APRIL ROOT - Progress Thread

One Quarter of our 2014 ROOT Challenge has us just slightly below pace. We can catch up.
I have placed a ★ for anyone who reached 3/12th of their goal. If anyone is 1/3 of their goal they got ★★, and two months ahead got ★★★ . This just signifies that you are on target to reach your goal if you keep up the same pace. Those without a ★ need to pickup the pace if we want to reach our goals.
Let's see the new Tickers sparkle with enormous proportions so that we dig deep and weed out those UNREAD BOOKS!




These tickers show the progress toward the group goal.
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I would like to ask for your assistance keeping the totals in 2014.
Anyone with the ° symbol next to their name still need to add their tickers to the thread or need to remember to put their total at the end of the month in the progress thread.
Please post your personal tickers in the ticker thread or post your monthly progress here at the end of the month so that I can gather the numbers in one thread as much as possible.
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.

There are still tickers that are on individual threads that have not been posted to the ticker thread. PLEASE CONSIDER COPYING THE HTML TO THE TICKER THREAD TO HELP ME OUT.
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Here are the totals for March. If anybody's number need adjustment, please let me know.
If your name is not on the list, I couldn't find your ticker or personal thread.
So, now, Ladies and Gentlemen, BOOK LOVERS, BIBLIOPHILES, BOOK HOARDERS - get out there and read those BOOKS!

Our goal for April is 1,738.

