The Genre Explorers discussion

Hello! Welcome to The Genre Explorers, I'm Aleta, the founder of the group :) It's my first time moderating, so hopefully you will bear with me if mistakes are made.

I'm a college student hoping to transfer to something called Literary Science next year. The site made me choose a country for the group, so as it seems so many people on the site are Americans, I chose US. I'm from Scandinavia though :)
I love reading almost any kind of book, but my not-so-guilty pleasure is 19th century adventure books and basically all kinds of books from that period.

So! Enough about me, let's hear about you! :)

Aleta, I'm intrigued by your vision for this group and I like the way you've organized the threads to start.

I'm Terri, and I've been a member of GR for a couple of years. I live in the Midwest USA. In my working life I was a registered nurse, but I've not been able to work for several years and thus I have a lot of time to read. I read a little bit of everything, but my favorites are literary fiction, short stories, and 19th century fiction, especially British. I also read a lot of nonfiction. I think The Genre Explorers has a lot of potential!

Hi Terri, so glad you've joined :)

I'm so in awe of how many books you seem to read, even if you have a lot of free time, it's really impressive. It's funny, I have so many nonfiction books on my tbr list that I badly want to read, yet I never seem to get around to them.

Thank you for the kind words about the group! I really hope it'll take off well :)

Hello. I'm Brianna. I live on the east coast of the USA. I love reading all types of genres, but my favorites are mysteries, young adult, and literary fiction. I'm a college student myself studying law. I'm hoping to go to law school, but it's so expensive lol.

I have a lot of nonfiction books on my TBR shelf too, but I think I only read 1 nonfiction book this year.

This group looks like it will be very interesting, I'm glad to have been sent an invitation to join.

Hi Brianna! I hope you'll be an active part of this group. I agree, it should be interesting.

Great to have you join Brianna :) I've started reading some mysteries and such lately, something I never did before, but finding it quite entertaining.

I feel so blessed that I live in a country where education is free. Being interested in studying abroad, I looked up prices at various American universities - wow was I taken aback by the insane price tag of a single semester lol! I hope you'll find a way to be able to go :)

Yes I plan to be very active in this group. And yes education is so very expensive, but I hope that I will be able to go as well. Thank you very much for your support Aletha. I think the only genre I've never read is erotica. I tried and just couldn't finish the book.

Hi everyone! I'm Ally.

Lately, I've been dipping my toes into a few new genres. Now I think I'm ready to explore them more thoroughly :)

Thanks, Aleta, for creating the group! Don't worry about being new. It sounds like you have a good plan. :)

Hello Ally, nice to meet you :)

I hope the group will help you do just that. We're going to have some challenges and such along the way, so I think it'll give everyone the possibility of exploring the genre as much as they can/will in a month :)

And thank you! Glad to hear it sounds sound so far lol.

Hi Ally! Welcome to the group. :)

Greetings everyone:
I'm a big fan of fiction. I like the vision of the group, "Genre Explorers", so looking forward to our expeditions together.

Welcome aboard MsG!

I'm glad to hear that you look forward to exploring and I hope you get a lot of fun out of it :)

Welcome, MsG! Glad you're becoming part of the group!

I like to read as broadly as possible. I try not to exclude any genres or sub-genres though there are some that I rarely read. That's why I'm interested in this group.

Hello Shomeret, nice to have you with us :) I try to do the same, I just counted how many different sub-/genres I read this year and counted about 40 out of around 60 or so books!

Welcome, Shomeret! So glad you've joined us!

Hello! My name is Kalena (Thank you, Ally, for inviting me to the group). One reason I enjoy Goodreads is because I constantly learn about new authors, books, and genres. Always looking for interesting people to talk about books with.

Welcome to the group Kalena :)
That's one of the things I love about GR too. Even if I haven't read a book or author, I often know a little about it/them from checking this site. It's really focused my reading as well since due to the tbr list etc, I can actually remember which books I wanted to read!

Glad you joined, Kalena. :)

A hearty welcome, Kalena!

Hi! I'm Elena from Spain. I like to read a lot; however, it seems that I'm stuck with my usual favorite genres (fantasy and science-fiction). I hope to discover new interesting books in this group. :)

I don't know how active I will be. It has been a long time since I tried new genres, plus I usually have a lot to read for my major (it's my last year!). However, I'll try to keep up with all of you!

