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[Neil]

I'm from Bowen now living in Basel Switzerland, via Brisbane. I tend to read technical stuff, anything about art, education and teaching, cultural politics, the odd bit of poetry (it has to be a bit odd to catch my attention). I'm a teaching artist when not engaged as a full-time, stay-at-home, expat dad.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Neil wrote: "I'm from Bowen now living in Basel Switzerland, via Brisbane. I tend to read technical stuff, anything about art, education and teaching, cultural politics, the odd bit of poetry (it has to be a b..."

Welcome Neil, it's great to have you with us:) I'm guessing it's cold over in Switzerland right about now? We are all very envious!

[Sharon]

Hi Neil, welcome to the group :)

[Dale]

Welcome Neil

[Sally906]

Neil wrote: "I'm from Bowen now living in Basel Switzerland, via Brisbane. I tend to read technical stuff, anything about art, education and teaching, cultural politics, the odd bit of poetry (it has to be a b..."

Welcome Neil - I'm as jealous as anything - when I was ten my family lived in Geneva for six months - over winter - I have never been back but have wonderful memories of our stay.

[Joann]

Hi everyone. :D

[Mish]

Hi Joann & Neil, welcome to the group

[Sally906]

Hi Joann - welcome to the group

[Sharon]

Hi Joann, welcome to the group :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Joann, lovely to have you with us:)

[Dale]

Welcome Joann

[Jessica]

Hello, I'm Jessica and 20 years old (will be 21 in March). I was born in Canberra but moved to Brisbane in 2004. I'm about to start my third and final semester at Southbank TAFE studying the Diploma of Library and Information Services course. My dream is to work in a library or have my own bookstore... anything book related actually.

I read a reasonable amount when I was a little kid but didn't fall in love with reading until I started Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in grade 9 in high school. I've loved reading ever since, but I spend a huge amount of my time reading manga since 2011. So if you're interested in manga and anime, we'll be very good friends.

Anyone is more than welcome to add me as a friend.

My 2014 Reading Challenge goal is 450 books. As of this second, I've already read 82 books (well 4 books and 74 manga volumes).

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Jessica, lovely to have you with us! Good luck with your dream of working in a book related job:) You'll definitely have the qualifications with that sort of reading!

[Sharon]

Hi Jessica, welcome to the group :)

[Sally906]

Hi Jessica welcome to the group. Not a big fan of Manga and anime myself but daughter and her partner are huge fans and my hubby will watch the cartoons (anime). Certainly a whole world of its own :)

Do sneak peeks occasionally :)

Best of luck following your library/book goals :)

[Mish]

Welcome Jessica

[Natty]

Wow, so many new peeps joining its awesome! That will teach me to be M.I.A. for the last few months.. Welcome everyone, you've joined a fabulous group

[Dale]

Welcome Jessica

[Rochelle]

Jessica wrote: "Hello, I'm Jessica and 20 years old (will be 21 in March). I was born in Canberra but moved to Brisbane in 2004. I'm about to start my third and final semester at Southbank TAFE studying the Diplo..."

Hi Jessica, I just added you as a friend :)
Welcome to the group. Wow! What a massive goal, good luck with it!

[Andrea]

Wow Jessica, 82 books read already this year?! I'd be lucky to read that much in a year! lol Good on you and welcome :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Daniel wrote: "Hi, had a bit of a reading binge end of 2013 and finished Songs of Fire & Ice (2,3,4 &5), Girl with Dragon Tattoo series and a few others incl 'Towards Asmara' by Thomas Keneally - having worked in..."

Welcome Daniel, great to have you with us! I will ask you to please edit your post and take out reference to your book, as this is just the introduction thread... but I'd love you to put your giveaway here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... and perhaps you'd like to promote your work as well? If you go here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... you can make your own thread to tell us about your book/s:) Thanks!

[Sally]

Daniel wrote: "Hi, had a bit of a reading binge end of 2013 and finished Songs of Fire & Ice (2,3,4 &5), Girl with Dragon Tattoo series and a few others incl 'Towards Asmara' by Thomas Keneally - having worked in..."

Good lord, you read the latter four A Song of Ice and Fire books all at the end of 2013? I bow to the master, LOL! I am 30% through book 3 and while I love it to bits, other paperbacks and audiobooks keep distracting me. I may even get books 4 and 5 on audio, I would be sure to power through them then :-)

[Samantha]

Hey everyone :)

I am a full time working mother of 2 and wife of 1 :P
I love books of all genres and find I have alot of trouble parting with them! I live in Croydon North Vic I look forward to the fun this group will no doubt bring.

[Sharon]

Hi Daniel and Samantha, welcome to the group :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Samantha, great to have you with us:)

[Sally906]

Samantha wrote: "Hey everyone :)

I am a full time working mother of 2 and wife of 1 :P
I love books of all genres and find I have alot of trouble parting with them! I live in Croydon North Vic I look forward to t..."

hi Samantha. Welcome to the group :)

[Daniel]

Sally wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Hi, had a bit of a reading binge end of 2013 and finished Songs of Fire & Ice (2,3,4 &5), Girl with Dragon Tattoo series and a few others incl 'Towards Asmara' by Thomas Keneally - h..."

