MARCH ROOT - Progress thread

The second month of our 2013 challenge is over and we are continuing to do great!





So, let's keep these tickers (password ROOT) moving with everyone adding their progress to the comprehensive goal for all of us. We need to have a total of 1,332 by the end of March to stay on track. We can do it!

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The ticker thread (http://www.librarything.com/topic/148710) is a
great help in crunching the end of month numbers so if you haven't already
posted your ticker there, please do! if there is a * by your name , it indicates there is a ticker on your thread but not on the ticker thread and a & indicates no ticker. This just tells me where I need to go to get the numbers that are not on the ticker thread. I try to keep up on the personal threads during the month, so having to revisit to gather numbers can be a bit time consuming if the system is slow. Any help is appreciated. So if you have a ticker made already , please think about copying the HTML to the ticker thread.

Thanks for your help!
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So, now, Ladies and Gentlemen, BOOKLOVERS - get back out there and read those BOOKS!

Here are the individual numbers so far. Please let me know if I need to update anyone.

ABVR 9 / 50 18%
alphaorder 6 / 30 20%
ALWINN 5 / 40 13%
Ameise1 2 / 10 20%
amz310783 22 / 80 28%
AnneHudson 8 &/ 50 16%
antqueen 8 */ 60 13%
auntmarge64 7 / 60 12%
bahzah 7 */ 30 23%
BBleil 2 &/ 24 8%
Belladonna1975 0 */ 60 0%
benitasrnad 8 &/ 30 27%
billiejean 7 */ 30 23%
booksloth 11 / 50 22%
Bowerbirds-Library 3 / 50 6%
bragan 18 / 100 18%
brewergirl 7 / 35 20%
carmenere 9 / 26 35%
chexmix 5 &/ 75 7%
christina_reads 5 / 20 25%
cindysprocket 11 &/ 50 22%
clue 6 / 30 20%
Conachair 9 / 50 18%
connie53 6 / 20 30%
craso 1 / 12 8%
CrazyMamie 12 / 40 30%
cyderry 17 / 105 16%
deep220 6 / 20 30%
DeltaQueen50 22 / 100 22%
DetailMuse 8 / 40 20%
doglover58 7 / 14 50%
dudes22 16 / 70 23%
edgewood 9 / 50 18%
Erratic_Charmer 15 */ 83 18%
FAMeulstee 3 / 12 25%
footnotefever 0 / 30 0%
fuzzi 9 / 30 30%
gennyt 12 / 70 17%
hairballsrus 8 / 35 23%
Heduanna 1 / 13 8%
HelenBaker 14 / 50 28%
hemlokgang 11 / 35 31%
lkernagh 7 / 30 23%
ipsoivan 12 / 50 24%
jebronse 4 / 10 40%
jennyes2011 2 */ 10 20%
JoLynnsbooks 0 / 50 0%
jonesli 26 / 175 15%
kac522 4 / 29 14%
karen_o 4 */ 40 10%
karspeak 4 / 30 13%
kaulsu 7 / 100 7%
kelsiface 14 / 25 56%
kirconnell 3 &/ 30 10%
kiwiflowa 4 / 25 16%
kkunker 3 / 24 13%
konallis 4 / 30 13%
lahochstetler 3 / 50 6%
laura_88 5 / 25 20%
LauraBrook 10 / 100 10%
laytonwoman3rd 7 / 35 20%
librariansteffen2, 10 / 48 21%
lilisin 0 / 5 0%
lindapanzo 19 / 75 25%
LittleTaiko 11 / 30 37%
lizamichelle1 7 / 50 14%
LucindaLibri 6 / 50 12%
luisali 17 / 50 34%
mabith 5 / 12 42%
majkia 19 / 40 48%
mandymarie 25 / 250 10%
mareofthesea 24 / 60 40%
MaskedMumbler 0 / 35 0%
melonbrawl 5 / 25 20%
midnightlouie 2 / 20 10%
MissDotty 0 / 20 0%
mmignano11 6 / 75 8%
moonshineandrosefire 17 / 111 15%
Nicholette 15 */ 100 15%
Nickelini 9 / 50 18%
NielsenGW 19 / 75 25%
paeonia 0 / 24 0%
pcktlnt 2 &/ 30 7%
Pigletto 11 / 60 18%
PolymathicMonkey 12 / 30 40%
psutto 11 / 80 14%
qebo 7 */ 24 29%
Quaisior 13 / 50 26%
rabbitprincess 11 / 50 22%
raidergirl3 11 / 25 44%
rainpebble 13 / 48 27%
ramblingivy 3 / 20 15%
riverwillow 4 &/ 100 4%
Robertgreaves 8 &/ 35 23%
ronincats 15 */ 40 38%
Samantha_kathy 7 / 50 14%
sandykaypax 2 / 12 17%
sarahbradshaw 5 / 30 17%
schatzi 10 / 75 13%
shearon 3 / 25 12%
shinyone 14 / 35 40%
si 1 / 10 10%
sjmccreary 1 / 15 7%
SqueakyChu 2 / 20 10%
staffordcastle 9 / 30 30%
streamsong 4 / 50 8%
susanj67 11 */ 30 37%
Tallulah_rose 3 */ 20 15%
Tanglewood 16 / 20 80%
thorold 9 / 60 15%
tloeffler 17 / 50 34%
torontoc 6 / 30 20%
tututhefirst 7 */ 15 47%
tymfos 9 / 60 15%
UtopianPessimist 0 &/ 42 0%
vancouverdeb 4 / 12 33%
Vivanofthe Lake 2 / 15 13%
VivienneR 13 / 50 26%
wildbill 4 / 25 16%
wi_jessamine 0 */ 12 0%

