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[Bryan]

welcome Christopher and glad you found us.

[Garret]

Welcome to the club Christopher.

[Alisa]

Christopher, welcome and glad you joined us. Bentley was kind enough to provide the helpful links to get you started. We look forward to your participation.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Christopher wrote: "Elizabeth S wrote: "Welcome, Christopher. I look forward to your posts on the Hornblower movies, as well as other areas of history. If you browse through the threads you'll notice there is lots t..."

You are welcome Christopher and we are glad to have you with us.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hi Stuart,

It is good to hear from you again; but the author's thread where I placed your book is the only place where we allow self promotion. I am delighted that I was able to help you. I think it has been a couple of years anyways since I heard from you on Amazon I believe. So glad that all is well.

Having a boxer puppy will keep you quite busy but I think your family and you will enjoy the addition.

World War II has an established thread and the assisting moderator handling that area is Aussie Rick. A whole box of old Churchill books; well I think I would be in my element. Kindles are terrific and I am glad that you had good use for it.

I have taken the liberty to remove the self promotion segments (what our rules and guidelines cite as self promotion) of your post and have reattached it here:

From Stuart Finlay:

Bentley
I live in England and with my Wife and Twin Teenage boys + new addition of a Boxer Dog puppy.

I love reading history with my focus on WW2 and look forward to learning and contributing with the group.

Thanks for the advice on how to become a Goodreads author.

I have always got 2-3 books on the go and read whenever I get the chance. My wife bought me a box of 15 old Churchill books from the 50’s and 60’s for Xmas which are fantastic. I also got a Kindle for my birthday today. What a great device.

I never realised just how awesome the e-readers are. They will never replace books for me as I love discovering old books, but great for new stuff.

Stuart,

I have also taken the liberty to add a sample of how we do citations here when citing a book or an author:

Three parts: (bookcover always when available - it usually is except for older books), (author's photo when available) and always (the author's link) - author's name in linkable text.

Here is a sample: (from a mutual hero)

Winston S. Churchill

I also have added some other helpful links including the guidelines, orientation, etc.

Guidelines

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

Orientation

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

About Us

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

Glad that you found your way back to goodreads and reached out. Sorry that I had to delete certain segments of your intro but unfortunately we have to be consistent with the guidelines even with old acquaintances. Hope you enjoy your time here and all of those wonderful old books. Congrats on your achievement as well.

Bentley

Folks, please welcome Stuart to our group.

[Alisa]

Helo Stuart, welcome! With your interests I am sure you will find plenty here to discuss and explore. Glad you found the group. We look forward to your participation.

[Garret]

Welcome aboard Stuart!

[Bryan]

Hi Stuart, welcome to the group and I hope you find some interesting things to read and discuss.

[Christopher]

Welcome, Stuart. Cheers!

[Elizabeth S]

Glad you are with us, Stuart. Welcome!

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Stuart, welcome to the group and I hope to dicuss some great books covering WW2 with you soon.

[Terri]

Hi, my name is Terri. I have been on Goodreads for a couple years and for some reason it has taken me this long to join your group. Better late than never???

I am Australian. And Female.
I have a few favourite genres, but dabble in nearly everything. I mostly read Historical Fiction, Ancient History Fiction and Non. I also enjoy Modern Warfare in both it's forms - fiction and non fiction.

My favourite book of 2010 was Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes with Generation Kill by Evan Wright and The Whale Road by Robert Low in a tie for second favourite. My least favourite book of 2010 was.......apparently, so bad I can't recall it.

I hope to involve myself in the group as I am an active GR member who enjoys the social reading element of the site.

Hope to come across you all in the discussions,
Terri :-)

[Elizabeth S]

Welcome Terri, glad you finally found us!

A couple things to help you get started with The History Book Club. 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:

Karl Marlantes
Evan Wright
Robert Low (no author photo available)

More information on how to add the pictures and links:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Also look at our orientation thread:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Hopefully this will all be easy for you as an old-time goodreads member. We have lots of books going at any one time, and lots of threads for discussion almost any area of history. Enjoy!

[Garret]

Welcome aboard Terri!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thank you Elizabeth for that wonderful post assisting Terri.

Terri there are quite a few folks from down under including two of our assisting moderators in the group. So I am sure that you will find some like minded folks when it comes to reading material.