amberfly 23 / 50 ★★★ 46.0%
Ameise1 5 / 10 ★★★★ 50.0%
amobogio 9 / 50 18.0%
ananislaw 23 / 50 ★★★ 46.0%
Anoplophora 3 / 35 8.6%
ArmyAngel1986° 0 / 50 0.0%
arrianarose 8 / 25 ★ 32.0%
Ashuri 0 / 75 0.0%
AuntieClio 13 / 50 ★ 26.0%
auntmarge64 8 / 30 ★ 26.7%
avanders 9 / 24 ★★★ 37.5%
Avery_dItkarya 3 / 20 15.0%
Barefoot 0 / 12 0.0%
bayleaf 2 / 12 16.7%
becbart 0 / 10 0.0%
benitastrnad° 10 / 30 ★★ 33.3%
billiejean° 0 / 15 0.0%
bohemima 13 / 36 ★★ 36.1%
bookishmaters 2 / 75 2.7%
bragan 26 / 100 ★ 26.0%
brewergirl 10 / 35 ★ 28.6%
BurntUmberDust 0 / 25 0.0%
Caramellunacy 24 / 50 ★★★ 48.0%
christina_reads 13 / 21 ★★★★★ 61.9%
Claire.Powers 65 / 150 ★★★ 43.3%
clue 14 / 30 ★★★ 46.7%
Conachair 13 / 50 ★ 26.0%
connie53 7 / 24 ★ 29.2%
craso 2 / 8 ★ 25.0%
crazy4reading 14 / 35 ★★ 40.0%
cyderry 24 / 84 ★ 28.6%
damarisT 2 / 14 14.3%
daughterofheaven 8 / 13 ★★★★★ 61.5%
deep220 11 / 50 22.0%
detailmuse 14 / 30 ★★★ 46.7%
dudes22 19 / 60 ★ 31.7%
edgewood 3 / 50 6.0%
eesti23 2 / 25 8.0%
elcee 1 / 8 12.5%
EllsieFind 0 / 14 0.0%
emperatrix 2 / 30 6.7%
EricPatterson 1 / 25 4.0%
Familyhistorian 14 / 35 ★★ 40.0%
fuzzi 9 / 40 22.5%
HelenBaker 9 / 35 ★ 25.7%
hemlokgang 9 / 25 ★★ 36.0%
Henrik_Madsen 11 / 50 22.0%
h-mb 0 / 12 0.0%
Infoquest 25 / 75 ★★ 33.3%
inge_87 8 / 36 22.2%
ipsoivan 7 / 30 23.3%
JackieKirkham 4 / 18 22.2%
JacobsBeloved 0 / 20 0.0%
janflora 5 / 50 10.0%
jen.e.moore 29 / 50 ★★★★ 58.0%
jennyifer24 3 / 12 ★ 25.0%
jessibud2 6 / 20 ★ 30.0%
johanna414 13 / 20 ★★★★★ 65.0%
jonesli 19 / 75 ★ 25.3%
JustBreathe13° 0 / 12 0.0%
kac522 7 / 30 23.3%
karen_o 10 / 45 22.2%
karspeak 10 / 20 ★★★★ 50.0%
Kaydeanne 9 / 50 18.0%
kaylaraeintheway 1 / 15 6.7%
kittym° 3 / 12 ★ 25.0%
kkunker 10 / 36 ★ 27.8%
Kwidhalm° 1 / 25 4.0%
LadyBookworth 9 / 25 ★★ 36.0%
lahochstetler 6 / 50 12.0%
laura_88 5 / 20 ★ 25.0%
laurabrook 3 / 50 6.0%
lauranav 11 / 30 ★★ 36.7%
laytonwoman3rd 10 / 35 ★ 28.6%
leslie.98 17 / 35 ★★★ 48.6%
lilywren 4 / 25 16.0%
lindapanzo 9 / 36 ★ 25.0%
LissaJ 1 / 75 1.3%
Little Taiko 17 / 50 ★★ 34.0%
lizamichelle° 19 / 100 19.0%
lkernagh 8 / 25 32.0%
lmw44039° 0 / 10 0.0%
LongDogMom° 4 / 35 11.4%
LorLe 2 / 50 4.0%
lulaa 4 / 50 8.0%
Maaike15274 34 / 56 ★★★★★ 60.7%
mabith 8 / 24 ★★ 33.3%
majkia 30 / 60 ★★★★ 50.0%
mandymarie20° 12 / 100 12.0%
melonbrawl 7 / 50 14.0%
Merryann 39 / 84 ★★★ 46.4%
mgnm 0 / 12 0.0%
Michael.Rimmer 3 / 12 ★ 25.0%
MissBrangwen 1 / 113 0.9%
MissWatson 10 / 36 ★ 27.8%
moonshineandrosefire 28 / 120 23.5%
Nickelini° 6 / 50 12.0%
Pigletto 22 / 60 ★★ 36.7%
PolymathicMonkey 19 / 50 ★★ 38.0%
punky° 3 / 50 6.0%
Quaisior° 5 / 50 10.0%
rabbitprincess 20 / 50 ★★ 40.0%
raidergirl3 4 / 25 16.0%
rainpebble 32 / 50 ★★★★★ 64.0%
ramblingivy° 2 / 8 ★ 25.0%
ReneeLaVonne° 0 / 70 0.0%
riverwillow 8 / 24 ★★ 33.3%
RobertGreaves° 22 / 75 ★ 29.3%
rubyandthetwins 20 / 48 ★★★ 41.7%
sarahbradshaw 6 / 30 20.0%
scenik1 19 / 45 ★★★ 42.2%
Seljordroos° 0 / 40 0.0%
shearon° 5 / 25 20.0%
shinyone 9 / 25 ★★ 36.0%
Shutzie 9 / 50 18.0%
skyrad43 7 / 20 ★★ 35.0%
SqueakyChu 4 / 6 ★★★★★★ 66.7%
streamsong 17 / 50 ★★ 34.0%
SuziQoregon 7 / 18 ★★ 38.9%
Tallulah_Rose 4 / 20 20.0%
tanager 0 / 25 0.0%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 8 / 50 16.0%
tess_i_am48 7 / 11 ★★★★★ 63.6%
Threeatlast 1 / 25 4.0%
tloeffler 10 / 50 20.0%
torontoc° 6 / 30 20.0%
tottman 1 / 25 4.0%
twiga92 0 / 50 0.0%
tymos 12 / 48 ★ 25.0%
vestafan° 11 / 50 22.0%
VivienneR 26 / 50 ★★★★ 52.0%
westham89° 4 / 26 15.4%
zephyr4 0 / 30 0.0%

OUR LEADER THIS MONTH IS AGAIN ---SQUEAKYCHU AT 66.7%
But we have several other readers who are nipping at her heels

johanna414.................65%
rainpebble ..................64%
tess_i_am48................63.6%
christina_reads............61.9%
daughterofheaven........61.5%
Maaike15274..............60.7%

Me? First?

I hope I do better with ROOTs this month than I did last month.

Also, thanks again for all you do for this group, Cheli!

tee hee ... my goal is listed wrong again :)
Goal for ROOTs is 24, so I'm not doing *quite* as well as it looks like I am ;)

Thanks for everything Cheli!

Thanks, Cheli! For anyone who still needs to post their ticker on the ticker thread, here it is: http://www.librarything.com/topic/162053.

