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Rena wrote: "Hi! I don't live in Australia anymore but I grew up a strong patriotic! This group looks really exciting, I knew I could count on the Aussies! I mainly read romance and young adult fiction."Hi Rena, Welcome to the group. You can check out our Aussie Reader group shelves if you're looking for some home grown YA or Romance talent!:)
Tammy wrote: "Hi all,I am a new member, just joined up today. I actually only just joined good reads a couple of days ago, but i think i'm already addicted. ;)
I currently am living in SA, just moved back he..."
Hi Tammy, a belated welcome. I live in Adelaide, near the beach. Are you in the city or further out?
Aussie, aussie, aussie, oi! oi! oi! G'day, G'day, G'day to all the newies.
@All: Thanks for giving me such a warm welcome!@Brenda: I have just read chapter 4 of the Tom Kruse story. It gives an interesting insight in the lives of mid-20th century outback people. Worth the read!
@Monya: Thanks a lot for mentioning those Aussie authors. In fact, the only one I knew was Ion Idriess. Years ago I have read one of his books but I can't remember which one it was. I looked up some of the other authors and marked a couple of their books as to read.
Guy wrote: "@All: Thanks for giving me such a warm welcome!@Brenda: I have just read chapter 4 of the Tom Kruse story. It gives an interesting insight in the lives of mid-20th century outback people. Worth t..."
Hello again Guy - another pair of Aussie writers are Ruth Park (who was born in New Zealand) and D'Arcy Niland. Ruth passed away recently at an advanced age and D'Arcy many years ago. Both were superb novelists. Ruth's best known works are THE HARP IN THE SOUTH and POOR MAN'S ORANGE, set in Sydney's slums in the 1940s. D'Arcy is most famous for THE SHIRALEE, and DEAD MEN RUNNING. He also wrote CALL ME WHEN THE CROSS TURNS OVER. Both writers also penned excellent short stories.
Ion Idriess wrote a great many books set in Australia and the Torres Strait islands, but my absolute favourite is his non-fiction story of his service in World War I, THE DESERT COLUMN. He served in the Australian Light Horse and at Gallipoli. And I'm about to recommend the book to another member!
Monya (aka Mary)
Hello all. My name is Mark Adair and I live in Northern California - Wine Country, US version. I write suspense/thrillers. My wife and I have often talked of visiting Australia (or even moving there). The other day we noticed Oprah was hosting her show from Sydney - very beautiful and such wonderful people. Anyway, just glad to be here. Cheers,
Mark
Mark wrote: "Hello all. My name is Mark Adair and I live in Northern California - Wine Country, US version. I write suspense/thrillers. My wife and I have often talked of visiting Australia (or even moving ther..."Hi Mark,
Welcome to the group! Yes we noticed Oprah was here too!!;D Thousands of very starstruck Aussie fans were delighted to see her here and she was followed around like royalty. It would be great if you and your wife could come for a visit one of these days. Your book The Father's Child looks very enjoyable.:)
Mandy wrote: "Mark wrote: "Hello all. My name is Mark Adair and I live in Northern California - Wine Country, US version. I write suspense/thrillers. My wife and I have often talked of visiting Australia (or eve..."Hi Mandy. Thanks for the welcome. Yeah, I did notice a few starstruck Aussies out in the crowd. :) It occurred to me as I watched that I was a fan of all the Aussie artists (actors, singers, etc.) on the show. Talented lot.
We do plan on visiting.
Thanks for the plug on the book. :)
Hello, everyone. My biography "Empty Chairs" was released this week by Night Publishing. It is a difficult read, please understand that, It is my story of living beyond Child Abuse. The streets of Sydney in the 1960's were a scary place to be 11 years old, and alone. I refuse to be called a survivor. I lived my life to the max and continue to do so. Empty Chairs is available here, written under my pen name of Stacey Danson. Again, please be aware, it is a truthful and open look at what can and does happen behind closed doors.
Carmel wrote: "Howdy Mark, welcome to our group!!"Hi Carmel! Thanks for the welcome. Good to be here.
Welcome to the group Mark and Soooz.
Laura wrote: "Welcome Makr and Soooz! :)"Cheers Laura and Gerry!
Thank you all for the warm welcome. I appreciate it a great deal.Soooz
Gail "cyborg" wrote: "Welcome to the group Mark and Soooz."
Mark wrote: "Laura wrote: "Welcome Makr and Soooz! :)"
Cheers Laura and Gerry!"
Mark wrote: "Carmel wrote: "Howdy Mark, welcome to our group!!"
Hi Carmel! Thanks for the welcome. Good to be here."
Carmel wrote: "Soooz wrote: "Hello, everyone. My biography "Empty Chairs" was released this week by Night Publishing. It is a difficult read, please understand that, It is my story of living beyond Child Abuse. T..."Nice cover!
