General Chat

We still have books to give away as part of this month's book club. If you would like to receive a free copy of Sinead Moriarty's 'This Child of Mine' just send a message to the GenesBookClub account with your address and a book will be posted to you.

For those interested in joining the book club, we have posted the launch details here http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/hobbies_crafts/thread/1331351

Tabitha mentions that she believes Genes are only looking at ways to please their members,

One sure fire way - get the site to work properly, I am sure that would please many of them!!!

Moan! Moan! Moan! Moan!....*Sighs*......It is so good to be back :-D

thankyou gr for looking into my question if they will be doing cd I would like to belong to the book club

sally w <3

Sorry GlitterBaby - I'm not sure. Penguin have only sent us the titles of the first 2 books, both of which will be fiction.

Thank you for having removed the superfluous full stop in the link in the opening post in http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1331113 in the general board.

Also, thank you for the advice that it is a worldwide book club.

So are all the books being offered fiction or not ?

Hi everyone,

Just thought I would answer a few more of your questions.

For those members living abroad, yes you will still be able to receive the free books. We will post to any of our international members.

I have emailed our contact at Penguin to ask if there are any audio cd's or alternative formats of the books available for those members with restricted eyesight.

I think there may be a misunderstanding, we are not creating a new board for the Book Club, it will be a thread within the new Hobbies and Crafts board.

None of the Genes development team's time has been used to establish the book club, it is being managed by the marketing team on a trial basis.

We hoped that the Book Club would be seen as an additional benefit of being a member of Genes Reunited. No one is under any obligation to take part, but if you would like to receive a free book each month and participate in the discussions and reviews then we hope you will join. As a lot of you have mentioned, there is less activity on the boards of late, and we hope that this will give people a reason to come here and participate in discussions. Although the boards are primarily here for people to get help and discuss family history related topics, we know it is also a place where people make friends, and we encourage you to keep in touch and discuss other topics that you are interested in.

Thanks

I do the wine testing MO... not sure whether they can read my reviews afterwards.

Persie

GR have a wine sponsor as well...don't they?

Seems a tad superfluous to add a "Book Club" Board.

Then again....

What will be next-the Really Really Living Rellies Board?

Maureen

Before I get shot down in flames - this is just my own point of view

I think its basically a good idea - but wont take up the offer as find I have so little free time to be able to agree a time frame for a review -

I agree with some of the points made and think they are very valid and think a little more thought needed to go into the idea before it was put into print by the GR team -Overseas members - Large print & kindles (not that I have one) they all need to be considered

If you don't want your name & address passed on then you don't have to sign up to join - it really is that simple

I don't think GR had any intention to offend anyone - I just think they are trying to find ways to please their members. I wouldn't mind being on their team to offer constructive feedback.

The only problem is that most people want the old GR back (including the old style tree) before this new company took it over & turned it into the commercial disaster it is now. If its not broken don't fix it -

However It does seems that what ever the GR team try to do they get moaned at in all directions.

I am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt and try some of the ideas - if they don't work then I send them a message on the relevant thread as feedback - If its not something I want to do or join in I just ignore it.

I originally joined to get help with my tree & as somewhere sensible where I could ask for advice & in so doing have found some excellent friends which is a wonderful bonus & both them & GR helped me get through some very stressful & painful times when I was stuck at home with an illness & for that friendship & help I will always be grateful.

End of my Sunday soapbox session

Will all the books be fiction ?

namelessone

you're quite right!


I didn't join GR for "chatty" threads .............. I joined to do my own research, morphed into helping others more than doing my own ...............

now I spend more time on "chatty threads" because there is so little going on on the serious family history threads, and there are at least people around on the "chatty" ones.


Wish it was different, and more like it was only 2 or 3 years ago!

Genes keep adding new boards - all that means to me is more boards I'm not interested in.

I joined Genes to do my family history not to discuss knitting, quizzes, books etc.

Edit: goodness me I sound boring - but I would go elsewhere for those things just doesn't seem right on here.

I hav'nt read a book for over 4 years now as I couldn't hold a book for more than a few minutes nor turn the pages.

I presume that I will be exclueded as well will books be on cd as I can not read normal size print as I have sight problems

this is wrong for many reasons

please I would like an answer

sally w <3

Agree with you Persie, I have already mentioned the fact that the company I work for has blocked GR from it's employee's as it considers it to be a SOCIAL Networking site, not a serious Family History site, I can get the 2 other well known FH sites at work, but not the likes of Facebook, twitter etc

If GR sorted the order of the boards out so that all the chit chat is at the bottom and the family history boards are at the top it may be a start. something I have also mentioned to GR. And take out the word 'chat' too

And now they are adding a book club..........

And there are fare more publishers than Penguin.

So by joining you will be only supplied books being promoted by them

As I now read all my fiction via my Kindle, I read books by many and varied authors, many of whom self publish.

Wonders - how much is Penguin paying for this 'freebie'

Genes, why can't you stick to your knitting..

Your job is to provide a site that does not have error messages at every turn.

I have taken to after submitting my post to opening a new tab and this one generally shows me it has posted.. and the one I have submitted on whirrs around and around and then states problem loading page.

Your other job is to provide trees that people can manage and enter family history without returning to find that all they have added and saved is not there. I see this complaint time and time again.

Get the basics right first.

You are a genealogy site not a book club.

Persie