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[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Jim, great to have you with us :)

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Hi Jim, nice to meet you and welcome. You should feel right at home here :)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Hello Jim and welcome!

[Sally906]

Welcome to the group Jim - nice to meet you :)

[Suz]

A big hello and welcome to all the new people here: Bec, Melissa, Aiden, Carly, Ashlee and Jim. You'll gain a lot of insight. Sorry for the slow welcome! Everyone around here isn't so slow so you're in good hands ;)

[Jim]

Billie wrote: "I've just put a strong recommendation on my to read list - THE SNOW KIMONO by Aus. writer Mark Henshaw. Has anyone read it?"
Haven't read it Billie, will look out for it

[Ashlee]

Hi everyone, I'm Ashlee (or Ash as most people call me!) - I joined this group the other day under my magazine name TAT Books, but as that is a business profile with a few of us running it I decided I want to join for myself so I can participate in discussions and challenges etc.

I'm from Melbourne and am studying Literature and Composition, so needless to say I LOVE BOOKS!!

I'm in a few other book clubs but they're all based in the States, so I'm looking forward to doing some quarterly challenges that actually correspond to our seasons! :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Ash, it's great not to have to call you TAT;) It'll be lovely for you to join our challenges...enjoy the group!

[Carolyn]

Hi Ashlee! Not too late to take up the Spring Challenge :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Carolyn wrote: "Hi Ashlee! Not too late to take up the Spring Challenge :)"

No you're right there Carolyn...we're only 13 days in:)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome Ashlee and I hope you enjoy some of our challenges.

[Ashlee]

Carolyn wrote: "Hi Ashlee! Not too late to take up the Spring Challenge :)"

Yep, that was actually the challenge I was referring to!! In one of my other groups I'm doing a "Fall" challenge - still fun, but I'm looking forward to getting stuck into the Spring Challenge as well!

[Sally906]

Ash wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm Ashlee (or Ash as most people call me!) - I joined this group the other day under my magazine name TAT Books, but as that is a business profile with a few of us running it I decide..."

Welcome Ash - nice to talk to the person instead of the magazine - mind you it's nice to say I'm chatting to a magazine and no one thinks I'm mad :)

[Sharon]

Hi Ashlee and Jim, welcome to the group :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome E.A. Lovely to have you with us:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

That's easier;) Hi Ed!!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Now I don't know whether you are Eddy, E.A. or Ed!!!
Welcome to the group anyway:)

[Sharon]

Hi Eddy, welcome to the group. :)

[Sally906]

Welcome E.A., Ed and Eddy - all 3 of you are very welcome ***VBG***

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Hi Eddy, welcome to AR! :D

[Suz]

Welcome to the group all you newbies ;)

[Cherie]

Hi All,
I didn't see anything that said I have to be living in Australia to be part of your group here. I found the group name and noticed that I have a few friends here. :)

My name is Cherie. I live in the Pacific Northwest corner of the USA, about 20 miles from Portland, Oregon. I have been reading books set in Australia all year and I have a huge list of books compiled TBR on my Australia shelf, here on GR. I have a map of Australia on my wall in my den to look up locations.
I wish I could visit someday, but that remains to be seen. If I can't do it physically, then I can certainly do it via books and getting to know the current and past inhabitants. I don't know how active I will be, but I thought I should "check in".

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Cherie, great to have you with us:)

[Sally906]

Cherie wrote: "Hi All,
I didn't see anything that said I have to be living in Australia to be part of your group here. I found the group name and noticed that I have a few friends here. :)

My name is Cherie. ..."

Welcome Cherie - we have members from all over the world here - you will soon find your list of Aussie authors is going to grow.

[Margaret]

Hi! I just joined this group and look forward to making new friends and finding new authors and books to read.

After living in the USA for 3 years it is so good to be back home. I live in Adelaide.

But, I have had a tough time adjusting to being back. Books are cheap and plentiful in the USA. I visited a couple of bookstores (my preferred method of buying books) since I have been back and have had a shock at (a) the lack of range, and (b) the price!!! I use the library quite a bit too and I think that will probably now rank as my top book stop.