The following members have no goals set so they are not included in the numbers. Bu were glad that they are joining us in the fight against the unread book!

alexxxbtty5
aimeejo
AmyHannah
avatiakh
brandymcdonald
bryanoz
chatterbox
countrylife
cushlareads
fughjkg
heidilach
isabelx
jadebird
JenMillar
judylou
kaulsu
lbradf
lunacat
okeres
PensiveCat
RebeccaAnn
reflexandresolve
schweinsty
steven03tx
tfyugjh
the_red_shoes
thomasandmary
timorousme
XenaBallerina
lauranav
nhlsecord

Good luck with those ROOTs in March, everyone!

Sorry, cyderry. I've only upROOTed 8 so far this year.

Well hello, everyone! Welcome to March! So far, I've read 7 books in March! (as of March 26, 2013)



Here are my monthly totals again:

January 2013
Total books read: 9
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 7 (4 ebooks)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 17

February 2013
Total books read: 8
Total rereads: 1
Total acquisitions: 41 (6 ebooks)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 12

March 2013
Total books read: 7 (as of March 26, 2013)
Total rereads: 1 (as of March 19, 2013)
Total acquisitions: 7 (1 ebook) (as of March 20, 2013)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 9 (as of March 26, 2013)

April 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

May 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

June 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

July 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

August 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

September 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

October 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

November 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

December 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

Average time between acquisition and reading: approximately three years (gasp!)
Average number of rereads of acquisitions: 1
TBR books still waiting for new homes: 152

Here is the link to my personal thread as well: http://www.librarything.com/topic/147792

I do think, Cheli, that having a ticker only thread is so much easier than having to add it to the monthly thread every month (lazy me). That was a good idea.

First ROOT for March - The Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish. All tickers updated.

My first ROOT for March is a collection of short fiction by Rosanne Cash titled Bodies of Water. I've updated my own ticker.

I am definitely a bit slow this year but I have just added another book. Still must try harder! Good luck to everyone with their reading - I'll try to catch you all up :-)

Birds - don't pressure yourself. The reason I put the percentages down is so that those with small goals can feel that they are right up there with those with large goals. If you're in the pack with a bunch of readers, you're doing fine!

