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[Marc]

Thanks for the invite. My reviews are sporadic and erratic. I'm usually more brutal with mainstream fiction than I am with indie or small press stuff (trying to lend a helping hand) but I really don't like the idea of saying someone's book is good when it's not. So there it is. And here it is... Marcjohnsonbooks.wordpress.com

[Amy Eye]

Welcome Marc! It's great to see you here!!

[Marc]

Thanks. It's good to be seen through the radiating glow of an LCD screen.

[Amy Eye]

Really sets the mood for a great introduction, doesn't it??

[Marc]

Either that or causes cancer. I'm not sure which.

[Amy Eye]

I thought it only caused lazy eyes and a humpback....my bad

[Marc]

Touche.

Either way. I love my work being associated with causing lazy eyes and humpback. It's my muse.

[Amy Eye]

So, you are kind of the sadistic type. Or a genius...
:-)

[Marc]

I'll take whatever I can get.

[Natshane]

Natalie wrote: "@Amy,@Natshane, were you able to follow my blog or still cant? just wondering if im going to have to get help to fix that?"

Sorry for the late reply, and you're welcome. I'll give it a second try, maybe there's something wrong with my blogger account:)

[Natshane]

Ayaz wrote: "Natshane, thanks for the invite, and Amy good idea. If I write or have written a review, could one of you be kind enough let me know how I link to the group. Thanks."

You're welcome:)

[Natshane]

Savannah wrote: "hey I'm new my name is Savannah but you can call me Vani :P
so... what do ya do here?
Thanks for the invitation Natshane!"

You're very welcome and Welcome to the group!

[Lauren]

Hi, thanks for the invite to the group!

My name is Jayne Fordham, blogger from The Australian Bookshelf (http://australianbookshelf.wordpress.... i post book reviews, discussions, author interviews, guest posts and giveaways! Always looking for new followers and fellow bloggers to support, so please stop by :-)

Regards,
Jayne

[Amy Eye]

Welcome to the group Jayne! It's great to have you here!! Please browse around, I'm sure you will see some folders that could be of use to you! Feel free to use the Exciting news or Special Events to announce when you have guest posts, author interviews, and giveaways!

[Lauren]

Sounds great, thanks Amy!

Jayne

[Ben]

Hey all!

I'm Ben, I blog at http://learningtoreadten.blogspot.com/ about literary and comic fiction, mostly, and a bit of writing and funny stuff on the side.

I'm pretty new to GoodReads, but this seems the best place to find other book blogs and get involved in some booktalk. Am I right?

[Natalie]

Hi Ben,
I am new here too, its a great website and everyone is very welcoming, you have come to the right place :)

[Steven]

Amy, thanks that is a great idea :o) I think for me, I am better at writing the quick to the point reviews and I try to not say too much that happens in the story.

[Amy Eye]

Hi Ben! Welcome to the group!! I think you have come to the perfect spot for some great booktalk! Everyone is more than welcome to add their own posts for discussion! I want everyone to feel this is not just my group, but theirs as welll. I want one big happy reading family! :-)

Natalie! Thanks for that! You are too sweet!

Mr. Steven, thanks! I used to not say anything about what was happening in the story either, but I learned, it helped people put what I was saying into perspective if I gave a short summary of the book.

Everyone make sure you keep looking around, you never know when something great may pop up! Authors, be sure to utilize this fantastic group of people who are here that could be the perfect person to review your next book, or maybe even an older one you want to revitalize!

[Alison]

Hi everyone ! I'm Alison :) Thanks for the invite ! The group idea is really smart !

[Amy Eye]

Thank you for that Alison! I loved the idea for this group! I couldn't find anything like it on GoodReads anywhere, so I decided to start my own! :-) It's great to have you here!!

[Cambria]

Hi, I'm Cambria. I am pretty new to Goodreads but I have been reading forever and I am a writer too! This group is so exciting because I love to hear what other people think about books and I would love to read some reviews and get into writing some of my own, which I haven't done yet. I am hoping this great group will inspire me!

