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[Sara]

Ryan- I have not! These past few months I have been absorbed by A Song of Ice and Fire. Definitely will add Queen of Orcs to my to-read list. Thanks for the suggestion!

[Don]

a song of ice and fire is a great place to be absorbed. just wish grrm would cut loose the next fix.

[Don]

a song of ice and fire is a great place to be absorbed. just wish grrm would cut loose the next fix.

[Egle]

hei there! Egle from Estonia. At the moment i`m taking a brake from work to raise my baby.
Reading fantasy and sci-fi books when the little one is sleeping, give my imagination and spirit enough boost for to NOT become a typical diperstory-telling depressed and tired mom among the others.
I just hope my kindle can handle all those intense working hours ;)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi, welcome.

[Sara]

Don wrote: "a song of ice and fire is a great place to be absorbed. just wish grrm would cut loose the next fix."

Definitely! I just got onto summer break so I'm finishing up the book soon (halfway there now) but once it's over my book life will come to a screeching halt, haha.

[Ryan]

Egle, have you read any of the Lost Fleet Series? Or maybe Dresden Files? The Iron Druid is also pretty good. But, if you don't have the time for A billion books like I know you won't, (having a 4 year old myself) try oldmans war by John Scalzi. Amazing.

[Egle]

Ryan wrote: "Egle, have you read any of the Lost Fleet Series? Or maybe Dresden Files? The Iron Druid is also pretty good. But, if you don't have the time for A billion books like I know you won't, (having a 4 ..."

I have not read those, Ryan.. and i really appreciate you recommending those books. Im gonna add those to my to-read list. Starting with the iron druid..that seems like a perfect fit for me. Thank you :)

[Ryan]

Nice choice. The main character is hilarious to read and you'll love Oberon. He's cool.

[Ikebukuro]

Hi, I'm Ikebukuro and I like SF and Fantasy, but also contemporary, non fiction, thrillers, classics... I try to read various books and to stay curious. Otherwise I like travels, music and art in general.

[Alexa]

Hello everyone! My name is Alexa from Spain, I'm recently out of the uni and in the look for a new job, so I have lots of time to read and I've decided to tackle most of the fantasy books in my ever growing To Read shelf.

Besides fantasy, I usually read lots of urban fantasy and YA novels and I have a soft spot for romance (they're my guilty pleasure!) When I'm not reading I can be found playing videogames, watching TV shows or baking something yummy.

[Alan]

Hi everyone, I'm Alan from Lancashire, England and I am heavily into Sci Fi. Favourite authors include Philip K. Dick, Adam Roberts, Margaret Atwood and Iain M. Banks. Hopefully some good recommendations will come my way from being a member of this community. :-)

[V.W.]

My GR notifications seems to be on the fritz.

Anyway, welcome everyone that I've missed!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Yeah, for some reason GR just drops notifications for some reason.

Anyway welcome Alexa and Alan.

[Mikey]

Hi guys! My name is Mikey and I'm a very slow reader! My love for fantasy books started with The Hobbit, which was read to me as a child. The first real fantasy book I read was my sisters copy of Daggerspell the first book of Katherine Kerrs Deverry Cycle, it took me almost a year! I slowly made my way through the rest of the books she had written only to find I had caught her up!

I re read the series once she had finished it recently.

I have joined this group as I find myself with more and more free time to read lately.

This year I have read:

The Hobbit
Trudi Canavan - The traitor Spy Trilogy
Scott Lynch - Gentleman Bastards
Ben Aaronovitch - River of London (didn't enjoy)
Morgan Rice - A quest of HEroes (Awful)
Myke Cole - Control Point (ok)


I am now reading PAtrick Rothfuss and am loving it!

I'm looking forward to finishing this series so that I can join in the suggested reads or pick up books from the bookshelf.

[V.W.]

Welcome Mikey!

I really like the Rivers of London series :)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi, welcome.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi Martin.

