Newbie corner - what do you expect from this group?

[Ahtims]

Not even a hundred. Perhaps 50 or so, to give a realistic estimate. 9000 odd people are those who have joined from the time of its conception in 2009, and who possibly forgot about the group later on.

[Rick]

Well, then, I'll try to pay attention.

[Surendra]

Joined a couple of days back. Trying to find my feet here. Maybe, we can encourage inactive members to come out and play. Thanks

[Rick]

What about a favorite authors of this group, state by state, by a group 'historian'?

What has read who...who likes who...who has heard of who...

[Ahtims]

no spamming here, Sameer.

[Luffy Sempai]

Hi everyone, I'm Luffy from Mauritius. I'm here primarily to strengthen friendship with the Indian readers who are my friends on GR. If pressed, I have to admit that my main reason for joining is to post on the TTPBM thread. :)

[Ahtims]

Lol, Luffy. An honest statement. :-)

[Paschalia]

Hello! I want to read more indian literature and I hope this group helps me with that, either by motivation, or suggestions, or make new acquaintances! I will be travelling to South India in January - February for three weeks and want to know more about the country through books. I have already read a couple of indian authors but I would like to expand my knowledge!

[Rick]

For the Kerala side there is the great novelist O.j. Vijayan.

A great book for all India, but by a Tamil, is Rambles in Vedanta (which includes a novel among a variety of writings), by B.R. Rajam Iyer.

[Priyanshu]

Tbh nothing

[Rakhi]

What about awards?what say ?

[Paschalia]

Rick wrote: "For the Kerala side there is the great novelist O.j. Vijayan.

A great book for all India, but by a Tamil, is Rambles in Vedanta (which includes a novel among a variety of writings), by B.R. Rajam ..."

Thanks @rick I'll check those!

[Muddle head]

Rakhi wrote: "What about awards?what say ?"

u want the group to give out awards to Indian authors?

[Rakhi]

Yes, they deserve an appreciation
The goodreads awards eligibility criteria is that the books should be released in US. That's injustice

[Rakhi]

Rick wrote: "For the Kerala side there is the great novelist O.j. Vijayan.

A great book for all India, but by a Tamil, is Rambles in Vedanta (which includes a novel among a variety of writings), by B.R. Rajam ..."

A small correction. Its O.V.Vijayan

[Ahtims]

Rakhi, difficult to organize an award from our side as we are not professional reviewers. Plus if we so conduct a pill, it will be fraught with cheatvotes.

[Ahtims]

*do conduct a poll

[Rakhi]

Hmmm
So we have to search a way out to crack this?
Why I thought of this ideas is because while reviewing, I came across a lot of quality books which were not able to get past the slush piles and they self published. Just because they were unaware about the marketing possibilities, their books didn't work. Another part was that some publishers take money and don't market at all.
I read some books in the best selling league and wondered how they got published in the first place.

One Russian author asked me about the publishing industry in India, I was loquacious about it. Then she told the name of a bestselling book and said that the quality was really poor. I was silent because I read it myself and crammed my head to find at least one good quality. It was not even properly proofread. So that's why I wanted to do something. Being an aspiring author myself, this scenario discouraged me.

[Rick]

Too lazy to walk to the shelf Vijayan is on, I checked the initials on google, where O.J. is accepted though they soon say 'commonly known as O.V. Vijayan', so it seems they have a help the USamericans along device.

Thanks for the correction.

[Rakhi]

Hey that's fine
By the way, which book written by him did you mention?
Khasakkinte Ithihasam or any other book

[Rick]

Now I had to walk to the shelf...Legends of Khasak was my favorite--that must be the one you refer to; but there are two other novels in the volume I have, translated as The Saga of Dharmapuri and The Infinity of Grace--I liked them all a great deal.

[Ahtims]

Rakhi and Rick, this is a suggestions thread. Possibly you can carry over the conversation to Chat thread,

Just a suggestion :-P

[Rick]

Right. Though the rat's already out of the slag, I suggest reading O.V. Vijana and B.R. Rajam Iyer.

[Catherine]

Hi, I'm Catherine and I'm new here not many suggestions. I'm just looking for book discussions and Fandoms

[Vineet]

What to expect? I don't know really. I think, I might find here some people who have similar taste, or better yet, someone who can alter my taste and help me become a habitual reader. I want to discover a new world here.


And I also want someone to recommend good Hindi literature. So that's there as well.

[Ahtims]

Vineet, there's a member here called Vikas (he has spelt his name in Hindi too, if it helps) who reads Hindi)
Other than that there is this thread for Hindi lit...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Sung Yee]

Hi! My name is Sung Yee from Taiwan. I love Indian writers, there is not a single book by Indian writers that I read without being amazed by the writing skills.Anything set in India or traditional Indian I love! Movies,music, dances,clothes and food.Would like to find out what Indians think of books and writers of India (including diaspora).Jhumpa Lahiri is my favorite.

I worked in science and marketing before following my passion in reading and writing.Other than fiction, I love to read nonfiction about Indian business or social entrepreneurs as well as management.