>6 dudes22::
dudes22; I hope you are enjoying your Radish. She is good for a hoot!~!

I am still on the same ROOTS I have been on for a week or two. The Children's Book (fairly large @ nearly 896 pages), and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. But I've been ill and I tend to only read at night so I'm not letting my speed bum me out. I will catch up later. Loving the Byatt and finding the Bronte just okay. It reminds me of a poor du Maurier but interesting enough to finish.

First ROOT finished in quite awhile. I've finished 20 books off my shelves now.

Note that we are already closing in on 1,000 books read. Let's keep it going!!

Wow Linda! I am impressed. You are my new hero girlfriend!

Wow...TWENTY BOOKS!!!!

Ha. Most of them were in January. Hardly any in February. Too much going on and a plethora of library books.

Finally finished another ROOT, bringing my tally up to 10 - I have updated the ticker.

Finally read my first book of the year and it's also my first ROOT! Back story on my thread. Excited to finally be able to update my ticker!

My total should read 22 up to the end of Feb, sorry I haven't been on here to update sooner

I just finished my 20th ROOT, Fugitive Prince by Janny Wurts. Geez, that series... I need a month to rest up before I go on.

Am updating tickers.

I just finished #18 The Cove by Catherine Coulter

I finally finished a book... first one since Jan I do believe. The Worst Hard Time by Timpthy Egan. Now I am onto The Colony by John Tayman, about the lepers exiled to Molokai. I expect this may be a hard read for me, small dense type, so I may break my rules and start a second book with larger type so when my eyes get tired I can keep reading.

I got another one finished. Yeah!

Just keeping level with my 5 a month target so I'm getting to read lots of newer stuiff as well. I have given up on keeping track of new aquisitions becase it's just too depressing. Good luck in March everyone!

I have been doing abysmally badly- must do better! I keep getting tempted by the library.

First March ROOT finished last night, Gates of the Forest by Elie Wiesel. Can never go wrong with him. That brings me up to 13 total.

I have the same problem, @lahochstetler. Those non-ROOT books call to me as loudly if not more than the ROOT books.

I am determined that my next read WILL be a ROOT!

I've gotten 2 read this month, to bring my total to 12 so far this year. But, I'm working on quite a few of my own books this month (instead of just library books like last month - oops), so I'm hoping that I can get another 8 finished before April!

I've been doing much better than I'd anticipated. I've managed 6/10 reads as ROOTs both months. I was initially expecting like half that many. Yay for willpower to battle the evil library! hahaha.

No, don't say that...no library is evil.

Yeah for reading the unread books!

>22 Booksloth: Why is it depressing? You are putting down ROOTS for next year's challenge ;-)

>29 Robertgreaves: So often I wish there was a like button as on facebook! I feel so much better about my 19 new books. Thank you :-) Although I have enough books to keep me going for 3 or 4 years without purchasing any...

>28 cyderry: hahaha, it's evil if you own lots of unread books! And evil for being too tempting! ;P

>30 HelenBaker: - only 3-4 years? I wish that was all I had.

First one for March done. Tickers updated.

> 30 and 32: how about forever!

I completed 1 ROOT night before last, The Children's Book, and yesterday A.M. began my second for the month, Jane and Prudence. Yea me!

Finished one this morning. It was just ok for me, but hopefully it will find a new home at the library used bookstore.

2 audio stockpile books done!

We are ROCKING it!~!

Finished my first root of the month yesterday. Have updated tickers. Hopefully another in the next couple of days.

Another one for me - ticker updated.

I've finished my third root and have updated the tickers.

Finished my fourth root and have updated the tickers

Finished another root, Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly. Very clever indeed!

All tickers updated.

Finished Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, and indeed it was excellent. It's been on my shelf since August 2011--what a pity I waited so long! Tickers updated.