[Amy Eye]

Welcome Cambria (I love that name!) It's great to have you here! What kind of writing do you do? This is a very friendly group, and please feel free to post anywhere you like and as often as you like!

[Cambria]

Thank you Amy! I write YA paranormal. Hopefully someday soon a review for one of my books will appear in this great group you have started! :) I can't wait to start reading all the reviews and get involved!

[Amy Eye]

That sounds wonderful! When you get your books finished and you would like to have some people review it for you, we do have a place here in this group where you can ask for people to sign up to review it for you! I think this group is a great way for authors and readers alike to help one another!!

[Michelle]

Hi! On my blog Cheap Thrills, I review fantasy, sci fi, and horror e-books under $4.99.

[Amy Eye]

Hi Michelle! Great to have you here!

[Kay]

Hi....iam kk....a new memeber

[Amy Eye]

Well Hello K.K.!! Great to see you here! I hope you have a lot of fun in this group!!!

[Cambria]

Amy wrote: "That sounds wonderful! When you get your books finished and you would like to have some people review it for you, we do have a place here in this group where you can ask for people to sign up to ..."

Sounds awesome Amy! Can't wait!

[Casey]

Hi all, new member as of about a week ago! Thanks for the invite! I write a lot of movie reviews for my own blog at http://www.cinemafromage.com and http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com if you fancy some more!

I <3 my books though, and love the chance to talk up good books here on goodreads!

[Amy Eye]

Well hello Casey!! I'm happy to see you!! I'm glad you introduced yourself, I love when the members get on here and talk! A group can only be great and fun if the people in it are active and having a good time with one another!

[Susan]

Thanks so much for the invite to this community. I think it's a fantastic idea and I would love to be a part of it. You can find my reviews over at my book blog: http://soulunsung.blogspot.com. I'm always looking for ways to improve my reviews and whatnot, sometimes they come from feelings I get from the book and sometimes I just talk about the book in general pointing out things I did like or didn't or weaknesses or strength.

[Amy Eye]

Welcome Suz!! It's great to have you here in our friendly and ever growing group! Feel free to post your favorite reviews here and tell everyone about your blog as well!! :-) Invite your friends, the more people we have, the more fun and the more discussion! Again - WELCOME!

[Cassie]

Well, I'm not "new" member, but it has taken me this long to say HI!!! ;-) I read updates from here in my email everyday, but never seem to find the time to really jump in! Not enough hours in the day!!!!
Anyway... Hello everyone! So glad to be a part of this great group!

[Amy Eye]

And hello Cassie! Glad you introduced yourself to this wonderful group!! :-) Glad to see you on here and participating!!

[Cassie]

I have read EVERYTHING now, so I'm all caught up. Don't go crazy before I can get back! ;-)

[Cambria]

Hi Cassie!

[Susan]

Okay, I'm having an issue. My inbox is getting filled to the brim with every single comment that everyone else is making, it's pinging off of my server and it's making me really mad. Is there a way that I don't have to receive every comment that's made here from everyone else that doesn't pertain to my own comments that I make here? Because, I get email from a lot of other sources and other people, and I feel like I'm missing out on some of the mails I should be getting due to an influx from here and I don't know what to do about that. I don't want to receive an email from here every single time someone makes a comment that doesn't have to do with anything I've posted directly on here.

[Amy Eye]

Yes, you can change how you receive notifications from your groups. Go to the top of the page, in the top right hand corner, you will see your picture with a drop down menu. Select "My Account" from there you will see a page that has a bunch of tabs on it. This is your "control center" for all of your settings on GoodReads. Select the tab labeled "Notifications". From there, you can switch all of your settings on how your receive notifications to your email from your groups and just about everything else! I hope this is the answer you were looking for!! :-)

Also, in the future, whenever you join a group, it gives you an option about how you would like to receive notifications from the group. I'm not sure which ones it gives you right now, but I think there are three different options you can choose from.

