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Welcome to the ROOTers. Happy New year and please join the group if you want your ROOTs to count in the grand total!

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

>3 rabbitprincess: Thank you so much. You as well.

1 JAN 2024:

A Corner of The Universe
Paperboy
The Night Diary
Fighting Words
The Book of Boy
We Dream of Space
What Hearts
The Moves Make The Man
One Came Home
Three Times Lucky
10

Scary Stories For Young Foxes
Freedom Over Me
Dark Emperor And Other Poems of the Night
Carver - A Life in Poems
American Plague
The Tombs of Atuan
The Dark-Thirty
The Surrender Tree - Poems of Cuba's Struggle For Freedom
Catherine Called Birdy
The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
20

Genesis Begins Again
On My Honor
Savvy
The Planet of Junior Brown
The House of the Scorpion
Upon The Head Of The Goat - A Childhood In Hungary, 1939-1944
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Sweet Whispers Brother Rush
To Be a Slave (1969 Honor)
Winterbound
30

The Winter Room
Middle Moffat
The King's Fifth
The Wanderer
4

The Secret Garden
Enola Holmes And The Black Barouche
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
Enola Holmes And The Boy In Buttons
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Child Of The Owl
When Women Were Dragons
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye
A Tale of The Western Plains
40

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Sea of Trolls
The Land of The Silver Apples
Gingersnap - ADJ
Tom's Midnight Garden
Ben And Me
Redwoods
The Universe In You - A Microscopic Journey
Chinese New Year, jango
Water Is Water - A Book About The Water Cycle
50

PICTURE BOOKS:
Gravity
Your place In The Universe
Nine Months - Before a Baby Is Born
Tumble

OTHER:
The Original Bambi - The Story of a Life in the Forest
Forestborn
The Napping House

Welcome back!

>7 cyderry: Thank you

Best of luck with your reading goals this year!

>9 Jackie_K: Thank you. yours, too.

My pace has picked up quite a bit in the last 30 days, though, I doubt that I can keep it up.
1. Switched to a bigger library so, i no longer have to wait; larger selection; and no transportation
2. Of course, if I don't take time to scribble about my reading, - I can just read in a solid stream. However, I do want to scribble.

Welcome back and happy reading!

>13 MissWatson: Thank you.

Officially reached my goal.

Okay, that's early in the year. Congrats.

>16 connie53: Thank You. Using a new library with thousands more books and able to check out 15 at a time. Ive gone through around 50 Newberys in two months. It would be nice if I could finish them all this year - but who knows.

That's another challenge!

wow! already done?!? Sure you don't want to change your goal?

>19 cyderry: Thank you, I don't. I felt so pressured last year. I read over 700 books (many small children works) but, I felt as though I were avoiding roots and similar projects. So, perhaps, by having it out of the way I can read more roots, and quit avoiding them with other books.

I could be wrong but its my current theory.

Between aging brain syndrome and being forced to continue working beyond my capacity, I never know when I will lose desire/capacity for reading. So, I made a smaller goal; a smaller pressure; and will see if I get more - or less accomplished in reading goals this year. I admire those people that can navigate multiple reading groups; but, I struggled to keep updated with clicker/ticker in this one group. And darn it to heck! now the snow has arrived and I have to get up even earlier to shovel snow to get to work. bleah face :-(

Perhaps I should re-clarify my methodology from my original thread of 2023.

1. I am counting all books, previously, on my bookshelves. I haven't bought any new books in years.

2. also virtual books. These are books I own on formats such as kindle, etc. I own only a handful of these; and virtual catalogue. These are books already entered into LibraryThing in anticipation of reading at a future moment.

3. counting children's works. Young adult works. Picture Books. I finished all the Caldecott's last year, so there will be significantly fewer this year.

