Vaginal Fantasy Book Club discussion

I joined both the Vaginal Fantasy and the Sword and Laser group pretty recently. I was going through the discussions and I noticed we're missing an introduction thread here, so I figured it was time one was started ;-) Guess that means I have to actually do the starting.

I'm Patricia, 28 years old from the Netherlands. Ever since I was little I've been an avid reader, but at some point life got in the way and I didn't read nearly as much as I used to. Back in 2010 I got my first Kindle and that finally brought me back to my beloved books :)
I have an interest in many genres but I sometimes find myself getting into these phases where I obsessively read books from a specific genre or author. In the past couple of years I guess you could say I've mostly read (True) Crime, other non-fiction, mystery/thrillers and lesbian romance, so obviously I'm pretty new to (Vaginal) Fantasy and Sci-Fi.

Somehow I ended up watching the hangouts posted on Felicia's You Tube channel and I was hooked. Even though I hadn't read the books and I had no idea what they were about, I found myself nearly spitting my drink at the screen in laughter at some points, while interested and intrigued by the discussions of characters/stories at other points. And that's how I got here. I don't know a lot about the genre but I'm always looking for new books to enjoy, and between VF and S&L I've already found a number of interesting reads as well a lot of interesting and insightful discussions on the boards. Happy to be here :)

I joined Vaginal Fantasy & the Sword and Laser book-clubs last month. I have been having a great time. I love reading but my husband has now put an book embargo on the house because I've ordered 8 books in the last two months!! I'll just have to ninja the packages before he sees them.

I'm an avid gamer, I'm trying my hand at vegetable gardening, and going to school. You can follow me on twitter @ubergeekygirl to read my silly comments on the books and video games.

Looking forward to the discussions!

Hi VF! I'm Chloe, I'm 19, I live in Detroit, MI area. I love reading always have, but just recently got back into it. I was homeschooled in high school, and finished at 16 so I had a lot of time to get into geeky things.

I'm an EMT who dabbles in creative projects on the side, hopefully one day I will be able to focus more on that. I love to draw, paint, game and I write a lot, you can check out some of it on my page :)

FELICIA DAY YOU'RE MY HERO. (cough ferris b) I fell in love with The Guild around season 3, and have been hooked ever since. VF picks are really the first books that I am reading that are Smut. I always loved sci-fi and fantasy but I'm easing into this genre, starting with the VF picks and Weather Wardens on the side.

Looking to get to know everyone a little bit better. Thanks Patricia!

I also joined Vaginal Fantasy and the Sword & Laser book clubs at the very beginning of this month. I have been ebooking like crazy since getting my Kindle Fire.

I'm into all genres, but love a book with suspense the most.

Outside of reading I enjoy video gaming, learning new beauty tips, DIY for every part of life, and keeping up with my favorite tv shows (I watch way too many cop shows). Other than that I'm probably at work or drunk with friends.

I have my tumblr connected to my profile on here, feel free to add me as a friend if you want to keep up with each others reviews and such!

Hiyo! My name is Madison. I joined VFH Goodreads Group after the second/third hangout (I can't quite remember). It's my new favorite social media site.

I was an avid reader all through primary school but my time for reading was cut when I started undergraduate. I'm back in college pursuing a PhD, but I made a resolution to rekindle my reading habit. So far, this group and Sword & Laser have helped reestablish the habit.

I am Mirvan. I am gay but then I am curious about lesbian fiction!!!!! And vaginas =P

I want to be a full-time bisexual writer so please, help me find some good vaginal literature and also lesbian literature.

I love Well of Loneliness!!!!!

Hello! :) I'm Lindsay and I joined VF in the very very beginning....not so long ago! I've been following Felicia on GoodReads for quite some time now because oddly enough, she liked many of the same books that I did and turned me on to amazing new ones.

