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[Sara, Old School Classics]

Welcome, Em. We will be so pleased to have your comments and outlook here. It took me three tries to get through The Brothers Karamazov, but I'm very glad I persevered. Be sure to sandwich some lightness between those Russian reads. :o)

[Paths and Pages, or just Em :)]

Sara wrote: "Welcome, Em. We will be so pleased to have your comments and outlook here. It took me three tries to get through The Brothers Karamazov, but I'm very glad I persevered. Be sure to sandw..."

Thank you, Sara! I appreciate the reminder about adding in some lightness :) it is definitely needed with some of these reads. I am so glad to hear that you made it through The Brothers Karamazov, it will be interesting to maybe compare thoughts on it sometime too.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome to the group, Em. Happy reading.

[Paths and Pages, or just Em :)]

Katy wrote: "Welcome to the group, Em. Happy reading."

Thanks, Katy. It is a pleasure to be here.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Paths of Pages, or just Em :) wrote: "Hi, everyone. My name is Emmie (or just Em, for short) and I am from Minnesota. I am new to Goodreads (still trying to learn my way around) and I enjoy reading from a wide variety of genres, but I ..."

Welcome Em I am glad you chose our group. Join any thread you like. They never close.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome Em, glad you have joined us.

[Paths and Pages, or just Em :)]

Thank you so much for the warm welcome, Lynn and Bob. I am excited to jump into the threads.

[Shawn]

I'm a new author in the Teen/YA genre, but what I love best are classics. Just picked up several new ones at a used book sale the other day and looking forward to working through them: Death of a Salesman, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, and The Prince.

Nice to meet a bunch of others who love old books.

Best,
Shawn

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nice to have you here, Shawn. Nothing is as much fun as a used book sale. I always buy too many!

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome Shawn

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Welcome to the group, Shawn.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Welcome Shawn. I hope you enjoy our group. I look forward to hearing your thoughts in the threads.

[Klowey]

Welcome Shawn! It’s a great group.

[Paths and Pages, or just Em :)]

Welcome, Shawn. Those were some great finds at the sale!

[Jackie]

Hello, I'm Jackie, I just joined a few days ago. I'm from North Carolina. I read Fantasy, Horror, Historical fiction, and I'm trying to get into science fiction and non-fiction. I read a little romance. Some of favorite classics are Jane Eyre, Bleak House, Treasure Island, Middlemarch, Something Wicked this Way Comes, A Tale of Two Cities, Anne of Green Gables, Anna Karenina.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nice list, Jackie. Welcome to the group.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome to the group, Jackie!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Jackie wrote: "Hello, I'm Jackie, I just joined a few days ago. I'm from North Carolina. I read Fantasy, Horror, Historical fiction, and I'm trying to get into science fiction and non-fiction. I read a little rom..."

Welcome - we are glad to have you with us.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Hello Jackie, I am glad you found us. Welcome.

[Janice]

Jackie wrote: "Hello, I'm Jackie, I just joined a few days ago. I'm from North Carolina. I read Fantasy, Horror, Historical fiction, and I'm trying to get into science fiction and non-fiction. I read a little rom..."

Some of the classics you listed are my favourites! :)

[spoko]

Hi all! My name’s Matt (though online I do more commonly go by spoko). I’m from Nebraska. I read pretty broadly. Left to my own devices, I lean heavily toward non-fiction, so one reason I like book clubs is they help me counter that.

I’m always reading several books at a time—never fewer than half-dozen, and more typically around a dozen. I’m almost exclusively an audiobook listener, so the one time I run into trouble is when two audiobooks have the same reader. Otherwise, my long commute gives me plenty of time to keep up the variety.

Some of my favorite classics: A Christmas Carol, The Screwtape Letters, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mrs. Dalloway, A Tale of Two Cities, Beloved, The Plague, and Man’s Search for Meaning.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome spoko!!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Nice to meet you Spoko. Welcome to the group. We have four new group read selections each month and one quarterly long book to choose from. All threads stay open, so feel free to comment on any of our previous books. There are several challenges you might find interesting as well.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nice to have you here, Spoko. I think I am overloading when I have three (very different) books going at once. Can't even imagine a dozen. 😮

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

spoko wrote: "Hi all! My name’s Matt (though online I do more commonly go by spoko). I’m from Nebraska. I read pretty broadly. Left to my own devices, I lean heavily toward non-fiction, so one reason I like book..."

Welcome to the group

[spoko]

Sara wrote: “Nice to have you here, Spoko. I think I am overloading when I have three (very different) books going at once. Can’t even imagine a dozen. 😮”

Yeah, I’ve gradually grown to this approach, and it works for me. I find that doing several at a time really helps me be willing to give a new book a shot. After all, even if it’s mediocre, it’s not like it will be (even close to) the only thing I’m reading. And I almost always find some delightful ideas that bounce back and forth between books. I was recently reading Middlemarch and The Lincoln Highway simultaneously, and found that both were exploring the way that too much of a good character trait can easily become a real flaw. I might have read either individually & missed that, but they reinforced it in each other as I was reading them alongside one another. I like the way it makes my brain work.

[Anulekha]

Hi everyone,
My name is Anulekha, and I am from India.
I am an avid reader, trying to expand my horizons by reading different genres.
I love to read classics, and I am hopeful find new favorites.
Looking forward to reading with everyone!

