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Hi All! I'm Katy and also a Perks member. I'm so glad that this group has started. I look forward to chatting with all of you.

Welcome Katy!

Welcome Diane S, Chimney, Barbara, Katy, and Elisa!

Hello! I'm Denise, and I have just moved from Wiltshire, England to Dallas, Texas. Of course that means I've been busy trying to stock empty bookshelves. When that's done, I'll start looking for a job. Priorities, you know.:D

Hey Denise! Happy to see you. Wiltshire to Dallas is quite a change!

Welcome everyone.

Hello everyone

Hey Paul, nice to see you here.

:-)

Hi I'm Joy, also from Perks - nice to see familiar faces. I live in east Sussex & I'm semi-retired. I have enjoyed being introduced to books I might not have tried.

Hi Joy, lovely to see you here.

Hello everybody, my name is Stacy and I am also a former Perks member. I am so happy to see so many familiar faces here and very excited to get involved in new discussions :)

Hey Stacy, it's lovely to see you here.

Welcome Joy and Stacy

Hi Folks! I'm Laurel, another migrant from Perks - Nice to see everyone :)

I feel like I am a little late...

Hello dear book lovers! I am so happy to be here! I know most of you but for those who don't know me, I'm Hales and I live in Northamptonshire, I studied in Sheffield and I miss the North. I will read anything that I can get my hands on and as we've discussed in the past I cannot go into the library without coming home with armfuls.

Hi Laurel and Hales, it's great to see you both here.

Hi everyone! Glad that there's so many perks members here as well as new faces! Feel right at home already :) thank you and well done everyone who set this up, excellently done!

wow, we now have 100 members and it's not midnight yet!

Hi Laurel, Hales, and Sophie!

Welcome to Hales, Laurel, Stacy, Joy and everyone else who's joined today, both familiar and new!

Is everyone from Perks (besides me) from Britain? ;)

I'm Meran, from Perks, hanging out in the Portland, Oregon area of the US.

I'll see if I can get access to those two first books. I've seen part of Edwin Drood (love Dickens, except for one) and am aware it was unfinished. Big mystery!

Hie everyone!
Im Violeta i live in chicago, I am a youth worker and special education teacher, I love reading although sometimes I dont make much time to do it, I also love being part of these communities I might not participate much commenting but I am an avid reader of the posts in the group, thank you for doing this i very much appreciate it!

I'm also from the US, Meran. California to be more exact. Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! It's nice to be here :)

Hello, everyone! I am so thrilled to be here! Thanks to the mods for organizing the group for us. I am from the South (in the US) and look forward to meeting everyone. : )

Just realised I haven't actually introduced myself here! I'm Shirley and I live in Lancaster, in the north of England with my husband and two teenage daughters. I have always loved reading and I love trying different genres. I am trying to read my way through a huge amount of unread books on my bookshelves, and an ever-increasing virtual pile on my kindle...so many books, so little time...

Hi to Karlos, Gemma Dhanaraj, Elite, Diana S, Chimney (Kim), Barbara, Elisa, Katy, Denise, Stacy, Hales, Sophie, Meran, Violeta, Connie!
I was at my favourite swimming pool yesterday afternoon and I've seen so many new/old friends here in 12 hours.
I'm glad to see that what we felt was right: we would miss each other too much!!!

Hi everyone and thanks LauraT for the invitation! It is so cool to see from how many places in the world you all come from!
I am Chiara, I'm Italian but I live in Berlin - Germany with my husband, my younger son and (as soon as we move) as many cats as I can sneak into house without The Man to see :)
My favourite books are novels of any kind, but sometimes I like to challenge my brains with something different.

Hi Chiara! So nice to have you here!!!

Ciao! Chiara!

Hi Everyone! I am Poornima .. new member from India. Glad to be here, thanks to Leslie!
I love reading good mystery-thrillers or humor like PG Wodehouse or classics. My favourite authors include Agatha christie, conan doyle, colin dexter, alexander mcall smith, Jane austen, PG wodehouse, Henry cecil..
Looking forward to exploring more books here!

Welcome everyone. :)

Welcome Chiara and Poornima (lovely names, by the way!)
It's great to have you as part of our group!

Hi all

I'm Claire from Brighton,in the UK, I live here with my husband and son and I'm a librarian. I read as much as I can (and always have), mainly fiction but also history, and will be here when I can but may go quiet now and then as there don't seem to be enough hours in the day for all the things I'd like to do!
I'm looking forward to some interesting bookish conversations.

Thanks to Shirley for the invite.

Wow, so many people to welcome since last night! Welcome Meran, Violeta, Connie, Stacy, Chiara, Poornima, and Claire - and to anyone else I might have missed!

@Meran, I often got that feeling in Perks too - that I was the only American in a group of Brits - but actually it was pretty international ;) I live in Massachusetts USA, about 25 miles west of Boston.

@Connie - I lived in Georgia for about 12 years although I am a Mass. native. Still miss some things about the South, especially the springtime...

@Stacy - I went to grad school at UCLA & California is where I developed my liking for hiking. So many wonderful National Parks in the West!

Claire wrote: "Hi all

I'm Claire from Brighton,in the UK, I live here with my husband and son and I'm a librarian. I read as much as I can (and always have), mainly fiction but also history, and will be here whe..."

Welcome Claire!

Hi everyone! I'm Petra and I live in British Columbia, Canada. Laura invited me to this group and it looks like you're all having a fun time. I'm looking forward to getting to know you all in the threads.
Thanks for the invite, Laura!

Welcome Petra!

Hi to all new one: Poornima, Clair and my beloved Petra! I have a great deal to be pardoned for by her, and telling her of this nice place is a beginning!

Hello :3 I'm Margaret and I'm 20 years old. I absolutely love reading books, even though I haven't had as much time to do so lately as I would have liked :3

Welcome Claire, Petra and Margaret. Lovely to see you all here. :)

Welcome Margaret! Ther's always time for a book, if not today, tomorrow, or the day after!!! :-)

Hi Laura and Hi everyone! I am a Perks member too, and I am glad that this group was started. I havent been around as much lately, life has just gotten in the way, but with the Fall coming and the kids going back to school, I can give my attention to this group. I've missed sharing thoughts with you guys and I look forward to being here amongst you book lovers!

Welcome Margaret & Maryann :)

Meran wrote: "Is everyone from Perks (besides me) from Britain? ;)

I'm Meran, from Perks, hanging out in the Portland, Oregon area of the US.

I'll see if I can get access to those two first books. I've seen pa..."

I'm from Canada. Welcome to the group:)

Maryann wrote: "Hi Laura and Hi everyone! I am a Perks member too, and I am glad that this group was started. I havent been around as much lately, life has just gotten in the way, but with the Fall coming and the ..."
Nice to see you here Maryann! Welcome:)

Rowena wrote: "Maryann wrote: "Hi Laura and Hi everyone! I am a Perks member too, and I am glad that this group was started. I havent been around as much lately, life has just gotten in the way, but with the Fall..."

Thanks Rowena!

Welcome back Maryann - I know that with kids around is not always easy to read or go to internet (but on the other hand when they've grown and give you mor space it means that you're old!!!!), but starting of school helps!!!!!

Hi all! Welcome to the group!

LauraT wrote: "Welcome Vanessa! We all hope we'll feel as much at home as before!
Since you like classics, what do you think of coming along with me in my reading the last novel of Dickens?"

I would accompany Laura, but I already have that book lined up for a readalong with Kirsty in December :) We're doing 'Hard Times' next month!