subsidizing this learning experience obviously, but am hoping to keep it somewhere in the realm of reality! I found one studio in a GREAT location for my son, but my walk in closet is literally bigger. The whole apartment is about the size of a king sized bed. It may be his best choice though because it fits the budget and is right in midtown, a very short walk to his work. I did notice the lower prices in Harlem, but wasn't sure if it was okay. Honestly, we live in Baltimore, and I am pretty sure we win the prize on crime!
Do you know anything about "Hell's Kitchen"? I see reasonable places there, but the name is making me wonder, lol.
Julie, just what everyone said. I joined about 1 month ago and everyone is very helpful and nice even when I asked for further clarifications. I was totally confused what was posted where, etc. but it gets easier. :)
Anita wrote: Do you know anything about "Hell's Kitchen"? I see reasonable places there, but the name is making me wonder, lol. "Umm - Did you forget where I've lived for my entire life?
I'd agree with Flo - check on student sublets - lots of people leave the city for the summer because it is very hot and lots of students travel.
My daughter went to NYU and lived one block away from the Hell's Kitchen area. The name resonates back to many years ago when it was quite dangerous but it's changed much since then because rents in the city are ridiculous as you have found out.
Harlem is up and coming but there are parts of it that are 'iffy'
Brooklyn is a good possibility as rents are much lower there - not really sure about the sublet situations, I can ask Ilana she lives in Park Slope, she may know.
Exactly where in the city will he be working? Although the subway system is great, depending on where he lives in relation to his job and how close he is to the subway makes a difference since he will probably be using the subway as it is the most economical way to commute. You can message me any time with more questions, if I don't know the answer Ilana will, she went to school at NYU and she's lived and worked in Manhattan for several years, so she will be more up to date than I am on how to find a place to live.
Also if you need an emergency contact for him I am 30 minutes out of the city. Or anything else I can help you with.
Linda S wrote: "Anita wrote: Do you know anything about "Hell's Kitchen"? I see reasonable places there, but the name is making me wonder, lol. "Umm - Did you forget where I've lived for my entire life?"
I wondered the same thing Linda!
Welcome Flo. That TBR will grow by leaps and bounds.
Welcome to the group, Flo. I hope you have as much fun as I have had over the past 8 years with these great people.
Linda S wrote: "Umm - Did you forget where I've lived for my entire life?
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LOL! Actually I emailed you about a week ago!! Not sure what happened to it, but obviously it didn't make it to you. Did you change your email address or anything?
At any rate, thank you so much for the advice and the offer to be an emergency contact (which I REALLY appreciate actually). I definitely appreciate the scoop on the area and would like to private message you with some additional questions.
Anita wrote: "LOL! Actually I emailed you about a week ago!! .."That is odd! Anita actually just emailed me a couple of days ago and asked if you had changed your email because she hadn't heard back from you. Maybe it got lost in all of the tennis excitement and winning ;)
Anita wrote: Do you know anything about "Hell's Kitchen"? I see reasonable places there, but the name is making me wonder, lol. "Like Linda said, Hell's Kitchen is actually not bad anymore - despite what happens in Daredevil and Jessica Jones! Given the proximity to Columbia, there might be student sublets in Morningside Heights and lower Harlem as well.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
And thanks for the welcome everyone! <3
Nicole wrote: "Anita wrote: "LOL! Actually I emailed you about a week ago!! .."That is odd! Anita actually just emailed me a couple of days ago and asked if you had changed your email because she hadn't heard b..."
She sent it to an email address I don't even have, not sure why it didn't bounce back. Never fear we have touched base and I've shared by thoughts with her.
Hello! I'm Emily, I'm from Australia. I just followed a link from Flo to this group, and joined up myself. I'm already doing a couple of challenges this year but I think this one will fit in nicely with them.
Another Aussie - yay! I'm from Melbourne and am relatively new to the group. Hi!