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Welcome to the group, Anulekha. I'm sure you will find many new favorites here.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome Anulekha

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Anulekha wrote: "Hi everyone,
My name is Anulekha, and I am from India.
I am an avid reader, trying to expand my horizons by reading different genres.
I love to read classics, and I am hopeful find new favorites..."

So glad that you have joined us; welcome.

[Ron]

Hi everyone, I'm Ron. Texan here (unfortunately. LOL!)

Someone in another group told me about this place because of a current read that's going on around here (for 'Into the Wild') so I figured I'd join as well as check out the rest of your page.

Looking forward to the interactions with you all.

I'm mainly a nonfiction reader though I try classic books every now and then. I think the last classic I read was 'The Picture of Dorian Grey', but that was the last one I can remember.

I hope to have fun around here though and maybe get introduced to other books that normally aren't on my radar.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Ron, welcome to the group.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nice to have you here, Ron. Maybe you are due another classic soon. lol.

[Ron]

Thanks for the welcome, Bob and Sara.

LOL, and Sara you may be right. Hopefully, I can find one around here that interests me.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Ron wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm Ron. Texan here (unfortunately. LOL!)

Someone in another group told me about this place because of a current read that's going on around here (for 'Into the Wild') so I figured I'..."

Welcome Ron. I am glad you chose our group. There are so many book choices available here. Feel free to comment on any thread. They never close. With four monthly book reads, challenges, and Buddy Reads, I hope you find many books that you will enjoy.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Ron wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm Ron. Texan here (unfortunately. LOL!)

Someone in another group told me about this place because of a current read that's going on around here (for 'Into the Wild') so I figured I'..."

Welcome to the group, Ron. We are glad to have you here.

[dina]

Hello! My name is Dina and I am from Norway.

I only recently started dipping my toes into classic literature, and I have really been enjoying what I have read so far. Therefore I thought this would be a good group to join, and I am really excited to read some new books :D

Some of my favorite classics I have read so far is:
The little prince, Wuthering Heights, The ice palace and The color purple.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome Dina, you are in the right place, glad you are here.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

dee wrote: "Hello! My name is Dina and I am from Norway.

I only recently started dipping my toes into classic literature, and I have really been enjoying what I have read so far. Therefore I thought this woul..."

So glad to have you in this group and that you are ready to read some classics.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Welcome, Dina.

[Marti]

Hello, my name is Marti. I am a common reader, this year enjoying renewing reading of the classics. This group is going to be a perfect fit for me. I am interested in everything you are doing. (Not sure bingo will work for me, although I am impressed with those doing this challenge!) Also impressed with old, new, revisit, short story, ect., way you have it organized. Perfect!

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Welcome, Marti. You might be surprised how many books just naturally fall into the Bingo squares. You don't have to fill a full card, just shoot for a single line bingo, if you want.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Marti wrote: "Hello, my name is Marti. I am a common reader, this year enjoying renewing reading of the classics. This group is going to be a perfect fit for me. I am interested in everything you are doing. (Not..."

So glad that you have found a reading group that works for you. We are happy to have you join us.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Welcome, Marti.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Hello Dina and Marti. I hope you enjoy the group as much as I do. You will find many interesting books as well as some good discussions.

[Paths and Pages, or just Em :)]

Hello Ron, Dina, and Marti! Welcome to the group :)

[Mina]

Hi! I'm Mina from south Louisiana. I hit a reading slump in 2020 and am trying to get back into it. I love the idea of reading the classics, but had no idea where to start. So glad I found this group! I'm a little all over the place with what genres I read. My favorite classics I've read in the past are Pride & Prejudice, Treasure Island, and The Masque of the Red Death.

Anyway, looking forward to July's reads and getting back into reading in general.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Welcome, Mina. I'm positive you will find classics that will interest you here. So happy you found us.

[Matthew]

Hi all! I’m matthew, a 19 year old physics major going into his sophomore year of college. When I was younger I was a certified bookworm. Always nose deep in some book, whether that be a Percy Jackson novel or an instruction manual on how to build a DIY drink dispenser using a watermelon, I just liked reading. When I went into high school, I very purposefully shifted my persona into something very different than what I was(like I’m sure many others have); and there were growing pains associated with this desperate metamorphosis. I always felt a little fraudulent, not comfortable in my own skin despite having transformed myself into who I thought I wanted to be. I felt was always putting on a show even when I was the most relaxed. I’m trying to deal with this incessant imposter syndrome and Now, I’m just realizing that I am and always was way more comfortable reading a book alone than I am aggressively socializing. There’s nothing wrong with my natural introverted-ness and I’m embracing it!

So this kind of re-evolution of myself starts (at least I think) by reading more like I used to. I only just picked back up reading but I can’t believe I’ve gone so long without doing it. I’m trying to stay consistent and I love discussion so I figured I’d join this group! I certainly feel like a real novice among all y’all veteran readers and I know I’m young but I think I have a lot to add to some discourse over these classics! looking forward to reading along with you all. Cheers.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

For what it is worth, Matthew, I think all of us go through those stages when the reading takes a backseat to life--or to figuring life out. I'm very happy that you are ready to embrace your "reader" side and hope you find a lot of social outlet in reading with our group. Welcome!