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['Aussie Rick']

Hi Ally,

Welcome to the group, since you love history I am sure you will have a great time here discussing your favourite books and authors and I am sure you will find lots of good suggestions once you start poking around in the various threads.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

This is how a book that you mention in a post should look:

by Catherine Merridale
(what I'm currently reading)

More information:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you Aussie Rick for welcoming James, Kris and Ally. You have been especially helpful to them by adding our rules and guidelines and helpful links.

All, Aussie Rick was also kind enough to show you how the current book that he is reading is cited. However, we always add three things: the bookcover, the author's photo when available and always the author's link. In the book that Aussie Rick cited the author's photo was not available on goodreads.

James, your background seems like a great fit for the History Book Club. You mentioned the annual book collecting competition and I was curious how that worked.

Kris, medieval history is a focus that we would like to develop even further here and we could use some of your recommendations and assistance in that area. So we are delighted to have you join the group. Your background seems very deep and solid in those areas.


Ally, welcome. I am very familiar with the Ithaca area having spent a good deal of time at Cornell. What a great area to go to school. We hope that you find many good recommendations here and welcome any assistance you might be able to give us in the art history area.

Again, welcome all.

Bentley

[Bryan]

I would also like to extend my greetings to James, Kris, and Ally. Welcome aboard and I do hope you find our discussions and recommendations helpful, and I hope you are able to share your thoughts on books to us, as well.

[Patrick]

Hello, everyone my name is Pat, I'm 54 years old, I live in Burnsville, Minnesota, which is just south of Minneapolis.I love history can't get enough of it. I hope to be up to the challange of this group you all seem to be very knowledegable.Till we talk again thank you. Yours Patrick Belair

[Bryan]

Welcome, Patrick. Glad you could join us.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a few moments to read the orientation:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

And our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us moderators. I look forward to your postings.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Patrick, welcome to the History Book Club. We are happy to have you join. We learn from each other and we are sure that you are up to the challenge and will enjoy the discussions.

A special thank you to Bryan who was kind enough to add some helpful links explaining our rules and guidelines and our rules for citations which make it easy for our group members to reference books and discussions.

All best,

Bentley

[James]

Bentley,

The rules for the book collecting competition were pretty simple:

"Book collections must include at least 25 items, be owned by the student submitting the collection, and built around some unifying concept or theme. Each contestant has to also submit a brief essay about the collection and a bibliography of the items in the collection."

It was judged variously by the University's librarians and some outside book sellers.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Very interesting James. That must have taken some time and effort. But what an interesting concept.

What were the unifying themes of your collections.

[James]

My three collections built off of each other and each one all came back to the of issue of "Darwin's legacy" that I mentioned in my introduction. They were: (1) Darwinism, Evolution, & Religion, (2) The Great Monkey Trial (coincidentally, Edward J. Larson came to my campus that year and signed my copy of Summer for the Gods, which I used in the competition), and (3) Charles Darwin: A History of Biography & Interpretation.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Very interesting James and a very good effort with the citations.

by Edward J. Larson

Charles Darwin

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Patrick and welcome to the group, I hope you have a fun time here discovering new books and authors and talking about old favourites.

[Alisa]

Welcome Ally, Patrick, and James, so glad to have you all with us! We have a diverse memebership with wide ranging interests in history so there are many threads to explore and books and topics to discuss. Hope you enjoy exploring and participating!

[John]

Hello to all.

I'm John - married with four adult children, owner of a Christian bookstore in the Des Moines, Iowa metro area, and bivocational pastor.

I come from a family of readers and writers but it wasn't until after college that my own love for reading began. History has particularly captured my attention in the last few years, and I'm finding myself somewhat addicted. One book references a topic that requires research, that leads to another book, then another.

Right now, I'm reading a book about 14th century Europe, another on 18th century America, a third on 19th century South Africa, and my newest is on Jimmy Stewart's time as a WWII bomber pilot. Plus, I have a "this day in history" book my daughter gave me for Christmas (she knows me). I'll post shortly on my recently finished WWI book.

