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INTRODUCTIONS - 2015
Welcome Yolanda. You're just in time for the Toppler! And for the Feb Challenge and the Feb Group Reads.
Hi Linda! Welcome to our group. If you scroll up a few messages you'll see a link to our upcoming Toppler (definitions are there too). We'd love to have your join us.
Welcome Linda! You'll find many thing to do in this group. Right now we are voting for the February book, and starting a year long challenge with the goal of killing series.
Linda wrote: "Thanks Janice. I'll go and check it out, but I might be too busy this coming week. It certainly sounds fun, though!"The toppler is scheduled for Feb 7-14th. We're just in the planning stages right now.
We have topplers every other month, and we alternate between a 24 hour toppler and a week long toppler. In February, we are doing the week long toppler. In April, we will do a 24 hour one, and so on.We also have our group reads and monthly challenges each month that you may participate if you like. Participation isn't mandatory, but once you get started on them, you can't help yourself. LOL!
Welcome Linda and Yolanda! I hope you guys find some interesting books and discussions while chatting with us here.A Toppler every week?!? I think we'd all go mad!
Sarah wrote: "Welcome Linda and Yolanda! I hope you guys find some interesting books and discussions while chatting with us here.A Toppler every week?!? I think we'd all go mad!"
jaxnsmom would for sure!
Linda wrote: "Thank you so much Janice! I'd love to participate, especially in the group reads. I'm sure I'll find time for those. :D"Pop over to the Poll. We're voting for the February read now. We pick the top two choices. If you don't want to read either, you can read and discuss a book of your choice in the theme. There will be discussion threads posted Jan 31. You can pop over to the current discussion in the folder Book Group: Book Discussions to get a feel for how it works.
Hi there everyone! I'm Susan from Texas. My daughter suggested I join Goodreads.com and I found you all while exploring. Reading has always been a big part of my life. The first thing we did when moving to a new base as a kid was get a library card. I've got pretty eclectic taste in books, I'll read just about anything. I'm intrigued by your challenges. I get obsessed by authors and find myself searching for all their titles so the serial killer challenge looks awesome. I just need to figure out how to jump in.
Wow, this was way longer than I had planned. Oops.
Welcome Susan! All you need to do to jump in the Serial Killer Challenge is create your own thread here. It's easier than it looks, just click in "new topic" (over the "last activity" column), chose a title for your own challenge and start planning. Linda, here at home our kids can ask for their own library card as soon as they can write their name small enough to fit in the signature box of the card. That's around 4 or 5 years old. They love to have their own cards, and it's a great stimulus for reading!
Welcome Linda! I see you've been filled in about our activities. It isn't listed anywhere but our favorite activity after reading is chatting :)Hi Susan! A library card is one of the best things to have! The series challenge is a lot of fun. You can look at a couple of member's threads and get a good idea of how it works. Some are so organized that they have a good chunk of their books already planned. Others, like myself, tend to jump in and hope it works out :)
Welcome Yolanda, Linda and Susan! Hope you enjoy reading along with us, and look forward to see you all jumping into our activities!
Welcome Susan. Keep watch for the February challenge. I'll be posting it in a few days and I think it might be right up your alley.
Hi I live in sunny Southern California, where it is currently raining :-) I am a stay home mother of three kids ages 18, 17, and 12. I love to read and to work out, when I'm not busy being a mom.I am not crafty at all sadly :-) I just started joining a couple of groups here and really finding it quite interesting meeting and learning about people all around the world. I am open to any suggestion of books I like most everything, And I am trying to get out of my comfort zone a little!
Welcome Berit! I suspect you'll feel at home in this group. :)
Welcome Berit. It's nice of you to share your rain all the way here to northern Alberta. Our group is definitely international. Enjoy!
It's trying to rain in this neck of the woods, but it's not working very well. Sounds like Southern Cali's stolen the rain :DWelcome Berit and hope you enjoy your time with us!
We do need the rain, however I do not like the rain! Probably could not live anywhere but here :-)thank you for being so welcoming, I was looking through a bunch of these groups and found this one to be one of the most appealing :-)I am so excited to find all these new friends who love books as much as I do! I am so grateful for all my real live friends, but I cannot discuss a book with them and less it's been made into a TV show or movie :-)looking forward to getting involved!
We do need the rain, however I do not like the rain! Probably could not live anywhere but here :-)thank you for being so welcoming, I was looking through a bunch of these groups and found this one to be one of the most appealing :-)I am so excited to find all these new friends who love books as much as I do! I am so grateful for all my real live friends, but I cannot discuss a book with them and less it's been made into a TV show or movie :-)looking forward to getting involved!
I need to add a little something :-) I have amazing friends, they just are not readers! My mom and I discussed books very often, but have very different taste. My daughter who is 17 is a reader, but does not like discussing books with mom :-)
You've come to the right place, then Berit. We love to discuss books.Do you and your daughter read different types of books? I'm fortunate that my grandson and I have similar tastes. He phoned the other night and we had a great discussion about The Lord of the Rings and The Riyria Revelations.