3>> Darn, I worked so hard to get the numbers right. Maybe next month. ;-)

That second star is still out of reach :-(

Just hoping I can contribute more to the totals this month. March was kind of a bust for me in reading.

The group is doing well! Thanks as always, Cheli, for your hard work.

Ooooh, motivation! Thanks, Cheli, for all the work you do putting these posts together.

Hello there, Cheli! :) I ended the month with 28 ROOTs read, not 27 - but I still think I need to up my ROOT reading for April. Thanks for everything you do, Cheli :)

Cheli, it is truly hard to wrangle bookies. Worse than cats. Thanks for trying so hard though!

Hi Cheli! :) My total is 'right on the money!' Thanks so much :)

Oh dear, I lost my star this month since I read no ROOTs last month. Must try better for April, and I have one that I should finish today or tomorrow that should have been done in March. Onward!

My total is alright, thanks Chèli.

Thanks for doing the numbers, Chèli! Off to start my April reading...

More than half of my expected reads in April will be ROOTS so, hopefully, I'll both get ahead of pace and contribute a few extras towards our total.

>10 majkia: lol!

I gained a star - must be due to the audiobooks!

>5 cyderry: Chèli - you're right, you work so hard! and we appreciate it :) Little slip-ups are bound to happen.. thanks for fixing!

Woohoo, ahead of schedule! I may be upping my goals if things keep on this way!

Chèli, thanks a lot for another masterpiece. I wish you a happy April reading. :-D

Grrr. Lost my start because I only managed to read two ROOTs in March. Annoying, but I believe I'm bouncin back fast. At least I finished the first April ROOT: Leif Davidsen - Den ukendte hustru

Various tickers updated.

I'm hoping that I will do well in April. I figure once I have my surgery on the 21st, that last week, I'll just be reclining and reading. I have 13 ROOTs on my schedule for April. Sure hope I can get them all done.

Yay, fresh new April thread! :)

I finished my first ROOT for April The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler! :) Here's my link: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437. Will update later on.

Sorry, I've been stumbling around learning how to manage my ticker. I had to create a new one finally. In the meantime, I've read 19 of my 45 old tomes!

Congratulations, scenik1! :)

I'm starting April with Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult. Then I have 2 library books coming which won't count as Roots.

24>>Melissa, I have adjusted the OP accordingly. Good Job!

> 21 Oh dear, surgery. I haven't been visiting many threads and didn't know about it. I'll send all my best thoughts and prayers your direction. May your recovery be easy and filled with books! (and a chocolate or two)

And I want to join everyone in thanking you for all your work and fun, upbeat opening post. And the gorgeous painting in >21 cyderry:

Chéli, I will just second >28 streamsong: in wishing you the best for your surgery & quick recovery.

I finished my last ROOT (Die letzte Begegnung by Gertrud von le Fort) with hours to go on the 31st, so my total should be 9.

Best wishes for your surgery, cyderry.

I had no idea that you were undergoing surgery, Cheli! :( I'm sending many prayers and best wishes to you for a speedy recovery. :)

Finished my 31st ROOT, first for April: Netherworld. Updating tickers.

Good luck with your surgery, Cheli. Let us know when you can how you are doing.

Finished 13th ROOT and the second for April - a very satisfying start. Yahya Hassan: Yahya Hassan

Sorry to hear about your surgery, Cheli. All the best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Best wishes to you on your surgery, Cheli.

I think this month will be a better one for my own ROOTs, as I already have several in progress that I'm enjoying.

Have a good recovery! And take time off from moderating if you need it. We may flounder around a bit, but we'll be ok!

Well, I think I've jumped out in front of the pack - and it's only April 2nd! :) lol! I mean that I may have just erased my lag in ROOT reading! I received a bonanza of books in the mail this afternoon - 20 books at one time! 13 books were sent by a children's author who wants me to review her books. 12 books are from 2 separate series, and a standalone book that teaches children easy yoga poses. Two books were from another new author for me, and two other books that I've actually read before - but both have now won an award! I also received three interior decorating books from Bookmooch.

So far, I've read all 13 children's books and it only took me about half an hour! :)

Thank you all for your good wishes. I have all kinds of doctors appts. before the surgery just to clear me to have it. I figure sitting in waiting rooms, I'll get plenty of reading done!

I finished 4 ROOTS this last month. No ticker.

I have been out of touch with my computer for about 2 weeks so didn't keep up with the threads too much. Sorry to hear about your surgery. But sitting in hospitals and such does accommodate reading. At least it did for me during the first quarter of this year.

