Hi from a new member....

[Mello]

Hello to everyone in this very interesting HF community! It has taken me some time to finally delurk and come on board - I really just love to read and learn so making the step to interact is a little bit foreign!

So, to my reading habits.....I started at 13 or 14 reading Jean Plaidy and Juliette Benzoni and then began a love of all things royal, English and French. Recently in a fit of nostalgia, I tracked down and bought some of their old books just for comfort's sake. I don't know when I will re-read them though - therein lies my problem - I am not a fast reader and my TBR pile grows faster than I can read. I realised though after reading through the posts on here that a lot of my books on said pile are favourites here - Dorothy Dunnett and Sharon Penman's to name a couple. But I have found even more authors that I am itching to read. Trouble lies ahead!

[Madeleine]

Hi Mello and welcome to the board - don't worry about growing tbr piles, I think quite a few of us (self included) have this problem! There could be worse things to worry about!

[donroc]

Welcome and enjoy. We all have TBR stacks and lists.

[Leyland]

Welcome to the HFO interaction and am looking forward to your thoughts and ideas, Mello. And yes, out of control TBR is common for us. I think I have somewhere between 250 and 275 TBR's on shelves and scattered around set on tables and in cupboards. I haven't added many to the maelstrom lately, but when the economy and my wages pick back up ...

[sweetpotatoboy]

Welcome to the board. I can certainly identify with your predicament. I'm not the fastest reader (well depending on the sort of book) and I don't have so much leisure time available for it. My TBR is fast growing out of all proportion to my ability to get through but I can't kick the habit!

[Misfit]

Hi and welcome aboard. Join the pack with the ever growing TBR piles and lists. You are not alone.....

[EC2]

Welcome to the forum. I try to keep a lot of my TBR in my head, but it doesn't quite work for some reason.....:)
I'm just reading Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman at the moment. She has a lovely interractive blog over at her website these days too!

[boswellbaxter]

Welcome, Mello! Glad to have you here.

[diamondlil]

Welcome Mello! I look forward to seeing you around the boards!

Nice to see another Melburnian on the boards too!

[Carla]

Hello and welcome!

[MissMarplestein]

Hello to everyone in this very interesting HF community! It has taken me some time to finally delurk and come on board - I really just love to read and learn so making the step to interact is a little bit foreign!

So, to my reading habits.....I started at 13 or 14 reading Jean Plaidy and Juliette Benzoni and then began a love of all things royal, English and French. Recently in a fit of nostalgia, I tracked down and bought some of their old books just for comfort's sake. I don't know when I will re-read them though - therein lies my problem - I am not a fast reader and my TBR pile grows faster than I can read. I realised though after reading through the posts on here that a lot of my books on said pile are favourites here - Dorothy Dunnett and Sharon Penman's to name a couple. But I have found even more authors that I am itching to read. Trouble lies ahead!

Sharon Penman is one of my faves as well! Welcome to the site, and don't be shy!

[Carine]

Hi Mello, welcome here.

I'm a slow reader aswell and the problem with the faster growing TBR pile than I can read is well known to me !

Sharon Penman is one of my favourites aswell, together with Elizabeth Chadwick.
There are many more but those two authors are on the top for me.

[MLE]

Welcome, Mello! I find the solution to the TBR lies here as well as the problem. I have learned from following the threads on various books (but then, I'm one of those odd people that doesn't mind spoilers) and in many cases, saved myself from wasting time on books that are not my particular cup of tea. Unfortunately, for every one I eliminate, three others sound like I would enjoy them very much!

[chuck]

Welcome Mello.....This forum is full of Intelligent, informative and very friendly HF folks....Currently reading and finishing soon Bernard Cornwell's "Azincourt"

[Christina]

Welcome, Mello :-). It's very pleasant here!

[cw gortner]

Welcome, Mello!

[Mello]

Thank you all for your warm greetings!

[juleswatson]

Hi Mello! From a fellow Aussie transplanted. I just joined, too, and have made no headway on reading actual books yet - but lots of headway in being dazzled by the array of what COULD be read. My TBR list is growing daily in my head and making it swim. The knowledge displayed on these boards is pretty amazing, all in all.