I am also a reading challenge junkie, and so look forward to checking out the challenges in this group. Like Ash, I am a member of quite a few Goodreads groups based in the Northern Hemisphere and didn't think about the difference in seasons until I went to sign up for a Fall challenge and thought to myself that I really should be thinking about Spring :)

Happy reading!!
Margaret

[Sharon]

Hi Cherie and Margaret. Welcome to the group :)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome Cherie and Margaret:)

[Sally906]

Margaret wrote: "Hi! I just joined this group and look forward to making new friends and finding new authors and books to read.

After living in the USA for 3 years it is so good to be back home. I live in Adelaid..."

Welcome Margaret - just so happens we have a Spring challenge going on and there is plenty of time to get it completed.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Margaret, it's lovely to have you with us. As Sally said we have seasonal and monthly challenges so feel free to join any or all of them :)

[Dale]

Welcome Cherie and Margaret.

[Leonie]

Hi Cherie and Margaret!

[Cherie]

Thank you for the great welcome and thank you for being one of the top favored groups for the month.

[Margaret]

Thanks for all the welcomes!!! And yes, I will definitely be joining in the challenges. I just need to get through this month's lot ... I kind of overestimated the amount of reading I would get done in September, and I am still finishing off those challenges .... I have serious problem :)

[Suz]

Margaret and Cherie, welcome to our featured group! Very exciting

[Suz]

Margaret wrote: "Hi! I just joined this group and look forward to making new friends and finding new authors and books to read.

After living in the USA for 3 years it is so good to be back home. I live in Adelaid..."

Welcome Margaret :) I totally understand your book issue, I totally agree with you re. cost. I usually borrow and mostly buy only second hand. It probably really is the reason I'm not a buyer of new books. It will be an adjustment for you, but you'll find from many of the Aussie Readers that online is the way to go. I haven't don't this much as if I can't do something quick I don't do it, but it works for many of them. Welcome back to Aus!

[Mary]

Hi all. I'm Mary from Newcastle. I haven't joined an online book group before so I'm looking forward to a new experience. Any opportunity to discuss books is wonderful. I'm not clear on what the spring challenge is but i figure I'd be unlikely to manage it at this stage (although I'm book addicted) right?

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Hey Mary, fabulous to have you here. I'm also from Newcastle! Small world that's for sure:)

[Mary]

Of course you are! Because the world is not just small it's miniscule! Nice to meet you.☺ So what are we reading?

[Suz]

Welcome Mary, you're lucky to live in lovely Newcastle, lots of events to experience there.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Mary wrote: "Of course you are! Because the world is not just small it's miniscule! Nice to meet you.☺ So what are we reading?"

If you browse the different threads Mary..currently reading plus the current challenge thread..you'll get a bit of an idea. Have fun!

[Sally906]

Welcome Mary - I live in Darwin. But I am from Newcastle originally and still have family there.

[Dale]

Hi Mary and welcome.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group Mary

[Sharon]

Hi Mary, welcome to the group :)

[Leonie]

Mary wrote: "Hi all. I'm Mary from Newcastle. I haven't joined an online book group before so I'm looking forward to a new experience. Any opportunity to discuss books is wonderful. I'm not clear on what th..."

Hi Mary! Welcome - I'm from the Upper Hunter - Muswellbrook :)

[Carolyn]

Welcome Cherie, Margaret and Mary! Good to have lots of new reading buddies :)

[A.J.]

Hi All,
I was very pleased to find a group of Aussies in here, and look forward to making a few friends and discovering new Aussie authors.
Full disclosure: I wasn't born in Australia, but when I first washed ashore in Port Jackson in 1990, I knew I was home. After spending a decade in Sydney, I moved up to Tamborine Mountain in SEQ.
I'm an avid reader, and an Author. I have so far written three novels, and just published the first entitled Heather, which is set mainly in Kings Cross.
Good to be here
AJ

[Sally906]

A.J. wrote: "Hi All,
I was very pleased to find a group of Aussies in here, and look forward to making a few friends and discovering new Aussie authors.
Full disclosure: I wasn't born in Australia, but when I f..."

Welcome A.J. Nice to meet you.

If you want to tell us about your books please create a thread in our authors section here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... and you can promote your work to your hearts content there :)

[Sharon]

Hi A.J. Welcome to the group :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome A.J. Nice to have you with us:)