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Introduce Yourself to the Group - 2018
Frenchpolkadot wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Frenchpolkadot wrote: "Hello everyone! My name is Nice (nickname; like niece) I'm from the USA. I'm not new to Goodreads. But I've been a lover of books since before I knew how to e..."We actually have a Buddy Read thread I will post it here and stop in after work list a couple books and when you would like to read them and we can set something up.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Welcome everyone I am off to do some work must put my books down.
Hello! My name is Jaqueline. I am from outside of Atlanta, GA.
I like to read YA, mysteries, and crime novels.
My target for the year is 12 books. Seeing as I am in college right now, it is hard to read for pleasure when most of the books I read are for school.
Hi, my name is Jean Daniel (Leinad Naej when reading from left to right). I'm from Senegal and I used to read a lot ! So my first goal by joining this group is to get back to reading lots of books !Starting my target with 12 books, 1 every month (One step at a time)
Jaqueline wrote: "Hello! My name is Jaqueline. I am from outside of Atlanta, GA.
I like to read YA, mysteries, and crime novels.
My target for the year is 12 books. Seeing as I am in college right now, it is hard to read for pleasure when most of the books I read are for school. "
Welcome to the group Jaqueline! Great to have you.
Will you be listing the books you have to read for school as well or will you be focusing on your reads for pleasure?
In any case, I hope you'll enjoy participating in this group. It has a lot of great challenges, the monthly group and buddy reads are real fun or you could check out the twin reads. Just have fun. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!
Susy wrote: "Jaqueline wrote: "Hello! My name is Jaqueline. I am from outside of Atlanta, GA.
I like to read YA, mysteries, and crime novels.
My target for the year is 12 books. Seeing as I am in college rig..."
I'll just be focusing on the books of pleasure.
Leinad wrote: "Hi, my name is Jean Daniel (Leinad Naej when reading from left to right). I'm from Senegal and I used to read a lot ! So my first goal by joining this group is to get back to reading lots of books !Starting my target with 12 books, 1 every month (One step at a time) "
Hi Jean Daniel, welcome to the group! I think you have come to the right place. At least, for me, joining this group in 2017 was a real help to get me to read more/get back into reading after a reading slump of many years. I started out with a tentative goal of 12 books too, upped it to 24 during the year and ended up reading 46 books!!! All thanks to this group, the great challenges, the awesome group and buddy reads and last but certainly not least, the amazing group members who were always supportive, motivating and encouraging. I hope you'll have a similar experience. In any case I hope you'll have fun participating. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Hello! I have been an avid reader my entire life, but lately I have not been reading as much. I downloaded a few books on my Kindle and I am always interested in book recommendations. My goal for 2018 is a minimum of 1 to 2 books per month 😊. I like pretty much anything, SyFy and suspense are probably my favorite with historical fiction a close second.
Anne wrote: "Hello! I have been an avid reader my entire life, but lately I have not been reading as much. I downloaded a few books on my Kindle and I am always interested in book recommendations. ..."Hi Anne, welcome to the group! I hope joining will help you get back to reading as much as you used to or better said, as much as you would like to. There are a lot of great challenges which may help you reach your goal. Also the monthly group and buddy reads are always fun and interesting. Just have a look around and see what interests you. Have fun! And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Hello!! I’m Jenny, I’m 17 and I’m from the South of England. It’s nice to meet you all :) I’m a big fan of fantasy (I blame Potter) and YA fiction, but I also love classics, due to studying a fair few in English, and I’m moving more into adult fiction. However, I’m up for reading most things.
I’ve been an avid reader since I was a kid, but stopped reading unless it was for school, a couple of years ago. In 2017, I made it one of my new year resolutions to read more books, my goal being set high at 50 (the most I’ve ever read in one year). Not only did I complete my goal, but I gained back my reading mojo and my love for books. I decided to set my goal a little higher this year by reading 100 books.
Happy reading!! Xx
Jenny wrote: "Hello!! I’m Jenny, I’m 17 and I’m from the South of England. It’s nice to meet you all :) Hi Jenny, welcome to the group! It is nice to meet you too!
I’m a big fan of fantasy (I blame Potter)
Agree with you completely!