I was the nerdy kid who sat far away at recess with her books that were too advanced for her reading level. :P As I got older, I lost my lust for reading, but when I moved from Texas to Chicago in 2006, all the mass transit time plus one amazing library system (seriously, I 'order' whatever I want online and they send it to the library you want) I have been inhaling anything I can get my hands on. I finally got a Kindle thanks to Patrick Rothfuss and his insanely wonderful but large books. I didn't want to choose a book based on size, so yay Kindle for the modern commuter!

At first I wasn't sure if I would enjoy this group since I'm a lesbian, but I've come to find out that these books are rockin'! Romantic, exciting, adventurous! Loving it. Not to mention picking up all new series along the way.

In my real life I read comic books, work at a museum, play video games, avoid shopping, go to musicals and plays, and hangout in my wonderful neighborhood of Boystown here in Chicago. I love a good Manhattan and intellectual conversation. And I'm currently working on Masters in Museum Studies.

That's about it about me - I've been enjoying these past few months discussion these books with everyone when I can during school. It's been amazing how much more active it's become since Geek & Sundry came out!

I'm Caitlin. I'm a pre-school teacher in Florida, and I've always been an avid reader. My mother used to ban me from the library as a punishment. However, I always avoided the 'vaginal fantasy' books because the thought made me giggle and blush, but then Felicia posted about this book club so I thought I would give them a try and I find myself wanting them to contain more smut, not less. xP

When I'm not reading, I'm either gaming, reading comic books in Books-a-Million(just recently started getting into them), going to the beach (or a pool if my friends and I can find one; who likes sand and salt and algae?), trolling the free books on Amazon, or looking for intelligent debates/discussions on some of the issues I'm interested in.

I'm a fledgling gardener, but most of my plants either die or fail to thrive. I'm doing well with a tomato plant and a load of potato plants, though, so yay for that. xD

Hey everyone--I'm Morna and I joined both S&L and VF this month. I'm an avid gamer (anxiously awaiting Elder Scrolls online..and expect to lose weeks of my life once it comes out!) and read mostly sci-fi and mysteries.

I live in the New Orleans area, work in the health care field, love to shop, obsessed about vampire diaries and game of thrones.

I'm new to the VF genre but am enjoying the books picked so far. I think its interesting how many gamers found there way here--do any of y'all read while raiding? That happens to me alot--and I glance at the screen to find my teammates down in the red (I'm usually the healer in the group.) Oh well, sorry guys..I was at the good part!

Hello all!

My name is Rachel! I found VF when a friend introduced me to it. Just my luck, about a day or so after the absinthe episode - I love absinthe and am sad I missed a chance to hang out in the IRC room.

I read a little bit of everything, and have just started to get into urban fantasy. I'm picky, though - I have a background in literature, and like unraveling stories to see what they're made of. I'm a huge fan of vampire fiction, though more the Stoker variety than the Twilight incarnation (I even have a literary explanation as to why Twilight sucks). I'm retraining right now in Entertainment Technology - digital animation and the like.

I'm a huge gamer, up for playing nearly anything - tabletop games, video games, I even LARP. Generally, I just like stories :)

Hi! I'm Jannie, a moderator over at the Erotic SciFi group, a near neighbor in theme to this one. We have many of the same members.

I had to check out the Vaginal Fantasy scene as soon as I saw the name!

Hey, I'm Megan! I'm 23 and live in north east united kingdom.
I've read most of my life and have always been the nerd who used to sit in the library on her breaks at school. I'm not new to the VF genre, with reading most of Anne Rice and also the Sookie Stackhouse series.
I found this as I was subscribed to Felicia Day on YouTube and got hooked on the hangouts :)

Other than that my day job is selling kids designer clothing. In my free time I like to perform in theatre, sing, write and game.
I'm currently addicted to Minecraft since its Xbox release!

Hello everyone! My name is Zoey. I live in West Virginia and I'm 35. I live a quiet life with my many dogs. I found out about VF by seeing one of the videos on YouTube. Since I read these type of books, a book club seemed like a good idea!