4. counting (and prioritising) Newbery Honor books as I am finishing that project. Includes all Newberys- even those not on my shelves- as this is a project I began several years ago. I began this project, in earnest, in 2015. I am anxious to be done. I believe I may finish them all in 2024, now that I gave myself such a boost in December and January. Many of these titles were in my virtual catalogue - in anticipation of reading and ready to be dated after reading. Virtual catalogue, means that I have entered them here on LibraryThing, even though, I had not, yet, read them.

5. counting books I began earlier. I have numerous relatives moving in and out and I find books that I started in one room, that I vacated for guests, and come across later.

6. counting re-reads - should they occur

So, I'm not just reading willy-nilly. There is plan and procedure.

JANUARY CONTINUED:

NEWBERY HONOR:
A Corner of The Universe
The Book of Boy
What Hearts
Paperboy
Fighting Words
The Moves Make The Man
The Night Diary
We Dream of Space
One Came Home
Scary Stories For Young Foxes
10

Freedom Over Me
Dark Emperor And Other Poems of the Night
Carver - A Life in Poems
American Plague
The Tombs of Atuan
The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - B/S
Genesis Begins Again
The Dark-Thirty
Surrender Tree
Three Times Lucky
20

Catherine Called Birdy
On My Honor
Savvy
The Planet of Junior Brown
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The House of the Scorpion
Upon The Head Of The Goat - A Childhood In Hungary, 1939-1944
Sweet Whispers Brother Rush
To Be a Slave (1969 Honor)
Winterbound
30

The Winter Room
The King's Fifth
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Figgs & Phantoms
A Wish in the Dark
Middle Moffat
The Wanderer
The Avion My Uncle Flew
The Road Home
Eleanor Roosevelt - A Life of Discovery
40

OTHER:
The Secret Garden - RE-READ
Becoming Muhammad Ali - ADJ
Enola Holmes And The Black Barouche
Enola Holmes And The Elegant Escapade
Enola Holmes And The Boy In Buttons
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye - RE-READ
Child Of The Owl - ADJ
When Women Were Dragons - ADJ
A Tale of The Western Plains
50

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Sea of Trolls - ADJ
Gingersnap - ADJ
Captains Courageous - ROSALITA/JULIA
The Land of The Silver Apples - ADJ
Tom's Midnight Garden
Ben And Me - ADJ - RE-READ
The Original Bambi - The Story of a Life in the Forest - Re-read new translation
Forestborn
The Magic Cave
60

The Magic Coin
Far To Go
Owl Service
Walden
The Light In The Forest
5

PICTURE BOOKS:
Redwoods
The Universe In You - A Microscopic Journey
Water Is Water - A Book About The Water Cycle
Chinese New Year, Jango
Gravity
Your place In The Universe
Nine Months - Before a Baby Is Born
Tumble
Once Upon A Twice
The Napping House
70

Who's That Knocking On Christmas Eve?
The Turnip
The Tale Of The Tiger Slippers
Why The Sea Is Salt?
Carnivores
Why The Sea Is Salt? - Mary Howitt
Why The Sea Is Salt? - Andrew Lang
Coral Reefs
8

86 Roots -(unless I add something in 24 hours)
40 Newbery Honor
84 in my Book List
4 (Four Essays/ Reviews

Ended up buying books for the first time in years. Didn't want to. Was given a B & N gift card for my birthday. Found some Newbery Honors.

FEBRUARY:

NEWBERY/HONOR:
Scorpions
Crazy Lady!
Wringer
Getting Near to Baby
The Wright Brothers - How They Invented The Airplane
In The Beginning - Creation Stories From Around The World
Perilous Gard
Afternoon of The Elves
After Tupac And D Foster
What Jamie Saw
10

Yolonda's Genius
The Ear The Eye The Arm
Gandhi Fighter Without a Sword
Mountain Born
Bright Island
Solitary Blue
Homesick - My Own Story
Ring of Endless Light
A Girl Named Disaster
Shabanu - Daughter of the Wind
20

