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Sarah - Blessed Mom of Two
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Aug 02, 2017 10:44AM
Hello everyone! My name is Sarah and I am a 30 year old soon to be mother (for the first time). I cherish my family as one of the most important things in my life. I look forward to these challenges. I find it fun to put a book with a challenge for some reason. I like searching for books and I have the bad habit of reading book jackets and only adding to my never ending list of books!
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Sarah wrote: "Hello everyone! My name is Sarah and I am a 30 year old soon to be mother (for the first time). I cherish my family as one of the most important things in my life. I look forward to these challenge..."Welcome Sarah, I am glad you joined the group.
Thank you everyone for the warm welcomes :)
Glad to have you, Sarah --- Happy Reading!
Hi!I'm Marina, 35, from Italy. I've known this group for a long time (some friends and people I know from other groups are here), and finally decided to join. I'm forever complaining about joining too many challenges, but it seems like I can't resist... it must be an addiction!
Something about me: I'm a technical translator and non-fiction copy-editor, a bit overwhelmed by work lately, to be honest. I love cats but I don't have any in my small flat, unfortunately. I read a variety of genres, although I have a few favorites: literary fiction first and foremost, mystery, post-apocalyptic, dystopia, drama. But I'll read anything, really. Or at least, I'll try.
Welcome, Marina! We hope you enjoy reading for our challenges!
Welcome Marina, this is a fun group. :)
It's great to see you here, Marina :)!
Hello! I'm Megan. I just discovered the existence of these types of reading challenges a few weeks ago, and I'm looking forward to jumping in here. I've been looking for a group that would both complement my own reading style but still encourage me to broaden out, and also ideally help me whittle down my TBR. (I know I'm kidding myself there. Talking about books and thinking about books always leads to my TBR pile multiplying.) I'm excited that this season's challenge will probably involve me reading more Daphne du Maurier; I started reading her only last year, and she's quickly become one of my favorites.
Welcome, Megan! We hope you enjoy Reading with Style!
Megan wrote: "Hello! I'm Megan. I just discovered the existence of these types of reading challenges a few weeks ago, and I'm looking forward to jumping in here. I've been looking for a group that would both com..."Hi Megan! This group is great for broadening one's horizons.... however, I've found it deadly to the TBR!!! ha, ha....
Welcome, Megan! It's great to meet you :)
It's great to have you here, Megan ------ and, yes, my TBR steadily grows, too!
Hi, everyone! I’m Katie. I hope to join you for the spring challenge. I haven’t been reading much at all lately. It’s a sad state of affairs, and I’m in desperate need of a reboot. I used to participate in a similar challenge in the defunct Bookish group, and I found it strangely motivating. Reading is its own reward, but there’s just something about points.... I love the tasks you all wrote for the spring challenge and look forward to digging in!
Katie wrote: "Hi, everyone! I’m Katie. I hope to join you for the spring challenge. I haven’t been reading much at all lately. It’s a sad state of affairs, and I’m in desperate need of a reboot. I used to partic..."Hi Katie - welcome! It is funny how motivating points can be at certain times, when choosing what to read next!
Katie wrote: "Hi, everyone! I’m Katie. I hope to join you for the spring challenge. I haven’t been reading much at all lately. It’s a sad state of affairs, and I’m in desperate need of a reboot. I used to partic..."Welcome, Katie! We're glad to have you. Get your reading toes wet as you can, and feel free to ask questions as you go.
I'm glad you've joined us, Katie!
Hi everyone, I hope it’s okay for me to join you?I really like the idea of a challenge that rewards people for reading more challenging books. I’ve been participating in the seasonal reading challenge for the last year and although I think it’s a great challenge, I’ve been a little frustrated with myself for often prioritising easy or short books so I can complete as many tasks as possible from the very long list. I’ve definitely been neglecting the longer or more challenging books on my TBR so I hope that this challenge might help me remedy that a little.
About me...I like to read most genres, especially classics, literary fiction and historical fiction. I also like a good page turner like a thriller or mystery, and since last year I’ve also started to read some sci-fi (starting with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which I loved) which is a genre I never really enjoyed before but which I would now like to read more of.
I’m also working on another year long reading challenge, this is my plan for that challenge - Around the Year in 52 books - I’m sure some of my books will overlap between challenges.
Hi Bryony! Welcome! You'll see some familiar faces here from the SRC. Jump in wherever. Ask all the questions you need, don't be shy. It usually takes a season or two to get comfortable - and we hope you'll want to get comfortable.EDIT: Also, if you'd like to post your 2018 goals, your moderators will try to incorporate some of them in future tasks.
Thanks Elizabeth. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of questions, I’ll be sure to ask for help and hopefully I’ll make less posting errors than I did in my first SRC season! Thanks for the suggestion to add my 2018 goals. I think I need to revise my goals a little bit (I originally set them back in October and my plans have changed a little since) but once I’ve done that I’ll add to the thread.