Emily wrote: "Hello! I'm Emily, I'm from Australia. I just followed a link from Flo to this group, and joined up myself. I'm already doing a couple of challenges this year but I think this one will fit in nicely..."Welcome!
Emily wrote: "Hello! I'm Emily, I'm from Australia. I just followed a link from Flo to this group, and joined up myself. I'm already doing a couple of challenges this year but I think this one will fit in nicely..."Yayyyy I'm glad you joined too! Hiii! <3
Welcome to PBT! Good to see you following Flo, I hope you both love it as much as I do from the other side of the world.
Emily wrote: "Hello! I'm Emily, I'm from Australia. I just followed a link from Flo to this group, and joined up myself. I'm already doing a couple of challenges this year but I think this one will fit in nicely..."So happy to meet you, Emily, and welcome to PBT! Given we are a very small group, I think it is great that we have a few people from Australia. Please don't hesitate to reach out to administrators (including me) with any questions you may have. You'll also find our members to be super helpful at explaining things!!
Delighted you could join us!!
Welcome, Emily. I hope you enjoy it here -- I certainly do!
Welcome to all of you from Down Under! Jump right in and play some games with us, I think you'll find us a fun group to be with!
Welcome. I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
Welcome to you both, enjoy your time here.
Welcome Emily and Flo! Nice to see our international presence expand.
Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) and I also followed a link from Flo for this group ^^ I've wanted to join a book club for ages but was never really into the whole "everybody reads the same book and discusses it" thing, reminded me a bit too much of school. So I like the style of reading here, where I can still choose what I want but the tags might orient me to something I never would have tried otherwise.And funny little sidenote, the last books I've read match with the last tags you had here. I just finished Herman Wouk's The Winds of War about WWII, and am currently reading Stephen King's Finders Keepers, a mystery thriller ^^ And if we're allowed re-reads, I was planning on reading Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl next!
Ellie wrote: "Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) and I also followed a link from Flo for this group ^^ I've wanted to join a book club for ages but was never really into the whole "everybody reads the same ..."Welcome, Ellie! I'm so glad you've found us!!
What a coincidence that your reading has happened to match up with our latest tags . . .sounds like you are meant to be here! I hope (once you get the hang of everything) that you will share your thoughts on Finders Keepers with us. We definitely have some Stephen King fans here (The Stand and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft are two of my favorite books).
Don't hesitate to reach out to the administrators, or to our very helpful members, if you need anything or have questions!
Ellie wrote: "Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) and I also followed a link from Flo for this group ^^ I've wanted to join a book club for ages but was never really into the whole "everybody reads the same ..."Hello, Ellie and welcome. I think you will like it here.
Welcome, Ellie. We are a friendly group and a whole heck of a lot of fun to boot!
Thanks all!Anita wrote: "Ellie wrote: "Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) and I also followed a link from Flo for this group ^^ I've wanted to join a book club for ages but was never really into the whole "everybody r..."
I'll certainly do that if I manage to finish by the end of the month, which is doubtful since I just started it ^^ Glad to find another SK fan though !
Ellie wrote: "Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) and I also followed a link from Flo for this group ^^ I've wanted to join a book club for ages but was never really into the whole "everybody reads the same ..."Hi! I love to see more Canadians in the group! I'm in Calgary. Welcome!
Ellie wrote: "Glad to find another SK fan though ..."You'll find a few of those here! :-)
Ellie wrote: "Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) and I also followed a link from Flo for this group ^^ I've wanted to join a book club for ages but was never really into the whole "everybody reads the same ..."Salut, Ellie! Okay, I don't actually speak French and for all I know you're an anglophone in Montreal as are two of my cousins, but do know one or two things. I grew up in BC back when you only needed one semester of French to graduate from high school, although I took a year of it at SFU.
Welcome!!!!
Ellie wrote: "Hello, I'm Ellie from Canada (Montreal) ..."Welcome, Ellie - great to have you along!
Maybe not so near Montreal, but I'm physically closer to BC than any of the other 49 states. Prince Rupert is a short 90 miles from here! So I'm always glad to see Canadians, feeling some "kinship."