Books are my drug of choice. Before getting my Kindle, I had stacks and stacks everywhere. I will pretty much read anything I can I get my hands on. I just won't finish the dull ones. LOL

Right now, I read mostly urban fantasy. My favorite authors right now are Eileen Wilks, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, and Kim Harrison. All great authors I highly recommend. :-)

Hello! My name is Jessica, I live in NC and I'm 27. I love love love reading and I've always considered my slutty little fantasy books a guilty pleasure until I found this group while following Felicia on facebook. Now I know I'm not along :)

I also do the sword and laser book club but I'll read almost anything...

The Sword and Laser looks pretty cool--I was checking them out yesterday. I like the fact that they have a preoccupation with Dan Simmons; Hyperion and its sequels were fascinating!

This is the story of a chick. A geeky Chick named me... oh wait… this should be fist person.
(Ahem)
My name is Melody, friends call me Saffy (from my handle - safireblade) or MJ. I write under MAJK - my initials (for the record, I use a professional editor because I have a case of typodemons like you would not believe).
I am an old school geek from the days of when parents thought D&D was evil and that we'd all end up like the Tom Hanks movie Monsters and Mazes (15xp if you have seen this movie).
I owned X-Men comics when there were only The Uncanny X-men - yes, I am that old.
I also own a SPAWN #1 , A Witchblade #1 (signed), and a Fathom #1 if that means anything to you then you get 5xp for each one you know. I still have my collection - bagged and boarded (5xp if you know what "bagged and boarded" means - 15xp if you still do it)
I own Marvel Universe cards from series 1 up through Marvel Masterpieces (15xp if you know what these are) - I bought them by the box.
I am a gamer who's played from the Atari 2600 (10xp if you have played one) through to WoW, AION, RIFT, STWOR, CHAMPIONS, TERA, etc. (5xp for each one you played)
I spent a few years as a nightclub DJ before I finally discovered how much I loved computers and went on to get a BS in Information Technology and a MS in Information Security. I still hunt for good techno, trance, and such when I get a chance.
I am now a System Developer & Database Admin for SAKAI (10xp if you know what that is), mother of two awesome boys, and married to a wonderful man who shares my geekiness and my Bibliophilia. We currently own working versions of SNES, N64, Gamecube, PS, PS2, Xbox360, Wii, and if Sony hadn't got hacked so much we would probably own a PS3. I personally am a PC gamer these days. (5xp for each of these systems you own now)
I love books - I always have - on the level that I used to get yelled at daily by my mother to "get your nose out of that book and come watch TV with the rest of the family" and I read the hobbit to my oldest as a bedtime story before he was 5. We currently have no less than 18 bookshelves most of which are full of books and include 1st edition D&D, 1st edition Shadowrun as well as versions up through 3.5 D&D (15xp if you own a hardback copy of the Book of Vile Darkness)
I avoided romances for many years after seeing the awful harlequin romances my mother used to read. Books like the Twilight & The Sookie Stackhouse series (that my girlfriends love) only re-enforced my belief that romance novels were not for me. I swore I'd never read that stuff.
Then one day I discovered this brilliantly geeky girl that I feel in love with from a little known webisode called The Guild. (Yes, I've watched it that long) I could name Wow guildmates who fit every character on there. Soon I became a Felicia Day fan-girl.
When I saw that she read romances I was stunned & almost crushed until I discovered there were *GASP* Sci-Fi / Fantasy romances. She tweeted about a book club that read these rare and wonderful tomes (ok, I thought they were rare)
Wait.. did you say I could have my geek and sexy times too?? DUDE!! I'm soo in.
I joined in the second month of the club and I lurked, read, and discovered I really like these people.
So now I love the club, am having great fun discovering the genre, and have found 3 more Incredible women to fangirl-crush over (especially Bonnie because I LOVED Betty Page growing up) I have also met some great people and am promoting this group every chance I get.
So now you know me and can add up your XP because who doesn't love XP?

THE END ...or is it???

Did someone say swords and lasers...