I’ve been an avid reader since I was a kid, but stopped reading unless it was for school, a couple of years ago. In 2017, I made it one of my new year resolutions to read more books, my goal being set high at 50 (the most I’ve ever read in one year). Not only did I complete my goal, but I gained back my reading mojo and my love for books.
That is so cool, congratulations!
I decided to set my goal a little higher this year by reading 100 books.
Happy reading!!"
Impressive Jenny! Will you be joining any of the great challenges to help you reach your goal? Or maybe the monthly group and buddy reads (my favourites)?
In any case I hope you'll enjoy participating in the group. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Welcome everyone I look forward to reading and discussing books with all of you.
Hello! I'm Mallory and I'm a 15-year-old from the Midwestern United States. It's nice to meet everyone!
My main genre is fantasy, mostly because of Harry Potter. I read them for the first time when I was 11 years and that's when I really got into reading lots of books and started collecting books. I also really love romance and cute contemporary novels. I am a hopeless romantic, those these books really give me the feels. I'm really excited to have found this group. I was shown Goodreads last year by my English teacher, and it was shown to be my saving grace, since nobody around really reads as much as I do.
Lately, I hadn't been reading a whole lot, so I set my goal a little lower than usual, at 30 books. I can't wait to join all of these challenges and meet a bunch of new people that love to read just as as much as I do!
My main genre is fantasy, mostly because of Harry Potter. I read them for the first time when I was 11 years and that's when I really got into reading lots of books and started collecting books. I also really love romance and cute contemporary novels. I am a hopeless romantic, those these books really give me the feels. I'm really excited to have found this group. I was shown Goodreads last year by my English teacher, and it was shown to be my saving grace, since nobody around really reads as much as I do.
Lately, I hadn't been reading a whole lot, so I set my goal a little lower than usual, at 30 books. I can't wait to join all of these challenges and meet a bunch of new people that love to read just as as much as I do!
Hi Mallory welcome! I am so glad you decided to join our group. I think 30 is a great number. I am sure you will love all the books and friends you make here. I look forward to seeing what you read this year.
Mallory wrote: "Hello! I'm Mallory and I'm a 15-year-old from the Midwestern United States. It's nice to meet everyone!My main genre is fantasy, mostly because of Harry Potter...."
Hi Mallory, welcome to the group! It’s nice to meet you too. Glad your teacher led you to GR :)
HP is one of my favorites too, an amazing series.
Hope you’ll enjoy participating in the group Mallory. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Hi guys,I am Paresh and am from part of planet earth called India. I have always been interested in making human identity an enjoyable one despite the diversities it is always surrounded by. Be they geographical, linguistic, cultural, communal, etc. Any traditionally regressive idea of humanity is repulsive to me. So basically my challenge is not just about reading and forgetting or just achieving targets but also about taking part in evolutionary aspects of entire humanity through sheer entertainment (whether fantastical or provocative or extreme or naked or thrilling or evil or whatever), intellectual thought processes (scholarly non-fiction or autobiographical or academic or documentary or historical or science fiction or medical or whatever), etc. that reading offers, appreciating and being word-smiths.
My contributions will be in the above direction.
I hope to find like-minded readers in this group.
Thanks for accepting me as a member.
All the best to all the challengers in this group.
Paresh.
Hi Paresh welcome to the group we are very happy you found your way to our group. There are many different things to do and many challenges to do, please have a look around and jump in. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. Happy reading and best of luck to you and your reading goals.
Hello All,My name is Aarthy and I am from India. I love reading murder mysteries, classics, suspense thrillers, romance, historical fiction and much much more including comics.
The most recent book I read was 'The Book Thief' and I loved it so much ! Hope to complete reading 100 books in 2018.
Aarthy wrote: "Hello All,My name is Aarthy and I am from India. I love reading murder mysteries, classics, suspense thrillers, romance, historical fiction and much much more including comics.
The most recent book I read was 'The Book Thief' and I loved it so much ! ..."
Hi Aarthy, welcome to the group! Sounds like you’re an avid reader who likes most genres. I like the genres you mentioned too except for romance. The Book Thief is still on my (enormous, everlasting and evergrowing) TBR!