Glad you found us.

Bentley

[Alisa]

Hello Terri, welcome to the group. Elizabeth gave you helpful info to launch your experience but please ask if you have any questions. We look forward to your posts.

[Janel]

Hello everyone! My name is Janel and I was born and raised in MI, but ended up marrying a southerner and have been living in SC for the last 11 years. I have a BS from CMU. I double majored in Political Science (that was useful - ha ha) and History. I also attended MSU School of Law in 2001 and received a JD. I have been practicing law since 2002 in SC. My hobbies are reading, watching movies and gardening. I love history and biography books and think that real life is much more interesting than fiction!Truman

[Alisa]

Welcome Janel! Glad you found us, I think you will find plenty to explore and discuss with others.

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. An example:
Tim Weiner
More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2878...

Take a few moments to read the orientation:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1851...

And our guidelines:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2851...

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

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Terri & Janel, welcome to the group, I hope you both have a very enjoyable time here discussing great books and authors and famous moments in history.

[Terri]

Thanks for the welcome everyone.
I will make sure that I post book title, cover, and author portrait from now on.

Thankyou, Elizabeth S, for posting those images for me.
:-)

[Alisa]

Janel, just realized I missed your book posting. Good first effort, add the author links and you're good. In the case of the book you referenced, your posting would look like this:

by David McCullough

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Thanks Alisa for assisting Janel.

Welcome Janel to the History Book Club. It sounds like you have a perfect background for the group.

Bentley

[Elizabeth S]

Welcome, Janel. Glad to have you join our group.

[Elizabeth S]

Terri wrote: "...Thankyou, Elizabeth S, for posting those images for me. :-)"

You are very welcome.

[Michael]

Hello. As way of an introduction: My name's Michael from Nottingham, UK and I enjoy reading many variants of non-fiction. I thought I would join this group to reignite my neglected interest in all things historical.

I used to read many biographies of 'great' leaders be they US presidents, UK prime ministers or WW2 generals. I look forward to being inspired to read books that in the past I may not have considered.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Michael,

We have a lot of folks from the UK here so I believe you will be right at home.

A couple things to help you get started with The History Book Club. 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.

The citations have three parts: (bookcover always when available - it usually is except for older books), (author's photo when available) and always (the author's link) - author's name in linkable text.

Here is a sample:

by Winston S. Churchill

I also have added some other helpful links including the guidelines, orientation, etc.

Guidelines

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

Orientation

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

About Us

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

More information on how to add pictures and links:

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

Jump right in on the threads that you are interested in and there will always be an assisting mod to give you the help you might need.

Bentley

[Elizabeth S]

Welcome, Michael. There's always lots to discuss and read here, so enjoy!

[Garret]

Welcome aboard Michael.

[Alisa]

Welcome Michael, we are glad to have you. This club has a way of igniting people's interest and inspiring additions to the to-read pile. Please explore the threads and join in the discussions!

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Sorry Robert but we do not allow any self promotion. However, welcome to the group and we will add your accomplishment on the author's thread. No self promotion is allowed anywhere else on our group site.

Here are some other helpful links:

I have also taken the liberty to add a sample of how we do citations here when citing a book or an author:

Three parts: (bookcover always when available - it usually is except for older books), (author's photo when available) and always (the author's link) - author's name in linkable text.

Here is a sample:

Winston S. Churchill

I also have added some other helpful links including the guidelines, orientation, etc.

Guidelines

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

Orientation

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

About Us

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

We are happy to have you and welcome old friends and new ones; but we are consistent about our rules and guidelines. I know you will enjoy yourself here.

Bentley

Folks, please welcome Robert Morrow to our group.

[Robert]

Sorry. I didn't think explaining who I was qualified as self-promotion and it was certainly not intended to be. It is simply the person I am on Goodreads. I'll avoid that kind of disclosure in the future.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Michael and Robert, welcome to the group and I hope you both have a great time here talking about books, authors and interesting periods of history.

[Robert]

'Aussie Rick' wrote: "Hi Michael and Robert, welcome to the group and I hope you both have a great time here talking about books, authors and interesting periods of history."

Me too. Thank you.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Robert wrote: "Sorry. I didn't think explaining who I was qualified as self-promotion and it was certainly not intended to be. It is simply the person I am on Goodreads. I'll avoid that kind of disclosure in the ..."