Dragonwings
CARNEGIE:
The Little Book Room
ADJACENT:
Summer of My German Soldier
A Long Road on a Short Day
One Smart Sheep
Will You Sign Here John Hancock?
Why Don't You Get a Horse - Sam Adams?
Who's That Stepping On Plymouth Rock?
And then what happened, Paul Revere?
Alexander Hamilton - The Outsider
30

PROJECT NEWBERY:
The Rest and Be Thankful - An Infamous Road Through 'A Mountain In Torment'
An Odd Kind Of Piety - The Truth About Gandhi’s Sex Life
Gandhi Is Deeply Revered - But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny
WW2 Metal Factories Were 'Hell On Earth' Where Women Were Scalped And Men Decapitated
How This ‘Vintage’ Baking Soda Grew Popular on the Oregon Trail
The Original Bambi Isn't Kid's Stuff — And It Carries Significant Lessons For Today
Book Review - The King's fifth
Books Gave Me the World

OTHER:
The World Was Never the Same - Events that Changed History
The Great Debate
Beyond The Betrayal
1177 BC
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Hidden Figures
Burning The Books
Before 1776
In Europe's Shadow
The Wright Brothers
40

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
Snow Child
42

YOUTH:
Bullfinch's - Age of Fables
National Parks of The USA
The Wishing Tree
Letters For Father Christmas
Ballet Shoes
47

PICTURE BOOKS:
Mouse Tales
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
Almost Time
50

HOW?! Teach me your ways!

>27 handshakes: chuckles. some of them are picture books. I try for one book a day. Over the weekends, I try for more. I am slowing down. I knew I couldn't keep the pace Forever. I just really was motivated to finish as many Newbery Honor Books, as possible. I want to finish the Last of them, so that I can tackle so many other books.

Ohhh are most of them children's books?

>29 handshakes:
there is more than that - but, yes, sometimes i can knock out a handful of picture books; 2-3 young adults, in between something more rigorous. Realistically, I could read a Dickens every day; or a NF sociology every day, but I like to mix it up. Not sure how much History, I've done yet this year, but I feel as though, I did a reasonable amount, last year. Not sure the NF books are always much thicker than the YA. Reading Hume or Nietzsche might slow me down, these days, but your basic NF doesn't drag along. There are some days my brain slogs and I end up reading the book twice, but it has not been too bad the past few months. Highly unlikely, I will attempt anything, tonight after a 12 hour shift.

How many hours a day do you read?

It varies. 8 to 12. But I can sneak in a chapter here and there sometimes at work. If I drive a client around town, I can sneak in a chapter or two when the client is in a store.

>32 EGBERTINA: Holy smokes! Way to set the bar! That's definitely goalz :D

Dang. How many hours a week do you work?

between 30 - 40; some days, such as yesterday, I fill in for someone else; that is harder . i try to find the balance between helpful and killing myself for ingrate employers that couldn't care less about you as a human as long as somebody shows up.

>35 EGBERTINA: Yes, don't do that! To them you're just a body.

This is the most amazing amount of reading I have ever seen! Well done you!

>37 LisaMorr: Thank you. not certain if it is more or less than last winter. I usually tucker out, soon.

MARCH:
NEWBERY/HONOR
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time
Philip Hall Likes Me, I reckon Maybe
The Loner
Theodore Roosevelt
America Moves Forward
Young Walter Scott - 36
All Sail Set: A Romance of The Flying Cloud - 36
Whistler's Van - 37
Phoebe Fairchild: Her Book - 37
Our Eddie
10

Blue Sword

OTHERS:
The Magic World
One Hundred Saturdays - Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Hidden Black History
The Thin Man
In Freedom's Cause - A Story of Wallace and Bruce
America Grows Up - A History for Peter - ADJ
The Poor Little Rich Girl
When I First Came To This Land
The Devil's Arithmetic
Pierre Lapin
20