Hope you’ll have an amazing time participating in this group! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Nance here from the Philippines, residing in Bangladesh. I love reading Christian books and the ones about financial freedom or financial literacy. I intend to use my account to keep a record of what books I have read so far and to keep track of the books I have been making my daughter read. Glad to meet you all!
Hi my name is Khaliyah I'm from New Jersey. I love to read but lately I've been listening to audible books and it's amazing to hear them. It's very different but I love. However still tangibly holding onto a book is amazing.
Because I'm in school, reading books for my leisure is hard at times. That is why I've fallen off but I still collect books whenever I'm out and I see a sale. I love fiction, non-fiction, romance, drama, mystery/thriller, sci-if fantasy, poetry, Christian fiction, etc. Honestly, if the description intrigues me or the first chapter/prelude which I typically read before purchasing a book if I have time then I'll read it.
My goal for 2018 is to read about 10 books. I know it's a low number but again I'm in college so textbooks are what I read most days.
I wish everyone else success with their goals this year and I hope that one day I can set a goal as high as some of the ones I've seen.
Hi people! I'm Likhita.I really love reading fantasy, dystopians, thrillers, crime novels and classics.
I just happened to stumble upon this group and thought it would be interesting to join.
I don't have a set goal of books yet, but I'm trying to read as many as possible this year.
Likhita wrote: "Hi people! I'm Likhita.I really love reading fantasy, dystopians, thrillers, crime novels and classics.
I just happened to stumble upon this group and thought it would be interesting to join...."
Hi Likhita, welcome to the group! Glad that you found us and decided to join. I hope you will enjoy the group and everything it has to offer like lots of great challenges, fun and interesting group and buddy reads and much more. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! :)
Hi I am Josh. I don't really read much but my girlfriend does and she wants me to read more so I made this account :). My goal for this year is 10 books but I think I will be able to read more than that :D.I enjoy YA, science fiction, and fantasy, but I will read anything that she lends me to read.
Hello Everyone!My name is Robbin and I live in South Central Pennsylvania in the United States.
I am pretty eclectic in my reading and find myself reading Scifi/fantasy to historical fiction to biographies and mystery.
This year I would like to delve deeper into the works of one of my favorite Authors and worlds and that is JRR Tolkien and his world of Ea/Arda (Middle earth is the continent in the world not the world itself). Thus I will be reading alot of his works but I'm also sure I'll take some time off to read other things.
My goal is small at only 12 books a year as I've rather gotten out of the habit due to being a student in both College and graduate school and reading for fun (that isn't science related) is still coming back into my daily life again.
I'm rather friendly so please don't hesitate to add me as a friend or start a conversation if you see something interesting on my list/ updates
I can't wait to become part of this reading community!!
Robbin
Roflcopter-Man wrote: "Hi I am Josh. I don't really read much but my girlfriend does and she wants me to read more so I made this account :). My goal for this year is 10 books but I think I will be able to read more than..."Welcome to the group Josh! We’re a fun and active group, I hope you’ll enjoy participating. And of course I hope you’ll enjoy your reads! Will you be joining any of the great challenges or maybe some of the group or buddy reads?
Have fun! And if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Robbin wrote: "Hello Everyone!My name is Robbin and I live in South Central Pennsylvania in the United States.
I am pretty eclectic in my reading and find myself reading Scifi/fantasy to historical fiction to..."
Hi Robbin welcome we are so glad you could join us. We have two great challenges this year that are up your ally.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
and
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Welcome and happy reading!
Robbin wrote: "Hello Everyone!My name is Robbin and I live in South Central Pennsylvania in the United States. ...
I can't wait to become part of this reading community!!."
Welcome to the group Robbin! Looking forward to your updates.
Have fun! And if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!!
Susy wrote: "Robbin wrote: "Hello Everyone!My name is Robbin and I live in South Central Pennsylvania in the United States. ...
I can't wait to become part of this reading community!!."
Welcome to the group ..."
Thanks so much!
If you don't know where to start, feel free to answer these questions:- Where are you from?
- What kinds of books do you like to read?
- How did you find our group?
- What's your reading goal?
Hi! ♡ My name is Rachel and I'm from western Canada, in the province of Alberta.