Another quick read to qualify for this thread, 2nd for the month. Will have a pause for a week to read my Early Reviewer book which alas does not qualify. tickers updated.

>29 Robertgreaves: I love this. I should celebrate the fact that I always have something great to read. But... oh, the angst.... Is this some kind of Calvinism?

I wonder if I am doing (suffering from?) something that is common to those who are new to ROOT? I began in January, full of vim to finish a bunch of unread books, but now find myself rereading early books in a series to get the most out of the still-unread later books.

I'm currently rereading (with great pleasure) Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, to be followed by The Confusion, so that I can finish the cycle with a ROOT, The System of the World. They are all long, and although I am chomping to read more ROOTS, I am enjoying the rereading -- but simultaneously longing to feel the uplift of having read a lot of unread books. Any thoughts?

I feel better now, @ipsoivan. I found a copy of book #2 in a series, one I'd never read before, but don't want to read it until I reread book #1!

Ah; the conundrum!

>47 ipsoivan: - 48

I feel the same but i'm fighting it with succes. I think I'm fairly good in reading a # 5 or 7 without rereading the previous books. My memory is good enough.

I used to re-read the earlier books in a series before I read the one that happened to be in my TBR pile but then I realised that meant reading the earliest ones a dozen times or more, so now I've decided only to read earlier ones when I've got the whole series.

I knew it would happen. Started out strong in January, but then I can't help myself - I buy and read new books. I did go 30 days earlier in the year without purchasing a book. Maybe it is time to do it again...

(49) @rainpebble ...now you've done it, you reminded me of Nash...

The Poultry

Let's think of eggs.
They have no legs.
Chickens come from eggs,
But they have legs.
The plot thickens:
Eggs come from chickens
But have no legs under 'em.
What a conundurum!~ Ogden Nash

Loving the Celtic harp at the top of the thread!

My first ROOT for the month is Scapegallows based on the true story of Margaret Catchpole. Absolutely fascinating and I can't believe it's been sitting on Mount TBR for several years now. So glad I finally got round to reading it!

ETA Tickers updated!

I've finished 3 ROOTS so far this month, making 12 for the year. Updating tickers.

>51 Robertgreaves: Ha! In January, I read the first in another series for the third time, the second and third for a second time, all so that I could enjoy the fourth. Unlike connie I don't have a good enough memory, especially when it comes to Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Even with my current rereading, I have to think hard about some of the characters who appear less often -- too many characters, too many changes of name as their efforts are rewarded with titles and so on. I have a tenuous hold on all this, but I'm enjoying the series immensely (again).

Congrats to us as we've blown past 1,000 books read so far. Collectively, we're doing great at clearing off our shelves!!

No ROOTs yet for me this month - but I did add a new book to my stacks. Princess Elizabeth's Spy.

Princess Elizabeth's Spy is great!

Another ROOT for me, No 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Updating tickers.

59 > Good to hear! I loved Mr. Churchill's Secretary so I have high hopes for this book. Actually, I'm totally in love with this series and hope that it will be a long one. I wouldn't mind following Maggie's adventures beyond World War Two!

Oh dear - In One Person just arrived. That may mean no more ROOTS for me this month.

I abandoned . . . And Ladies of the Club in favour of In One Person. While takig on board all the goods things I've hear about those ladies I think this one's been on Mount TBR for far too lonf now and it just doesn't appeal so it's going in the charity bag and counting as a ROOT. Feels like a bit of a cheat but it's time to acknowledge that I'm just never going to read it. I've added it to the tickers.

I'm not doing well on ROOT books this month: I have just finished a reread of a non-ROOT book, The Running Foxes, and then will read the sequel, Lakeland Vet which is new to me.

And THEN, time permitting, I'll reread "Rex" by the same author. Since it is a reread, I won't count it as a ROOT.

Sorry, all...my ROOT choices just aren't appealing to me right now. :(

@Booksloth, it's OFF your shelves, so that's not a cheat. You tried, and why waste time reading something that you aren't enjoying?