[Amy Eye]

I went to find out what the options were when joining a group for everyone who may be interested. These are the choices that we have when joining a group, be sure to check out the options that go along with it in your "my account" section Just in case you are having the same issues Suz is having. :-)

group discussion email settings
Digest - Get all comments on group discussions bundled in a daily or weekly email (the frequency is configured on your 'my account' page).

Individual Email - Get an email instantly when someone starts a new topic in this group, and whenever someone replies. You will not get a second notification email about a topic until you've visited the discussion. Warning: for larger groups, this could get a little bit out of control!

Notification only - Don't get any emails, just get notifications on your homepage of new discussion comments in this group.

None - Do not get any notifications about group discussions. You can change this later on the 'my account' page.

[Susan]

Thanks Amy, for that. I felt like a lot of my other emails were getting buried, because I was getting so many comments from here and I couldn't figure out how to make it be digest so that I wouldn't have to deal with too much.

And as for the recent email that I just sent you, I hope you don't think I'm trying to play hardball with your or be hard headed. I just feel a certain way and felt like I owed it to you to be honest, as I like to keep honesty prevalent in any relationship that I have with someone. :)

[Amy Eye]

I'm glad that I was able to help! And as far as the email goes, I have responded to you! :-)

[Susan]

Yes, I know that you have as far as the email goes, and I see that we are at an impasse because I have a very different opinion than you do and I will be shooting an email over to Christopher later this evening. :)

And yeah, I'm still getting individual emails from here and I have it marked for digest version, so I don't know what's up with that.

[Steve]

Popping in to say hi to everyone, then coloring with embarrassment over the fact that I just used the term "popping in." I'm really not British.

I'd also like to use my first post to break Amy's one rule here and say that all of my reviews are stupid because they just are, and I'm a stupidhead for posting them. Fart.

[Amy Eye]

Ok, Steve, that is your one time I will let you break the rule, and only because Kirk told me to let it go. Mr. Cameron saved you....

[Steve]

Amy wrote: "Ok, Steve, that is your one time I will let you break the rule, and only because Kirk told me to let it go. Mr. Cameron saved you...."

Kirk and I are tight like that because I got him out of a jam once. They still haven't found the hooker's body because I'm a professional. You're welcome, Kirky.

[Susan]

Okay, I'm still receiving every single comment. I need to not be receving them all.

[Amy Eye]

It is probably because you commented on this topic, so you will probably continue to receive them. In the email that you receive states: "You're currently following all posts on this discussion, You will not get another email about this discussion until you visit it on goodreads. If you wish to edit email notifications on when people reply to this discussion, click here: " You could try clicking on that link and maybe playing around with the settings to see what works best for you.

I know if you do not go back to that discussion it will not send you anymore notifications until you go back to view, at least that has been my experience with the settings that I have set up, and I think it mentions that in the e-mail as well. I'm not sure how you have your settings so you may need to play around with them a bit until you get them the way you would like.

[Susan]

Okay, I understand now. I was getting confused there for a minute and the only reason it was starting to bother me is, because I'm getting so much mail from this particular topic that my inbox (with all of the other mail I'm getting from elsewhere) is starting to get ping-backs or some of it is starting to bounce off of the server and my box is getting too full to hold all of my mail and I'm afraid I'm missing something that could be important.

That's the only reason that I'm like gah, at the moment. If I could just get everything in digest form once a day from here, instead of several little messages one behind another then I would totally be okay with that. And I've been trying to play around with my settings and for some reason, I can't figure out how to get them set right to a point where I can be happy with them. So, I'm sorta getting frustrated with that, I hope you understand.

It's just been a really stressful week for me, with my gran's surgery and everything else going on. That, my head just feels a bit 'splodey right now. So, you're seeing me at pretty much my snaptastic worse, and I really do hate that. So, I hope you don't hold anything against me. This is normally who I am, I just have A LOT on my plate right now and it's hard to deal with it all and keep my sanity a bit.