Hi all! I'm Jess and I'm new to goodreads and the group but have been watching via YouTube since the first meeting. I can't wait to join in this month as well!

@MAJK: I was a huge D&D gamer as well; 25 years as a dungeonmaster. We played second edition, switched to third, then switched back out of nostalgia...

Jannie wrote: "@MAJK: I was a huge D&D gamer as well; 25 years as a dungeonmaster. We played second edition, switched to third, then switched back out of nostalgia..."

Yay! We're actually playing a second edition campaign right now with my girlfriend and her hubby.

Hi, all. I ran out of Geek and Sundry things to watch recently, and tripped and fell into a vaginal fantasy... which is not a sentence you get to say all that often.

I'm an Englishman and English teacher living in Mexico. I'm also a writer, one of whose two big projects at the moment is an urban fantasy novel with a female lead...

So, yeah. That's me. Hello.

Oh, and Laurell K. Hamilton is my favourite authors. I loved the first few Anita Blake books and stuck with the characters I was invested in once the sex ramped up. They're my guilty pleasure and my go-to series when I want something easy, fun and to cheer me up.

I'm a mod over at the Erotic SciFi Club, and we're getting more and more people there with a gaming background. It's cool because it gives us a common frame of reference to talk about a lot of things.

Jannie wrote: "I'm a mod over at the Erotic SciFi Club, and we're getting more and more people there with a gaming background. It's cool because it gives us a common frame of reference to talk about a lot of thi..."

really? I may check them out too. Thanks for the heads up.

Let's see. I'm 34, program for fun and food (not to mention rent) and also ended up watching the VF hangouts because I was running out of things to watch.

The turned out to be pretty amusing, though I can't quite see myself reading those books myself (from the discussion, I am worried about my fragile male ego taking some severe blows).

I remember Felicia mentioning some of the Rayne Benares books and since I'm a sucker for puns (does that make them sucker puns?), I couldn't resist a title like Armed and Magical. From there, Amazon lead me straight to the Kate Daniels books.

For now, those two series are probably as far as I will take it ,-)

Lindsay wrote: "And I'm currently working on Masters in Museum Studies..."

That's exactly what I want to do. I have a little bit too much school debt at the moment to go back for my masters but eventually that is what I'm going to do!

I'm Keith, a billionaire playboy racecar driver and part-time neurosurgeon with his own hover craft. In my spare time, I solve mysteries that have baffled Scotland Yard, Interpol, and the FBI.

Also, I live in New York, grew up in Kentucky, work as a tech writer at a university, and maintain a website dedicated to global cult cinema, travel, literature, and music (http://www.teleport-city.com). I love a good waistcoat and a nice pair of shoes, and in my spare time I go rock climbing, swimming, cycling, listen to music from the 1900-1950 range, or work to hone my near encyclopedic knowledge on the films of Reb Brown.

One of these paragraphs is true. But I'll never tell!

I'm Crispina - most people call me Crispi (thanks Dad). I grew up in Malaysia and I guess my first fantasy books were really Enid Blyton books. The Wishing Chair, the Faraway Tree..

I was basically interested in whatever my big brother was interested in, which is how I got exposed to comics, computer games, and my first grown up fantasy series: Xanth by Piers Anthony.

Since then I guess my geekhood has taken off on its own course. I'm currently a gamer/programmer mom of a 3 year old who loved the Guild (I'm a WoW'er, of course I love the Guild) and from there went on to become a Felicia Day fan-gurl... which led me to Geek and Sundry and to the VF hangouts (totally going to use this hangout thing to remote call with my co-conspirators now).

I never really left books behind for long, and I'm very grateful for the local library system (yeah Chicago Public Library!) that lets me place books on hold and then tells me when they're around to pick up. I think otherwise my house would be nothing but books.

Anyway, that's me :)

ps: I use parentheses too much, yeah!

