Bibliophilia discussion

I find it really interesting to see how many people use Goodreads and where they are from.
Let's see what countries and US states our Bibliophiles members live in.


Counties so far:
- Canada
- England / Scotland
- Sweden
- Turkey
- Netherlands
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Australia
- Norway
- North Carolina

States so far:
- Maine
- Utah
- Arizona
- Pennsylvania
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- New York
- Washington.

I will start: England.

I'm from Maine.

Quebec, Canada

I'm from Scotland (the Shetland Islands - half way between Scotland and Norway)

whereabouts in England are you from Annabella?

Annerlee wrote: "I'm from Scotland (the Shetland Islands - half way between Scotland and Norway)

whereabouts in England are you from Annabella?"

What is the Shetlands like? I wonder what your accent is like. I'm originally from Nottingham, but relocated to Yorkshire 3 years ago.

S. East England here :D

Yay another Brit!

Nice to see people in the same time zone =D. We have a good mix of people from around the world here.

I'm in England too, up in the north west

That's lovely. I don't really travel up that way much.

I live in England

I'm in Sweden :)

I think we have more English people then any others now.

Sweden! What is the weather like over there at this time of the year?

Well, this summer has been a bit of a dud. It's been mild and rainy for the most part, I miss last year when it was scorching hot and one could hang at the beach with a good book :)

We haven't had a good summer either. Rainy and just down right miserable.

Annabella wrote: "We haven't had a good summer either. Rainy and just down right miserable."

Annabella you should've been down here in the South East!! I've never been so tanned before - considering how little I was actually outdoors it's astounding and there was so little rain apart from the thunderstorm a week or so ago (after it caused damage up north)

Kent is NEVER going to get away without a hosepipe ban this year :/

Are you kidding me! I cannot believe you have had this weather. It is like a different world up here. Wished I still lived in the Midlands..... I feel a tantrum brewing.

Annabella wrote: "Are you kidding me! I cannot believe you have had this weather. It is like a different world up here. Wished I still lived in the Midlands..... I feel a tantrum brewing."

I live in Kent, we join Cornwall & Devon when it comes to getting the best of the summer ;D (usually), What about the heatwave 2 weeks ago, did you not get that?? Criminy it was boiling!! Right before the massive storm. Ugh I'm glad it's now cooled down enough for me to be comfortable sitting around in jeans :/

Yeah, it's pretty disappointing. We get enough grey skies and rain in the fall. Though it is of course cosy to snuggle up with a good book and some tea!

Yes we got the heatwave, but I couldn't enjoy it because I was at work all week. The weather was rubbish at the weekend and went down hill from there.

Teresa wrote: "Yeah, it's pretty disappointing. We get enough grey skies and rain in the fall. Though it is of course cosy to snuggle up with a good book and some tea!"

I love it when it is raining and I am inside. It is so cozy.

So many different countries! I hope by the time this group is really active, we'll have all the countries in the Olympics.

ϟα❡ε wrote: "So many different countries! I hope by the time this group is really active, we'll have all the countries in the Olympics."

We could keep a list of them! Shall I start it on my first post?

Okay! :D

I shall do it now otherwise I will forget XD

To complete it we need:

Australia
Austria
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Sweden
Switzerland
US

ϟα❡ε wrote: "To complete it we need:

Australia
Austria
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Sweden
Switzerland
US"

We have the US - Well one state.

I thought a lot more countries participate?

There probably are, I thought Poland was in it but I just looked it up on Google. Those were the only ones I found.

I am sure Canada did. Strange...... Maybe they are the main ones that participate all the time.

Okay, I actually found a list.

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/

So ignore my other comment cos' I don't think I can put all the countries. o;

I also found this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2...

I think the list you created was for the first official reports of the game.

Must be, cos' that only showed 11 out of 204. :p

Hehe yes. Lets hope we get more to cross off.

well i'm new here, and i'm from Turkey ^^

Yes! Another country off our list! Welcome to the group.

My friend just came back from Turkey and would love to go back.

Oh thanks for welcoming! Yeah Turkey is a very nice place for summer :)

I don't really know what summer is. I am from the UK and it always rains *sigh*

Haha then you can visit Turkey, we're like burning here on these months!

You sun thieves! I don't actually know how I would cope with that sort of weather.

Ahah, yeah even though it's so nice to feel some sunshine on your skin it gets so hot for me too...
I'd like to visit England , i like rainy weather though

Hi there! I've never been to Turkey myself but I have a friend who goes for a month every summer and just loves it :) Welcome and also, have all the rain you want (I'm in Sweden so there's plenty to take from here as well ;) )

hahah sweden! I've heard so many nice things about Sweden actually. Thnaks for the rain :D and i tink i'd love all the snow you have there too!

Thinking about it, I do prefer stormy weather. When I go on holiday it is like an actual holiday with sun!

I just love sitting inside and watching the rain and lightning. Don't forget the thunder though!

Yeah it's so nice being inside, watching, listening the rain but mostly when it rains here it doesn't rain much and makes me feel kinda dissapointed you know :D

I have a demanding dog so I have to be outside a lot. Really I do love ALL weather for that (like snow!). So it's quite nice with a mild rainy summer (cause otherwise it's to hot for dog to dog ;) ) but it's a bit... boring... shall we say, to always be out in grey weather. So I'll gladly borrow just a few days of scorching heat to break up the montony :)

I much prefer cooler weather - trying to do kickboxing or running in the heat we had at the beginning of this month was just too much for me :S I had to stop the runs as I would've needed a backpack full of water bottles just to keep on this side of dehydration!

I live in Utah

Monica wrote: "I live in Utah"

wow,Utah! That must be hot too?

it is its humid and when is hot its just dry and you don't even want to be outside

Is it like that all the time?