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Introduce Yourself to the Group - 2018
Alex wrote: "Hi I'm Alex from Missouri USA, recently got back on Goodreads. Instead of wasting time on social media, etc. I made one of my New Years resolutions to read more books and expand my mind. Right now ..."Hi Alex welcome to the group! I hope you enjoy your social media break and enjoy every book you read this year! if you are looking forward to branch out I suggest looking at our yearly challenges and picking one to help reach your goal. I will link the yearly folder for you. If you have questions need help please let us know.
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Happy Reading!
Salwa wrote: "Hello everyone,I am Salwa, I am from Syria but live in Turkey.
I used to read in fields of Religion, Psychology, Philosophy and Novels, these fields attract me a lot.
I was looking at section of ..."
hi Salwa welcome! I am so glad to have you join us! I hope you fill your 75 books with some great reads. I think our nnon-fiction challenge is for you
Recommended Nonfiction Lists Challenge - 2018https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Good luck and welcome!
Freddy wrote: "Hello everyone!! My name is Freddy and I'm from Ghana but I live in the US (Austin). It's been a while since I read books and I'm trying to get back into the habit! I like to read fiction (classi..."
Hi Freddy welcome! I am glad that Goodreads bought you here. I hope your 52 books are great. do you have a favorite author to get you out of your reading slumps? I hope you have a great year and books and a challenge to love.
Welcome Emily !I hope you have fun reading your 20 books! Will you be sticking within those genres or do you plan on branching out?
Hi Michelle welcome to the group we are so happy to have you join us. I have a feeling you and I will be fast friends. I have been on a paranormal romance kick since the year began. What is your opinion on the Anita blake series. Anyway I could ramble for hours on all that. There are tons of things to join we also have a thread for challenge ideas so if you are feeling creative jump right in.
Hello, My name is Deanna. I live in Pennsylvania USA.
I mostly like fantasy books and mystery.
I am an big fan of game of thrones series and want to reread the Harry Potter series again.
My goal of the year is to read 50 books.
I hope to make a lot of friends on here.
Also I am up to any recommendations to all types of books.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you have an good day.
hi Deanna welcome! You have definitely come to the right place. Lot's of people are rereading Harry Potter this year it seems, I have yet to read it for the first time maybe this will be the year. I will link you the buddy reads and TBR twins Twins
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Buddy Reads
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Happy reading!
Deanna wrote: "Hello, My name is Deanna. I live in Pennsylvania USA.
I mostly like fantasy books and mystery.
I am an big fan of game of thrones series and want to reread the Harry Potter series again.
My goal of the year is to read 50 books.
I hope to make a lot of friends on here.
Also I am up to any recommendations to all types of books.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you have an good day."
Hi Deanna, welcome to the group! I love HP (read and watched the series); GoT I only watch the series but have the books on my TBR (for someday; too many books I want to read).
My favourite series from last year was The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Have you read them?
Hope you'll join some of the buddy reads (my favourite part of the group if I'm being honest lol)! Looking forward to seeing what you will be reading.
Have fun! And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!!
Hey all,My name is Faye and I'm from Illinois.
I like to read a little bit of everything, but my favorite genre is paranormal and horror and I mostly stick to YA.
My goal this year is 55 books. The past two years, my goal was 50 and I was able to reach it just fine with 1 or 2 extra, so now I'm going to challenge myself a teensy bit.
I'm hoping to meet some awesome people as well as even get some new book recommendations!
Faye, I read some of Heather Grahams books. They are paranormal with a bit of romance but I really enjoyed them. Not sure if you have tried reading them but you might enjoy them.
Hello everyone. My name is Dave and I live on Magnetic Island, a small tropical island off the coast of Townsville in northern Australia.I've set myself a goal of 30 books and have started a thread with the four I've read so far this year.
I read a wide range of books, both fiction and non-fiction. The only certainty is that I will re read A Christmas Carol just before Christmas (and the latest Wimpy Kid book which is usually out around that time of the year).
I look forward to participating in the group.
Faye wrote: "Hey all,My name is Faye and I'm from Illinois.
I like to read a little bit of everything, but my favorite genre is paranormal and horror and I mostly stick to YA.
...."
Hi Faye, welcome to the group! Hope you'll enjoy it and everything it has to offer like all the great challenges, fun and interesting group and buddy reads and much more. Just have a look around and don't hesitate to jump in if you see anything that piques your interest. Have fun! And if you have any questions, just let us know!
