We Read Themes! discussion

Hello Everyone pleas feel free to introduce yourselves.
1.Name or Name you go by
2.Why you joined goodreads
3.Why you joined We Read Themes
4.Anything else you would like us to know

Hay! :)
My Name is Whitney Chakara you may call me either. Chakara is prob the easiest because its the screen name I chose.I created this group because I like to read themes and wanted to meet others who likes to as well and disover new books plus meet new people to have book discussions with. I joined goodreads because I dont have any friends or family to talk to about books with so I decided to go out and find me some book buddies :) via the www.
I am a Fashion Marketing student at the Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham and I have also recently studied both Enligh and Pyschology. I am 20 years old of Mostly African American and Native decent my to fav authors at this time are Richelle Mead and Cassandra Clare. I love getting book recomendations.

I'm Julia. I joined Goodreads because I read like a demon and it helps me be somewhat organized about my reading. I joined this group because Chakara asked me to. The concept of reading themes instead of genres is interesting to me. I would like to read more outside of my typical genres. I am an unemployed secondary special education & theater teacher in rural Upstate New York. I'm more than twice Chakara's age, I'm white, Jewish and was raised in the LA area and went to school & lived in San Francisco for many years.
Favorite authors include: Charles de Lint, Lois McMaster Bujold, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Michael Chabon, Tanya Huff, David Levithan, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Elizabeth Moon, Harper Lee, William Shakespeare, Walter Dean Myers, Chris Crutcher, Elizabeth Lynn.

Julia wrote: "I'm Julia. I joined Goodreads because I read like a demon and it helps me be somewhat organized about my reading. I joined this group because Chakara asked me to. The concept of reading themes inst..."

Hay! thanks for joining and posting. I loved Walter Dean Myers when I was younger. some of my favs by him areHoops andSlam!. we will start voiting for our themes and books soon I didnt get this group up in enough time to get an official theme going for this month but I still may add some suggested reading if you or anyone else has an idea of books that would fit a feb theme.Oh I have wanted to try Patricia Briggs for a while but people say " if you like sookie youll love this" and I hate sookie so I havent tried it maybe it will fit a theme and I will get to read one lol.

Sookie Stackhouse is not one of sharper tools in the toolbox, at least in the first books by Charlaine Harris. (Because she's a telepath, she and many of her neighbors think of her as stupid at best or metally challenged.)

Mercy Thompson, though also working class like Sookie, isn't a slouch in the brains department, among other things she's a foreign car mechanic with her own shop.

Sookie Stackhouse is just uuugh.I may have to try Mercy Thompson again though.