What's most interesting to me in history are the anecdotal sides, the human interest aspects, I suppose. Each of us is part of history, and most of us will not be major parts. But the parts we play are what make up the major parts of history, and our histories in turn affect others. It's fascinating to find the nuggets of one small decision causing giant repercussions.

That's me in a nutshell. Looking forward.

[Alisa]

John, thank you for that great introduction. History touches us all and is wide reaching. I am sure you will find plenty here to explore and discuss with other members and we look forward to your contributions.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. This is how books you mention should look:

Rebecca Skloot

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks and glad you joined us.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi John and welcome to the group, like Alisa has mentioned with your varied interests you should have a fun time here.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello John and thank you for that great introduction. You put a lot of effort into it and it was a tremendous way to get to know the group and they you.

Thank you Alisa for giving some great helpful advice and tips to John on how to be successful in the group and how to take full advantage of what the group is offering.

John, I have to agree with you that everybody is part of some segment of history and not just their own.

Thank you for your very introspective thoughts.

Bentley

[Bryan]

Well said, John, thank you for that. Welcome and I hope you find the group rewarding.

[Scott]

Hello everyone,
My name is Scott I am from Rhode Island and I am currently in school for secondary education with history as my focus. I was just online searching for books and I came across this site.

[Bryan]

Welcome, Scott. Glad you could join us.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a few moments to read the orientation:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

And our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us moderators. I look forward to your postings.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Scott, welcome to the group and I hope you find some excellent books while you are here.

[Bill]

Hi there...just looking to read more about history...looking to start with early British history...I posted a suggestion on where to start but cannot seem to find it..."Prehistoric Britain" or something along those lines...

Anyways...looking forward to learning from you all! I'm an Apollo program freak...as I have time I'll post everything I've read on that topic...cheers,

Bill

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Welcome Scott. We hope you enjoy your time here. Thanks to Bryan for showing you the ropes and links to our rules and guidelines.

As Bryan mentioned we do have rules for citations too that he was kind enough to point out for you.

We are glad that you found us on line and good luck with your school focus.

Bentley.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Bill,

I am not sure what you are looking for. We do have a solid start in our Ancient History folder where you can find many books on prehistoric times. If you are looking for a thread in the British History section which is called Prehistoric Britain; I guess that I could add that for you.

If you are into the Apollo space program, I just set up a thread for Space Travel and Space Exploration that might be of interest to you and you might be able to help develop that thread for us.

Here is the new link:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

Please remember that we do citations a certain way and this method is part of our rules and guidelines. We always add the bookcover, then the author's photo when available and always the author's link - so remember three parts.

by Jim Lovell

The above is a book by Jim Lovell which shows how we would add or cite that book: first the bookcover, then the author's photo and then the author's link which is the author's name in linkable text.

Here are some other helpful links so that you will start out on the right foot and understand the guidelines:

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks and glad you joined us.

['Aussie Rick']

Bill wrote: "Hi there...just looking to read more about history...looking to start with early British history...I posted a suggestion on where to start but cannot seem to find it..."Prehistoric Britain" or some..."

Hi Bill, welcome to the group, I moved your thread/post to the Introduction to British History until Bentley can set up a new thread for you.

[Alisa]

Hello Scott and Bill! ~ Welcome gentlemen, we are glad you found the group and decided to join. There are many discussion threads as you may have surmised by now so please don't hesitate to join in any of the discussions. We look forward to your participation.

[Bryan]

Welcome, Bill, glad you found us!

[Terrence]

Hey guys, new to Good Reads and just looking for some new history books to read that aren't written with too heavily an academic tone!! "The First Clash," is the best example of that from what I've recently read, and not sure if this is the place for historical fiction too but "Gates of Fire" is one of my all-time favs.

[Alisa]

Welcome Terrence! We are glad you found us and hope you enjoy exploring and participating in discussions.

As you get started please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. This is how the books you've mentioned should look:

Jim Lacey Steven Pressfield

I will also point out that one other reason these links are helpful is in the case of books that share the same title but are completely different subject matter and authors. We want to know which one you are referring to.

