cyderry - Chèli's efforts to ROOT

So I'm here to READ OUR OWN TOMES (ROOT) - those that I already own!

2012 I set a goal of 80 (Nook books/Net Galley 25, Audio books 30, and ARDs 25). I finished with 95 (Nook books/Net Galley 37, Audio books 30, and ARDs 28). But again, I'd added more than 150. Net gain 55+
So in 2013, I upped my goal to 105. I needed to up my ROOTs in 2013 but instead of digging up more, I fell short of my goal. Maybe I was overly ambitous.
So even though I've been reading my books, my TBRs are still growing. (2013 they actually diminished by 15.)

So after much reflection. I've decided to set my goal in 2014 to 84 - 28 audios, 38 e-books, and 18 ARDs.
Goal:

Nook books/Net Galley 38 - Books off my Nook or NetGalleys downloaded to my Nook, or Books on my Kindle.
Audio books 28 - Books downloaded to my PC/MP3
ARDs 18 - Books that are already sitting on my shelves or ARCs/ERs awarded to me in 2014

For every ROOT successfully cleared in 2013 I put $1 in my book bank so that at the end of the year I have money for new books! I already have my wishlist created so before the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, I will place my order with Barnes & Noble for my Nook acquisitions and will have additional books to count. The book bank total may be added to if I receive any gift cards for Christmas.

ETA goal changed to 84 to average 7 per month.

1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2/4/14
2. A Deadly Grind
3. Anne of Green Gables
4. Home of the Braised
5. Final Sentence
6. Death Al Dente
7. The Marvelous Land of Oz
8. The Woggle-Bug Book
9. Guidebook to Murder
10. Deadly Endplay
11. Murder at Honeychurch Hall
12. Prime Minister's Secret Agent
13. Pecan Pies and Homicides
14. Something Old, Something New
15. A Murderous Glaze: A Clay and Crime Mystery
16. A Wicked Slice
17. The reflection of Queen Snow White
18. Canterbury Tales
19. The Proposal
20. The Escape
21. Ozma of Oz
22. Mrs. Hudson's Case
23. Mission to Murder
24. Freak of Freedom
25. Terminal City
26. Bookmarked For Death
27. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
28. Bookplate Special
29. A Wish and a Prayer
30.The Road to Oz
31.Madame Bovary
32.The Emerald City of Oz
33. Arabian Nights
34. If the Shoe Kills
35. Emerald Atlas
36. Tim Cratchit's Christmas Carol
37. Twisted Threads
38. Death Checks Inn
39. Murder at the Book Club
40. Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death
41. Toured to Death

★indicates prime candidates.

Candidates for Nook ROOTs:

✔★A Deadly Grind (A Vintage Kitchen Mystery)
✔★A Freak of Freedom; Or, the Republic of San Marino
✔★A Murderous Glaze: A Clay and Crime Mystery
★A Spoonful of Murder (A Soup Lover's Mystery) 2015
✔★A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel
★Allergic to Death (A Gourmet De-Lite Mystery) 2015
★And Then She Fell (Cynster Sisters Duo) 2015
✔★Anne of Green Gables (Modern Library Classics)
✔★Bookmarked For Death (Booktown Mystery Series)
✔★Bookplate Special (A Booktown Mystery)
✔★Canterbury Tales (Nook Version)
★Catching fire Nook Version
★Dead Politician Society: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel
✔★Emerald Atlas
★Ghost a la Mode (Thorndike Mystery) 2015
★In the Garden of Temptation 2015
★Love and Murder on the Queen Anne 2015
✔★Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
★Murder on the Cote d'Azure: A Maggie Newberry Mystery 2015
★Murder On The Mind: The Jeff Resnick Mysteries 2015
★Pinned for Murder (Southern Sewing Series) 2015
★Red Velvet Revenge (Cupcake Bakery Mystery) 2015
★Sherlock Holmes: The Montana Chronicles
✔★Something Old, Something New: A Blessings Novel Nook Version
✔★The Arabian Nights (Nook Version)
✔★The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection (7)
★The Hanover Square Affair 2015

Other distant possibilities:

Blood Ties (Julie Collins Series #1)
Cartographer of No Man's Land
Cross Roads
Dagger Before Me
Dead Letters: A MUSEUM MYSTERY SHORT STORY 2015
Deadly Sanctuary (Kendall O'Dell Mystery series)
Deadly Stillwater
Death by the Dozen (Cupcake Bakery Mystery) 2015
✔Death Checks in
✔Final Sentence
Foreclosed: A Mitzy Neuhaus Mystery 2015
Gingerbread Man
Heiress (Daughters of Fortune)
Intentions of the Earl: Scandalous Sisters, Book 1 (Volume 1)
Invisible (Ivy Malone Mystery Series #1)
Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy)
Napoleon's Pyramids
Natural Causes (The Inspector McLean Mysteries)
Never Buried: A Leigh Koslow Mystery (Volume 1)
The Princess and the Horse (The Princess and the Hound)
Saltwater Kisses
The York Rose
Whodunnit? Murder in Mystery Manor
Whodunnit? Murder on Mystery Island: 2

1. Fer-de-lance 1/25/14
2. The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared 1/29/14
3. The Curse of the Pharaohs
4. How the Light Gets In 2/20/14
5. The Whole Enchilada 2/26/14
6. Peter and the Starcatchers
7. Death Angel 3/14/14
8. Execution Dock 4/24/14
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? 4/30/14
10. Girl of his Dreams 5/9/14
11. An Incomplete Revenge
12. Shadow of night
13. Acceptable Loss
14. Beautiful Ruins
15. The Snowman
16. Water for Elephants
17. A Sunless Sea
18. The Mists of Avalon
19. Mornings on Horseback
20. State of Wonder
21. Wait until Next Year
22. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America
23. A Lesson in Secrets
24. About Face
25. Elegy for Eddie

Audio book probable candidates:
★indicates prime candidates

★A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
★A Distant Magic (Guardians (Del Rey))
★A Question of Belief
✔★A Sunless Sea (William Monk Series)
✔★About Face (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)
✔★Acceptable Loss (William Monk Series)
✔★An Incomplete Revenge - A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Unabridged)
★An Irish Country Village: A Novel, 2015
✔★Beautiful Ruins
★Bonesetter's Daughter
★Cloud Atlas
✔★Death Angel (Alex Cooper)
✔★Execution Dock (William Monk Series)
✔★Faithful Place
✔★Fer-de-Lance
★Golden Compass,
★Handle With Care
★Heretic's Daughter
★One Was a Soldier 2015
★Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
✔★Peter and the Starcatchers
★Sabriel
✔★Shadow of Night
✔★State of Wonder
★Summer Rental
✔★The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America
✔★The Curse of the Pharaohs
★The Garden Intrigue (Pink Carnation, Book 9) 2015
✔★The Girl of His Dreams
★The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, Book 3) 2015
✔★The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, Book 1)
✔★The Mists of Avalon. Book 1: Mistress of Magic
★The Pillars of the Earth
★The Sisters
✔★The Snowman
★The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
★The Warden
✔★Water for Elephants

Distant Maybes:
206 Bones(Temperance Brennan Series, #12)
"A" is for alibi
✔A Lesson in Secrets
A Secret Kept
A Taste for Death
All Over Creation
Backseat Saints
Betrayal of Trust
Bridesmaids Revisited (An Ellie Haskell Mystery)
DAYS OF GOLD
Dead Man's Chest (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander)
✔Eat, Pray, Love
Firefly Lane: A Novel
Heartstopper
Heavenly Pleasures
Home to Holly Springs
Honor Thyself
House of Velvet and Glass
I Shall Not Want
In the Company of Others: A Father Tim Novel
Kiss of Fate
Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club)
Last Lessons of Summer
Life Sentences
Murder In Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)
Murder in the Dark: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Over Sea, Under Stone (Dark is Rising Sequence)
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon 2015
Peter and the Shadow Thieves 2015
Peter and the Sword of Mercy 2015
PLAYING THE GAME
Queen of the Flowers
Rituals of the Season
Safe Haven
Sarah's Key
Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel
Sweetwater Creek
The Casual Vacancy 2015
The Columbus Affair: A Novel
The House I Loved
The King's Deception: A Novel (Cotton Malone)
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Perfect Poison (Arcane Society)
The Sisters brothers
The Vendetta Defense

ARDs (antique reading devices AKA books)

1. An Honest President - 1/6/14 leftover from 2013
2. Eggs in a Casket 1/15/14 ARC from author
3. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
4. League of Delphi 2/1/14
5. Christmas Hope 2/8/14
6. Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy 3/4/14
7. Inherit the Word 3/8/14
8. Steeped in Evil 3/18/14
9. A Snicker of Magic 3/30/14
10. Upright Piano Player 5/18/14 abandoned
11. Kate 6/27/14
12. Delicious
13. The Likeness
14. Nantucket Sisters
15. The Lies That Bind
16. Gossamer Ghost
17. Love Letters
18. The Queen of Four Kingdoms
19. Scorched Eggs
20. Polar Express