My daughter reads YA, which I do read a lot of, but not exclusively. I believe she would discuss her books with my mom, but they do not read the same things :-)my mom reads a lot of mystery which is not my favorite, but I will read it.
It's tough when you want to share your love of reading with those close to you.
Welcome Berit! We had a little bit of snow earlier, but not bad. We have a large variety of interests in books, you'll have no problem expanding your reading. Our activities are a fun way to try new things.
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. Sandra and jaxnsmom I'm looking for my series ideas to join that challenge and Janice, I'm already searching for a February spelling bee book. What fun!
Welcome Susan and Berit. You will find plenty of people here to discuss books with - the group has quite an eclectic (and very good) taste in books - I've found loads of great recommendations and discussed a variety of books at length with people. Hope you enjoy it here.
Hi everyone, my name is Daniel and I'm an avid reader from Jamaica who now resides in Toronto, Canada (typing that seemed almost like an intro to an AA meeting lol). Anyways I'm in my mid-20's with a voracious appetite towards reading, regardless of genre (strong leaning to Fantasy/Science fiction/Romance). Finally decided to join a group because it allows me to combine reading with socialising and this seemed the place to start. Not to mention everyone's posts seemed to imply that this is the place to gain an unmanageable To Read List which is something to look forward to :)
Welcome Daniel! Our TBR shelves are constantly gaining weight here in YLTO!
Lol Welcome Daniel. Maybe not AA but sometimes I wonder if we are in a similar sort of group ;)We are definitely big on the socialising here, and look forward to you joining us. And yes, your to read pile will grow infinitely. Feel free to check out the Monthly Challenge for Feb, or sign up for our readathon (Toppler) in early Feb, and watch it grow!
A big welcome to all new members! I am sure you will all enjoy being part of this group.
Sandra wrote: "Welcome Daniel! Our TBR shelves are constantly gaining weight here in YLTO!"Thanks for the welcome ladies. I already joined the Serial Killers challenge and can I tell you being a lover of series I love this challenge!!!
Welcome Daniel. We've got lots going on that will keep you reading, chatting, and growing that TBR. We are all enablers for our reading addiction.
Welcome Daniel! It's great to see you jumping into the activities, especially the Toppler. We have a wide range of interests, so you'll always find books you have to add to your tbr :)
Welcome Danile. Great to see you are jumping right in with the toppler - it's a great way to get to know members of the group as we spend as much time chatting as we do reading!
Wow! Lots of new faces since I last checked! Welcome to all. :D
Hi everyone, I go by Spark and I absolutely love to read! I'm pretty excited to start some of the challenges. ^-^ I'm a bit shy and tend to not say (er...type?) much, but I really do love to discuss books. Oh and book suggestions...well I love book suggestions. C:
Spark wrote: "Hi everyone, I go by Spark and I absolutely love to read! I'm pretty excited to start some of the challenges. ^-^ I'm a bit shy and tend to not say (er...type?) much, but I really do love to dis..."
Hi Spark. Welcome! I looked on your shelves. I see you are currently reading 10 books. I think you will fit ritght in here. Look around and jump right in if you see something that interests you. We have a lot of things going on. ☺
Hello everyone. I'm a stay at home mother of 2 very intelligent and beautiful girls, aged 3 and 1. I have been happily married for 5 years, soon to be 6. Looking forward to getting to know you and participating in these fun challenges.
Jennifer wrote: "Hello everyone. I'm a stay at home mother of 2 very intelligent and beautiful girls, aged 3 and 1. I have been happily married for 5 years, soon to be 6. Looking forward to getting to know you a..."Hi Jennifer. Welcome! I hope you are liking, The Book Thief as much as I did. ☺
Welcome Spark and Jennifer! activities are a great way to get to know people and find lots of great books. We're a friendly bunch, and we love to find and share books.
welcome Spark & Jennifer! Foo to see you here!
Welcome Spark and Jennifer. No need to be shy. We don't bite, snarl, or growl. Much. Well, we don't bite at any rate.
Janice wrote: "Welcome Spark and Jennifer. No need to be shy. We don't bite, snarl, or growl. Much. Well, we don't bite at any rate."LOL! Good to know!
Loving the enthusiasm of the new faces jumping head first in to the toppler!Welcome Spark and Jennifer!
Janice wrote: "We don't bite, snarl, or growl. Much. Well, we don't bite at any rate."That's good. xD
Thank you all for the welcomes!
Welcome Spark and Jennifer! Lovely to have you with us.
Hi, my name is Cassandra and I'm from Adelaide. A friend of mine showed me a book challenge for 2015. I love reading but hadn't done very much novel reading for ages so decided to do it. Then I found GR and then this group. Just looking at posts at the moment to see how this group works. I saw you have challenges. Badges? In January I read 5 or 6 books. Most I've read in ages and it's great having a challenge because your reading different genres. Really enjoyed getting back into reading again.
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*Toppler - basically a read-a-thon with a theme and tasks. This one's a week long and a team event. There is almost as much time spent gophering** and chatting as there is reading.
**Gophering - Researching and searching through piles and lists of books, plus backups, for the perfect ones to meet certain tasks.
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