Introductions - Thanks for Joining!!

[Ronyell]

Hello Danie, Carolina and Liz!!! Welcome to the group!!!

[Grace]

Hello, I'm Grace. I'm from Oklahoma and I'm brand new to Goodreads. I'm 19, I love reading all kinds of books, but I usually prefer Fantasy and SciFi. I'm hoping this group can introduce me to some genres I don't usually read while also providing my with a reading challenge. :)

[Ronyell]

Hello Grace! Welcome to the club!

[Cara]

Hello there! I'm Cara and I want to read, well read more that is. I just discovered this site today and I want to go back to my reading endeavors that were long forgotten since middle-school. I don't want to have textbooks and required readings as the only books I would have read by the time I graduate from college. SO by joining the club, I want to motivate myself into reading, and getting recommendations for new books and new genres.

[Ronyell]

Hello Cara!! Welcome to the group!!

[ɐzzıɹʞ]

Hey guys, I'm Celine...new here:D I love to read and read and nobody/nothing can stop me reading, even when the clock strikes at 2:30 am (you know what I mean)

[Zakiya]

Hello to all of out new members! :D

[Ronyell]

Hello Celine!!! Welcome to the group!!!

[Emily]

This sounds like so much fun! Hi I'm Emily and I love to read whatever I can get my hands on! I'm a SAHM to a 5 year old girl and when not tending to her, I'm either reading or knitting in front of the TV watching something I DVR'd.

[Zakiya]

SAHM = Stay at Home Mom? Hello, Emily! I can basically read anything as well. I hope you enjoy yourself here! :D

[AnQi]

Hi, I'm Angel! I live in Colorado, and I'm in middle school. As is obvious, I love reading, and I think this challenge is a cool idea! I'm really glad to be part of this group! :)

[Ronyell]

Hello Angel!! Glad you joined the group!!

[Zakiya]

Hi Angel! Welcome to the group :D!

[[deleted user]]

Hello there! My name is Samantha and I'm absolutely addicted to reading. Just joined this site...just seeing what's up. I'm enjoying it so far. See you around =]

I have a question though...
I was looking at the 1000000 page count posts and I was wondering...are you counting every book you've ever read? I know it's "lifetime" in the title of the group but it seems that people are counting from the beginning of the year...?

[Beth F]

Hi all...

What a neat idea for a challenge...I'm in!

My name is Beth and I live in Minnesota. I studied sociology and anthropology in college but have worked in finance for almost 9 years now. My teenage self wouldn't have believed something like that would happen in a million years because I always sucked at math and thought it was boring. Life is funny sometimes, that's for sure! :)

Anyway, I definitely read to stay sane and in order to keep all the numbers from eating my creativity. Glad to meet you all you fellow readaholics!

[Virginia]

I love this idea! I feel like I read a ton of pages... now I'll know how many!

I am Virginia, and I live in South Carolina. I am an educator currently working as a literacy coach in a middle school. I have a great husband and a super 15 year-old son--neither of whom are the crazy readers I am.

I love to read lots of things, but among my favorites are kiddie lit, YA/teen lit, romance, chick lit, contemporary fiction, professional development books, self-improvement, inspirational, and historical fiction.

I usually have 2 or 3 books going at once-- especially now that I have my "nook"! I'm excited to to join this group!

[Ronyell]

Hello Virginia, Beth and Samantha! Glad you joined this group!!

Virginia, I also live in South Carolina and I also love reading children's books! Glad to have another member who loves children's books!!

[AnQi]

Ronyell wrote: "Hello Angel!! Glad you joined the group!!"

Thanks! :)

[Adam]

Beth F. wrote: "My teenage self wouldn't have believed something like that would happen in a million years because I always sucked at math and thought it was boring. Life is funny sometimes, that's for sure! :) "

That's because most people don't ever encounter math very well as a teenager.

"Anyway, I definitely read to stay sane and in order to keep all the numbers from eating my creativity"

Mathematics is one of the most creative disciplines ever developed by mankind. So, if anything, numbers and math would only enhance creativity. It is, after all, an art form.

[Cara]

Ronyell wrote: "Hello Cara!! Welcome to the group!!"

Thank you Ronyell! :) Happy to be here.

[Beth F]

Adam - I think perhaps you and I may have to agree to disagree because there is nothing creative about what I do for a living, I promise! Ha!!

[Adam]

Beth F. wrote: "Adam - I think perhaps you and I may have to agree to disagree because there is nothing creative about what I do for a living, I promise! Ha!!"

haha, that's because you're in the Finance track. I used to do that (I actually majored in Finance and Accounting), but I quit that career after 4 years so I could study math and physics in great depth. In Finance you can use some very advanced and creative mathematics to build prediction models, but if you're just doing mostly accounting level stuff... then that's not as interesting.

[Tiffany]

Hey everyone! This looks like a really fun challenge/group and am looking forward to it!

My name is Tiffany, live in New Hampshire, and have a wee bit of a book obsession. I try to read a few books a week, even though I have two crazy kids who are always on the go and distract me LOL.

Looking forward to working on this goal with all of you!

[Beth F]

I can imagine!

I actually investigate suspicions of money laundering and stock market manipulation so it is usually interesting (small favors) but not very creative. :)

[Amanda]

Hi everybody :) I'm Amanda. I'm 16 and homeschooled, so I have lotts of time to read. This group, along with the 1001 books to read before you die group should keep me busy... forever. :)

[Raghad]

hey guys im Raghad im 13 and im in the 8th grade plus i totally love reading books!! especially vampire romance novels are my all time favorite !! i live in Saudia arabia (if u guys ever heard of it) my favorite book is shadow souls in the vampire diaries series and my fav singer is taylor swift plus i love watching loads of movies as well and so dont have a fav one and guys i would be glad if u would join me and my friends group http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3...