Probable candidates:
★25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know
★A Reliable Wife
★A Secret Affair (Huxtable Quintet, Book 5)
★A Ship to Remember: The Maine and the Spanish-American War
★Bianca: The Silk Merchant's Daughters
★Bridge Cardplay Pb
★Chesapeake Crimes
★Clobbered by Camembert (CHEESE SHOP MYSTERY) 2015
✔★Eggs in a Casket (Cackleberry Club Mysteries)
★Gilt By Association (A Den of Antiquity Mystery)
★Going, Going, Ganache (Cupcake Bakery Mystery) 2015
★House at Riverton 2015
★I'll Be Seeing You
★Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor 2015
★Knit Fast, Die Young: A Knitting Mystery 2015
★Larceny and Old Lace (Den of Antiquity)
★Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
★Never Seduce a Scoundrel (The School for Heiresses, Book 1)
✔★The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel
★The Delphi Deception: Book II of the Delphi Trilogy
★The Dressmaker
★The Hope Factory: A Novel
✔★The League of Delphi
✔★The Lies That Bind: A Bibliophile Mystery
✔★The Likeness: A Novel
★The Lusitania Murders
★Written in Stone (A Books by the Bay Mystery)

Distant Maybes:
20 YEARS AFTER
44 Charles Street: A Novel
A Bride in the Bargain
A Duke's Temptation: The Bridal Pleasures Series
A Face at the Window: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery (Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries)
A Good Yarn (Blossom Street, No. 2)
A Husband's Wicked Ways
A Killer Stitch (Knitting Mysteries, No. 4)
A Necessary Husband
A Night Like This
A Plateful of Murder 2015
A Precious Jewel
A Summer Affair: A Novel
A Wedding Story
A Wicked Lord At the Wedding
All Sales Fatal (Mall Cop)
✔An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
An Indecent Proposition
An Unlikely Countess: A Novel of the Malloren World
Beauty to Die For: A Spa Mystery
Candle in the Window
Dancing at Midnight
Death at Bishop's Keep
Death on Demand/Design for Murder
Devil's Daughter
Everlasting
Fascinated
Fed Up (Gourmet Girl)
French Pressed (Coffeehouse Mysteries, No. 6) 2015
Ft-Blue Bayou
Going Through the Notions (A Deadly Notions Mystery) 2015
Gone
Great Detectives
Hanging By A Thread 2015
Hearse and Buggy (An Amish Mystery)
His Every Kiss
His Favorite Mistress: A Novel
Irresistible
It Happened One Season
✔Kate
Kissed by Shadows
Mallets Aforethought (Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries)
March
Midsummer Magic
Mind Over Murder (A Raven's Nest) 2015
Muggles and Magic: An Unofficial Guide to J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter Phenomenon
Nail Biter (Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries) 2015
Naughty Neighbor
Never Less Than a Lady
Night Shadow
Night Storm
Noble House
Northern Lights
Of Human Bondage
Only a Duke Will Do (The School for Heiresses, Book 2)
Plain Truth
Priceless
Red Hook Road
Repair to Her Grave (Home Repair Is Homicide) 2015
Sense and Sensibility
Silver Lies: A Silver Rush Mystery
Sup with the Devil (An Abigail Adams Mystery)
Sweet Savage Love
Talk of the Ton (Berkley Sensation)
Ten Things I Love About You
The Angry Tide
The Chocolate Snowman Murders: A Chocoholic Mystery
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
The Deerslayer or the First War-Path
The Distant Hours
The Diva Frosts a Cupcake 2015
The Golden Door
The Greatest Lover in All England
The London Blitz Murders (Disaster Series)
The Lucifer Code
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
The Marriage Bed
The Perfect Mistress 2015
The Princess and the Pea
The Queen's Bastard
The Rebel Bride
The Retribution
The Runaway Princess
The School for Brides (A School For Brides Romance)
The Secret Mistress (The Mistress) 2015
The Setting Trick: Practical Problems in Bridge Defense
The Sorcerer's Companion
The Third Secret
The Virgin's Secret
The Widow of Larkspur Inn
The Wild Baron
Through a Glass Darkly
To Be the Best
To Taste the Wine
Tool & Die: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery
Triple Witch: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery 2015
Under Orders
Unhinged: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
Vanity Fair : A Novel Without A Hero
Warrior's Woman
Wedding of the Season: Abandoned at the Altar
Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery 2015
Winning American Mah Jongg Strategies
Wreck the Halls
Yesterday & Forever

Again this year I want to track how many books come into my house - whether I purchase them or win them in giveaways or get an ARC - so here are tickers for that.



