Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

Bev wrote: "Hi Everyone, my name is Bev and I come from South Africa. I enjoy all genres other than horror. I was attracted to your group because of its informal approach. I look forward to partaking in your various discussions"

Hello, Bev, and welcome to our group!
Please feel free to jump into any of our on-going topics or to start new ones of your own.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes,
Joy

Hi,
I'm Katherine from Saratoga Springs, right down the road from you. Reading has been one of my passions forever. I lean toward historical fiction and have just finished Edward Rutherfurd's "New York".
I am a member of Goodreads Tudor History Group and decided to branch out a bit.
This sounds like a wonderful, active group. I look forward to participating.

It is a nice group Katherine, and welcome again. :)

Thank you for your welcome.

Katherine wrote: "Hi,
I'm Katherine from Saratoga Springs, right down the road from you. Reading has been one of my passions forever. I lean toward historical fiction and have just finished Edward Rutherfurd's "New ..."

Hi Katherine! Welcome to our group. Nice to see you here. I always love shopping in Saratoga Springs.

We look forward to hearding more from you.
Best wishes,
Joy

Hello! I am Mary JL and I am a Midwesterner. As a child, I learned that cold Nebraska winter nights were tailor-made for reading! Not a big TV watcher, I have been an avid reader since the age of 5.

One thing attracting me to your group is your approach of not having a certainl 'monthly' book. If I am in the middle of two or three books; I may not be able to stop and read a specific book at a specific time. Your informal approach appeals to me.

But, wow, is my TBr pile growing since I joined Goodreads.....

I will read almost anything but in order my preferences are: Science fiction, fantasy; mystery, history; histrocal fictionl and young adult books.

Work is early tomorrow, so off to bed and I will hopefuly be posting the next day. Nice to meet everyone!

Mary JL wrote: "Hello! I am Mary JL and I am a Midwesterner. As a child, I learned that cold Nebraska winter nights were tailor-made for reading! Not a big TV watcher, I have been an avid reader since the age of..."

Hi Mary JL! Looks as if you've come to the right place. I feel the same as you about not having a certain monthly book. I'm glad you like the idea.

Yes, my To-Read list is getting ridiculously long also. But it's nice to be able to browse it when I'm looking for a new book to read. It serves as a reminder of sorts.

Your book preferences are similar to those of many of our group's members. So I think you'll find a lot to talk about here.

We look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to comment anywhere and also to start new topics.

Best wishes,
Joy

Hi, My name is Jeannie and I live in Queensbury. I grew up in the area and love living here. I have 2 daughters who keep me busy but I absolutely love to read. I go to Crandall Library about once a week....enjoy it so much. I am always looking for reviews and suggestions for new books....My favorites are Jodi Picoult, Anita Shreve, Jane Green, Elin Hildenbrand, to name a few. I also love Northshire Bookstore in Manchester...
I think it will be nice to connect with others who enjoy reading as much as I do.

Hi Jeannie and welcome to the group. Glad to see you posting here. Thanks for telling us a little bit about yourself. It's nice to meet another book lover.

Hope to hear more from you. Below are a few links to some ongoing general threads here which you might want to take a look at. Perhaps you'll see something that interests you and will jump in when you're in the mood:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...

Also feel free to start a new topic anytime.

Meanwhile, keep on enjoying your books.
Best wishes,
Joy

Hi I am rick- thanks Joy for the invite!!
I love classic lit- old movies and dogs!! schnauzers and collies to be exact!
hope to contribute as much as I can to this Group!

Rick wrote: "Hi I am rick- thanks Joy for the invite!! I love classic lit- old movies and dogs!! schnauzers and collies to be exact! hope to contribute as much as I can to this Group!"