Thanks again for the welcome, I’m looking forward to being part of this group.
Bryony wrote: "Hi everyone, I hope it’s okay for me to join you?I really like the idea of a challenge that rewards people for reading more challenging books. I’ve been participating in the seasonal reading chal..."
Hi Bryony,
I am from SRC too. I have never finished an SRC. Lot of the books I read for SRC, I can use in this challenge.
Bryony wrote: "Hi everyone, I hope it’s okay for me to join you?I really like the idea of a challenge that rewards people for reading more challenging books. I’ve been participating in the seasonal reading chal..."
Hi + welcome, Bryony! I see you like a wide range of genres, as do I. I'll be keeping an eye out for your posts to see what books to add to the ever expanding TBR list!
Welcome, Bryony!I do SRC as well and I challenge myself to have all of my books fit in both challenges. It's like doing a big puzzle. I hardly ever finish SRC. I think I finished twice in the years I've been doing it. I also fell prey to reading short books for a while and I'm definitely trying to get away from that feeling. This season is even more challenging because I'm also doing the Roundtable group challenge. It is also one that leads you to and rewards you for choosing worthy books;)
Thank you for the welcome everyone, I’m really glad I found this group. I think I’m about ready to try posting my first completed task so let’s see if I’ve actually understood all the rules correctly!
Bryony wrote: "Thank you for the welcome everyone, I’m really glad I found this group. I think I’m about ready to try posting my first completed task so let’s see if I’ve actually understood all the rules correctly!"And if you haven't, don't worry. We all make posting errors.
Thanks Elizabeth, that’s reassuring! Hopefully I’ll learn as I join in. I really enjoyed writing a short review too, I rarely post reviews on GR so it was nice to take the time to put my reaction to the book into words.
Hello everyone. I have been a lurker on this group for about a week now. My name is Lalitha and I am from India. I am still trying to find my way around here and hopefully will get to discuss many books and get inspired to pick a few more :)
Hi Lalitha! Welcome! The challenge started on the first of March - feel free to post any books you have read since then. Feel free to ask questions!
Lalitha wrote: "Hello everyone. I have been a lurker on this group for about a week now. My name is Lalitha and I am from India. I am still trying to find my way around here and hopefully will get to discuss many ..."Hi Lalitha!
Hello Elizabeth, Valerie. I have picked up Madame Bovary this week. I will look around to see what the group is reading from next month and see if I can read along.
Lalitha wrote: "Hello Elizabeth, Valerie. I have picked up Madame Bovary this week. I will look around to see what the group is reading from next month and see if I can read along."Madame Bovary will fit the 20.10 task this season; it will combo with 10.4, 10.9, 20.2, 20.4 (20 combo points), pub'd in 1856 for 15 oldies points, and if you write a review of at least 100 words, another 10 points there, for a total of 65 points. Very nice!
We don't have the kind of group reads where everyone reads the same book and discusses. The 10.10 Group Reads task are books some of our members read in the previous challenge that they think other group members will enjoy reading.
Great! I will sign up for it then :) is this a challenge that runs through the calender year? I just completed Remains of the Day just a couple of days ago too. Can I add that? I will check in on the sub group that deals with this.
Lalitha wrote: "Great! I will sign up for it then :) is this a challenge that runs through the calender year? I just completed Remains of the Day just a couple of days ago too. Can I add that? I will check in on t..."Yes, you can claim all of the books you've read since March 1. We do nothing but challenges, which are 3 months long. You might want to look at our FAQs.
This season's tasks and styles are in these folders:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
Welcome, Katie and Bryony and Lalitha!
Thank you Megan, I am already excited for the Spring challenge :)
Hello. I am friends with Karen Michelle in another book group and I shamelessly snooped around her page one day and saw this group. I thought the points system might be fun. My favorite part of our other group is Bingo, so I enjoy book games.
Lynn wrote: "Hello. I am friends with Karen Michelle in another book group and I shamelessly snooped around her page one day and saw this group. I thought the points system might be fun. My favorite part of our..."Hi Lynn! I do that too - snoop around in GR friends groups! ha, ha... I enjoy the tasks + points here at RwS. It has prevented me from falling into a rut. I see you've already jumped in with completed tasks, I'll look forward to your reviews!
I’m glad you snooped, Lynn! Welcome to the group. I’ve found lots of great groups by looking through friend’s lists;)
Thank you everyone. It is very nice to meet you.
Hello Everyone,I am Lincee and I love travel, food and learning. I am an avid reader and also a newly published author. Right now my gym workouts and resistance to chocolate are my biggest challenges. I have to pray every day otherwise I will stuff my face with chocolate and cry at the gym. Reading is also my escape right next to the gym and chocolate. : )
Hi Lincee! Feel free to join the summer challenge and post books you've read since June 1.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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