I'm Kamil. The one that consumed his childhood on books, videogames, board games, card games (I still have few "magic the gathering" decks in my wardrobe) I really loved fantasy/horror/ sci-fi books while on the other hand i secretly prayed on my relatives's harlequin collection. I experiment whith poetry and fiction ( my only addictions)
How did i end up on goodread's VF ? It all begun while i enjoyed "few" MMORPG. It was then when looking on youtube for some WoW videos i stumbled upon "The Guild" and... skipping the embarassing parts.... here i am.

I'm Mark and I joined VF and S&L a couple days ago after accidentally catching the live stream of VF#6 and having a ball. I'm a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, a gamer, an RPG veteran, and general all-around geek.

I'm also a big fan of Felicia Day and "The Guild", so it wasn't too hard to stumble across this group.

I've pursued my love of fantasy and sci-fi as an author, publishing my first book, "The Gold Cat's Daughter" in 2011. It was one year earlier that my fan-boy dream came true and author Kim Harrison asked me to do some character art for her book "The Hollows Insider". It's been an amazing time for me recently and I'm hoping to meet lots of new people with similar interests. Who knows, maybe even earn a reader or two.

http://www.markrude.net

I'm Jo, 31yo in the Washington, DC area. Part time gamer, full-time SF&F geek. I've been avidly following Felicia's reviews on Goodreads for quite some time, so when she introduced the Vaginal Fantasy hangout I jumped right on board. I started reading SF&F books at an early age with Anne McCaffrey and MZB and have been hooked ever since.

I love the Vaginal Fantasy group and Sword and Laser because I'm getting introduced to new books and authors on a daily basis. My to-read list is becoming a little hard to manage though...I need more time!

Hi everyone. I'm Nicole, 28 years old, and while I'm from the San Francisco area, I'm currently living in South Dakota for this summer. I joined both Sword and Laser and Vaginal Fantasy last month. I found Sword and Laser through Geek and Sundry, and then a friend foundd Vaginal Fantasy and pointed me to it.

I'm having a blast so far, and while I haven't read a lot of this erotic fiction in the past, I must admit that with very close friends I have written some of it, though usually related to a story of some sort, such as what we are reading here. They have all been in good fun, and there are not exactly stories I'm looking to publish, just getting my imagination down.

Look forward to sharing thoughts on all of these books and getting to hear other's opinions on writing, style of scenes. Also, you girls, I love how you four talk. Makes me feel sane because that's how I talk with my female gamer friends.

Hello everyone. I'm Matt, from central Ohio. Never been apart of a book club but had previously joined in with the Sword and Laser club and was enjoying that and wanted to expand. Basically went from a non reader to consumer. Very happy to have found both Clubs.

Hi everyone. I go by Tangled (because I'm a mess, not because I'm a Disney fan). I joined because I was watching Felcia Day videos and decided the group looked interesting. I tend to like romance as a subplot as opposed to the main plot, but I do like many of the books discussed here. I admit that I occasionally crush on fictional characters, though that usually has more to do with what they say and do before anyone gets to a sex scene.

Hi, I'm Maribeth in Fairfield Iowa... I've been reading the books and following the streaming video club discussions for the last two months or more.... I'm enjoying the group, but NOT loving the books!

Hi, I'm Courtney and I live on the central Oregon coast. I'm 27 and I joined VF last month. I found the VF Hangout videos on a night of bored YouTubing and got hooked so I signed up to Goodreads to join the group!

I've always loved reading. I devoured books as a kid and as a teen but somewhere along the line I stopped finding time for it which always made me sad. I was hoping this group would start making me find the time to read again and it has. Its resparked my willingness to not game QUITE so much (but still a fair bit :p) and read instead.

The Hangout videos are, of course, my favorite part of this group but I am also having a lot of fun on the discussion board. Its really nice to talk to other people about the books I'm reading and see all of the differing opinions. I MAY even have to create a Twitter account and figure out the in's and out's for an extra layer of VF goodness. :)

Hi I am Alex from Ottawa in the great white north. This is my first ever book club but I have had a love of reading for many years and figured this is just a natural extension.

I am a career programmer by day and vigilante photographer/writer by night, which is the only way I get through my days actually.