Dave wrote: "Hello everyone. My name is Dave and I live on Magnetic Island, a small tropical island off the coast of Townsville in northern Australia.I've set myself a goal of 30 books and have started a thre..."
Hi Dave, welcome to the group! Will you be joining any of the challenges to help you reach your goal? Or maybe you'd like to read and discuss some books together with other group members? Just have a look around and see what interests you. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Hey guys! My name is Roxanne and I am from Singapore. I was never much of a reader growing up but I really want to change that this year. I love thriller, fantasy, psychological and mystery books and I enjoy comedy books in between. I joined goodreads to ensure I stay motivated and not fall into a slump. Everyone here is so passionate about reading and it is really encouraging. My goal for 2018 is to read 30 books and I hope to participate in at least one reading challenge. I would love any book recommendations. Thank you for reading this and have a nice day! :)
Roxanne wrote: "Hey guys! My name is Roxanne and I am from Singapore. I was never much of a reader growing up but I really want to change that this year. I love thriller, fantasy, psychological and mystery books and I enjoy comedy books in between. I joined goodreads to ensure I stay motivated and not fall into a slump. Everyone here is so passionate about reading and it is really encouraging. My goal for 2018 is to read 30 books and I hope to participate in at least one reading challenge. I would love any book recommendations. ..."
Welcome to the group Roxanne! If you're looking to keep motivated and not fall in a reading slump, you have come to the right place. For me, joining this group in 2017 was a real help to get back into reading after a reading slump of many years. I started out with a tentative goal of 12 books, 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 (which I highly recommend) and last but certainly not least, the amazing group members who were always supportive, motivating and encouraging. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I have.
I really love fantasy, thrillers and mysteries as well (next to a couple of other genres). I've been recommending The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer; it's the series that got me out of my reading slump last year.
Have fun! And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Michelle wrote: "Blagica wrote: "Hi Michelle welcome to the group we are so happy to have you join us. I have a feeling you and I will be fast friends. I have been on a paranormal romance kick since the year began...."I made it to book eight of the dark hunters once I finish Anita that is my next series. I have a bundle of the first 22 books.
Hi everyone, My name is Dawn and I am originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland (now living in England).
I try to read a wide range of genres, from fantasy to romance and thrillers.
I found this group to find other people, doing similar challenges and as inspiration to keep going, whenever I hit a reading slump. My reading goal numerically this year is 50 books.
I am looking forward to hopefully making some friends here!
Hi all!I'm Cheri...I work for a digital library and married a librarian, so my life is pretty much over saturated with books.
I've read over 100 books a year since 2015 and will be continuing with that as my goal. I'd actually like to break 130 this year if at all possible. We'll see where I'm at come July and I'll re-evaluate at that point.
I'll basically read anything that I can get my hands on, but I have a soft spot for horror and psychological thrillers. I purposely mix things up with non fiction every few books just to keep on my toes.
I've joined a few book groups in the past, but ended up in kerfuffles because my numbers tend to intimidate, I guess. I don't mean for them to, I just don't have a television. lol I'm hoping that this is not the case in this group. Numbers are odd eggs in that way.
Challenges intrigue me and I'm looking forward to getting into discussions with other members.
Dawn wrote: "Hi everyone, My name is Dawn and I am originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland (now living in England).
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I found this group to find other people, doing similar challenges and as inspiration to keep going, whenever I hit a reading slump.
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I am looking forward to hopefully making some friends here!"
Welcome to the group Dawn! Participating in this group is a great motivator for reading and a great help overcoming and preventing reading slumps, at least in my experience. Hope you’ll enjoy it! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Periodic wrote: "Hi all!I'm Cheri...I work for a digital library and married a librarian, so my life is pretty much over saturated with books.
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I'll basically read anything that I can get my hands on, but I have a soft spot for horror and psychological thrillers. I purposely mix things up with non fiction every few books just to keep on my toes.
I've joined a few book groups in the past, but ended up in kerfuffles because my numbers tend to intimidate, I guess. I don't mean for them to, I just don't have a television. lol I'm hoping that this is not the case in this group. Numbers are odd eggs in that way.
Challenges intrigue me and I'm looking forward to getting into discussions with other members. "
Welcome to the group Cheri! If you have a look around you’ll see that goals will range from 5 to over 300. All goals are equally perfect, as long as your goal fits your lifestyle and your wishes. That’s the cool thing about this group!
I love horror and psychological thrillers. Looking forward to your updates and discussions!