61>> the ER program has the third one up this month! I'm hoping to get it.

If I try to read a book and it just doesn't work I most definitely count it as a ROOT. It is off my shelf so it is a ROOT.

Another one off the shelf for me--Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym. Been hanging around here since 2011--if only I'd known how good it was! Still have several more Pym novels on my ROOT shelf, which I'm looking forward to.

I've now ROOTed 6 toward my goal of 29 books, and have updated all tickers.

Finished ROOT number 7 De donkere toren by Stephen King. I have update the group tickers and i will write something in my own thread later this day.

Another ROOT for me: The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry. This is really a re-read but read so long ago I'd forgotten most of the details, not to mention conflated much of it with a movie version I saw on A&E I think. The movie had changed some of the action around considerably, IIRC.

Anyway, updating all tickers

I have decided to purge, purge, purge.

I am visiting all of my shelves. Here are my criteria for KEEPING a book, otherwise, out it goes:
1. I have never read the book, but it still sounds interesting enough to me that might do so in the future
2. The book meant a lot to me when I read it and I want to remember that particular reading experience
3. It is signed by the author or is some other collectible (I have some unsigned special editions from by bookselling career).

I have only done one small shelf so far, but 6 books went off it! I am not counting these as ROOTs however, because I did not read them this year.

Still it feels good. And I will bring the boxes of purged books to Half Price. I hope I can get enough money to purchase a few of the 258 books on my wish list.

Nancy

I finished my 2nd March ROOT a week ago, forgot to mention it. I'm starting on #3 today :)

38 more books purged!

WOW Alpha, you are flying!

Now if I could only read a book or two off my shelves...

Stop Purging, start reading! ;-)

Finally, my first ROOT of March is finished. Now to find my ticker.
ETA: Ok! All tickers have been updated.

I just read book number 7- my definition for my ROOTS - books that have been on my TBR pile for 6 months or more.
My review is on my thread.

#3 for March complete :)

Just finished Quicksilver--all 960 pp of it. Unfortunately not a ROOT, but a reread. Booo.

22 more books purged this am. Ok, now I am really going to start reading.

Just finished Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien and have updated the tickers

I'm finding it slow going this month having only read 4 roots so far. I've been quite taken with library books this month. Two more library books to finish and then I hope to spend the rest of the month on Roots.

I've been busy with shiny 'new to me' books, and library books, too.

Bad, bad, bad fuzzi.

I have two ROOTs with me today (I'm proctoring an exam, and can't do much except sit online or read) and plan to at least attempt to read one of them. I am determined to get at least one more ROOT finished this month...

I've finished my 25th ROOT for the year, Doctor Thorne. As usual, an excellent Trollope. I can feel myself getting seduced by the new and shiny though, so I'm glad I planned to front load my challenge, so I won't feel so bad now that I'm likely to go off the rails, so to speak!

Am updating all tickers.

> Hi Jean, I am finding the same. Pleased I had an early raid on the shelves as now that the prizes are being announced, I am becoming a little sidetracked by the new and shiny and library books.

3 more ROOTs pulled by culling a trilogy off my shelves I am never going to read.

This is a good month for ROOT reading for me -- three more, for a total of 6 so far this month, 15 for the year! A Haunting at Hensley Hall, Time for God, and Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire. The book about the fire was very well-written. Updating tickers.

I'm going to remove All Quiet on the Western Front from my shelves: it just doesn't interest me at this time! I don't have a good reason to force myself to read it when I don't want to.

I'm culling my TBR stack and pulling ROOTS I am never going to read. Therefore, I've said goodbye to two fantasy trilogies I am never going to read, and as such I've pulled 6 ROOTS. And that without reading a word :D.

I've also just finished reading a ROOT, Dissolution, and will write a review for that one later today. I loved it and am glad I finally read it.