Carmel, thank you I appreciate it, and I am so pleased you like the cover. Our lives are full of Empty Chairs, aren't they. Chairs that once seated a loved one and friend who shared in our lives, perhaps leaning forward in their eagerness to chat, or sitting back and laughing at a shared joke. There is nothing quite as lonely as walking into a room filled with Empty Chairs.
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Your book looks really interesting too Mark, I'll check into that one as well..:)
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Very profound, Soooz!! And very true! :D
Monya wrote: "Hello again Guy - another pair of Aussie writers are Ruth Park (who was born in New Zealand) and D'Arcy Niland. Ruth passed away recently at an advanced age and D'Arcy many years ago. Both were superb novelists. Ruth's best known works are THE HARP IN THE SOUTH..."Thanks a lot Monya for these references. It's always great to broaden one's horizons! I haven't been an avid reader of novels, but maybe I should try one or two and see what I have been missing... Until now I have always read more non-fiction than fiction. Mostly travel accounts or true stories set in various places around the world (like the one I'm reading now). I also try to vary the settings a bit (just have a look at what I have been reading the last year or so), but I do enjoy reading about Australia a lot! Thanks again!
Brenda wrote: "Welcome Mark and Soooz, lovely to have you with us. Checked your book at my library Soooz, and they don't have it, so I'll get them to order it for me. Put it on my TBR list..:)Your book looks rea..."
Thanks Brenda. Nice to be with you. And thanks for checking into my novel.
Hello everyone! I am Janae and I love reading. My family thinks that I'm crazy for it but I don't care most of the time.
I am a sap, so I love stories even though some of them do make me cry.
I really do hope to vistit Australia some day!
But for now I love in Wisconsin.
Um some things about me are that I am writing a book about you guessed it love and magic...should be interesting. I love music,I cook real well, and I love writing! I think that's about it...
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Big welcome to the group Janae (that's a lovely name!).:)
Soooz wrote: "Hello, everyone. My biography "Empty Chairs" was released this week by Night Publishing. It is a difficult read, please understand that, It is my story of living beyond Child Abuse. The streets of ..."Added to TBR. Looking for a copy of it now. Thanks for the opportunity to read this. How hard was it to write?
G'day to all the new peeps, & soooz, here is one of my poems for you eh! stay well always.
Only those abused
Only those abused, giving pure love and trust
Deceived by would be friends seeking only lust
Only those abused, know of uncontrolled fear
When an adult interferes year after year
Only those abused, who live their nightmare life
Once a happy child, now lives in troubled strife
Only those abused, know the heartache and the pain
How they’ll continue life, living with this shame
Only those abused, carry deep within their memory
Images that torture and thoughts becoming deadly
Only those abused, know the trauma of inadequacy
Think of a razor finding that pumping artery
Only those abused, know the right time to tell
Their story of torment. Their story of hell.
David J Delaney
25/02/2009 ©
Only those abused
Only those abused, giving pure love and trust
Deceived by would be friends seeking only lust
Only those abused, know of uncontrolled fear
When an adult interferes year after year
Only those abused, who live their nightmare life
Once a happy child, now lives in troubled strife
Only those abused, know the heartache and the pain
How they’ll continue life, living with this shame
Only those abused, carry deep within their memory
Images that torture and thoughts becoming deadly
Only those abused, know the trauma of inadequacy
Think of a razor finding that pumping artery
Only those abused, know the right time to tell
Their story of torment. Their story of hell.
David J Delaney
25/02/2009 ©
Shout-out to Wisconsin - born&raised&homesick for...
Hi all,I've been a Goodreads member for a couple of months and a resident of Australia for over thirty years (born in Scotland). This is the first group I've joined (my publisher ran a give away here) so still on "L" plates. I've read through a few of the threads and this seems like a pretty relaxed place to start!
Dale
Dale, welcome to the group. Your scottish accent is hardly noticable. We'll have you on your "P"s before you know it.
Thanks! There's a bit of a shortfall in Australian fiction on my shelf right now and I'm looking forward to redressing the balance over the next few months.
Aaaah Dale, that Dale Renton, I've really got to pay more attention. I was one of the winners of your book. When it arrives I'll add it to my "Aussie Reading" challenge. I might make true Blue status after all.
This is the challenge if you would like to check it out.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
This is the challenge if you would like to check it out.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
Congratulations, Gail - hope you still feel like a winner after reading it!I looked at the challenge and the lists of books folk are planning to read. I've actually read a few, although I don't have them on my Goodreads shelf. I'll come up with a list of to-reads and join up.
Hi all, I am an aussie mum from Shellharbour NSW and I enjoy reading.I have read many books by Australian authors and my favourite so far are:
"A Cargo of Women" by Babette Smith and
"Jessica" by Bryce Courtney.