Have fun, and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Hi, I'm Benjamin from Michigan. Lately I've been reading psychological horror books, (House of Leaves/Annihilation) but I also enjoy fantasy, and science fiction novels. I'm also working on branching out into nonfiction (history/social justice).
I used to read a lot more when I was younger, but the internet has shot my attention span, so I'm trying to fight back against that this year.
I'm going to set the bar a bit low at 24 books this year, but we'll see what happens.
Benjamin wrote: "Hi, I'm Benjamin from Michigan. Lately I've been reading psychological horror books, (House of Leaves/Annihilation) but I also enjoy fantasy, and science fiction novels. I'm also working on branc..."
Hi Benjamin,
I have a non-fiction recommendation for you.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is one of the best books I've read in a long time.
Heather wrote: "Benjamin wrote: "Hi, I'm Benjamin from Michigan. Lately I've been reading psychological horror books, (House of Leaves/Annihilation) but I also enjoy fantasy, and science fiction novels. I'm also..."
Looks good, thanks Healther. I've been thinking about checking out The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Benjamin wrote: "Heather wrote: "Benjamin wrote: "Hi, I'm Benjamin from Michigan. Lately I've been reading psychological horror books, (House of Leaves/Annihilation) but I also enjoy fantasy, and science fiction ..."
That's on my TBR list too.
Hello everyone! I am María Paz, alias Mapi. I’m 19 years old and I’m from Paraguay, the heart of South America.
I love reading 🖤 My favourite genres are Fantasy, romance, fiction, Sci-Fi, thriller and everything that is magical.
I found this group surfing around goodreads, looking for new challenges and stuff.
My reading goal for this year is to read 52 books, because I’m on a challenge from my country and it’s about reading 52 books in 52 weeks, due to the weeks of the year. I’m not sure if I’m going to read a book per week, but I’m totally motivated to read the 52 books!
Hope we can get along :)
PS: Sorry for my English, my mother tongue is Spanish
Benjamin wrote: "Hi, I'm Benjamin from Michigan. Lately I've been reading psychological horror books, (House of Leaves/Annihilation) but I also enjoy fantasy, and science fiction novels. I'm also working on branching out into nonfiction (history/social justice).
I used to read a lot more when I was younger, but the internet has shot my attention span, so I'm trying to fight back against that this year. ..."
Hi Benjamin, welcome to the group!
If you're looking to branch out into non-fiction you might like our Recommended Nonfiction Lists Challenge.
But there are also a lot of other great challenges you can join, or maybe you'd be interested in our monthly group and buddy reads. Just have a look around and see what piques your interest. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
María Paz wrote: "Hello everyone! I am María Paz, alias Mapi. I’m 19 years old and I’m from Paraguay, the heart of South America.
I love reading 🖤 My favourite genres are Fantasy, romance, fiction, Sci-Fi, thrille..."
Welcome to the group Mapi!
Don't worry about your English. Not only is it pretty good, we come from all over the world and for many of us English is not our native language. But still we always understand each other and that's what's important.
Hope you'll enjoy the group and everything it has to offer like all the great challenges, the fun and interesting group and buddy reads and much more. Just have a look around and if you see something that you like, jump in.
Have fun! And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!!
Hello Everyone!!My Name is Alex Rondon, i'm an electronics engineer from Venezuela, (South America), right now i'm living in Italy with my wife and my beatiful 3-months-old baby :)
I like reading all kinds of books, specially science books (like Carl Sagan, Brian Green or so), universal history books, detective/mistery books, psychological thriller books and a lot of space sci-fi, and of course, philosophy books... sooo, yes, i like so many genres...
I've found the book using the in-app group search tools from Goodreads, so nothing special there.
My reading goal is set to 30, i really hope to finish it, it'll be hard because i have a newborn child, and my work involves a lot of traveling around the world, but i hope to use that time travelign to catch up with the reading challenge!
See ya!
Hi, everyone!My name is Elisa and I am currently living in the Netherlands.
I love reading sci-fi/fantasy, gothic literature, horror, mystery, crime (true or fiction), poetry, mythology, and books on social history or anthropology. However, I am more than happy to try different types of books.
My goal for this year is 45 books and my sub goal is to knock a bunch of books of my TBR pile and read more diverse books.
Happy Reading!
Hey guys! I'm Kirby from South Carolina. I enjoy reading a variety of books, it really depends on my mood. My goal for this year is 50 books and so far I've read 6! I love novels but can be a sucker for a good series of books.
