Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Cindy wrote: "Hi,
I'm Cindy.
I just love reading romance novels."

Hey Cindy, welcome to the group! if all you get from joining us is some more good books to read, we have done our job ;) we are all about enabling more book purchases!

Susan A wrote: "Thanks for the Welcome!

I'm aboard with the series shuffler, series stacker, spell the month and zodiac.
I'm sure I'll be checking out the the PIFM next month -- is that okay with m/m only books?"

Susan, you may need to rec some non-MM, but your own bookshelves are fine as all MM. you also need to check if your picker is over 18 yo if you select spicier options... ;)

Hello Im Arielle! I love romance in books and HEA's. Nice to meet you all!

Hello! my name is david from the philippines! I love to read novels and incidentally, i also write them. see you around! :)

Hi Arielle and David - Welcome!

Hi David, welcome to the group - please note, that we don't allow self-promotion in this thread - so if you could please edit your post. However, we do have a self-promotion section where you can post about your book.

Hey Dee, sorry about that. edited accordingly. cheers! :)

Hi Arielle & David! Welcome to the group :)

Hi my name is Jo and I'm from Christchurch New Zealand. I read just about everything, but paranormal romance is what I'm enjoying most at the moment.

hi Jo! welcome to the group! hopefully we find you some good - have you read psy-changlings by Nalini Singh who is a fellow New Zealander

Thanks for the welcome Dee. No I haven't read Nalini Singh, but today is Mothers day here and I've just been given a $30 kobo voucher so I might just have to buy a couple. ;)

Hi Jo! If you love PNR then Nalini Singh is a great choice! Love her Psy/Changeling series. Welcome & enjoy the group :)

Hi Jo and welcome!! I agree with the others, you should check out Nalini Singh - interesting world she created! (And a series I need to get back to...)

I have the new book on preorder only a month to go I think

Envy - I'm deleting the post for sel-promo

Hi All: I'm a recent convert to romance and have been looking at the challenges since the first of the year. I've recently discovered I am a bit of a commiment-phobe, which I hope to remedy by the beginning of June.

Welcome R. Don't be shy about joining the challenges, we don't bite! You can start little and grow as you feel more confident.

Welcome Arielle, David, Jo and R!!!

The challenges are great fun - you can pick your levels to suit your reading patterns. Here is a link to our last newsletter that has all our monthly challenges listed and below it is a post with our longer challenges :)

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

welcome R ;) or just jump in the dead end like many of us - if you have any series in progress that you need to get caught up on - DG's series shuffler might be a good challenge for you to start with - otherwise, my favorite is the Pick It For Me

Hi R! Welcome to the group. Pick it for me is a great challenge and you only have to read one of the recs! :)

Hay everyone. I'm a Goodreads and Kindle Newbie. I love, love, love a good romance. I joined for recommendations because I want to read/try something different, so I thought joining a group might point me in the right direction.

You've come to the right place! We love all different genres of romance & giving recs around here :) Welcome to the group!

Thank you ^_^

welcome to the group Ariana...i'm sure many of us can provide you recommendations - if you give us some previous loves/likes/dislikes - to tailor them a bit

Hi Ariana! Welcome, you will it quite well here - we all love romance! If you check out some challenges, you might find some recommendations there too. You definitely would in the Pick-It-For-Me!

Welcome Ariam!! I think you'll find plenty of new books to check out here - just trawl any of the challenges ;)

Hi, everyone!

Technically, I did not just join but I haven't been very active in this group and I also never have gotten around to an intro until now. I've joined a few challenges here but really I haven't been that talkative. Will try to be more chatty!

Anyway, I'm Teresa and I live in Texas.I have one son, who is 12, plus 3 cats and a husband. I love to read (obv.)! My favorite place from which to procure books is my library, especially given that it is less than a mile round trip by foot. Books and exercise! I try to go at least once a week, sometimes more, depending on how fast I read my books.

I love coffee and chocolate, and my favorite baked goods are cookies, brownies, muffins and cake/cupcakes. I love chocolate cake for breakfast. Chocolate bread, too. I might turn chocolate before too long, LOL. I love to cook and bake and I enjoy collecting cookbooks and recipes.

I don't read as many romance novels now as I used to but my favorites tend to fall into the romantic contemporary category, especially if they are filled with humor or wacky situations/characters (Julie Crusie comes to mind), or romantic suspense. I'd love to read more historicals so it's fun to be in this group to see what everyone else recommends. I've only recently discovered Lisa Kleypas and I really like her writing and her characters. I can't help but love the pretty covers of most modern historicals and yes, that often makes me add a book to my TBR mountain,though the plot does matter.

Okay, enough babbling! Off to check out more challenges that I probably don't have time to join but will probably do so anyway, lol.

Hi Teresa! Sounds like you are going to fit right in here! We all do more challenges than we have time for! =)

Hi Teresa! Welcome & enjoy the group :)

Wow Teresa - that is a serious chocolate addiction! Chocolate bread! Well, even though I'm sure I'll never go there, I'm sure choc bread goes well with romance books :)

Enjoy!

Hi, I joined Goodreads last year, but was never sure how the groups would work out. I love reading and have hundreds of books waiting to be read on my tablet (only romance). I am looking forward to see what challenges are out there.

Welcome Latoya! Feel free to jump in and ask any questions if you need help, everyone here is really nice!

Hi Latoya! Challenges are a great way to clean out that TBR (but then again... it's a great way to add too :)) Welcome to the group!

Welcome Latoya! Joining this challenge group sorted out which of my many books I would read next - it was great for making me read some books I kept overlooking. And often I'd be wondering why it had taken me so long to read it! ...I'll bet you find some 'gems' on your tablet ;)

Hi guys! A newbie here :)

Welcome Rann! Hope you have fun here :)

Hi Rann! Welcome to the group :)

Hi Rann! Welcome, hope you enjoy the group!

Hi Debra - all promotion should be undertaken in the author promo threads here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

Cheers!

Hi. Just joined. :))) Hope to have great interactions here about our fave books. :3

Hi! Just joined group... Looking forward to good reads :)

Hi Mary Joie & Melissa - welcome and enjoy!

I also just joined. Reading romance is my go to whenever I am feeling overly stressed out. The stories uplift.

Hi Mary Joie, Melissa and Carolyn!! Welcome to the group! Feel free to jump in or ask any questions, everyone here is really nice! =)

Welcome Mary Joie, Melissa and Carolyn :) Great to have you all on board here!

Romance can't help but make you feel better :)

Hi Mary Joie, Melissa, & Carolyn! Welcome & enjoy the group :)

hi this is Joe :)
nice to see u all

Hi, I'm Elaine. I'm an author of paranormal romance, romance, crime and angel stories. I currently have one published novel and an accompanying short story in a Valentine's Anthology.

I'm a big reader and I will gladly read anything from any genre. But I'm one of those that if I can't get into it, I don't really have the will power to finish it.

Welcome Joe and Elaine! Hope you have fun in the group!

Welcome & enjoy the group Joe & Elaine!