Hi Sally, I am a fast reader and I tend to read quite late into early hours of morning :-)Also after nearly 6 months of 7 days a week 12 hour days (with only a 3 week break in the middle) I was ready for some reading R&R.

[Yan]

Hi, I'm currently studying engineering at Sydney.

My main interest are travels, sports and reading. Since I'm a bit broke at the moment, I'll just have to resort to reading.

Mainly interested in history and books that build good worlds. I also like books that make me go "That's interesting".

[Sharon]

Hi Yan, welcome to the group :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Yan, great to have you with us:)

[Katherine]

G'day all from the westernmost town on the mainland. Me? Originally a Yank, immigrated to the "Lucky Country" 13+ years ago, best move I ever made. Voracious reader all of my life, but don't see so good any more, so my passion is audio books. Perfect way to do housework or gardening and still enjoy books.

Mainly reading fantasy, scifi, history & historical fiction as I am truly sick of the real life world. Catching up on a lot of stuff I wished I had read when young, and thanks to places like librivox.org I have caught up a lot!

Pet peeve: modern authors who turn otherwise good writing and plots into porn with overly descriptive sex scenes.

[Sally906]

Welcome Yan :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Katherine, it's great to have you with us! I agree on your pet peeve too:)

[Sally906]

Hi Katherine nice to meet you

[Sharon]

Hi Katherine, welcome to the group :)

[Bernie]

HI,
I'm Bernie, a journo and author from Pine Rivers, north of Brisbane. I only found this group today. My other groups are Mystery Crime and Thriller and Chaos Reading. I don't post much on CR as the first day I was on, I was roundly abused. Life is too short for that. My FB and Twitter and GMail handle is bentbananabooks. Looking forward to being on here.
Cheers

[Bernie]

Done Michael. Sorry, newbie, ignorant of the protocols.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Bernie, lovely to have you with us:)

[Sally906]

Bernie wrote: "HI,
I'm Bernie, a journo and author from Pine Rivers, north of Brisbane. I only found this group today. My other groups are Mystery Crime and Thriller and Chaos Reading. I don't post much on CR as ..."

Welcome to the group Bernie - nice to meet you.

[Bernie]

Brenda wrote: "Welcome Bernie, lovely to have you with us:)"

Thanks Brenda. Good to be here.

[Bernie]

Sally906 wrote: "Bernie wrote: "HI,
I'm Bernie, a journo and author from Pine Rivers, north of Brisbane. I only found this group today. My other groups are Mystery Crime and Thriller and Chaos Reading. I don't post..."
Thanks Sally,
Pleased to meet you, too.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Bernie wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Welcome Bernie, lovely to have you with us:)"

Thanks Brenda. Good to be here."

I started a new thread for you too Bernie - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Bernie]

Thanks Brenda, Most kind of you.
Cheers
Bernie

[Sharon]

Hi Bernie, welcome to the group :)

[Bernie]

Thanks Sharon

[Katherine]

Hey All, and ta for the welcomes! And welcome to those who came in after me. Enjoying a summer evening on the patio, gave up on listening to my audio book because the frogs drowned it out! Must be a dozen or so of the little buggers around the garden! Hope the rest of you are staying cool!

[Sally]

Welcome, Bernie :-) I know you will find this a very friendly group :-)

Oh, Katherine, I miss frogs! I used to live on a 12-acre property and had frogs in our fountain there. No idea where they came from, as I live in a pretty arid area, but they bred up a storm and soon the fountain was full of tadpoles! We couldn't turn the fountain on until they grew up or they'd just get sucked up in the pump and spat out with the water at the top, LOL!

[Bernie]

Thanks for the welcome Sally. I love frogs too.

[Katherine]

Sally wrote: "Oh, Katherine, I miss frogs! I used to live on a 12-acre property and had frogs in our fountain there. No idea where they ca..."

Where I live is rather arid, all of our water is bore is well restricted. The frogs only moved into this area in the last 3-4 years as the warmer & more humid climate moves south. Small salties have been spotted even, much further south than in the past.

I have a fish 'pond', actually an old bath tub framed in plywood, and a small water feature in the patio 'grotto' area, both with smaller solar pumps that don't suck up the tadpoles so badly. They grow well in the water feature, and supplement the fish diet in the tank if they wander out of the plant roots. Last year I spotted 30+ emerging fully formed from the fish tank, dunno how many I didn't see!

My grotto is the perfect place to enjoy a good book. Even in 44c heat it is cool and comfy, with it's misting system and breeze. I like to listen while watching the birds and other wild life that make their home on this little 1/4 acre block.

Honestly, I live in paradise!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Sounds like a little slice of heaven Katherine:)