One more book read from my TBR tower
Number 8- How It All Began-review on my thread

And another ROOT removed, partly read:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I just couldn't get into the story. :(

That makes 2 ROOTs completed this month, for a total of 11 this year.

2 more ROOTS for March: Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. That brings my overall total to 10, and I have updated my own ticker.

Have to brag...

Grandchild #6 beautiful Miss Olivia Bryn made her appearance on March 21st at 4:33PM weighing in at 6 lbs. 7 ozs. exactly two months after her cousin Miller.


Now a breather until grandchild #7 arrives in September.

Oh how cute. Congrats, Cheli.

Congrats on the adorable new granddaughter, Cheli!

Congratulations!

She is gorgeous, Cheli. Congratulations.

Love the hat! Congratulations!

Great photo!

added one more book read this month #9 see my thread for the review

Just beautiful Cheli. Congratulations. Special feelings surface for wee grandchildren, eh!

Finished 2 more Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje and Knit Two by Kate Jacobs. Tickers updated. Hoping to fit one more in before the end of the month.

So far, I've finished 7 books in March; unfortunately, only 3 of them were ROOTs. That brings my total up to 17/35. Updating all tickers.

Two more ROOTs pulled! That makes 8 so far this month, and 17 so far for the year. The latest are Dangerous Undertaking by Mark de Castrique, and You Can't Lose 'em All: the Year the Phillies Finally Won the World Series, by Frank Fitzpatrick. Updating tickers.

I only managed one ROOT this month, but I am working my way through several more that I will finish in April. I am a non-ticker person, so please update on my behalf, thanks!!!

She is wonderful Cheli. Congratulations!

After 10 ROOTs in February I am almost ashamed to say that I have only managed 2 this month. But I am stuck on the Orange L/L books. What can I say? A girl must have her vitamin C. Tickers updated.

Well I'm doing really good bringing books into the house....

I have managed to read 3 roots so far in March. I suspect that might be my total for the month.

>93 cyderry: welcome Olivia Bryn. Chèli you're having almost as many grandchildren YTD as I'm getting books upROOTed!

Congrats on your new granddaughter, Cheli! She's beautiful!

Finally finished my third ROOT for March and recorded it on all tickers. It was Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman

No ROOTS for me in March. I've been too busy catching up on books that I've been loaned by friend and family and, of course, my nook is a constant distraction. It's just too convenient.

Two ROOTs for me this month, although I did not finish either one.

If I made a good faith effort to read my ROOT book, and it's "off my shelf", then it qualifies as a completed ROOT, "in my opinion". :)

I've added the 5 that I cleared in February and March to my thread and to the tickers up top.

I finished three ROOTS this month. Did not change any tickers.

Just finished Indigo, Madder and Marigold, and am updating the ticker.

I did not and will not finish any ROOTs (again) for this month. So, my ticker remains at 3 ROOTs read for 2013 and hope to get a grip on my reading habit next month.
Unfortunately I've borrowed some books by colleagues that I need to finish and give back. Additionally, I'm in no right mood to read anything currently. I hope that'll change again soon. Let's hope the Easter break brings some relaxed time.

I don't do tickers, but here are my stats as of the end of March 2013:

edgewood 10 / 50 20%

Hello Everyone! For most of this week, my cable company has been experiencing a higher number of outages than usual around the area which means that my Internet connection has been intermittent and I never know how long I have Internet access for a given day! :) It's not been too bad, I guess, but it is starting to get really annoying! :)

Anyway, I'm currently reading The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors, the Story of Three Sisters by Juliet Barker, which at 1,184 pages is definitely going to be my last ROOT for March. It is an ebook that Mareena bought for me back in January and so far, I've read 28% of the book - which means I've read approximately 331 pages, I think.

