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[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Hi Bowie and Kerrie, welcome to the club ;)

[Suz]

Welcome Kerrie, great you've joined the group, I've benefited so much from being here :)

[Kerrie]

Thanks Suzanne and Julie :) Lovely friendly place you have here!

[Sally906]

Kerrie wrote: "Hi everyone, I'm Kerrie, an avid reader and writer. I've ventured into Goodreads a few times before but am still finding my way around! Thanks to Brenda for the intro at our writer's group last yea..."

Welcome Kerrie - nice to meet you.

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Kerrie wrote: "Thanks Suzanne and Julie :) Lovely friendly place you have here!"

Yes its really cozy, make yourself comfy :)

[Sarah]

Welcome Kerrie :)

[Kerrie]

Thanks for the welcome, Sally & Sarah.

[Jenni]

Kia ora! Yes I'm a Kiwi, but I also love Australia, and spend about 4 months at our place at Trinity Beach, north of Cairns every winter. I am an avid reader of a wide range of books although perhaps I love "accessible literary fiction" or "upmarket women's fiction" best (these labels...). An Aust edition of my non-fiction trade book "Trouble in Mind: Stories from a neuropsychologist's casebook" was published by Scribe, Melbourne in 2013. (Think Oliver Sacks' "Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"). I am a "retired" ?re-tyred?) neuropsychologist, write a blog post for Psychology Today, and live off-grid on Great Barrier Island, NZ where I spend a LOT of time writing (and reading) novels! My debut novel is to be published by She Writes Press in April 2016 and is set on the Great Barrier Reef (where I once was a turtle tagger).

[Sally906]

Welcome Jenni - lovely to have you here - we have a few Kiwi's in the group so you won't be lonely.

Feel free to browse through our threads and join in the chatting

With author book promotions we like to have them all in one spot so please create your own thread in the Author spotlight section https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... (in the top right hand corner you will see "new topic" click on it and you can promote your stuff to your hearts content - LOL)

[Suz]

Welcome Jenni!

[Leonie]

Hi Jenni! Welcome :)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group Jenni

[Dale]

Jenni wrote: "Kia ora! Yes I'm a Kiwi, but I also love Australia, and spend about 4 months at our place at Trinity Beach, north of Cairns every winter. I am an avid reader of a wide range of books although perha..."

Nice to catch up with you here, Jenni. Glad you joined us.

[Carolyn]

Welcome Jenni. Nice to see you here!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Jenni, nice to have you with us:)

[Lainie]

Hi, my name is Lainie (real name, Alaine, the French version of Elaine, as my teenage Great-Grandfather was with the French Merchant Navy and jumped ship in Melbourne in 1857 to join the gold search!). I live in country Victoria.

I’ve always been a reader and used to read until all hours of the morning but now I’m lucky to read two or three pages and I get sleepy! Sometimes I wake up with the light still on and the book on the floor; I’m sure some could relate to that!

I love mysteries, thrillers, autobiographies and biographies.

[Jenn]

Hellooooo Kerrie, and hello to everyone I've missed saying hello to! I am not good at keeping on top of Goodreads AND writing deadlines. But I do read the discussions and am quite envious of those with so much reading time.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group Lainie. Yes I do relate to your waking up with the light on and the book on the floor. It's very easy to do!!!

[Dale]

Hi Lainie and Kerrie if I missed you earlier. Welcome.

[Suz]

Welcome Lainie, I like your family history story, and your name :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Lainie, it's great to have you with us:) Enjoy browsing the threads - we have a lot of fun chatting about books here!

[Sharon]

Hi Jenni and Lainie, welcome to the group :)

[Leonie]

Welcome Lainie and Jenni :)

[Sally906]

Welcome to the group Lainie - love your little bit of family history :)

[Carolyn]

Welcome Lainie :)

[Ace]

Hi there,

Suzanne invited me to join the group so here I am. My mom says I talked before I walked, but that once I started reading, there was less of both because I was always curled up with a book. I used to drive my dad insane because I would read four books at a time and leave them all over the house (yes, even the bathroom). I look forward to getting to know everyone.

[Sally906]

Welcome Ace - any friend of Suzanne's is a friend of ours :)

Nice to meet you

[Ace]

Oh, How lovely! Thank you!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Ace:) Great to have you with us! And yes, Suzanne is another lovely member...enjoy!

[Jülie ☼♄ ]

Hi Jenni and Lainie...seems I've missed a few notifications.... and Hi Ace, welcome :))
(I think you are our 2nd Ace ;)

[Suz]

Hi Ace welcome to the group. Everyone is so so nice, and the moderators knowledgable/friendly/helpful as is everyone else lol

[Ace]

If I'm the second Ace, may I be the Ace of Hearts? I'm not crazy about spades or clubs and since diamonds used to be a hunk of coal, need I say more about them?

[Dale]

Ace wrote: "Hi there,

Suzanne invited me to join the group so here I am. My mom says I talked before I walked, but that once I started reading, there was less of both because I was always curled up with a boo..."

Welcome Ace. Glad you joined us.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group Ace:)

[Leonie]

Welcome Ace!

[Carolyn]

Welcome Ace. Nice to meet you :)

[Sharon]

Hi Ace, welcome to the group :)

[Ace]

I really like this group! You are so welcoming. I may have to pack up my pup tent and move to Australia....Thank you all.

[Ace]

Hmmm, well this is going to get confusing LOL. Welcome Ace2 :)

[Sally906]

Ace wrote: "I really like this group! You are so welcoming. I may have to pack up my pup tent and move to Australia....Thank you all."

You do that - you'll be welcome.

Do you want to change your name to Ace of Hearts as you suggested? so we know which Ace we are talking to? I agree about diamonds - so cold and just an ex lump of coal :)

[Suz]

Ace wrote: "I really like this group! You are so welcoming. I may have to pack up my pup tent and move to Australia....Thank you all."

Ah ha! A few of us have met too, have a look at the photos thread. It's nice as we all get to see, and vicariously get to experience.

[Ben]

Hi guys,

this ain't much of an intro, but I never meant it to be.
Anyhoo, my name's Ben and I live in central Victoria. I joined the group because I'm involved in a very small book club wherein I'm the solitary member. And, well, talking to yourself doesn't make for very stimulating conversation

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome then Ben! I hope you enjoy some of our conversations:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Ben!

[Chris]

Hi all. I am Chris, a teacher of Accounting and Religion in the Catholic system in Adelaide. I have a huge love of books, particularly legal fiction, crime fiction, books with moral messages (such as Jodi Piccoult's) and those on social justice issues.

I currently have about 700 books in the house waiting for me to read them... and yet still can't resist buying more from charity bookshops such as the Lion's, St. Vinnies, the Salvos etc.

I think I will have to either make a deal with 'the man (or woman) upstairs to be able to take my books with me to the next life as I have too many to read in this one! *grins*

The saddest quote I ever read re books was one on an Oxfam website that stated 'if we read one book a week from the age of 5 until the age of 70, we read 3,380 books... nowhere near enough!!

I am currently reading 'Little Women of Baghlan' by Sue Fox, which I was very fortunate to win a copy of on this site.

Thank you Sue

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Chris, great to have you with us:)

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Welcome to the group Chris:)

[Dale]

Welcome Chris.

[Sarah]

Hi Ben welcome :) I got lonely in my solitary book club too hence flocked to a larger gathering of book lovers. Some good conversation threads going on in this site hopefully you enjoy as much as I have.

[Suz]

Welcome Ben and welcome Chris, Chris I collect too many books from Vinnies Anglicare etc too, but it's fun!