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks and glad you joined us.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you so much for assisting Terrance who is very enthusiastic and started posting straight away. Good for you Terrance but do not forget that we have citation guidelines.

I bet that California weather is nice right about now. You always have cool evenings and I remember when I was out there last year during the summer it was unbelievably cool because of the fog rolling in.

I think you will find a little bit of everything here - all different writing styles (some might be more on the academic side but there are others at the other extreme which are not) - a little bit of everything.

We do historical fiction here on this site as well so the sky is the limit.

Bentley

[Geevee]

Hi all,
I found out about Goodreads when it was mentioned in a UK national newspaper's Sunday magazine a few months ago.

I haven't posted on the group until the other day and forgot the intro thread so am putting this right.

I'm interested in many areas and periods of history, especially British, Commonwealth (nee Empire) and US. I have joined a couple of groups, including this one which offers a great spread of subjects, discussion and ideas on history. Already members' posts - especially Aussie Rick's - have pointed me towards so many new and exciting books.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Geevee,

Nice to see you join the group, so welcome and I am sure you'll have a great time here discussing your favourite books and authors and I am sure you will find lots of good suggestions once you start poking around in the various threads.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

This is how a book that you mention in a post should look:

by Tim Clayton
(what I'm currently reading)

More information:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Terrence and welcome to the group, I hope you have a fun time here finding new books and authors that interest you.

[Alisa]

Hello Geevee, glad you joined and are already enjoying the discussions. We look forward to your participation.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Well we are glad to have you with us Geevee. We are developing the British History folder which maybe you can help us with.

Thanks to Aussie Rick for providing you with some helpful hints, links and our rules and guidelines.

Bentley

[Bryan]

Hello Terrance and Geevee, welcome.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Lance and welcome to the group. I have deleted your post, as there is no self-promotion allowed at this group.

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them.

This is how a book that you mention in a post should look:

by Krisztian Ungvary
(what I'm currently reading)

More information:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

[Alisa]

Welcome John, glad you joined the group and hope you enjoy discussing history with other members.

As you get started, pPlease take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. This is how books you mention should look:

Rebecca Skloot

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks and glad you joined us.

[Alisa]

John, you cannot post links to your own blog or authored works in The History Book Club threads. The discussion threads in our club are designed for discussion, and we do have author members, however our author memebers are not allowed to post their own works. We would love to have you participate on that basis. The links I posted above provide the detail of how things work with our club, if you have other questions feel free to ask. Thanks.

[Alisa]

The History Book Club is happy to welcome all interested members. Whenever the moderating team welcomes a new member we post the club guidelines including an example of how to cite a book and author. There are reminders about our zero-tolerance for self promotion imbedded in the guidelines, and that and all the particulars are in place to foster enjoyment of everyone in the group.

The welcome and reminders follow. We look forward to member contributions.


Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you comment. It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. This is how books you mention should look:

Rebecca Skloot

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks and glad you joined us.

[John]

Hello every one. Thank you for having me aboard..

My name is John (Juha in Finnish) Raikkonen. I lived through the Finnish - Russian war in Finland and Sweden. The first war was in 1939, lasting only a year, when a tentative peace treaty was signed. I had been living in in Oulu, in North Finland for two years with my grandparents. Year 1942 brought the war back Many- many youngsters were sent to Sweden for safety. I was shipped over also to some family friends for four years to Orsa
In the Dalarna region.

In 1945 a new peace treaty with Russia was signed, with several stipulations and loss of our land in the Karelia area, in the South-East Finland and monetary obligations.
At that time the Germans were fighting against Russia over the Finnish Lapland border. Before the peace treaty took effect, Finland had to chase the Germans away. As they left our country, they destroyed everything ahead of them. They did more damage than the Russians ever did. It was a devastating blow to our small country.

My coming back to Finland after several years to the city of Hameenlinna, where my mother, brother and sister lived, was heavenly. Our father was still involved with the war and when he finally came home, highly decorated by Field Marshall Mannerham, we were so happy. The happiness did not last as he demanded divorce from mother and disappeared from our life without any financial help.