The Presidency
The Protestant Tutor

FEB- stopped at 149

PROJECT NEWBERY:
Mrs Field Mouse's Dinner Party
The Misunderstood Asthma of Theodore Roosevelt - Abstract
Scum Of The Earth
What Is The CAWPILE Review System?
All Through The Night
The Sands of Dee
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid - (Sir She Said)
Dabbling In The Dew
The Fairies
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
10

How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness
Book Review - Donner Pass and Those Who Crossed It George R. Stewart 1960 96 pages
The Reiver's Wedding
Oranges and Lemons
Marching Through Georgia
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
Auld Lang Syne
Press On
I'm Nobody Who Are You?
Outwitted
20

Who Has Seen The Wind
Trees
Destruction of Sennacharib
The Village Blacksmith
A Red Red Rose
Song - To Celia (Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes)
The Wreck Of The Hesperus
See It Through
The Tyger
The Highwayman
30

The Lady of Shalott
Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee
Hope Is A Thing With Feathers
Jabberwocky
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee)
Ozymandias
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Road Not Taken
Still I Rise
40

Auld Man's Mare's Dead
Auld Robin Gray
The Broom Of Cowdenknowes (Bonny May)
Flowers Of The Forest
Farewell to the Banks of Ayr
The Holy Fair
Cumnor Hall
Robin Hood And Guy of Gisborne
Sir Andrew Barton
HardyKnut
50

An Address To The Inhabitants Of Boston (Particularly The Thoughtless Youth) Occasioned By The Execution of Levi Ames
Edward, Edward (Ballad)
The Gaberlunzie Man (Jolly Beggar)
Fair Rosamond
A Yankee Ship (Blow Boys Blow)
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
The Wellerman
The Building Of The Ship
Blood On The Risers (Gory Gory What A Helluva Way To Die)
60

What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?
Hoist The Colours
Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare Ye Well)
Leave Her Johnnie Leave Her
As Pants The Hart For Cooling Streams
The Blue And The Gray
Jog On, Jog On The Footpath Way (Autolycus' Song)
Cushy Cow Bonny
Two Birds
Cold And Raw The North Winds Blow (Winter Song)
70

The Mail Coach
Nose, Nose, Jolly Red Nose
The Farmington Canal Song
As The Dew Flies Over The Mulberry Tree (Jennifer Gentle)
Milkman Milkman Where Have You Been
Colonial Cooking

APRIL:

Lone Journey - 1945
Hello the Boat! - found - 39
Nino - found - 39
Leader By Destiny - 39
Audubon
Eagle Drums - 2024
Mexikid - 2024
Elf Dog And Owl Head - 2024
America Is Born
Down Ryton Water

OTHER:
Flying Dutchman
Roger Williams And The Creation Of The American Soul - Church State And The Birth Of Liberty
Escargot For It
Puck of Pook's Hill

THE ONLY TRUE MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES - WITHOUT ADDITION OR ABRIDGEMENT - EMBRACING, ALSO, A RELIABLE LIFE OF THE GOOSE FAMILY - NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED - NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.

The British Empire - An American View Of Its History From 1776 To 1945
Pattern For Liberty - The Story Of Old Philadelphia
Under the Whispering Door
Cat of Bubastes
Navigating Early
10

The First Captain - The Story of John Paul Jones
Earning the Rockies

MAR - 243

Mother Carey
Mother Carey - As Told Me By The Bo'sun
Folklore And Nature - Mother Carey and her Chickens
Anchor Song
MEANING AND ORIGIN OF ‘MOTHER CAREY’S CHICKEN’
Roll And Go My Johnny
Dreary Dreary Life
Fierce Indignation
TLGWPWTLHG
WPGWRAWFBJ
10