[Ryan]

Whengawpo Martin! How is land of the eng? And I'm going to look into that series. Sounds interesting.

[Michael]

Very interesting stuff.

[Martin]

The land of eng is currently very dark as it is 11:40 at night, hows Seattle? I'm guessing Whengawpo means welcome?

[Ryan]

It means hello, I see you, welcome. Seattle is, well, it's climate is pretty much the same as Camelot I'm afraid.

[Superior Ven A.]

Hello to everyone. I'm new to Goodreads in general, but as it turns out, I don't actually know what I like to read. I'm just getting to the point in life were I'm learning about myself, but I know for sure fantasy and scifi are my favourites. Of these, I like "hard" scifi and fantasy, preferably with paracosms, but I'm willing to explore just about anything for now until I learn more about my preferences. Hope I can speak with everyone in this lovely group soon.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi, feel free to browse my book shelves. I'm sure others here will tell you the same.

[Marina]

hello!
my name is Marina, 32, from Croatia. I've been teaching English and German in primary school for 7 years, but currently I'm on sick leave because I've been diagnosed with leukemia, which gives me a lot of time for reading...and this is how I joined goodreads recently, so I'm still finding my way round.
I've always loved fantasy, horror, paranormal and such, and I hope I'll find some inspiration with you guys :)
the author who left me breathless recently and whose works I all read is Joe Abercrombie, and I would be extremely grateful to everyone who can recommend anything similar to his style of writing, especially The First Law trilogy or The Heroes!
currently, I'm reading N. Gaiman, American Gods, and I really like it! it's weird. I like weird. :)
hope for some recommendations.
greetings from Croatia!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi Marina, welcome. Fell free to browse my "book shelves" here. I like fantasy also. While I don't think I got into Abercrombie as much as you I'm happy to have you look for suggestions. I'm sure others here will say the same.

[DoodlePanda]

Welcome! :)

[Laz]

Hello!

I've been active on GR for over 2 years, and I'm looking to find a scifi group that fits well with my interests. This group came highly recommended by some other GR fans.

While I have read most of the the classics (love RAH, MZB, and ERB), I'm currently more interested in newer authors (eg alive) such as Hugh Howie and CJ Cherryh.

I'm looking forward to new discussions and recommendations.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi, welcome.

[Angela]

Howdy! I have been reading sci-fi/fantasy for as long as I can remember. I got started on sci-fi when I was 4 years old, saw Star Wars in the theater for the first time and was hooked. I read a lot, write a little and watch as much SF/F as I can, excepting the Syfy channel's excuse for science fiction. UGH! Anyway, I'm a bookkeeper by day, nerd by night and I have 2 cats that are family. Not sure what else to put here but that's the short short version. :)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi Angela, welcome. You'll fit right in.

[Rudi]

Hi there! My name is Rudi Bracaglia. I'm 28 yrs old and I'm pleased to meet everyone here :) I love books always have. I started with the classics and now my favorite authors include Tolkien, CS Lewis, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Bernard Cornwell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Michael]

Hi everyone! I'm Michael DeAngelo and I've been reading fantasy since I was fifteen. I love the genre more than anything else out there, so much that I started writing it - probably the one thing I can't give up on in life! My favorite author is R.A. Salvatore. I'm also shamelessly into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi Rudi, Michael, welcome.

[Paul]

Hello! I'm Paul B. Spence, I'm 42 and I've been reading science fiction since I was a kid. I hold fond memories of Heinlein and Norton. I try to read anything I can. Luckily, I live in Portales, NM, home of the Jack Williamson Science Fiction Library, which is awesome.

I'm an archaeologist and an author. It keeps me busy.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Welcome.

[Cas]

Hi! My name is Cas and I'm from Georgia (the state, not the country), but when I met my Swedish Husband and we had our first child, we moved over to Stockholm. I've been here ever since, slowly going a little more crazy each winter.