Books Bought

1. ✔Home of the Braised 1/7/14 $7.99 Nook
2. ✔Death Al Dente 2/3/14 $7.99 Nook
3. Front Page Fatality 2/3/14 $2.99 Nook 2015
4. Board Stiff 2/3/14 $2.99 Nook
5. Zelda: A Biography 2/4/14 $1.99 Nook
6. No Lesser Plea 2/24/14 $1.99 Nook 2015
7. Dear Cary 2/28/14 $1.99 Nook
8. Pieces of My Heart 3/10/14 $1.99 Nook
9. Jury of One 3/10/14 $2.67
10.Forecast of Evil 3/10/14 $2.66
11.Marked by Fate 3/10/14 $2.66
12. Staged to Death 5/13/14 $1.99 2015
13. Perfect Pitch 6/4/14 $0.99
14. Read It and Weep 9/16/14 $7.99 2015
15. The Last Word 9/16/14 $7.99 2015
16. The Christie Curse 9/16/14 $7.99 2015
17. Beyond Seduction 9/16/14 $7.99 2015
18. Killer Librarian 9/16/14 $7.99 2015
19. Thread and Buried 10/13/14 $7.99 2015
20. Thread Reckoning 10/13/14 $7.99 2015
21. Temptation and Surrender 10/13/14 $7.99 2015
22. Cocaine Blues 10/16/14 $0.99
23. The Viognier Vendetta 10/28/14 $7.99 2015
24. Heart of Gold 10/28/14 $9.99 2015
25. A King's Ransom 10/28/14 $16.99 2015
26. Dead and Berried 10/28/14 $8.99 2015
27. The Diva Cooks a Goose 11/6/14 $7.99 2015
28. Read and Buried 11/6/14 $7.99
29. Murder under Cover 11/6/14 $7.99
30. Chapter and Hearse 11/6/14 $7.99
31. By Hook or by Crook 11/10/14 $7.99 2015
32. Fire Engine Dead 11/10/14 $7.99 2015
33. A Stitch in Crime 11/10/14 $7.99
34. Stiffs and Swine 11/12/14 $3.99
35. To End All Wars 11/15/14 $2.99 2015

Total to date $198.71

Books won (ER, ARC, GIVEAWAYS, Netgalleys, Gift cards) in 2014

1. Rise and Fall of Great Powers - ARC from publisher not requested
2. ✔Delicious!: A Novel - ARC from publisher
3. ✔Snicker of Magic - ARC from publisher
4. ✔Steeped in Evil - ARC from author
5. ✔Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy - ARC from publisher
6. Bittersweet - NetGalley
7. ✔Murder at Honeychurch Hall - NetGalley
8. The Romanov Sisters - NetGalley
9. Third Rule of Ten - NetGalley
10.✔Guidebook to Murder - NetGalley
11. ✔The Reflections of Queen Snow White - ARC from writer
12. Primitive Secrets: A Storm Kayama Mystery #1 5/3/14 NOOK Settlement
13. Sex and Salmonella 5/3/14 NOOK Settlement
14. One Man's Paradise (Kevin Corvelli Series #1) 5/3/14 NOOK Settlement
15. If Fried Chicken Could Fly (Country Cooking School Series #1) 5/3/14 NOOK Settlement
16. Tempest in a Teapot 6/25/14 GIVEAWAY
17. ✔Stirring the Plot 7/3/14 ARC from author
18. ✔Terminal City 7/3/14 NetGalley
19. ✔Mission to Murder 7/3/14 NetGalley
20.✔The Escape 7/3/14 NetGalley
21.✔ Island Girls 7/15/14 LTER
22. ✔Love Letters 7/20/14 LTER
23. The Secret Place 8/7/14 NetGalley
24. Somebody on This Bus Is Going to Be Famous 8/7/14 NetGalley
25.✔Gossamer Ghost - 8/27/14 Signed from Author
26. ✔Tim Cratchit's Christmas Carol 9/13/14 NetGallery
27. ✔If the Shoe Kills 9/13/14 NetGallery
28. ✔Scorched Eggs 10/22/14 Signed from Author
29. Dreaming Spies 11/18/14 NetGalley
30.✔ Murder at the Book Group 12/10/14 NetGalley
31. ✔Twisted Threads 12/10/14 NetGalley
32. The Delphi Revelation 12/10/14 NetGalley
33. The Fourth Rule of Ten 12/17/14 NetGalley
34. Falling in Love 12/19/14 NetGalley
35. Gilt by Association 12/19/14 NetGalley
36. ✔Toured to Death 12/19/14 NetGalley

I think I need to be more discerning about the free books. I guess that I'm afraid that the one free one I pass up will be the great one I should have gotten.