No problem, we have strict guidelines because unfortunately many folks join just to get publicity and then we never hear from them again and then they left spam in their wake.

I had actually just explained this in post 2167.

Also, before anybody posts for the first time; a pop up window comes up which says the following:

Read req'd group guidelines: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2851... + no spam/ads/mktg/self promotion/bookcover spam/flaming/flamebaiting/trolling or trolls allowed; no marketing of any kind to our membership list

Being a newcomer, you may not have seen post 2167, but we try very hard to make the guidelines visible. We really want folks to get to know the group and to participate in the discussions and threads which I am sure you will do. Unfortunately, as mentioned before, most who publicize a blog, url, other group, book, article usually publicize in a bunch of goodreads sites all at once and have no intention of really contributing further. That is why some groups that are actively moderated like this one just remove what we consider marketing, spam, self promotion right away.

[Robert]

I appreciate that and apologize again. I did read the group guidelines in advance but didn't think my comments qualified as "marketing". Naivete on my part. Thanks for the clarification.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

No problem; we appreciate your understanding.

[Alisa]

Robert, welcome and we are glad to have you as a club member. There is much to explore and discuss here, and I hope you jump in and participate.

[Brian]

Hi, I'm Brian, 37 y.o. and currently live in Akron, OH. I have also lived in NY, CT, and TX. I am a current graduate student in library and information science. I am also an Iraq veteran and attorney. My favorite history subjects are WWII (especially the Russo-German war aspects), the American Civil War, and Ancient Rome.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Brian,

We have a lot of folks who are from the legal profession so I believe you also will be right at home. Having had experience as an Iraq veteran will certainly add a great deal to those discussions. How did you become interested in library and information science after being an attorney - a varied background.

A couple things to help you get started with The History Book Club. 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.

The citations have three parts: (bookcover always when available - it usually is except for older books), (author's photo when available) and always (the author's link) - author's name in linkable text.

Here is a sample:

by Winston S. Churchill

I also have added some other helpful links including the guidelines, orientation, etc.

Guidelines

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

Orientation

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

About Us

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

More information on how to add pictures and links:

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

Jump right in on the threads that you are interested in and there will always be an assisting mod to give you the help you might need.

Bentley

[Alisa]

Brian, welcome to the group, we are glad to have you. Please join in any of the discussions that interest you.

[Michael]

Welcome aboard Brian

[Elizabeth S]

Welcome Robert and Brian, glad to have you both with us.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Brian, Good to see you join the group and I am sure you'll find a lot here to dicuss. I share the same interests in military history as you so I'm sure we will chat more soon :)

[Julie]

Hello everyone! My name is Julie.

I recently completed my undergraduate degree in history, and I am now in graduate school. I love to read a variety of books, and I have an interest in nearly all things history.

I look forward to the discussions in this group, and especially to discovering books to read!

[Alisa]

Hi Julie! Glad you found us, and I think you will find a lot of great books and discussions here to pique your interest. Please jump in, as it is the participation of all our membership that makes it a robust community.

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:
Tim Weiner

More information:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2878...

Take a moment and look at our orientation thread:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1851...

Thanks and glad you joined us.

['Aussie Rick']

Hi Julie, welcome to the group and I'm sure you'll have a great time here discussing books with all the crowd :)

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Welcome Julie. Glad to have you with us. Thank you Alisa for giving Julie some helpful hints and links.

[Elizabeth S]

Welcome, Julie. Glad you found us!

[Tasha]

Hi, I'm Tasha. I'm joining again and looking forward to some great reads and discussions! I love Historical Fiction and most recently, military history and present conflicts.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Hello Tasha,

We have a lot of folks who like historical fiction so I believe you also will be right at home. If you like military history, I am sure you will meet Aussie Rick, our assisting moderator, on military history.

A couple things to help you get started with The History Book Club. 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.

The citations have three parts: (bookcover always when available - it usually is except for older books), (author's photo when available) and always (the author's link) - author's name in linkable text.

Here is a sample:

by Winston S. Churchill

I also have added some other helpful links including the guidelines, orientation, etc.

Guidelines

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

Orientation

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

About Us

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

More information on how to add pictures and links:

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

Jump right in on the threads that you are interested in and there will always be an assisting mod to give you the help you might need.

Bentley