[Katrina]

Wow, this sounds like an awesome idea...well, hello, I am Katrina and I love to read, that is about all I do (more or less).

I like the idea of starting with 2010 because like a lot of us here I didn't start tallying the books I read each year until the beginning of this year when I started the 50 books in a year challenge. I am also am doing the 50 states challenge which I am allowing myself two years to finish. Well off to tally my page totals for this year, should be exciting to see the number

[Adam]

Beth F. wrote: "I can imagine!

I actually investigate suspicions of money laundering and stock market manipulation so it is usually interesting (small favors) but not very creative. :)"

That's probably a lot more interesting than what I was doing. If my clients accounting reported something they didn't think looked right, then I had to research and find a way to fix it. Probably not too different, but it wasn't as interesting as auditing for stock market manipulations.

I think the only super creative world of Math in application to Finance (at least that I've heard of) is in the field of Quantitative Analysis. I actually managed to find text books using Quantum Mechanics to do risk pricing. That kind of blew my mind. So the creativity is out there... just not usually at the accounting level : P. Then again, Accounting is probably one of the OLDEST forms of applied math. The Sumerians developed it somewhere between 3,000 B.C.E. and 2,000 B.C.E. (if I remember correctly.) It's also one of the main reasons humanity started to consider very large numbers, as in beyond counting with your hands : P.

[Diane]

What a great idea for a group! My name is Diane Scrivener and I live in central FL. I found out about this group by seeing it on the profile of someone who I share membership with in another group. Right now I'm in the process of reading three books.

by Diana Gabaldon

by Craig Groeschel


by Diana Gabaldon

I'm excited about moving forward on my 1,000,000 pgs!! Whoohoo

[Lindy-Lane]

Hello y'all! My name's Lindy and I'm pretty sure that I've all ready read 1,000,000 pages in my lifetime since I've been an avid reader from the get go and I'm in my 5th decade of living and reading! Nevertheless, I wanted to join this group and document how long it would take me to track reading 1,000,000 pages (backtracking to January of 2010). Now if we just had $1.oo for every page read....

[Andrez]

*imagines*

*whistles*

wow

[Carla]

Hello my name is Carla and I am located near Phoenix Arizona. I was invited to this group by another member Diane, who I have never personally met but am finding I like her very much!!! LOL, this is a great idea and I cannot wait to start documenting my progress to help this group reach our goal!!!

[Kjerstin]

Welcome Carla! I live in Phoenix, too! Have fun with your million pages! :)

Kjerstin

[Diane]

Carla wrote: "Hello my name is Carla and I am located near Phoenix Arizona. I was invited to this group by another member Diane, who I have never personally met but am finding I like her very much!!! LOL, this i..."

Yay, Carla!! =)

[Diane]

Welcome Lindy, and wow! Good for you! I wish I had a dollar for each of your pages as well LoL

[Carla]

Thanks so much!!!

[Ronyell]

Hello Tiffany, Amanda, Raghad, Katrina, Diane, Lindy, and Carla! Welcome to this group!!!

[Julie]

Hello All!!

I am Julie and I live in Kansas with my husband and 4 children. I am a social studies teacher at the local high school and I love to read. My husband constantly complains about the number of books I have so I guess it's kind of an obsession.

Can't wait to start recording my books.

[Ronyell]

Hello Julie!! Welcome to the club!

[Zakiya]

Hello to all of our new members! :D

[[deleted user]]

A great BIG welcome to everyone from me.

I'm sorry I have been crazy busy. Lucky for me Z is crazy awesome!

[★Meghan★]

Haha if I got a dollar for every page I read then I would take it up as a career and do nothing but read all day!

[Dee]

I would totally sign up for that job!!

★Meghan★ wrote: "Haha if I got a dollar for every page I read then I would take it up as a career and do nothing but read all day!"

[Melissa]

My name is Melissa. At the moment I'm living in Canada, on a work abroad program. I'm originally from California. I love to read, and would someday like to try writing a novel of my own. I'm a bit of a homebody but I love hanging out with friends and being social too. I'm a libra, so maybe it's the whole balance thing that makes me like both. I found this group when a new member joined 100 books in 2010 which I'm also a member of. I'll get right to posting my books after I finish this.

[[deleted user]]

Welcome to the group, everyone. It is amazing that you found us.

*rolls out the red carpet*

Please, do enjoy the group!

[Zakiya]

Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "I would totally sign up for that job!!

★Meghan★ wrote: "Haha if I got a dollar for every page I read then I would take it up as a career and do nothing but read all day!""

I would do that, too! LOL :).

Welcome to the group, Melissa :D.

[Melissa]

Zakiya wrote: "Delicious Dee Challenge Addict wrote: "I would totally sign up for that job!!

★Meghan★ wrote: "Haha if I got a dollar for every page I read then I would take it up as a career and do nothing but..."

Thanks Zakiya!

[Melissa]

❤ ☠ Black Disaster Fairy ☠ ❤ wrote: "Welcome to the group, everyone. It is amazing that you found us.

*rolls out the red carpet*

Please, do enjoy the group!"
Thanks for the welcome!

[Someoneyouknow]

Hello, everyone. My name is Marta, I'm from Ukraine, I love reading, my Zodiac Sign is Cancer and I think that this group is absolutely brilliant. I really hope it will take me less than 50 years to read 1,000,000 pages!

[Melissa]

Someoneyouknow wrote: "Hello, everyone. My name is Marta, I'm from Ukraine, I love reading, my Zodiac Sign is Cancer and I think that this group is absolutely brilliant. I really hope it will take me less than 50 years t..."

Welcome! I think it will take you less than 50 years...the trick is to try and read a little every day, (even though that can be really hard sometimes,) and you'll finish books faster than you think!