Books received for no cost
1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1/4/14 NOOK
2. The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen 1/10/14 NOOK
3. A Little Princess 2/3/14 Kindle
4. Unleashed 3/11/14 Nook
5. Granny Skewers A Scoundrel 5/12/14 Kindle
6. Pretty, Hip & Dead 6/1/14 Nook

Cheering for you next year!

Fancy meeting you here! ;)

Wow, that looks incredibly organised. But then, Christmas is just around the corner...I like your idea of putting money into a book bank for every ROOT. Did it help you to stay on course?

That what I was wondering too!

Actually yes, I spent only what my budget allowed.

Interesting. I could never do that. For 99% of new books, sure. But something used, if it's there and something I want, in good condition for the right price... I feel like walking away from it is a horrible decision! heh

When I save an Euro for every book read, I could probably just buy 4 new books. That will not work for me :-(

Last year when I read 95 ROOTs, I was able to buy 12 books. Sorry, that the EURO doesn't trade as well. Maybe try 2 EUROS per book.

Ooh, 12 new books! Nice! Hope you'll be able to buy even more this year ;)

And as always, thank you for organizing the group and getting things started! The group is such a good motivator.

-> 15 I will buy books anyway! ;-))

Oh, I like the saving money for books thing. I have to think about how I can integrate that into my system.

Hi Cheli, love your organization!

Hey cyderry, thanks again for putting us up for a new year. Happy reading and may you find some real gems!

Thanks Chèli for the fabulous organisation and your warm welcome.

I love this group and I'm looking forward what 2014 will bring us.

Happy reading

A cute picture, Ameise!

Thanks Connie 😊

Hi, Cheli! You've done a nice job organizing both this group and your thread!

WOW!! cyderry that's an impressive list! I wish you the best of luck getting though them!
As for paying your self that's a great idea.I might borrower it. :+}

Thanks for being so inspiring cyderry :-)

Yes thanks for putting this all together! And Good Luck on your own challenge!

Adding a star to follow you from afar...

...hey! I chose the same ticker as you posted in #3!

Well, I took the money my ROOT bank and spent it for 10 books - all on my NOOK so no shelf space lost but I now have well over 200 books on my NOOK ready to read.

Congratulations on the new purchases. I can just imagine how good it felt to spend that well-earned ROOT savings! And buying books with absolutely NO guilt attached (either for the money spent or the need of shelf space...wow.)

Very good job, Chèli.

Some people one meets in the strangest of places. lol!~!
Good luck with your ROOT challenge for 2014 Cheli.

Well, I finished my first ROOT and bought my first book of the year. Net 0 change in my TBR.

Oh my!

Congratulations on finishing your first ROOT! So, who's the New Kid on the Shelf?

This is a scarily impressive target! I'm daunted by my 25! Thank you for sorting out the group, I have enjoyed it and already found it a motivator (even though I'm yet to finish my 1st ROOT). :)

The new book is Home of the Braised the newest in the White House Chef series by Julie Hyzy. Of the 200+ series I follow it is one of my favorites, so I had to get it. But it in on my Nook, so no shelf space taken.

And I'm changing my goal to 96 to even it out to an average of 8 a month. This could be tough to stay on target.

Ha, I had a feeling your new book was Home of The Braised. This series is one of my favorites also. You should have seen me yesterday at 5 in the morning wondering why the book wasn't downloading yet.

I changed my mind after some discussion here and my goal is 84 - this is manageable.

I do think that sounds more manageable, but still scarily impressive!

I have to admit that I do find your lists rather daunting Cheli. And 84 ROOTs is daunting as well. You push me onward! :-)

Suddenly, I am glad I have a category for 'wishlists'. Home of the Braised looks like a fun mystery. I do NOT need to go out and get any MORE books to read (especially after having just consoled myself over a disappointment by visiting the local bookstore's bargain bin), but I could stick it on my wishlist and that will help me remember it when I'm not in full ROOT mode. Nifty.

I hope you enjoy the book!