>37 moonshineandrosefire: wow, that's quite a lot of books - fun!

>38 cyderry: there's your silver lining! :)

I just saw in the local paper that there's going to be a library sale this weekend. I think I'll go.

My 32nd ROOT, second for April; The Gods of Gotham which I thought was terrific.

Updating all tickers.

41>> Betty, good thing you are far enough away that I can't be tempted to go with you.

I finished ROOT 6 of 10 and have updated all tickers.

I had a total of 15 roots at the end of March. I finished another one today. I am now up to 16 roots. Hoping to get more roots read this month.

>43 cyderry: - Cheli - I ended up with 10 books for me and a couple of Lee Child for my husband (which I'll read someday but am not counting in the TBR right now. I tried very hard not to go overboard since this is only the first of the spring library sales.

#46 by @dudes22> such self restraint! Perhaps we should have an intervention to make sure we get rid of that failing in you!

I made a mistake on my March total and I actually have 6 titles for that month. That should help our average! I wasn't on-line as much and so spent more time reading. That was the one good thing about all that time spent in the hospital.

Yay! First ROOT done for April and tickers updated.

I just finished my first ROOT for April. I HIGHLY recommend Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism. I think it's my first 5-star book of the year!

I just finished another ROOT, The Bat. Not particularly impressed with it, alas.

Updating all tickers

Hello there, everyone! :) Well, I just finished my 44th ROOT yesterday (I'll be updating my list later on today!) :)

Anyway, I was doing a little spring cleaning yesterday afternoon, and discovered two big boxes of books in my closet that I had absolutely no idea were there! LOL :) Plus, Mareena and I are off to our library's perpetual book sale this afternoon. (I pray that there'll be enough room to fit our most recent influx of books! :))

Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

Two boxes! Big ones! You must be thrilled!

Book archaeology, that must be fun!

I reported completing 23 ROOTs as of 3/31. I posted it on my thread and updated it on the ticker thread. Should I report this someone else also?
The tally at the start of this thread only has 16.

Sorry, I missed your note about your totals.

>52 moonshineandrosefire: 44. wow. now that's a number! Congrats!
>55 Anansilaw: Congrats to you too Anansilaw! You're 1 ROOT away from my ROOT goal ;)

#53 - Hello Connie! :) Absolutely - I'm ecstatic, but so far, I've only managed to add about 7 books from those boxes to my inventory - I'll be adding the rest later. I'm adding books that I've gotten from this most recent library book sale.

#54 - Hi MissWatson! 'Book archaeology' - LOL! I've never heard that term before, but it's so fitting. :)

#57 avanders - thanks so much for the congratulations - I hope you're doing well with your own goal ;)

I just finished my 45th ROOT this afternoon, The Guardian by Jeffrey Konvitz! :)

Here's the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

Another ROOT for me, The Polish Officer by Alan Furst. What a wonderfully dark and thought provoking series.

Updating all tickers.

I am back on track with a ROOT read The Wind Through the Keyhole. I have added it to my ticker. I will review it soon.

Wow! I finally finished The Brothers Karamazov. Much of it brilliant, but enough that was irritating that I really dragged my heels on this. Short books for me for a while.

I agree on the brilliant, not so much on the irritating. :P I read most of it while on vacation for 5 days a few years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Gah! I wish I had gotten through it in 5 days. It felt like an eternity -- I think it was about 5 weeks, as I really had to convince myself to read more than a few pages at a time. That doesn't sound too complimentary to Doestoevsky, but for over half the book, I was seriously counting the pages. I'm stubborn though, and I kept at it, and I'm glad I did.

The court scenes were brilliant, and I found the whole brothers-as-Russia (including Smerdyakov) to be a fascinating device, but on the whole, I'm glad that one's down.

Two more for me - Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult and Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

ETA: fix name

>64 dudes22: I loved Briar Rose! I've got several Jane Yolen books that I bought on the strength of it.

Two more ROOTS for me, bringing my total to 15. The Last Detective, the first in a good mystery series, andThe Last Chronicle of Barset, which is the final volume of an Anthony Trollope series.

I'll be reading some newer books for a week or so, then back to clearing some of the backlog.

>61 ipsoivan: to >63 ipsoivan: can't wait to read it! It's been on my TBR for a while! Hoping I have more of the Polymathic experience and less of the Ipsoivan experience ;)

As for me, finished another ROOT this weekend... updating personal ticker (but, as always, I'll leave the group ticker alone).

