Aussie Readers discussion

Don't forget Kylie Chan either.

Marianne wrote: "Don't forget Kylie Chan either."

Thanks for the reminder Marianne but luckily her name/books were already mentioned in the fave aussie authors thread so I had them on the shelf. BTW I just shot off an invite to a girl who lists you as her favourite author (on her profile)! My to read shelf is growing every day!!

Thanks Mandy! :)

Special welcome to Sarah from another bookcrosser! I'm cherylllr over there and I have my own OBCZ. :)

Hi Sarah

Fancy seeing you here *waves*

Laura wrote: "Hi Sarah

Fancy seeing you here *waves*"

Well, I couldnt let you join without me. ;)

xo

Cheryl wrote: "Special welcome to Sarah from another bookcrosser! I'm cherylllr over there and I have my own OBCZ. :)"

I'd love to have an OBCZ, but I suspect it'd be pointless where I am - not enough people! :( A problem I am forever up against with wild releases.

~S.

Gail "cyborg" wrote: I confess I have read the Twilight saga. My excuse is that I have a young daughter. :)

You are excused. ;)

~S.

Hey everyone :) Thanks for the invite Mandy and congrats on such a successful group.
I live in freezing south South Australia and I work full time as a trainee library officer. Thus I have access to heaps of books and have probably unknowingly read many Australian authors who I cannot recall unfortunately.
I read and write in my spare time, and I look forward to being an active member of this group :) :)

Hi

Thanks for the invite Mandy. I live in freezing Adelaide too. I work a day job as a Tax Accountant. I have loved books since I was a small child. A couple of years ago I decided to try writing a book. My first novel was published yesterday. It's a contemporary erotic romance so not suitable for everyone to read. I don't read a lot of Aussie authors but I love a wide range of genres.

Welocome to both Renee and Lillian, I'm from Freezing Sydney. I've been to Adelaide in Winter it was a lovely 26 to 27 degrees. Beautiful.

Great to have a trainee library officer Rene, I am sure we will be able to take advantage of your services here some how. :)

There are a few Erotic romance readers around don't you worry about that Lillian. Congratulations on the publication.

Lillian wrote: "My first novel was published yesterday"

...so I take it you're probably not the Lillian Grant responsible for The Holistic Revolution: The Philosophy Of Natural Health, then? If that's not you, a little disambiguation by a goodreads librarian might be in order.

Oh, and welcome!

No, that is not me. I am trying to sign up as an author and told them the only book that belongs to me is Happy Birthday Nancy Tobin :)

Lillian wrote: "No, that is not me. I am trying to sign up as an author and told them the only book that belongs to me is Happy Birthday Nancy Tobin :)"

I believe there's a way to split up different authors with the same name; I'll have a look at the librarian documentation, and see if I can get my head around it.

Thanks Mark

Done.


Lillian Grant - author of The Holistic Revolution: The Philosophy Of Natural Health
Lillian Grant - author of Happy Birthday, Nancy Tobin

Just make sure they give you the right one, Lillian :-)

Edit: added your blog's RSS feed to the correct author page, too. You'll be able to do all that and more once you've successfully claimed it.

Hi! Thanks for the invite, Mandy!

I've lived in Sydney for nearly 6 years after moving to Aus from Toronto, Canada. What was meant to be a one year adventure abroad has now turned into something a little more permanent!

I have a dream to write a really fantastic children's book - for the K-2 or 3-4 crowd (or both). I love the idea of children wanting to read something I've written over and over and over again. Sure, some of that is to massage my ego (haha) but the biggest and most important reason for writing a book is to help get children hooked on reading! It's so important. Not that I need to tell all of you that.

Anyway, so a good number of books I'm reading are children's books. If any of you fancy recommending your old favourites from childhood, I'd love to hear about them.

Happy reading!

Sarah wrote: "Anyway, so a good number of books I'm reading are children's books. If any of you fancy recommending your old favourites from childhood, I'd love to hear about them..."


Welcome Sarah,
I was looking for an excuse to start a thread about Children‘s Books! You gave me the perfect excuse. Click here to go to our new discussion on all things to do with children's literature.

Hi everyone,
Thanks for showing me this Mandy :D
My name is Elise, from Sydney.
I love reading and I read a lot of different things, classics being my favourite genre.
I look forward to chatting with you all :D

Welcome to the group Elise. We look forward to chatting with you also, about classics and anything else that takes our fancy. :D

Thank you for the invite Mandy, it was much appreciated =]

My name's Charlene, I'm from Melbourne. People call me Charlie.
I've been reading heavily since I was about 9, starting off with the Stephanie Plum series (one of my favourites, though it isn't Australian.)
Lately I've decided to keep track of all the books I've read and chat with people about them, and here is where I've wound up. I've been reading a lot of Nick Earls, Tim Winton and Markus Zusak.