Merryann - I created my own extra collection called "recommended LT" so I could keep track of all the book bullets I take here that I don't want to buy right away. I use the "comment" field to tell me where I heard about it, so I can go back and check it out if I forget why it's on my list.

I've changed my mind again and changed my goal to 84.

Betty - I never thought about a collection for the BBs. I may have to do that!

>42 dudes22:, That's a very good idea. I think I will use the comment field for that, also. Thanks!

I will follow everybody with the wishlist! Excellent idea!

A collection for BBs is a great idea...although it may make it obvious just how many new reading suggestions I get from everybody's threads!

I've organized my lists various ways. I have an Ever-Expanding list that contains books I want to read -- whether owned, at the library, or nowhere in sight. I have a lists of owned books located at home or at my husband's office, lists of books available at various libraries, and a Wishlist for those I don't own and that aren't readily available at a library I can access (though I borrow some of those eventually via Inter-Library Loan).

I used to put a note in the comment field as to who recommended books. There are so many books I heard about via multiple sources, that got cumbersome, and sometimes I was just too lazy or forgot to enter the info. But I may go back to doing that -- I'm noticing too many books where I wonder "where did I hear about this? what did they say?"

Hey Cyderry- I saw in the feb progress thread that you had finished a book/root. YAH!!! Way to go!!
Am here to cheer you on!

Happy reading!

I'm doing pretty well - 18 ROOTs and only 2½ months in.
Here's what I've read:

1. An Honest President
2. Eggs in a casket
3. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel
4. Fer-de-Lance - Nero Wolfe
5. The League of Delphi
6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
7. Christmas Hope
8. Curse of the Pharaohs
9. Anne of Green Gables β
10. How the Light Gets In
11. A Deadly Grind
12. The Whole Enchilada
13. Final Sentence
14. Peter and the Starcatchers%♫
15. Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
16. Maze of Bones
17. Inherit the Word
18. Death Al Dente

Wow, you are doing just fabulous!

I miscounted - I'm up t o 20!
19. Home of the Braised
20. How the Light Gets In

My oh my, you have been busy reading!

Woot Congratulations!!
And ooooh, Anne of Green Gables -- re-read that for book group last year and still loved it!

Way to go cyderry!!
Keep up the good work. And happy happy reading! :+}

Nice work! :D

Great progress cheli. Anne of Green Gables is also on my TBR. Maybe I'll come to it this year...

20 ROOTS already! Wow!

Congratulations on a WHOLE bunch of reading! :)

I finished 3 more ROOTs.

Three more read - you are such a good leader of us. You certainly practice what you preach! :)

Great Progress cheli! You're doing really great!

Good work! I'm behind on my ROOTs this month.

Woot! Congrats!

21. Steeped in Evil (ARC)
22. The Marvelous Land of Oz (2009)
23. The Woggle-Bug Book (2009)
24. A Snicker of Magic (ARC)
25. Prime Minister's Secret Agent (ARC)
26. Murder at Honey Church Hall (ARC)
27. Deadly Endplay (2011)
28. Guidebook to Murder (ARC)

Well, I've finished enough to keep me on target for the month, so now any ROOT I read puts me ahead!

wooo hooo! Great success! And thanks for leading the way for the rest of us Rooters!

Lots of reading! Surgery is over now? This indicates a good and peaceful recovery?

cyderry-you are doing so well! I pray that you are okay.
Enjoy your reading

How are you doing, Chèli?

I'm off to the hospital for arthroscopic knee surgery. I foresee reading and sleeping time competing for the next few days.

>69 cyderry: Best wishes, happy reading and speedy recovery, Cheli!

>69 cyderry: Echo Jackie -- Good luck on your surgery, Chèli!

Good Luck Chèli!!

I hope you are getting good rest and starting to feel better. :)

Yesterday I had two friends come and spend the day with me so that Tim could go off to work and not have to worry about me. They brought pastries for breakfast and fancy sandwiches, homemade fruit salad and cake for lunch. I felt so special.

Sounds like you have some great friends!!

I'm not quite up to this speed yet, but I am up and walking around.

Good! Keep feeling better. :)

Congratulations!

Glad you're doing well.

Best wishes for a quick recovery from surgery!

woohoo! up and walking around is just 1 step away from dancing! :)

Ahhh, up and walking sounds just great!

Well, I'm kind of in a reading funk. After surgery I thought I'd be ready to read a lot but other activities took priority.

My Ladies group (I'm the Director) was running a fundraiser for Special Olympics and there was oodles of preparations that went into it and the lady who was supposed to help me, her daughter had to have surgery (good outcome) but that left me on my own. My sweet husband, stepped in to help, and the event was a success raising $1,720 - $220 more than our goal!