Hi Rick. Welcome to the group. Nice to see you here.
We look forward to hearing more from you.
Please feel free to jump in anywhere with a comment and/or to start new topics.
Best wishes,
Joy

Hi I'm Margaret and I don't post much I'm always busy working at something, but I do manage to slip a book in. I try to read at least an 30 minutes a day. I'm almost finished wit a great book The Things I know Best by Lynne Hinton.If you haven't read it yet you are missing out on a great story Lynne has an nice way of developing her characters. It's about a family of women who have the gift of knowing.The author makes it seem as though it a natural thing to be gifted with.

Margaret wrote: "Hi I'm Margaret and I don't post much I'm always busy working at something, but I do manage to slip a book in. I try to read at least an 30 minutes a day. I'm almost finished wit a great book The T..."

Nice to hear from you again, Margaret. Thanks for letting us know about The Things I Know Best: A Novel. Publishers Weekly says: "Hinton's second book is an even more compelling and enjoyable slice of smalltown life than her bestselling debut novel, Friendship Cake: A Novel. Tessa, the 18-year-old narrator, belongs to the Ivy clan: a trailer-park-dwelling family full of strong women with unusual gifts for "knowing" things."

This Author seems to be a nice person because that book is loaded with good personality. I bet she's a person that you would enjoy talking and sipping tea with. Do you guys know of any other feel good books?

Margaret wrote: "Do you guys know of any other feel good books?

Margaret - You might try the group called "Comfort Reads". Below is the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2...

Thanks

Margaret, try reading, "The Moon Flower Vine," as it might be just what you are looking for; an easy read but good writing and although a bit of a slow start keep with it and you will keep wanting to know more. nina

Hi, I'm new to good reads and would like to explore the groups. I thought I would give this one a try. I'm a 35 year old married man in Conyers, GA. Conyers is about 20 miles SE of Atlanta. I'm married and have 2 daughters. I'm a police officer for the second largest department in the state. I really love historical fiction, but I'm always on the look out for any "good read". Looking forward to meeting some of you.

Tony wrote: "Hi, I'm new to good reads and would like to explore the groups. I thought I would give this one a try. I'm a 35 year old married man in Conyers, GA. Conyers is about 20 miles SE of Atlanta. I'm mar..."

Welcome to our group, Tony. Nice to have you with us. Please feel free to jump in with comments. This is a friendly group.

Joy H. (of Glens Falls) wrote: "Bev wrote: "Hi Everyone, my name is Bev and I come from South Africa. I enjoy all genres other than horror. I was attracted to your group because of its informal approach. I look forward to partaki..." Welcome, will be fun to hear your views from Africa. I have two granddaughters living in Ghana. nina

Tony wrote: "Hi, I'm new to good reads and would like to explore the groups. I thought I would give this one a try. I'm a 35 year old married man in Conyers, GA. Conyers is about 20 miles SE of Atlanta. I'm mar..."Always nice to hear from a new "voice" so welcome aboard. nina

Hello, My name is Brandon & I enjoy reading Emerson, Steinbeck & books on physics. I have a website BookwormService.com. I look forward to some discussion.

Welcome, Brandon. Hope you will enjoy our group.

Hi! My name is Veronica, 23 out of Texas. Never joined a group before and well I truly do enjoy reading and I thought maybe this could not only help pass my time, but be introduced to other genres of books rather than the same old thing for me. I read John Grisham and Mary Higgins Clark, etc. I want to broaden my horizons in reading hahahaha :) but yeah I hope this will help me out. Lookin forward to new reads!

Hello, Veronica. Welcome to our group.
We hope you'll visit often and enjoy the nice people here.
Best wishes,
Joy

Hi Veronica and Brandon,

Lovely to have you with us. You'll find that Joy is a terrific moderator.

Katherine wrote: "Hi Veronica and Brandon,
Lovely to have you with us. You'll find that Joy is a terrific moderator."