I highly recommend both but particularly A cargo of women to any one interested in the stories of Australias early years. This book is about the stories of a womens convict ship. The author Babette was researching her family tree when she discovered an ancestor came to Australia as a convict on the Princess Royal. She researched the lives of all the women on the ship and wrote a non fiction book about her research she was then encouraged to fill in the gaps and turn it into a novel. I selected this book as my choice for my book club who all enjoyed it, I think you will too.
I am looking forward to reading your reviews and more Australian books.
Dale wrote: "Congratulations, Gail - hope you still feel like a winner after reading it!
I looked at the challenge and the lists of books folk are planning to read. I've actually read a few, although I don't..."
You will be the first to know. :)
I looked at the challenge and the lists of books folk are planning to read. I've actually read a few, although I don't..."
You will be the first to know. :)
Welcome to the group Kristy. We will do our best to make you feel at home.
Carmel wrote: "Hi there Kristy, welcome to our group!! I've seen the book you refer to on the store shelves 
and have wondered about it, sounds very interesting. My ..."It is an easy enjoyable read, makes you appreciate modern life.
Big welcome to Dale and Kristy. I've added your bookd to our group bookshelf Dale. Kirsty thanks for your book recs and I see you've added them to the bookshelf already. Good on you!:D
Hi thought I'd introduce myself I've been sneaking around for a month or two and thanks to all of you I found out about the book depository. I'm currently living in Melbourne and looking after two little girls, a husband, a cat and a dog. So I love to escape into a book every now and then. My favourite genre would have to be urban fantasy. I already had a list of books I wanted to read this year, when I was invited to the Aussie authors challenge so now that list has doubled and I have found a new appreciation for my library. (I usually bribe my daughter if she is good we'll go). So now it's mum that wants to go all the time. Anyway I've gone off on a tangeant. Thanks for the invite really enjoying it.
Hi all, I'm from Sydney (married to a Queenslander who originally hailed from Gympie)and I'm an avid reader of mystery, suspense, s/f, some humour, some bios. I'm a long time fan of Jon Cleary (who sadly passed away recently). Other Aussie authors I've been reading lately are Judy Nunn, Michael Robotham, Kathryn Fox, Gerald Stone and Colin Falconer (yes, he's a Brit but he's lived in WA a long time).I'm also a writer of suspense fiction. My short stories have appeared in several mags, including the Aust Women's Weekly and Woman's Day. I write a blog about books, pop culture etc. at http://ian-edward.blogspot.com (it feeds to my Good Reads page) and a thriller novel, The Delta Chain.
Great to meet you Davina and Ian! Welcome to the group. Jump into the discussions whenever you like.@ Davina - Melbourne's a beautiful city. Did you know it's rated by UNESCO as a City Of Literature? There is even an iPhone app that walks you around all the literary places in town. Check it out on this link: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
@ Ian - Lovely to meet another author! Your book The Delta Chain looks like great reading. I'll be checking out your blog too! We have a thread where people can talk up their blogs. Find it here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3...
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Ian wrote: "Hi all, I'm from Sydney (married to a Queenslander who originally hailed from Gympie)and I'm an avid reader of mystery, suspense, s/f, some humour, some bios. I'm a long time fan of Jon Cleary (who..."Welcome Davina and Ian.
Ian - lived at Skyring Creek south of Gympie for 4 years in the 90s and shopped in Gympie too - cheaper than Noosa. Have never worked out why they just don't abandon the shops etc. at the bottom of the hill in the CBD. Flooded regularly and have been again. Couldn't believe it when Suncorp moved from the top of the hill down into the gully. Now live on the Darling Downs near most of our children and grandkids.
Enjoy the group. Everyone's nice! And happy writing. (I'm one of those too!)
Monya (aka Mary)
Hi peeps :)My name's Zainab.. but most ppl here on GR call me Black Diamond or BD for short..
umm if you wanted to know why..it's coz it's the translation of my Burmese name Sein Nat :)
I was born in Aussi buh my parents were born in Burma and they in turn have forfathers from Iran and so on so forth..
I love practically any novel by Tamora Peirce and James Patterson. I also love however any other novel that's filed under Fantasy, Mystery and Romance... well romance not so much.. but it's growing on me...
oh dear once again i seem to write too much ill stop...for now :)
btw i love writing as much as i love reading..only reading somehow takes up so much of my time -.-
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I mainly read romance and young adult fiction."
Welcome, Rena! (Nice name - my mother's name was Reene and I have a niece Rowena who is usually called Rena.)
It must feel like finding a little bit of your old homeland, discovering this group. Hope you enjoy our company.
And yes, we and the Kiwis pretty much give each other a hard time. Like siblings at the bottom of the world!
Monya (aka Mary)