So then when I sat down read the next book for Book Club, I just can't get into it. I'm giving it 2 more tries, and if I can't get to page 60, that's it, I'll have abandon it.

At least I only need one more ROOT this month to stay on pace.
I should be able to do that on the plane, and I'm thinking an audiobook sounds good for the packing process.

29. Pecan Pies and Homicides (2013)
30. Something Old, Something New (2013)
31. Execution Dock (2011)
32. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (2013)
33. Murderous Glaze (2012)
34. Girl of His Dreams (2010)

I had to abandon the 35th ROOT, The upright Piano Player.
When it got to the point and was going into the character's cancer, it hit to close too home and I couldn't go there. Don't judge the book because I abandoned it.

Sounds like you've been busy and successful!
What's your book club book?
Good for you for giving it TWO more tries! :)

oooh, I loved Where'd You Go, Bernadette?!

Book club book was The upright Piano Player. I managed to find some discussion questions so even though I didn't finish it, I'll be able to participate.

Ooph, sounds rough...
I'm impressed with your desire to be prepared for the discussion, even though you did not finish the book..
And I think it's smart and aware to be able to abandon a book if it takes more than it gives.

Well, I hit a small reading funk when I was overwhelmed with other activities, but I'm packing up to take a vacation with my sweetie to celebrate our 40th anniversary (25th) and my 60th birthday (29th) in wine country USA.


While he hits the links in the morning, I'll get quiet time to do some reading. I probably won't be here much, but I should be back and filled with books to review at the beginning of June!

Please remember our warriors, past and present this Memorial weekend.

Hope you have a wonderful time and lots of good reading and good food!

Yay! Congratulations, Happy Anniversary, and Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary en Happy Travelling! Enjoy!!

35. A Wicked Slice
36. Eat, Pray. Love
37. An Incomplete Revenge - Maisie Dobbs
38. The reflection of Queen Snow White
39. Canterbury Tales
40. The Proposal

I should be able to reach my halfway mark this month with just 2 more to go!

Right on track!

Yeah, congrats!

Are you at halfway yet? :)

Not yet, but I will be by the end of the month. I'm reading two chunksters that are taking a bit of time - one is 592 pages and the other is 656 pages.
The 305 page book that's next after these two looks seems small - but alas, not a ROOT.

Whoa! Those are some weighty tomes indeed! How's it going on them?

Got them both finished for June as well as my 305 page library book.

Well done!

Two more ROOTs done to start July!
Headed off to visit 4 of my grandchildren in SC. Have 6 ROOTs packed for the trip!

Enjoy the your time with the grand kids. And happy reading! 6 books?! Am cheering you on.

Wonderful! Enjoy your visit. :)

Wishing you happy and safe travels.

41. Kate
42. Shadow of night ♫
43. Acceptable Loss % ♫
44. Delicious
45. The Escape
46. Beautiful Ruins
47. Stirring the Plot

and I just finished updating my incoming books which total (bad girl, bad girl) 41 so I have actually reduced my books by 6 so far this year. At least it's not a negative number.

Mmm, Beautiful Ruins. I so enjoyed that one. :)

48. The Snowman ♫
49. The Likeness
50. Ozma of Oz

So far 50 of 59 books I read this year have been ROOTs.
That's 85% - I'm happy with that. My goal for the year is 75% so I'm ahead - I have a few library books scheduled for this month and next month so my percentage will go down unless I read a lot of books.

Yay! That's quite an accomplishment!
What does ♫ mean?

♫ = audio version

Makes sense ;)

Here are the ROOTs I'm hoping to finish this month.


✔Freak of Freedom
Golden Compass ♫
Island Girls
Love Letters
✔Mission to Murder
✔Mrs. Hudson's Case
✔Nantucket Sisters
✔A Sunless Sea ♫
✔Terminal City
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Third Rule of Ten
✔Water for Elephants ♫

Woo hoo! Lots of reading! Have fun. :)

Ambitious! I've got faith in you though!
Water for Elephants is also a ROOT of mine... one of these days....

Water for the Elephants is such a tiny great book.

Hi Chèli, just waving

Good luck!

Well, this week my husband went off on a "business" trip where he will be playing golf every day. I got left at home. His penalty - the book bill - 5 days gone 5 new books.

LOL....good one!

And what did you buy?

#115 by @cyderry> Good for you!

I'm being a very bad ROOTer because I'm buying books to prepare for 2015. The Worldwide Book Famine is approaching, right? I have to be prepared, right?