Thank you, Katherine. I do my best to keep up with the readers here. I probably do less reading than any of them. LOL

I will say ditto to both of the above: Welcome as it is so nice to have new "voices" added to our book learniing and I totally agree, What would be do without Joy? Her name says it all/nina

Nina wrote: "I will say ditto to both of the above: Welcome as it is so nice to have new "voices" added to our book learniing and I totally agree, What would be do without Joy? Her name says it all/nina"

Oh my goodness! Nina, you are too kind. :)

Here's a quote for all of you: "No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
Confucious nina

Good one, Nina. I can stay pretty ignorant reading some of the stuff I do, though.
;-)

Welcome all.

Hi, I'm a Polish student and I conduct a small research for my M.A. thesis that aims to check which tranlstion attempts of a given historical/cultural text is more suitable for English speaking readers. For the purpose of this research I have a short (15 minute) survey providing respondents with some excerpts in two translation versions and all I need it to get to know which suits the reader more. I really need your help with that as I have to collect almost 80 copies... If anyone is willing to help me, let me know and I will provide you with either a link to the survey, mail or I will copy paste it as a message here.

Tequilasunrise, see my reply at the following link:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...

Hello everyone:
I'm Rebecca and I hail from Cambridge, NY. Closer to Glens Falls than Albany. While I am an author ( short stories so far), I am also an avid reader and thought it might be fun to get to know some others from Goodreads who are also local to me.

If anyone is interested -- my story, Lost Hope, is part of Cutlass and Musket, Tales of Piratical Skullduggery
I have a website: rebeccahartwriting.com and a blog: rebeccahartwriting.blogspot.com

I also use twitter and FB
Twitter: @rebelhart69
FB: www.facebook.com/rebeccahartwriting

Looking forward to getting to know everyone. :)

(I also write erotica under the pen name R. Brennan)

Hi Rebecca. Welcome to our group! You are indeed close to Glens Falls. Nice to have another local in the group... and a Goodreads author too.

Looking forward to hearing more from you.

Hi, I'm Jana and I live in NY. I look forward to meeting new friends and reading/talking about new and interesting books.

Welcome to our group, Jana.
Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Feel free to post comments or to start new topics.

Thanks, Joy.

Join in. We are an agreeable group even if we don't always agree on books, movies etc. But, it is fun to disagree sometimes. Welcome.

Thanks, Nina and I agree. Enjoy your day.

I'm a single dad with 2 girls who are always on the lookout for exciting new books to read to me.

I'm an avid, yet slow, reader from UK. My friend Jana suggested I join this lovely group, so here I am. Cheers!

Welcome to both Roger and RedMum.
Nice to have you with us.

Welcome to you and hope you enjoy our New Year with lots of good book suggestions and comments. Both are welcome.

Thanks, Joy and Nina. Happy New Year.

Happpy New Year to all of us goodreaders. You newer kids on the block will have an interesting year ahead of you. Please join in and add to it. Our New Year here in KS is going out like a lamb; sixty three predicted temp might set a record. cheers to All!

We watched "Knute Rockne," tonight and what a pleasure to see an inspiring movie for a change. No violence except for the football scenes and that was relatively mild. Cheer Cheer for old Notre Dame and to all a good night.

Nina wrote: "We watched "Knute Rockne," tonight and what a pleasure to see an inspiring movie for a change. No violence except for the football scenes and that was relatively mild. Cheer Cheer for old Notre Dam..."

Nina, here's the IMDb link to "Knute Rockne All American" (1940):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032676/
Ronald Reagan played George Gipp in the movie. By coincidence, I've been listening to the audio version of the biography of Ronald Reagan: My Father at 100 by Ron Reagan. It's excellent.

Hello, I am living in Georgia now but spent a year recently in Plattsburgh, NY and loved it. I am thinking of starting a book club here with some of the people I work with and was just doing some research online as to which book to pick and I joined your online book club to get ideas. I just read __We Need to Talk about Kevin_. Wow what a book. Not sure its a good choice for the first book, kind of morbid but Lionel S sure knows how to show the inner life of her characters. Linda

Welcome, Linda. Nice to have you with us. Good luck.

Here's the link to We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Yes, it looks like a very serious book.