I like reading mostly historical fiction and YA novels, but I'll read anything that sounds interesting! Currently, my reading goal is 6 books because I'm a slow reader, but I hope to reach 18 by the end of the year.
I found this group by randomly searching Goodreads for some cool groups to join :)
Rachel wrote: "My name is Rachel and I'm from western Canada, in the province of Alberta. I like reading mostly historical fiction and YA novels, but I'll read anything that sounds interesting! Currently, my reading goal is 6 books because I'm a slow reader, but I hope to reach 18 by the end of the year.
I found this group by randomly searching Goodreads for some cool groups to join :)"
Hi Rachel, welcome to the group!! You have joined a cool group indeed! (I’m not prejudiced at all lol)
I’m a slow reader myself but since joining this group I have read more in one year than ever. There are a lot of great challenges you can join to help you reach your goal. Also I’m a big fan of the monthly group and buddy reads!!
Have fun Rachel! And if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Blagica wrote: "Robbin wrote: "Hello Everyone!My name is Robbin and I live in South Central Pennsylvania in the United States.
I am pretty eclectic in my reading and find myself reading Scifi/fantasy to histor..."
This is actually really awesome! Thank you so much for the recommendations! I am very very interested in the one that is author specific! Fits perfect with what I'm planning on doing
Hi everyone, I am from Peshawar, Pakistan. I was an avid reader when I was kid, I gave up reading because my school books were a mess, though I only got not only good but great grades throughout my academic career. I started out with personal development books like "The Slight Edge" by "Jeff Olson" and others like " How to Think and Get Rich " but honestly, these books are great but boring at the same time. So I was introduced to this concept of "Novel" reading, not in literal meaning of it but figurative. So I read "Fault in our Stars" and I absolutely loved the dimensions of thoughts of Mr. John Green and how good he was at making people feel sad ! So I decided to read " The Kite Runner " and was amazed to know that Mr. Sohrab is going to be good in a while. I really am not sure about which books I should read next ! The book thief is on list but I will be glad to hear suggestions from you guys.
And yes, my reading goal is 50 Books this year, which was 0 last year ! And I have read 4/50 books so far !
Thanks alot ! Bye
Rachel wrote: "If you don't know where to start, feel free to answer these questions:- Where are you from?
- What kinds of books do you like to read?
- How did you find our group?
- What's your reading goal?
Hi..."
We are so happy to have you join us. I think every goal is a good goal if you enjoy what you are reading.
Robbin wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Robbin wrote: "Hello Everyone!My name is Robbin and I live in South Central Pennsylvania in the United States.
I am pretty eclectic in my reading and find myself reading Scifi/f..."
you are welcome!
Asad wrote: "Hi everyone, I am from Peshawar, Pakistan. I was an avid reader when I was kid, I gave up reading because my school books were a mess, though I only got not only good but great grades throughout my..."Hi Pashawar welcome to the group! Since you aren't sure what to read next I recommend looking around the challenges and seeing what interests you that is always a good way to start.
Hello everyone. Today I found his group and have been reading messages. I must say I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of messages, and don't expect I'll be able to read them all. But I'll try to keep up with the news.I have been on Goodreads for a few years, was a member of Shelfary before this.
I am known as weaverannie, live in the Netherlands (about 40 km north of Amsterdam) and am old. Which means a lot older than most of you are. (73)
I have always loved reading. My favorite books are thrillers, feelgood, non-fiction, historical novels - actually none of those is my favorite: I like variety. I read books in English, Dutch and german, and very rarely in French.
Last year I read 111 books, just because I liked that number. For this year I set my goal at 70 books, but will increase if necessary during the year.
Weaverannie wrote: "Hello everyone. Today I found his group and have been reading messages. I must say I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of messages, and don't expect I'll be able to read them all. But I'll try to k..."Hi Weaverannie welcome to the group! Do the best you can with the messages. I see that you have a wide variety of book interests and there are lots of things to join to help you reach your goal. If you need help or have questions don't hesitate to ask we are all a friendly group.
Asad wrote: "Hi everyone, I am from Peshawar, Pakistan. ... I really am not sure about which books I should read next ! The book thief is on list but I will be glad to hear suggestions from you guys. ..."
Welcome to the group Asad!