Welcome, Elena!
It's all too easy to stay in your comfort zone when it comes to reading, I think we all for victim to that lol :) And I also love those genres, they're so complex and fun!

I hope there'll be so many interesting books that you won't have any trouble trying new genres with us :) And congrats in it being your last year!

Hello

I'm Sarita, and live in Cape Town South Africa. I'm an extrovert and very active/outdoors - running, trail-running, hiking, plus visiting all the fabulous wine estates and other awesome places Cape Town has.

I also love reading. Found my love for reading again last year when I joined goodreads. I have loads of books on my TBR and too little time to read them all.

This group idea is great - I usually keep to my favorite genre - suspense/mystery and anything by Karen Kingsbury.

Not sure how active I will be on this group due to limited time, but will try to join a monthly read when I can.

Hi Sarita, welcome to the group :)

That sounds very interesting, I've always wanted to be outdoorsy and sporty, but alas, I've come to terms with being someone who'd much rather sit indoors with a good book or movie lol.

I just started reading some mysteries this year, hadn't really read any before and found it quite entertaining. It's always so great to discover a new genre you like!

Looking forward to seeing you around on groupreads threads one in a while then :)

Hi All,

Reading is one of my favourite things to do and I enjoy reading all sorts of genres, except maybe horror. It's really about the enjoyment of a good story or if I'm reading non-fiction, learning something interesting. I must confess that I do have a preference for romance mainly because the tend to be easy reading and I have a stressful job.

I love the idea of this group as a way of expanding the genres I read and maybe even finding a new favourite!

Thank you Aleta for creating the group.

I look forward to discovering new stories and participating in great discussions.

Welcome, Amy :)

I can completely relate, it's one of the reasons I love reading adventure stories, they're just so easy and so much fun. But it's always great to get out of one's comfort zone. I hope you might find some new genres to relax with after a long day at work!

Looking forward to seeing you around :)

Hello, my name is Talia and I live in Arizona. I work for a court reporting firm in the office most of the time, but I'm a legal videographer as well. I prefer staying home and reading a pile of books any day. Whenever I go out to a function, after the first 30 minutes I start thinking of all the reading I could be doing at home!

I love reading action/adventure, dystopian, and mystery novels, and last year I read a lot of good fantasy novels. I wanted to explore more genres this year, so I'm glad I was invited to this group (thanks, Brianna!). I have tried a couple historical fiction books so far and was shocked that I really enjoyed them! Looking forward to joining in for the group reads!

Welcome Talia :D

Glad to see you've joined the group and thanks for accepting the invitation. I wish I lived n Arizona right now instead of Ohio. I've lived here all my life and I still can't get used to the wishy-washy weather.

I also love to read dystopian novels. Hopefully you'll find even more genres that you'll like. I look forward to seeing you around.

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Welcome, Talia. Historical fiction is my favorite genre, so I'm glad you discovered it. I also read a great deal of mysteries and fantasies. But as you'll discover I've read in practically every genre. I'm in this group to explore genres that I don't know as well as others.

Hey, I'm Riley and I love Fantasy YA Fiction like Throne of Glass and Snow Like Ashes . I read really fast, so new books are always welcome with me. I'm very childish and love Disney movies. Hopefully I'll find new books to read and enjoy here!

Welcome Riley!

I've started reading more Fantasy YA fiction this year than I usually do. I have Snow Like Ashes and Throne of Glass on my to-read shelf. How did you like them? I hope you'll find some interesting books and branch into more genres by joining The Genre Explorers.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hi! I'm Kristi Jefferson. I'm an author of Self-Help Books. I love to read self-Help and self-improvement books. Nice to know you all.

Kristi Jefferson

Welcome to the group Kristi; we're glad to have you. I don't think I've read a self-help or self-improvement book before, although I do have a few on my TBR shelf.

Hey everyone, I'm Robin!! Can't wait to discuss bookish things with you all!

Hi! I'm Melissa, I'm from America, and I heard about this group because Aleta posted in a group for moderators.

Hi I'm John and seem to be the only male member here. Is this within the group rules? Often a book may cover a whole variety of genres and so gets left out by those searching for specific genres. It would be good to see multi-genre single books recommended on this site.