The Old Clock On The Stairs
Clocks Auden
Clocks Sandberg
Grandfather's Clock
Sequel To Grandfather's Clock
Unknown Lister
Benedicte Omnia Opera Domini (Oh All Ye Works Of The Lord)
Te Deum (Latin) x2
When Good King Arthur Ruled This Land
O God Our Help in Ages Past
20

Lord It Belongs Not To My Care
Natty Sam
Hark From The Tombs A Doleful Sound
Springfield Mountain
Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie
Ocean Burial (Bury Me Not In The Deep Deep Sea)
O Write Upon My Memory Lord
Against Pride in Clothes
As I Was Going to Sell My Eggs
Blood Red Roses (Sea Shanty)
30

Hanging Johnny
The Declaration of Independence, Jefferson
Yankee Doodle
Hail Columbia
Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross
London Bridge, traditional
Death Like An Overflowing Stream
Diglety Diddledy
My Mammy's Maid
Hey Diddle Diddle
40

WhenThe Warrior Returns
For Every Evil Under The Sun
Heaven And Hell, WATTS
Haul Away Joe

MAY:

NEWBERY/HONOR:

The Corn Grows Ripe
The Heavenly Tenants
Runner Of The Mountain Tops
Rufus M
Nansen - 1941
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver - 1941

1940:
Boy with a Pack - maybe
1943:
Have You Seen Tom Thumb? - nope
1944:
Mountain Born
1945:
Silver Pencil
1946:
The Moved-Outers - FOUND
Bhimsa, the Dancing Bear
New Found World - nope
1947:
The Wonderful Year - nope
Big Tree
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston - nope
1948:
Pancakes-Paris - nope
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories
1949:
Daughter of the Mountains
Story of the Negro - nope
1950:
Tree of Freedom - sb
Kildee House - maybe
George Washington
Song Of The Pines - nope
1951:
Better known as Johnny Appleseed - maybe
Abraham Lincoln: friend of the people - FOUND
1952:
Americans Before Columbus
1954:
Hurry Home, Candy
Magic Maize
1955:
Banner In The Sky - found
1956:
The Secret River found
The Golden Name Day - nope
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things
1957:
The House of Sixty Fathers - shelf
Mr. Justice Holmes - nope
1958:
tom paine nope
horsecatcher -FOUND
The Great wheel lawson - FOUND
1959:
Family Under The Bridge - shelf
Chucaro - FOUND
1960:
America IS BORN - found
Gammage Cup - FOUND
1961:
Old Ramon - FOUND
1963:
Men of Athens - NOPE
Thistle And Thyme - NOPE
1966:
Animal Family - shelf
Noonday Friends - FOUND
1967:
Zlateh - shelf
Jazzman - NOPE
1969:
Schlemiel - NOPE
1970:
The Many Ways of Seeing - NOPE
Journey Outside - FOUND
1971:
Enchantress of The Stars - hb/que/el
1972:
Incident At Hawk's Hall - shelf
1973:
The Witches of Worm - col
1978:
Anpao - FOUND
1983:
Commodore Perry - FOUND
1988:
After The Rain - bov/if/

Le Morte D'Arthur
Tales From Earthsea
Daddy-long-legs
The Arabian Nights - Their Best-Known Tales
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies
Naturalist
The Labors of Hercules Beal
The Secret Chord
Young Onset Dementia
The Homework Myth
The Screwtape Letters
Grain Brain - The Surprising Truth about Wheat - Carbs And Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers
Darkrose And Diamond
When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart - Coping With Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, And The Problems That Tear Families Apart

MAY:



april 309

Congratulations on your ROOTing progress! Wow! I understand your reasoning keeping your goals lower this year.

>47 Ann_R: Thanks.

MAY - PROJECT NEWBERY:

When The Warrior Returns
Rise Columbia
Annie Laurie (Maxwelton Braes)

Johnny Went Down In A Bucket
There Was A Bee
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (Frog Went A-Courtin variation)
Frog Went A-Courtin (Ruth's Version)
Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross - Variations