Next to the challenges you might get an idea of what to read next from the monthly group and buddy reads.
This month we're reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and next month it will be The Lightning Thief.
An overview of the buddy reads planned so far is here.
You can sign up (or propose a buddy read yourself) here.
Good luck & have fun! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask!
Weaverannie wrote: "Hello everyone.Hi Weaverannie, welcome to the group!!
Today I found his group and have been reading messages. I must say I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of messages, and don't expect I'll be able to read them all. But I'll try to keep up with the news.
Yes it can be rather overwhelming. But remember, you do not have to read everything. At a certain point you will know what sort of messages interest you and which don't. For example, where the challenges are concerned, I only read the messages in the threads/challenges that I joined myself.
I have been on Goodreads for a few years, was a member of Shelfary before this.
Shelfary?
I am known as weaverannie, live in the Netherlands (about 40 km north of Amsterdam) and am old. Which means a lot older than most of you are. (73)
Just a bit older than I am ;-)
And I too live in the Netherlands!
I have always loved reading. My favorite books are thrillers, feelgood, non-fiction, historical novels - actually none of those is my favorite: I like variety. I read books in English, Dutch and german, and very rarely in French.
Last year I read 111 books, just because I liked that number. For this year I set my goal at 70 books, but will increase if necessary during the year. "
Sounds good! Will you be joining any of the great challenges to help you reach your goal? Or maybe join some of the monthly group and buddy reads?
In any case I hope you'll enjoy the group!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Hey! My name is Victoria/from Sweden...and I've started (renewed my account on Goodreads) in december 2017, and I'm planning to read at least 50 books in 2018. I can read more but I think 50 is good enough for me in the beginning. I'm choosing the books I like or those I bought in the local bookshop. But I've got a strange message on my page today -> "Note: Some of our members have reported that not all read dates are showing on this page, and some recently finished books are not appearing on the Reading Challenge. While we work to fix this issue, you can still view your read dates on your review or on the book page."
I dont understand what does it mean? I can't read the books I want..or should I add them first and then read? I mean its kinda complicated a bit. I just want to read the books I want to read, without following a "special lists" (if there's any).
mmmm. what you think? any help?
Ray wrote: "Hey! My name is Victoria/from Sweden...and I've started (renewed my account on Goodreads) in december 2017, ...dont understand what does it mean? I can't read the books I want..or should I add them first and then read? I mean its kinda complicated a bit. I just want to read the books I want to read, without following a "special lists" (if there's any).
mmmm. what you think? any help?"
Hi Victoria, yes you can read whatever you want, there’s no special list. The message refers to a bug in the yearly reading challenge tracker. Normally when you are reading a book, finish it and mark it as read, it is automatically added to your reading challenge. But now it isn’t. So say you’re at 4 books read and you finish your 5th one, the reading challenge still shows 4 books read.
Ray wrote: "Oh thank you...I’ll check again."Hi Victoria welcome to the group. According to your home page you have read 5 books, but I know that I have been having issues with my own page I was told by goodreads to make sure I have a date finished set on all my books to count and to try using my books in review pages since that seems to be accurate.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...
hope this helps. Again welcome and happy reading.
Yes definitely a huge hep, thanks! I’m going to check all tomorrow morning!! ☃️✌️
Hello! I'm Cecilia and I'm from Ohio. I just saw this group when I was browsing and ended up joining on impulse. I picked up reading again a couple years ago after not really doing so for a few years and pretty much ended up re-discovering my love for fantasy/sci-fi as well as reading in general. But I have also been trying to expand my tastes some over the past year so I'm kind of open to about anything.
I set my reading goal last year at 25 initially and ended up having to bump it up to 70 by the end of the year. So this year I put it at 50 and I'll see where that ends up.
It's nice to meet all of you. :D
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I am Neelam from Tanzania, which is in East Africa. I love reading and I am such a Book Addict or Bookaholic as I like to call myself that I make sure I read one book a day.
I love re..."
Welcome to the group Neelam!
Wow, one book a day! You may call yourself a book addict indeed!
I’m sure you’ll make lots of reading friends! If you like to read and discuss books together check out our group, buddy and twin reads!
Have fun! And if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!