Life was hard for our little family for a few years, until mother got her old position back at the international famous Aulanko Hotel and resort. We moved to the Hotel’s premises and life became grand.

At age seventeen, I received a miracle. A wealthy widower from Philadelphia invited me to come to America, by paying for the travel, enrolling me into high school and later into college. It was like a dream. I had always heard that America was the land of opportunity. I grabbed hold of the new life and true to the “opportunity” saying, and eventually became a sought after Country Club Manager for many years in Philadelphia, Minneapolis and St Louis.

The last step was owning our own first class Italian Restaurant in Fairhaven MA for 23 years. Finally after selling the restaurant we retired and moved to South Carolina, just outside of Charleston, next to our daughter and three grandchildren.

I must say that I am a proud American from Finland, which lately has been in the news as an model country in the world.

[Bryan]

Welcome, John. I see Alisa has provided you with some important information.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi John, welcome to the group and thanks for sharing your amazing story.

[John]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Hi John, welcome to the group and thanks for sharing your amazing story."

Hi Aussie: Thank you for your welcome.This site is new for me so it took a while for me to understand it but now I feel "at home" Please thank Alisa also.
Finland has a word....SISU....which means internal fortitude and it stems from the war time, which was so lop sided. Russia with its millions of fighters had planned to gobble up small Finland in no time, but they did not realize that SISU kicked in. Finland was like a hornet's nest stinging most Russians. They had to give up, defeated.
My father was the youngest Captain in the cavalry regiment during the war. I am proud of that, even thou he deserted us, I still loved him.
Thanks. John

[Soner]

Hey everyone, my name is Soner. I used to be quite the avid reader but for some reason I went through a period of a few years where I wasn't really reading that much. However, recently I started reading a lot again and I really can't get enough books. This group interested me because I want to learn about history, in particular medieval times.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

John wrote: "Hello every one. Thank you for having me aboard..

My name is John (Juha in Finnish) Raikkonen. I lived through the Finnish - Russian war in Finland and Sweden. The first war was in 1939, last..."

Welcome John, I see that Alisa has assisted you and told you about our rules and guidelines. She has also written you a note. Because of that, I found it hard to believe that you self promoted yet again after I deleted it once before. I just deleted it a third time in a previous post. If this happens again, the rules and guidelines outline the consequences. This is wasting the time of our dedicated and volunteer assisting moderators.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Todd, no self promotion at all. Our rules make it quite clear.

This part is fine:

Hi, I'm relatively new to the group. I live at the base of a mountain in Washington state, USA.

I didn't do a very good job following the group guidelines (you know you've screwed up when two mods correct you almost on top of each other), so I'm hoping my next book addition will work out better :)

I joined this group because I'm interested in history and often read, research and weave it into my stories.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Sonar,

Glad that you found us and thank you for your introduction. If you are interested in medieval times; our spotlighted discussion has featured a great book.

Also, please remember that we do citations a certain way and this method is part of our rules and guidelines. We always add the bookcover, then the author's photo when available and always the author's link - so remember three parts.

by Jim Lovell

The above is a book by Jim Lovell which shows how we would add or cite that book: first the bookcover, then the author's photo and then the author's link which is the author's name in linkable text.

Here are some other helpful links so that you will start out on the right foot and understand the guidelines:

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Take a moment to read our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

and the orientation to get you started:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Thanks and glad you joined us and I look forward to reading your posts.

Bentley

[Alisa]

Welcome Soner and Todd, glad you both decided to join. There should be plenty here to stimulate your interests so please join in any of the discussion threads.

Todd, another Washingtonian! It seems like we all live at the base of some mountain, even the hills in Seattle are considered mountains elsewhere. There are some particularly glorious mountains here, and a great place to call home.

The links Bentley provided are great resources but if you need any assistance feel free to ask any of the moderators. As Todd knows, we jump in fearlessly at any rate but feel free to ask in advance. :-)

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Soner and Todd and welcome to the group, I hope you both have a good time here and find everything your looking for.

[Bryan]

Welcome Soner, glad you found us and I hope you find the group rewarding as you learn more about history.