Charles Dickens introduced me to reading, but along the journey I fell in love with fantasy and science fiction. I am an author, and eventually I'll get around to posting about my book in the other forum post, but for now I'm so happy finding this group that I don't even want to talk about it yet! When you live in a land where everyone around you speaks a language other than your own native tongue, it's hard to find like-minded groups of people. I feel like grabbing a cup of coffee and wandering around a bit.

I know I'm just scraping the surface on this site, but I'm happy I found this group and can't wait to get started reading the groups book choices, even though I'm showing up late =).

/Cas Blomberg

[V.W.]

Welcome all newcomers!

@Rudi - love Bernard Cornwell.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi Cas, welcome. The coffee maker is over there in the corner by the donuts. Just wander around and say hi. Feel free to browse our book shelves.

[Cas]

Thanks! I found the coffee, but the donuts were all gone. No worries, though. I found books! So many books!! It's like walking into a bookstore, and then looking at my watch and realizing three hours have disappeared. Unlike a bookstore, I can also chat with folks here =). That part is nice.

[Eliot]

Hey folks. My name is Eliot Baker and I decided to introduce myself right after Cas because I, too, live in a Nordic country whose winters drove me to making imaginary friends, talking to them, and writing down what they said in my debut novel, The Last Ancient I live in Finland, where I'm a professor of communications at a rural college and I sing in a heavy metal band, and do outdoorsy stuff while my Finnish wife and I raise two bi-lingual pre-schoolers. Mostly I write these days. Trying to make that whole isolation in darkness thing work for me. My fantasy and mystery plots draw on my past as a science journalist and my interests in history and politics. Nice to meet y'all!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi Eliot, welcome.

Enjoy the book shelves Cas...I'll talk to the steward about the donuts.

[Al "Tank"]

Uh, I'm afraid I snagged that last doughnut. I was hungry and it looked soooooo good.

[D.L.]

Hello all. I'm David Frizzell. No, I'm not a country singer from the eighties. Been around GR for a little while, but not interactively. Someone told there are these things called 'groups' that I could join to discuss the stuff I read. Wow, what will they think of next?

Now the essentials about me: I'm an IT manager. I have a three foot tall clone trooper standing guard in my office. I love science fiction the most, but really any fiction if it's written well. The only thing I will not read is YA. Makes me barf. I admit that I read the first book in the Twilight series to see what the clamor was about, then quickly turned to the speculative works of Ray Bradbury to get my mind right again.

I'm really glad Al ate the last donut because I'm trying to lose a few pounds before DragonCon this year.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Crap....I was getting ready to ask you to sing I'm going to Hire a Wino (to Decorate our Home). Oh well, I guess you can't help you're not THAT David Frizzell, well welcome anyway.

I mean having tried to read about romantic, friendly, sparkly vampires you don't need any more grief. You have my sympathy.

I can recommend some good military science fiction if you still need to clear your "mental palate"????

[Nicol]

Buenas!! I'm 34 and absolutely love sci-if and fantasy! This genre allows conversations and imaginations that no other truly can. I'm an ER nurse but before nursing I was in graduate school for history. I work nights in the US so don't be surprised to only see my comments in the middle of the nights! Looking forward to discussing some great books.

[Alan]

Nicol wrote: " I work nights in the US so don't be surprised to only see my comments in the middle of the nights..."
Middle of your nights is fine! This conference is international - it even reaches the remote shores of England, and some early risers will pick up your comments quite soon after posting.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Welcome Nicol...and greetings to all the dwellers in deepest darkest England.

[Madeleine]

Hi everyone- excited to be joining the Goodreads community! I've been reading science fiction and fantasy my entire life, and recently begun writing my own hard s.f. stories. I'm an environmental scientist by training and my interests in biology and the environment influence my book selections. I'm excited by the emerging subgenres of biopunk, ecofiction and environmental fiction. Favorite authors include Paolo Bacigalupi, Jeff VanderMeer and Margaret Atwood.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Hi, welcome.