INTRODUCTIONS - 2015

[Sandra, Moderator]

Welcome, Anna! You are in the right place!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome Anna!

[[deleted user]]

Thank you Sarah, Lynda, Sandra and Rusalka!

[Sam F]

Hi everyone! I'm Sam and I'm looking forward to participating in October. I'm new to GR but am enjoying it so far. I have so many books on my shelves, they're not even on my TBR list yet. Having some ideas to select which ones to read will be amazing.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Welcome, Sam! It seems we'll have great readings here at YLTO in October. Hope you have fun!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome to the group and to Goodreads Sam. Let us know if you have any questions at all.

[Sam F]

Thanks! I'll go by Sam F as there's another Sam already. I'd love to do the Cryptogram. Great puzzle!

[Janice, Moderator]

Hi Sam! Welcome. You're starting at a great time when all the activities start anew with the new month.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Cheers for that! Always useful to know when we bestow you with badges. Just make sure you remind us when you report on any challenges, as as much as us Mods try to be all over these things, sometimes we forget things...

read "sometimes" as "frequently" in my case ;)

[Janice, Moderator]

am, if you are wanting to participate in the Cryptogram challenge, pop over to the thread and "sign up" so that I can assign you a task.

Ignore that - I see that you did.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Coffee Janice :P

[Janice, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "Coffee Janice :P"

Oh, thanks for reminding me! I'll get a cup going.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

*tips hat* Happy to help ;)

[Janice, Moderator]

Ahhhh! That's what I was missing.

[Lynda]

Hi Sam F, welcome. Hope you have fun on here and on GR.

[Sarah]

Welcome Sam F. I hope you enjoy taking part in the various different things we have going on here. We have a lot of fun here.

[jaxnsmom]

Hi Sam F. Good to see you jumping right in, and know that we're always ready to answer any questions.

[Overbooked ✎]

Hi everyone, I’m new to the group but not to GR.
I am interested to the October group read: Bird Box which I’m planning to read this month. I’m a bit of a reading challenge addict and up to joining a new one, your cryptogram challenge looks good!

[Janice, Moderator]

Hi Kiwi! Welcome to our group. We're having a toppler this month (read-a-thon with teams and tasks). October 17-24th. The sign-up just went up.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Welcome, Kiwi! Good to see you are already jumping in the month challenge. This group is lot of fun!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome Kiwi! Sounds like a lot of our activities will be right up your alley then :)

[Overbooked ✎]

Thank you for the warm welcome :)

[Lynda]

Kiwi welcome!

[jaxnsmom]

Welcome Kiwi! I hope you'll try all of our activities. They're great for finding new books and authors by looking at what everyone else is reading.

[Overbooked ✎]

Thank you Lynda and jaxnsmom

[[deleted user]]

Hello everyone, I am Kelly. I enjoy reading thrillers, suspense and ghost stories. I have a tendency to read many books at once. Right now I am reading Pines, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and House of Leaves. I usually have an audio book to listen to when I am doing housework, Little Women.

But more importantly I am a wife and mother to a handsome son and beautiful daughter.

[Tammy]

Welcome Kiwi and Kelly

[jaxnsmom]

welcome Kelly! I hope you'll check out our activities and try some.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome Kelly!

[Janice, Moderator]

Welcome Kelly. October is a great month for ghost stories. You might enjoy our October Group Read books, Something Wicked This Way Comes and Bird Box.

[Joan]

Kelly wrote: "Hello everyone, I am Kelly. I enjoy reading thrillers, suspense and ghost stories. I have a tendency to read many books at once. Right now I am reading Pines, The Immortal Lif..."</i>
Kelly,
Welcome -
I read [bookcover:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks I was ashamed to realize that I had used HeLa cells for 30 years in my research and never once thought about the woman they came from. Many of my friends in biomedical research had a similar experience. There is one scene where the author mentions toenail polish that really haunted me.

[Lynda]

Hi Kelly, welcome. I really liked The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, I read it for a "real life" book club, and it wasn't something I think would have read otherwise.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks everyone for the welcome.

Janice - I have read Bird Box, it was good. I will check out Something Wicked.

Joan- I love these kinds of books. I read Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and that was a good read, informative. I myself am not in research but I love biology, studied it in college, worked with tissues and never once did my professor talk about where our samples came from. I think it is something that should be mentioned.

[Joan]

Kelly wrote: "Thanks everyone for the welcome.

Janice - I have read Bird Box, it was good. I will check out Something Wicked.

Joan- I love these kinds of books. I read [book:Stiff: The Curiou..."

Kelly,
You are absolutely right and happily I think more anatomy professors are now including discussion and reflection about the people who donated their bodies and tissues. We have a long way to go however.

[Sarah]

Welcome to the new members.

[Christina]

Hello my name is Christina and I am from Germany. I love reading and I hope I can discover new books in this group. I don't know what to say or better write, maybe I should start with my interest? I love books and I can spend hours in a bookstore, but I also play tennis and the piano.

[Sarah]

Welcome Christina. I'm sure you'll discover some excellent recommendations in this group. We have varied interests in genres and talk about books (and other random stuff) a lot so I'm sure you'll find yourself at home quite quickly. October is a busy month for us here what with the monthly challenge, two group reads AND the week long toppler (read-a-thon). Feel free to jump in on any of these - it's not too late :-)

[Christina]

Thanks for the warm welcome.
We just started with our holidays so I have a lot of time. Oh and I hope my English isn't too bad.

[Sarah]

Wow you must be on the app Christina - your post appeared 8 times. I've deleted those ones. Your English is perfect Christina. We have quite a number of members whose first language isn't English and we all get by very well!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Welcome, Christina! I'm sure this group will help you find many good books!

I'm one of the no native English speaking in this group, and I can positively telling you that language is NEVER an issue here! You'll see by yourself how wonderful is the people in YLTO!

[Sarah]

We do learn some interesting words in the process of communication though (especially the differences between US/UK/Aussie English).

[Christina]

We did that in English lesson.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome Christina!

I also echo all that's been said above about language. We all ask questions to clarify what others mean when we don't understand, so just let us know if you need, and we will too. One of the benefits to an international group. We all understand each other, and learn more along the way.

[Janice, Moderator]

Welcome Christina! Be sure to ask if you have questions. There's a lot going on in the group and it can be a bit confusing at first.

[Joan]

Christina wrote: "Hello my name is Christina and I am from Germany. I love reading and I hope I can discover new books in this group. I don't know what to say or better write, maybe I should start with my interest? ..."

Christina, I am a newbie here too. I have found that reading the comments of others during the group read helped me enjoy our books last month. (Mrs. Dalloway and Marina). Be sure to check out the challenges each month they are fun.

[Christina]

Thanks Joan.

[Lynda]

Welcome, Christina! Your English is perfectly fine, and about 10000% better than my German!

I too have found the discussion and the book recommendations a great experience. I'm pretty new myself, and felt welcome from the beginning.

[Christina]

Thanks a lot. I hope I get the book for October

[Rona]

Hello All!

I am Rona and I am 35 years old, I live in the South East of Ireland with my husband and our 4 cats. I love reading, ever since I was a kid and I read pretty much any genre, once the book is interesting.

That's about it from me, just wanted to say "Hi" to you all

[Cherie]

Hi Rona,
Welcome to the group. I saw your posts in a few places already. Great jumping in!