Thank you for letting non-Indian readers join your group.Namaste.

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Sung Yee wrote: "Hi! My name is Sung Yee from Taiwan. I love Indian writers, there is not a single book by Indian writers that I read without being amazed by the writing skills.Anything set in India or traditional ..."

Welcome to the group, Sung Yee! It's lovely to connect with not just Indian readers, but readers from the world over. :)

Great to hear you enjoy Indian writing and other things Indian so much! Have you tried anything by Arundhati Roy?

[Sung Yee]

Shoa wrote: "Sung Yee wrote: "Hi! My name is Sung Yee from Taiwan. I love Indian writers, there is not a single book by Indian writers that I read without being amazed by the writing skills.Anything set in Indi..."

Yes, I read God of Small Things many years ago. Tks for the recommendation.

[Ahtims]

Namaste Sung Yes :-)

[Ken]

Sung Yee wrote: "Hi! My name is Sung Yee from Taiwan. I love Indian writers, there is not a single book by Indian writers that I read without being amazed by the writing skills.Anything set in India or traditional ..."

Welcome, Sung Yee! If you like Jhumpa Lahiri, I recommend all books by Rohinton Mistry. Those two are the top of my list for Indian authors.

[Sung Yee]

Tks Ken, I just found "Family Matters" in the library and requested it. There is only Chinese translation for "A fine balance".Will recommend the library to buy English version but they prefer to buy new books. English books are very expensive and not readily available in bookstores here.Amazon charged 67% more for Taiwan customers even for ebooks.

[Shobhit]

Hi, I have recently joined this group. Basically I wanted someone to suggest me any good book which I can start with now. You can check the book which I have read, via my profile, so far. As per my taste.. I loved all the books from Dan Brown. Recently I have completed Patrick Rothfuss`s "The KingKiller Chronicle #1 and #2" and I loved both of them, eagerly waiting for #3 in the series. I do liked Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling) Cormoran Strike #1 & #2 and about to finish #3.

In Indian authors I loved Shiv Trilogy by Amish.

So basically I like Fiction/Fantasy sort of Novels. Any Suggestion what I should start now, once I am done with Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3).....

[Ahtims]

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Girl with Dragon Tattoo

Hunger Games

[Shobhit]

The Way of Kings, The Stormlight Archive Series.. Looks interesting..

Will give it a try.. Thanks @Shalini

[Yashika]

Hello,
Book Lovers Unite: Gift a book.
I need six(may exceed) people residing in India, of any age, to participate in a book exchange. You only have to buy ONE book and send it to one person and you'll receive 36 in return! Reply if you're interested and I will inbox you the details.Also, please do it only if you will actually buy a book.This is not a prank.


Please let me know if you're interested. You can inbox me on goodreads or email me at yashiiahuja0011@gmail.com for further details. :)

Also, it's actually happening!

[Ranjit]

hi,friend i am new to this site can you to tell me how to go through a book on this site.....please because i saw that those books were only opening which were having preview or audio sign ......so i need the help.........i.e how can i go through the book ,the imagining india by nandan neilkeni........thanks.....share the idea soon

[Ahtims]

This site is not for book piracy. We just discuss books. You have to buy or borrow them on your own. :-)

[Ranjit]

ohk.......thanks

[Neeta]

Neeta thakur wrote I am totally new in ur group
from mumbai .my first book" Your memories are now my treasure" just published in December 2015.
I create my fb page.but I want to promote my book properly.still very few people knew about my book.
wer n how I promote my book https://notionpress.com/read/your-mem...
This is my book link

[Ahtims]

Neeta wrote: "Neeta thakur wrote I am totally new in ur group
from mumbai .my first book" Your memories are now my treasure" just published in December 2015.
I create my fb page.but I want to promote my book pr..."

Neeta, you may use the following threads. All the best :)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

[The Bookaholic]

Hey guys,
I'm new to this group, just joined today.
Well, I don't know what to expect but looking forward to chat with you all.

[Ahtims]

Hi, (don't know what to call you :-P) welcome. :-)

[The Bookaholic]

Syl ʃʃ^.^ʃʃ wrote: "Hi, (don't know what to call you :-P) welcome. :-)"
Name's Shwetha.

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Welcome to the group, Crazy Shwetha :D

[Sunita]

Hi, I joined because I wanted to know what other Indian readers are reading. What they are looking for in books as I am a writer and would like to know the audience I am going to be writing for.

[Dr Amit]

Just found this group while browsing 'Geography' in Goodreads. Wonderful to see the warming interaction and packs of information. Thank you guys.
Regards,
Amit

[Neeta]

Hi
I join this group to promote my book
But still I have no result

[Ahtims]

this group is basically for readers, not authors. We don't promote authors here, though we don't mind if they limit posting their stuff in Promotions thread. The first thing we advice newcomers is to read our group rules and adhere to those.
You may join an Author based group for the same... just go to groups page and type in author groups in the search box.

good luck

[Amarnath]

i would get to know indian novels