Fiiiiiinally finished a book last night - Shattered Pillars by Elizabeth Bear. It's not that I wasn't enjoying it, just that I couldn't manage to focus, so it took me about three times as long as it should have to read. Oh well, at least that means I have the new one waiting for me as soon as I'm ready.

>65 Matke: - I'm going to make a note and try to read more of her books sometime in the future.

>66 avanders: avanders, I hope so too! This is truly a brilliant book, but I've been reading too many pieces of long fiction lately, and my reading experience suffered as a result, I think.

I have finished my first ROOT for the month of April - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which I found delightful!

Working on my second one now - Agatha Christie's Endless Night…

>69 ipsoivan: urg - that's rough when that happens! I think I'm getting a little burned out on sci-fi/fantasy themed books right now... or maybe I'm not reading great ones? it's hard to tell... next up will be a light rom-com (The Undomestic Goddess) and then i'm reading a funny non-fiction (Eating the Dinosaur).. hopefully that helps break it all up... :)

Congrats Leslie!

Hi all!
Just letting you all know that I have completed my "root" challenge, 13/13 books. YAY!!

Joyful reading every one!
And good luck as well!

Congratulations to daughter of heaven finishing her books.
Well done.

So what are you going to read now??The Nadia series??
{she has them all in her bookcase :+}

So proud of her- who said Tickers don't work as encouragement??lol

Congratulations, daughter of heaven.

Congratulations!

>72 daughterofheaven: Great work! I'm glad the group and the tickers were such good motivators for you.

You must be pleased!

>72 daughterofheaven: Congratulations!!

>72 daughterofheaven: Congrats!

I finished my second ROOT of the month, Where's Your Jesus Now: Examining How Fear Erodes Our Faith by Karen Spears Zacharias. I updated my ticker, but I'm leaving the group tickers alone. Otherwise, I get mixed up on what I've done and what I haven't.

Thank you all for your congratulations.

Good luck in getting to your own goals!

Wishing joyful reading to all!

My 2014 goal has been met! Six out of six ROOTS read. Tickers updated. Maybe next year I might try for seven. :D

#79-80 - Congratulations, daughterofheaven and SqueakyChu - that's quite an accomplishment! :) For myself, I finished my 46th ROOT on Tuesday, April 15th, and updated all my personal tickers. Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

>80 SqueakyChu: Congratulations SqueakyChu!

And congrats to everyone else on your progress!

Madeleine, that's great! I'm very glad you met your goal so early!

Congratulations, SqueakyChu!

Congratulations to ROOT completions! What a great feeling.

I have just finished Angel by Elizabeth Taylor and updated all personal and group tickers.

My, My, I'm gone a few days getting ready for my knee surgery and come back to find that daughterofheaven and SqueakyChu have reached their goals! How absolutely tremendous!

daughterofheaven and SqueakyChu are our first shining stars!
Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to SqueakyChu.

>72 daughterofheaven:
>80 SqueakyChu:

Congratulations! I am slowly making progress but not there yet. Your achievement will help keep me motivated!

I hope the surgery went well, cyderry. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

>80 SqueakyChu: Squeaky Chu: Congratulations on reacging your goal! Are you going to support our group further or increase your goal?

Finished my second paperback ROOT of the month with Endless Night...

Congrats to you, Madeline and daughter of heaven!Very good job!

I'm still working on number 1 for april.

I've finished The Bat by Jo Nesbo. Only got it last year so one of my newer roots.

Finished my first ROOT of the month last night Stargate SG-1: Transitions. My 11th overall. All tickers updated.

Congratulations to both daughterofheaven and SqeakyChu - very well done! :) I'm not quite sure that I'm doing as well as I was expecting to at the beginning of the month. I'm still hoping to maybe read 3 more ROOTs before the end of April - but I sure swallowed up those three stars pretty darn quick! :) LOL!

Anyway, my first ROOT of the month was The Sea Wife by Holly Cook, which I finished on Sunday, April 6th. And tonight - Thursday, April 17th - I finished my second ROOT, Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer Griffith. Now, I'm off to update my personal tickers!

Congrats now to Madeline!

I finished my third ROOT of the month, Jazz by Toni Morrison. My own ticker is updated, but I'm leaving the group ticker alone.

I've finished 3 ROOTs this month, Divergent, The Wretched of Muirwood, and Daughter of the Blood. My personal ticker is updated. :)

I just finished Skylark, another great NYRB novel. All group and personal tickers updated.