Alex wrote: "Hello Everyone!!My Name is Alex Rondon, i'm an electronics engineer from Venezuela, (South America), right now i'm living in Italy..."
Welcome to the group Alex!
You sure like to read a lot of different genres. I think you have set a nice goal for yourself. Will you be joining any of the challenges to help you reach your goal?
In any case, I hope you'll enjoy the group. Have fun! And if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!
Elisa wrote: "Hi, everyone!My name is Elisa and I am currently living in the Netherlands.
I love reading sci-fi/fantasy, gothic literature, horror, mystery, crime (true or fiction), poetry, mythology, ...
my sub goal is to knock a bunch of books of my TBR pile "
Hi Elisa, welcome to the group! So cool that you decided to join us.
I see you like a lot of genres, wow! I like a lot too but I'm really not into poetry. Tried it, but no, it just doesn't work for me.
I think bringing down that TBR pile is a (sub) goal many of us have. There's even a special challenge to help you reach it. Did you see it? (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
I am a really big fan of the monthly group and buddy reads myself, highly recommend it :)
Here are the buddy reads for 2018. Well, the ones that are planned so far. You can always suggest a buddy read yourself here.
Well, just have a look around and see what piques your interest.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask ok?
Kirby wrote: "Hey guys! I'm Kirby from South Carolina. I enjoy reading a variety of books, it really depends on my mood. My goal for this year is 50 books and so far I've read 6! ..."
Welcome to the group Kirby! Sounds like you're off to a great start!
Hope you'll enjoy the group and everything it has to offer like all the great challenges, the fun and interesting group and buddy reads and much more. Have a look around and if you see anything to your liking, don't hesitate to jump in!
Hi I am Miel. I’m not a fan of book reading because I am kinda like a dyslexic but I am really not. I just find it hard to read and most of the time I read words differently like solstice i read it as solace and that happened just earlier. When I’m young I keep on reading spalding as splading. There are also times that my teacher would ask me to read a paragraph but tend to read other lines from different paragraphs even though I started the first line correctly. Sometimes I also have to read a sentence multiple times just for it to sink in to my brain. But I read articles online but I keep on skipping things that contains long paragraphs. I blog and I don’t re-read my post for checking errors.
Anyways, I decided last year to try my best finishing a book but in an ebook form so I can adjust the spacing fonts and everything because with real books the fonts makes me dizzy.
I was able to finish one last year and decided to challenge my self an ebook per month so far I finished 2 this month 😀
Since I don’t have any interests with books ever since I just copied all the books that my friends were reading and decided to read them all ☺️
Hi Miel welcome to he group we are so happy to have you here! We all have our own pace here so read what you like and finish what you can. If you are looking for things to help you decided on books there are lots of challenges to pick from if you need anything just ask and happy reading!
Hi!I'm Diane. It's nice to meet all of you!
* I am from Sonoma County, in Northern California.
* What kind of books I like to read... oh my gosh, so many. My taste is all over the place. YA dystopian, some scifi/fantasy, mystery, thriller, crime procedurals, literary fiction/classics, non-fiction (history, social issues, politics), and much more!
* I just stumbled on this group today, and I'm so excited to have found it!! I've already entered two challenges and am looking forward to more.
* My reading goals for the year are many. My Goodreads goal is 60 books. I'm doing the Book Riot Read Harder 2018 challenge. I set a 2018 1-50 Personal Challenge to read 24 (2/month) books off of my physical bookshelves - books I actually own. And, I'm doing this group's First Quarter - Must Read Books Challenge. It's going to be a challenge, for sure! :)
Thanks for making this group happen and all you do to moderate it.
Happy reading.
Diane
Diane wrote: "Hi!I'm Diane. It's nice to meet all of you!
* I am from Sonoma County, in Northern California.
* What kind of books I like to read... oh my gosh, so many. My taste is all over the place. YA dyst..."
Hi Diane welcome to the group we are so happy to have you join us! You seem to have a variety of books you like to read and that is fantastic! We have lots of yearly challenges to help you complete your goal I hope you jump in.!
Yearly Challenges Folder
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
Happy reading!
Hey!I'm Mads. I used to be an avid reader and booktuber but fell out of it after I went into recovery and didn't really know how to read without falling into triggering books... just recently getting back into it! I feel guilty that I am listening to audiobooks, like I'm cheating reading... but it's better than not reading! :D
I mainly read YA Fiction but this year am trying to read different genres to see if there's other things I like.