In keeping with the group theme, here are my March Totals:

Ancient Oaks Pruned: stands for older books read from my TBR pile: 2
Young Saplings Pruned: stands for newer books read from my TBR pile: 4
Trees Replanted: stands for rereads from my TBR pile: 1
New Seeds Planted: stands for additions to my TBR pile: 7
Trees Transplanted: stands for books that were donated: 9

I've been in one of those dreaded reading fogs this month, I've had a hard time deciding on what I wanted to read and consequently I've got 5 books going which is something I don't usually do and I keep casually drifting from one to the other reading a bit here and a bit there instead of finishing something!

Completed 2 ROOTS for March.

I now updated the master tickers with 1 ROOT.

Managed to finish 1 more. Tickers updated.

A big cheer for all!

I've read an enormous amount this month, but not technically ROOTS. One 1000 pager, and about half of another, both parts of a series that I'm rereading so that I can do full justice to the last in the series, another very long one that will be a ROOT. I'm enjoying every bit of this, but feeling somewhat guilty!

Before I started these, I read one short ROOT, and updated all tickers.

Thanks to the miserable weather, I've managed to read two detective stories already, and the Easter weekend isn't over yet...
Back on track with 15/60 completed.

I did really well, 12 roots for the month - but I'm really happy that I at last finished the 1,008 page Anna Karenina - hand cramps included!

Adding 3 more ROOTs for the month, since I (finally) decided to get rid of three unread volumes of a series that I have no interest in finishing. That brings me up to 20/35.

April thread is posted
http://www.librarything.com/topic/152134

Total of seven ROOTs through March -- right on pace for 25 for the year, but I wanted half to be Member Giveaways, and only 2 are so far. Got to get on that.

I haven't touched any tickers.

Report for March:

Trees uprooted: 3 physical, 1 virtual
Leaves swept up: 3
Added: 2 physical, 4 virtual

Total ROOTS in the year to date: 12

Uprooted this month were:

Henri J. M. Nouwen's Return of the Prodigal Son
Terry Pratchett's Soul Music
Homer's The Odyssey
Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad

Sorry work got too intense, so I had to check out for a few weeks. Fortunately I left what became the job from hell in the middle of March and my reading picked up immediately. I need to catch up with myself and am reading too many e-books, but have finished off a few more qualifying books.

Up-to-date ticker is here.

Forgot to add my most recent ROOT, so now I am at 17/50. I've updated my personal ticker :)

Thank you so much Cheli for all of your hard work!!

Just the one ROOT I've mentioned before. I really hope to read at least one ROOT in april.

My ROOT count at the end of the month is: 20/50! I've culled some books from my TBR stack, had one DNF book in the batch, and read 4 ROOTS. All in all a pretty good month for pulling those ROOTS!

I updated my own ticker, but not the main one (2 ROOTs in March).

Not a great reading month for me. Only two for this challenge leaving me at 16/50. However, I am still ahead after an early push. Hopefully a better month reading off the shelves this month.

I've ROOTed out 2 books for this challenge in March, for a grand total of 7. My ticker has been updated, but I haven't touched any group tickers.

March Totals:
Total TBR at start: 1072

Old TBR at start: 1063
Old books read: 7
Old Books dnf: 1
Old TBR at end: 1055

New TBR at start: 9
New books added: 5
New Books read: 5
New books at end: 9

Total TBR at end: 1064

Roots for this month: 7

Roots total: 29

I haven't touched any tickers

A bit late, but I have one to add for the March total :-)

Only updated my own ticker

I finally managed to update my ticker. I read 3 books in March bringing me to a total of 12.

Sorry I'm late, I've updated my ticker finally!
I did not touch the group ticker.

I am also late. I read 4 books for March, and I updated the ticker for the group.

In March I read another 3 ROOTS, and so my total should be 8/24. I have updated the group tickers.

I'm late with my March stats too. An unfortunate bout with bronchitis. I've added my numbers to the tickers.

March Statistics
Books Read - 5
Books Towards Goal - 30/250
Percentage Towards Goal - 12%
Books Kept - 4
Books Discarded - 1