Hello. I'm Heather. I'm 42 and my identity is largely wrapped up in my roles of wife and mother of four (all teens now, so I have more time to read. Yay!) I'm also a full-time student, which is so much more fun than housework.

I've been hooked on books since my fifth grade teacher read my class The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I enjoy a lot of genres but fantasy was my first love and will probably always be my favorite. I am also a mostly recovered WoW addict.

My journey to the Vaginal Fantasy Book Club started several years ago when some of my internet forum friends sang the praises of Firefly. This led me to Buffy/Angel/Whedon fandom. Later, during the writer's strike, I found Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog and became a fan of Felicia's and, in due time, a fan of the Guild. When she started the book club, well, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that I would be a fan of that, too.

Hey... I'm Nancy, 26, currently live on the west coast(WA)... I love to read! I was the kid that if I got in trouble my books were taken away, sitting down to reading was fun.

I landed in the VFHclub from following Felicia's GoodReads.. I think my fan moment started with diving into the Whedon fandom, and then I was pulled into WOW some years later by a friend and saw The Guild and so on.. Now here I am.

I read alot of Harlquin's from about 17-ish to 19, then I just stopped because the pattern of those books seemed the same.. so that's the extent of my romance/smuty reading... the biggest break in my casual reading happened while in college.. Just to many textbook/required books.. I've picked up a bit in the last few years.. I think the genre I read most is fantasy, but I'll give almost any fiction a go... I seem to like books that have alittle of everything! (ie. alittle fantasy romance with a mystery is awesome)

Hello all, I'm Candy (yes really, no I'm not a porn star). I'm 33 and live in Florida. I play with dangerous fish for a living and hit girls on roller skates for fun, and in my spare time (including at red lights, in the drive-through and in line at the bank) I read. A lot. My husband says we're probably going to have to claim bankruptcy just from my reading habits. Seriously though, I am a huge sci-fi and fantasy nerd from way back and often skipped lunch in middle and high school to visit the school library. I'm also a Felicia Day fan-girl, so when I found the book club after the second or third hangout, I made a girly squeal and joined immediately. I'm also a pretty rabid gamer...I don't sleep much.

Hi! I'm Julianna from the San Francisco Bay Area. I found my way here through a friend who posted a link to me on FB.

Let's see, I have two kids, 8 and 5. I teach special education.

I love the paranormal romance/smut. BDB, J.R. Ward, others like those.

Hello everybody, I'm Ryan from Colorado, 18 years old and I have always loved fantasy, high fantasy, science-fiction, emotional drama, and other genres of literature. I haven't read too much of these sorts of books before but, I don't see a reason why not to read them. I hope that I can add some good and interesting input on these books, also a fan of the Guild, and Dr. Horrible. Hahaha.

Howdy! I am Ashley from Northern California (Chico to be precise, but I originally hail from the Coast). I am 24 and a total nerd. I love comic books, book books, TV, and movies. I recently opened a WOW account and it has been eating up what little life I have. I read a bit of everything, but am currently on a fantasy kick thanks to Game of Thrones.

Hello folks. I'm Sophia, I'm 19 years old, have almost completed my first year of college (it's Dead Week right now... yaaaaaay... shoot me) and have spent my life in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I grew up on Pokemon, Harry Potter, and Star Wars so I can't really remember a time when sci-fi and fantasy haven't been a part of my life.

I started playing WoW when I was 13 and played for about five years before quitting and at some point early in the journey someone pointed me towards The Guild, which is how I first discovered Felicia Day. I've been following Vaginal Fantasy since it started, but so far really only the watch the videos. Kushiel's Dart is actually the first book they've chosen that I've read, and is one of my favorite series along with A Song of Ice and Fire, the Dresden Files, Codex Alera, the Sandman, and the Song of Albion trilogy.