The ones I bought today are actually my birthday present to me. I finally picked some out and spent some of my birthday money.

See message #5 for the list as it grows.

>119 cyderry: lol, it must be! ;)

>119 cyderry: Hmm, tomorrow is my birthday, and I bought a book last night--I think we're in tune. Unfortunately the book is one that I've already read, so it may not quell my hunger pains when the book famine strikes, but I HAD to have it.

I was cleaning up my collections and realize when the WWBF hits, I should be good for about 6 years.

Just 6? That's definitely not enough. I think I have enough for 10 or 11.

I think I need more books.

LOL, I have enough to last the rest of my life and I'm 60 now!

#125 by @tess_i_am48> me too. sigh.

Me too - sigh!

>124 ipsoivan: lol, surely.... ;) And >121 ipsoivan: Happy Birthday!

>128 avanders: well, maybe not more. And thank you!

Well, I've been on a book buying spree and realize that even though (at this point) I've read 72 ROOTs, I've acquired 51 new books that will be ROOTs next year. Net loss = 21 I guess that's not too bad.

Not too bad at all! My numbers .... do not result in a net loss :-o

>131 avanders: LOL!!

>132 connie53: ;)

I've also been cleaning up my collections and decided that since I have SO MANY Freebies for my e-readers and that I probably will never read them unless there really is a WWBF, I've removed them from my TBRs - 120 ROOTs done in an afternoon!

I've also designated nearly 100 TBRs for next year's series reads.

I'm telling myself that this makes up for the fact that I probably won't reach my goal this year of 84 ROOTs. I have 12 more to go and three books that I've selected to read during the remainder of the year are a bunch of fatties - The Pillars of the Earth, Emerald Atlas, and The Bully Pulpit. If I could count them as multiple books, I'd be set.

Congrats on cleaning out all those roots!

What is a WWBF????????

World Wide Book Famine

I don't think I've ever experienced a net loss except when I went away to University and my mum threw a lot of my books away!

Do you think it would be fair to count the books I moved from my TBR pile?

I do!

I too purged a bunch of books from my TBR pile this year. In my case, it was actual books that I didn't think I would read or would get from the library if I changed my mind. I made a note in my intro to my thread of how many I purged, but didn't add them to my ticker. But I say, if you want to count them, go ahead.

>134 cyderry: Wow! That's a LOT of books! It's amazing how quickly they can accumulate on the e-readers.

They are technically no ROOTs (READING Our Own Tombes) but you can do as you think best, Cy. It's your challenge and if it feels right to do so, you should.

51. Mrs. Hudson's Case
52. Mission to Murder
53. Freak of Freedom
54. Terminal City
55. Water for Elephants %♫
56. Nantucket Sisters
57. A Sunless Sea
58. Bookmarked For Death
59. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
60. Bookplate Special (A Booktown Mystery)
61. The Lies That Bind: A Bibliophile Mystery
62. The Mists of Avalon %♫
63. Gossamer Ghost
64. Island Girls
65. A Wish and a Prayer: A Blessings Novel
66. Love Letters
67. State of Wonder
68. The Road to Oz
69. Madame Bovary β
70. The Emerald City of Oz
71. Wait until Next Year
72. The Queen of Four Kingdoms
73. Arabian Nights
74. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America
75. If the Shoe Kills
76. Scorched Eggs
77. Emerald Atlas β%
78. A Lesson in Secrets
79. Tim Cratchit's Christmas Carol

5 more and I'll reach my original goal.

Wow, you have been a busy reader!

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Chèli!

Let me add my good wishes to connie's, Cheli! Thanks for all you've done. I look forward to following your reading progress in the New Year.

80. About Face
81. Twisted Threads
82. Death Checks Inn
83. Elegy for Eddie
84. Murder at the Book Club
85. Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death
86. Toured to Death

I DID IT! I REACHED MY GOAL!

My goal was 84 ROOTs for 2014 and I finished 86. However, the breakdown didn't quite come out as I wanted.

I wanted to read:
ARD (real books) 18 but read 20
AUDIOBOOKS 28 but finished only 25
e-books 38 and managed 41

I started 2014 with 419 TBRs
I read 86 books from TBR
Books added to TBR: 85

Books removed from TBR: 78

Balance at end of 2014== 340

Woo hoo! Congratulations on meeting your goal!

Ditto! Woohoo!! Congrats!!

Congratulations - that's a lot of ROOTs!

WOW! 86 is huge! Congrats.