Looking forward to it =]

Dear Mandy, many thanks for the invite!

My name is Adhityani, but I go by the nick Dhitri. I recently moved to Canberra with my family to study. I've been reading since very young (Enid Blyton's to blame!), but I've only become really obsessed with modern fiction and literature at the age of 20 (pretty late!) when working part time at a local bookstore. I am new to goodreads.com, so I still have to work on my book shelves (I insist on writing short reviews for each title on the "read" list, so this may take a while!).

I have recently purchased a Sony Readers from Borders, and now I have officially entered the digital realm of reading! I love the Reader, it's so practical for taking notes and for reading on the go, but unfortunately we have yet to see a more improved and varied selection of ebooks available to Australia. Would love to connect with fellow digital readers on the forum!

Adhityani wrote: "Dear Mandy, many thanks for the invite!

My name is Adhityani, but I go by the nick Dhitri. I recently moved to Canberra with my family to study. I've been reading since very young (Enid Blyton's t..."

Welcome to the group Dhitri, I will be keeping an eye out for your reviews. I have only been doing reviews for the books I have read recently. :)

Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and all of Sharon Penmans medieval books and Sarah Donatis' Wilderness books. I could go on!! I love to read for relaxation. I have a daughter who is autistic and is a challenge sometimes so a good book and a glass of wine is a godsend. I am glad I have found this group through our NT News TV pages. I suppose more time will be spent on the computer now too.

Adhityani wrote: "I have recently purchased a Sony Readers from Borders, and now I have officially entered the digital realm of reading! I love the Reader, it's so practical for taking notes and for reading on the go, but unfortunately we have yet to see a more improved and varied selection of ebooks available to Australia. Would love to connect with fellow digital readers on the forum! "

It's great to meet another Sony Touch fan, Dhitri. We'd love to hear more about your eReader experiences at Which e-Reader? ... Never mind. I see you found that thread yourself.

Jan wrote: "Hello L.A. I got up at last, and I've been visiting my other groups so I didn't see your greeting until just now!

Meagan, you seem to read very widely. I've never read the Tomorrow series but I re..."

Hi Jan,
Yes I will read anything put in front of me. Books are my passion. The Tomorrow series are fantastic, I highly reccomend them!! I know wha u eman about posting. I seem to spent so much more time looking thru this site than reading these days

Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and all of Sharo..."

Welcome to the group Jill! You have a lot in common with Dee-Ann another member from Darwin. Have a look at some of her posts and check out the discussion she has started in our Northern Territory thread.:)

Carmel wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "Hi ! I'm Carolyn =) I live in Sydney, Australia and I am currently doing my HSC so I haven't gotten a chance to do some reading except my prescribed texts for english.

Thanks for..."

Hi Carmel,
Thanks for the reccomendation, I have read City Of Bones and loved it, started the 2nd in that instalment soon!!

Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and all of Sharo..."

Hi Jill, welcome to the group. I read the entire outlanders series in quick succession over the Christmas period last year. I've been undecided as to whether to include them under guilty pleasures of historical fiction.:)

Hello all,

My name is Greg Chapman and not only do I love reading books but I love writing them too!

I am an emerging author of dark fiction with my first novella "Torment" to be published by Damnation Books in the US in March 2011. It goes without saying then that my fave books to read are horror or dark fantasy. My fave author is Clive Barker.

Thanks very much for the invite Mandy and I hope we can all share our love of literature.

Welcome to the group Matt. I am going to start by make you jealous, I have a lovely luxurious 53 minute train ride to and from work each day. I wouldn't give it up for anything. (I do have the option to catch a faster train but why would I?)

Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and all of Sharo..."

Hi Jill. I live in Darwin too and have a son with autism and another with special needs. You are right about it being hot ... it was good to get to work this morning just for the air-con. I recently started a thread below for the NT, but so far there is only two people from the NT that I know of (you are the third), so please feel free to join us.

Hi, thanks for the invite! My name's Sam, and I'm a Melbournite. As I've been moving house a bit the last few years, I figured it was time to catalogue my belongings. Then, I discovered how much else Goodreads had to offer and, I must admit, this has been a good shock to my system, to remind me of how little I've read!