I'm Tabitha. I love to read. Have been wanting to read the books in VFH and then found the group on Goodreads. Yay me!

oh, these rules won't be difficult; i ooze class like... i'll stop there because it was not going anywhere good.

hi, my name is John David. i stumbled across the VFH videos yesterday and had coincidentally finished reading the fifty shades trilogy just prior. when i started that first book i didn't know what it was. i download samples like ten at a time after looking through random top whatever lists without even reading the description, sometimes. so i had no idea the book was a romance. but by the end of the sample i liked it, and by the end of the book, i liked it a lot.

so here we are.

i started kushiel's dart last night and it seems like a good read. it hasn't gotten x-rated yet, but so far, i think the verdict is that i like romance novels. who knew.

mostly, i tend more towards scifi and fantasy, with an occasional jaunt into physics or technology, but recently, as you've seen evidenced by my having read the 50 shades trilogy, i've expanded into other genres. ..really only within the last two years or so. before that, it was rarely anything but scifi/fant or physics/tech.

i've just uploaded a few pictures where there was previously just the one (for my profile pic) so you can see that, yes, i am, in fact, strange. and proud of it. and handsome. and late for work... laters!

viva la story!

Hey everybody, I am Pippin. I am 22 and married, and my husband is an avid reader as well, just not quite as forum-y as me. :P I have watched all the Vaginal Fantasy vids and was hooked. Kushiel's Dart is the first book I have read along with you guys and I loved it! Can't wait to see what everyone else has to say about it.

I am a huge fan of erotic fiction, and an even bigger fan of fantasy. So this group seems like the perfect fit. :D

Hi All,
My name is Michelle and I am a veterinary student in Adelaide, Australia.

Being a fan of all things Joss Whedon and having many nerdy friends(who love both Table Top and The Guild), I of course follow Felicia Day on twitter. When I stumbled upon a live session of Vaginal Fantasy a few weeks ago I was hooked! I decided immediately to start reading the next book, Kushiel's Dart, and I already had Anne Bishop's stuff.

I have always loved reading, particularly high fantasy and a little bit of scifi. My love of romance in novels came when I was pretty young and discovered Jean M. Auel's epic saga of 'Earth's Children'.

I didn't know a lot of the paranormal romance/VF authors talked of in the Hangout I watched: likely because my romance tends to be historical romances picked up at op-shops or cheap reads by new authors in iBooks! But I also love fantasy and a lot of good authors were talked of- so can't wait till a few of those creep into the discussion.

Also, when I saw Bonnie drinking wine I knew I would watch again! (Being from South Australia, I love my wines!)

Can't wait for the next one! :)

Hey all!

I'm Krystal, from the USA. I'm a graduate student in anthropology (focusing on bioarchaeology), so I don't know that I'll be able to be too terribly active in this group because I'm teaching and doing research when I'm not taking classes. We'll see what happens. :o)

Like most people in this group, I love spec fic. I especially like urban fantasy, and am currently reading Royal Street by Suzanne Johnson. It takes place in New Orleans during Katrina, and since I finished my bachelor's degree at Tulane (and Johnson worked there), I've especially enjoyed this book.

Anywho. Fav authors include Jim Butcher, Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells. I also really like Martha Wells' Raksura books.

Okiedokie. That's it for now. Looking forward to hanging out--as much as I am able!

Hello I'm Sherlene and I love reading but, I have kind of stepped away for a bit. I have a love a Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror and Mystery. Now that I have 3 kids, my reading has been a lot of Dr Seuss different Chapter books. Plus I do a lot of gaming with my guild as well as solo. I love Skyrim, Gears of War, Diablo, Left 4 Dead. Just to name a few. I consistently trying to teach my kids the way of the geek. Now I have a lot more me time and I'm going to use every bit of it.

Hi, I'm Rachel,
I have always loved books and that love has brought me all the way through my Master's in Library Science. I discovered video games along the way and was actually able to do my final project on information seeking behaviors of World of Warcraft gamers.

I have not read ANY erotica/erotic fantasy ever, so Kushiel's Dart will be my first. I'm always interested in meeting and chatting with new people.