I've seen this group mentioned a lot and in my newsfeed but after a friend posted and I realized I could track my books for the challenge here I decided to give it a try! :D It's a bit overwhelming with all the topics, but I like it so far!
Original goal was 50 but I'm already almost at 10... so might change it.
Hi Mads welcome to the group we are so happy you joined us! audiobooks are not cheating on books but a best friend so no worries!! 10 books is impressive. Please look around at the challenges and don't hesitate to ask questions happy reading!
Hi Everyone, my nickname is TJ. I live in California in the Valley. I am late on my introduction in this awesome group. I have been a avid reader who is trying to step my reading game up. So hopefully being in this group will help me reach more books and great reading adventures. I enjoy mysteries, crime stories, real life stories, and whodunits. I am introducing myself to YA books and so far so good. I would like to know how to add the book widgets if anyone can help please feel free to assist.
Hey TJ! Are you talking about adding a link to a book or author? If you look above the comment box there is "add book/author" link, when you click it opens a box in the tab you're in that allows you to type in the title of a book and/or an author's name. After that simply click to add!
Temitayomiyoshiseun wrote: "I would like to know how to add the book widgets if anyone can help please feel free to assist."Welcome TJ! If you want to add Goodreads widgets to a website, you can have a look here: https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/3...
Does that help?
Luís wrote: "Hi people. My name is Luís C. I'm an admnistrative at a military high college. I love to read. My personal goal for this year is to reach far beyond 100 books. Have fun!"Hi Luis welcome to the group! I hope you have reading with us this year and that 100+ comes easy to you. Will you be joining in the activities the group has to offer? If you have questions don't hesitate to reach out we are all friendly here happy reading!
Temitayomiyoshiseun wrote: "Hi Everyone, my nickname is TJ. I live in California in the Valley. I am late on my introduction in this awesome group. Lol, yes, I noticed you're actively participating already for some time in the group. Welcome nonetheless!
I have been a avid reader who is trying to step my reading game up. So hopefully being in this group will help me reach more books and great reading adventures.
I'm sure it will seeing that you're already participating actively!
I enjoy mysteries, crime stories, real life stories, and whodunits. I am introducing myself to YA books and so far so good. ..."
Love mysteries as well (next to thrillers, fantasy, horror and much more.
Have fun TJ!!
Kirsten wrote: "Hello. I'm Mary currently living in New Mexico. My favorite genre is US history but I also enjoy reading poetry, world history, biographies, and some mystery, fantasy, and classical fiction; found ..."Hi Mary/Kirsten, welcome to the group! Hope you'll enjoy the group and everything it has to offer like all the great challenges, the fun and interesting group and buddy reads and much more.
I tried to send you a message with some info about the group but you're not accepting messages, is that right?
In any case, have fun! And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!
Hi, everyone!(There must be a picture of some group therapy with something like: "Hello, I'm a new member and I adore reading -> Clap, clap." But I'm bad at Photoshop ;) )
My name is Olga, I'm from Russia. My favourite genre is fantasy but I also read sci-fi, classic literature and, when I feel up to it, non-fiction and history.
I've been looking for groups and found yours, let's consider this as a sign).
My reading goal is fifteen books per year but I will enlarge the number gradually.
P.S. I won't mind if you will point out my language mistakes).
Hello, everyone!My name is Colleen and I am from California! I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I absolutely love to read. I enjoy reading just about anything but my favorite books are typically fiction and fantasy. My favorite author of all time is J.R.R. Tolkien. I found this group by clicking around on this site (I joined today so I was exploring). My reading goal for this year is 50 books.
Hi All,I'm Laura Chase and live in Lawrence MA.
I found this group by just browsing around the Goodreads Site.
My goal is 48 books. I generally read what ever looks interesting although most of the books fall into fiction or mystery.
General question: Is anyone going to participate in the PBS News Hour/ NY Times book group through Facebook? I thought I'd try it starting this month.
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It's been a while since I read books and I'm trying to get back into the habit! I like to read fiction (classics); A Tale of Two Cities, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Oliver Twist, and many more . I also enjoy mystery, crime, fantasy, comics, manga (Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Full Metal Alchemist), etc.
I found this group by clicking through the "Community" tab. My goal for this year is to read a book per week! So far I've read Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini which I highly recommend. I've also read Falsely Accused by Robert K Tanenbaum.
I'm currently looking for my next read so any recommendations would be appreciated!!!!!