I'm an aspiring writer - currently actively working on one non-fiction book, and passively working on a novel - so (out of proactive self-preservation) I don't often review books unless I have something passionate to say, or - as with non-fiction works - I think that comments might help potential readers understand the context or flaws of the work.

Anyhow, my taste ranges from the sacred to the profane. Like Matt above, I go through stages where I have a 10-minute walk to work, and then times when I have 40-minute train rides, so I try and catch up on reading in those times!

I look forward to joining you all.

Welcome to the group Sam, we have a writers support group here, and plenty of willing readers. Hopefully you can find something to keep you interested so you'll stick around for a chat.:D

Matt, you said "I'm more addicted to buying books than I am to finishing them." That's me exactly! The exercise of listing them has made me realise that I haven't even started all of them! I haven't finished listing them yet...I've been getting distracted by being in too many groups most of which are currently discussing a book I haven't finished yet, and some days I get so busy 'commenting' that there's no time for reading! The wonderful part is meeting so many other people with a book obsession!

Hello Australian readers!!
My name is Charisse and I currently live in Sydney. I am about to move to the Blue Mountains for the summer, which will involve a 2 hour train trip to and from work each day. Hello books that I've been meaning to read for the past 5 years!!
I'm currently on a graphic novels/comics kick, but generally read a wide variety of stuff; mostly pulp/noir crime, Southern Gothic (Faulker, O'Connor etc), music bios, Dickens, and mad postmodern stuff like Pynchon.
Look forward to chatting!

Reecie wrote: "I'm currently on a graphic novels/comics kick..."

Welcome Charisse, God what a long commute!! I've recently started a shelf in our group bookshelf called 'Graphic Novels, Comics and Manga'. If you ever have any suggestions about 'must-have' graphic stuff by Aussie authors I'd be grateful for the tips.

Gail "cyborg" wrote: "Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and..."

Gail "cyborg" wrote: "Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and..."

I like to think a bit of both. You just become addicted to reading about Jamie and Claire and the last one left me very frustrated because of the long wait for the next installment. I even have them on talking books because the radio programs annoy me and so I listen to books.

Dee-Ann wrote: "Jill wrote: "Hi my name is Jill and I live in Darwin which is very hot and humid at the moment. I love to read historical fiction and particularly liked the Cross Stitch books by Diana Gabaldon and..."

Hi Dee-Ann thanks for the friend application. My daughter is autistic and it is lovely just to stop isn't it and shut stuff out for a while. Are you going to the Autism dinner?? and wasnt the rain fantastic today. I will definately follow the NT thread.

G'day to all the newies (-:

fair dinkum Mandy!!..you've got the group growing eh! it's like a real fair dinkum aussie get together...fair dinkum LOL!!

David wrote: "G'day to all the newies (-:

fair dinkum Mandy!!..you've got the group growing eh! it's like a real fair dinkum aussie get together...fair dinkum LOL!!"

Nooooo! Enough with the fair dinkum!! LOL. Just joking David, I appreciate it in the right context.:D

One more of those David and we'll have to banish you to the naughty corner.
Don't be too nice Mandy. We have to be ruthless. :D

Awww!!c'mon fair dinkum now, fair shake of the sauce bottle eh!

The punishment set for poor behaviour David is to provide us an apology in the format of a senryu poem.

Cawww!!..stone the bloody crows, give me a sec eh!

I have offended 5
my actions were uncalled for 7
now I'm so sorry. 5

David wrote: "I have offended 5
my actions were uncalled for 7
now I'm so sorry. 5"

Beauty mate!

P.S. What's a senryu poem? :DD

I think Senryu is Haiku's satirical cousin.

Correct Jan it is a Japanese form of poetry as is Haiku.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senryū

Thank you for your wonderful apology David. I am glad you were up for the challenge. :D

Jan & Gail, most Japanese poetry is based on Haiku & it is one of the oldest forms of poetry in the world.
Unfortunately (& this is only my opinion & what I have researched) some early American academics could'nt handle the syllable structure, so, decided to 'change the rules' whereas now one can read so called American Haiku that has varied syllable counts, personally, I prefer the challenge of the original counts.

Here is 2 of my 'Tanka' poems.

Loss

His broken heart pains,
turns his back then walks away
from this fresh dirt mound
where his darling now resides,
for this hurt will not abate.

David J Delaney.
25/06/2010 ©


Whales

In this great expanse
they breach the oceans surface
show their weathered tail
then splash in magnificence
on their yearly migration.

David J Delaney
25/06/2010 ©