OMG I feel stalked! JK JK I'm glad I'm getting lots of people to join with me! Yayyy more frands! <3
Flo wrote: "OMG I feel stalked! JK JK I'm glad I'm getting lots of people to join with me! Yayyy more frands! <3"We have to thank you, Flo, for sending quite a few new people our way!! It's appreciated :). Even if unintentional, lol.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Maybe not so near Montreal, but I'm physically closer to BC than any of the other 49 states. Prince Rupert is a short 90 miles from here! So I'm always glad to see Canadians, feeling some "kinship.""Okay, so you must be on the panhandle or an island, since much of Alaska borders the Yukon and I know where Prince Rupert is, although I've never been there. I've been to both Whitehorse and Anchorage, but not on the same trips. I also spent a night at the base of Mt. McKinley many moons ago.
Karin wrote: "Okay, so you must be on the panhandle or an island, "Both. I live in Ketchikan, at the southernmost tip of the panhandle, which is on Revillagigedo Island. Ketchikan is the largest "city" in the southern panhandle. (City is a loose term, our year-round population is about 9k.)
>206 Beautiful! I've done an Alaskan cruise twice, both times stopping in Ketchikan! (I think they all stop there.)
LibraryCin wrote: ">206 Beautiful! I've done an Alaskan cruise twice, both times stopping in Ketchikan! (I think they all stop there.)"Yes, all stop here - some of them both directions. It is beautiful - I feel very lucky to be able to live here. (My avatar is a picture of Deer Mountain, just south of town, in case anyone is interested.)
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karin wrote: "Okay, so you must be on the panhandle or an island, "Both. I live in Ketchikan, at the southernmost tip of the panhandle, which is on Revillagigedo Island. Ketchikan is the largest ..."
Yes, in BC that would be incorporated as a town since it's over 2000 people, but wouldn't count as a city. I always thought that was normal until I moved to other provinces and also 4 states.
All the Alaskan cruises go right by my parents' place, although they are up a hill (if it doesn't have snow on it year round, it's a hill). One of my brothers has gone on that at least twice, but he's the only cruise-loving sibling I have.
Ketchikan was incorporated in 1900 when it consisted of a few hundred people. The 9k population includes population outside the city limits, but those still accessible on the road system. Road system: 35 miles from the "end of the road" sign at one end to the one at the other end.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ketchikan was incorporated in 1900 when it consisted of a few hundred people. The 9k population includes population outside the city limits, but those still accessible on the road system. Road syst..."Ah, I understand.
Sechelt, BC, across from Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, between which all Alaskan cruises sail, was first incorporated as a village, with a number of unincorporated communities that had Sechelt RR addresses or people got PO box numbers in the village. Then, in the 1980s, in order to get more money from the provincial government, got people to agree to expand the boundaries quite a bit, got up to at least 2000 people and incorporated as a town. But we never called the entire area Sechelt before; the nothern part was on the Sechelt Peninsula, which also included other incorporate places such as Earl's Cove, Pender Harbour, etc, and the southern part was on the mainland (technically so is the peninsula and extended to the next incorporated area. The entire area from around Egmont up to Earl's Cove the is known as the Sunshine Coast, or, more informally, the Coast, and is accessible by boat or air due to the inlets. Molly's Reach, made famous internationally in the TV Show The Beachcombers (well, not in the States, because the show was popular internationally for the scenery, but it lasted 19 years!) is in Gibsons, and at one point was the only liquor store on the entire Sunshine coast.
To locals there, Vancouver is known as "town." If you're going to town, you mean the city. Not sure if newbies still use that terminology.
Nanaimo is famous for the Nanaimo bars someone there first concocted.
Yes, more trivia than most people care to read, lol.
Hi, I am Gina. I love classic science fiction and mysteries. I moved to Goodreads from Shelfari, but never found this group until now. Hope to have lots of fun in this group
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