I feel like I just won the lottery! I just updated the main ticker and now it shows 25%! We're exactly on target! I'm so excited...my kids are just lucky that I'm not waking them up to babble about how it was my update that put us at the 25 mark!

I often remind myself of Toad from The Wind in the Willows. Can't you just see me, thumping my chest and saying, "My update!

By the way, I did read some books, lol. Forgot to mention them. I enthused at length on my thread about Library: An Illustrated History and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Also deserving of mention are A Strange Enchantment by Mabel Esther Allan, a fine book about a teenage girl in England who joins the Women's Land Army (becomes a farmer) at the beginning of World War II. Educational, interesting, and with a dash of romance, I really enjoyed this unique view of the war years.

And, Rodzina a book by Karen Cushman about an orphan train rider. I don't know why I put off reading this book for so long; once I started it, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The author did a nice job of scaling the emotions back enough to give younger readers the gritty realism without traumatizing them. If this had been my first introduction to the orphan train riders, it would have done a good job at making me want to read more.

Congrats on all the reading done here, but I'm sorry to contradict >99 Merryann: Merryann: At the end of April we should be at 33% because then 4 months of the year have gone by and 4/12=1/3=33% (appr.). At the of March we should have been on 25% ;-) But nevertheless, we're all doing great, so keep reading everyone!

I'm updating with two ROOTs, Perdido Street Station - from before the beginning of time, and the White Lioness from 2012. That's ROOT 35 and 36. Updating all tickers.

We're all doing much better than last year!

Congrats to daughterofheaven and Madeleine!

>101 Tallulah_Rose:, You're so right! Well, that's usually what happens when I puff myself up with pride. Lol!

Okay, Everyone, who can be the person to get the REAL feeling of seeing us be right on target? :)

Maybe at the end of the month we will have reached our group target? So people, let's got some more reading done, so we all get the great feeling of what it means to be on target!

Well not everyone updates the group ticker (myself included), so until cyderry does the monthly tabulations we really don't know exactly where we stand, anyway.

I just finished ROOT # 8 Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and I'm well on track for April ROOTreading. I liked this book a lot. In the beginning it took some getting used to to the way Kay alternates descriptive parts with parts that take place in reality (not our reality but the reality of Tigana). But in the end the book swept me away into tears. So .

I started in another book and another ROOT by Guy Gavriel Kay - Een lofzang voor Arbonne



Going to update both the group tickers!

Another ROOT for me, A Stranger in Mayfair . I do enjoy the Charles Lenox series.

ETA: updating tickers.

I finished ROOT 7 of 10 and have updated all tickers.

I just read The Night Workers by Alvin Schwartz. This nonfiction picture book will not count as a ROOT, but I mention it here as a great example of photographic history. Ulli Steltzers pictures are of real people working at their actual jobs, circa 1966 and Mr. Schwartz' words are just right.

I finished my 47th ROOT on Friday, April 18th - The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson and Martin Dugard! :) A ROOT that's been on my TBR pile since October of 2012 - I can't believe I waited so long to read it. :) Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

Just finished ROOT #11 - Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde! Almost 1/2-way to my ROOT goal!
Personal ticker updated, group ticker untouched.
(thread here)

>99 Merryann: lol!
>102 majkia: oh Perdido is a book I've also been meaning to read!

Just finished my third ROOT of the month with Doctor No… as usual, I have updated my ticker but not the group one...

Finished my third ROOT of the month (23rd for the year) Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman on Saturday, April 19th! :) I'm off to update my personal tickers! :) Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163513

I finished my 1st ROOT for April (5th for the year - this might sound like a small amount but it is a massive achievement compared to what I would normally manage!) - "A Time to Keep Silence" by Patrick Leigh Fermor, a lovely short book detailing his travels to and impressions of monasteries (two in France, and the abandoned rock monasteries in Cappadocia in Turkey, which sounded absolutely fascinating). 4/5.

I've updated my own ticker but avoided the group one, as usual :)

Jackie, I also read that in the last few months. I'm looking forward to reading his last book, The Broken Road.

I just finished Spiderweb by Penelope Lively. I've updated all tickers.

>115 ipsoivan: I bought The Broken Road recently, but I want to reread the first two (A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water) before I start it, so I get the sense of the entire journey from start to finish. Depending on how I go with my ROOTs I might do the rereads towards the end of this year, and then have The Broken Road as one of next year's ROOTs.

Even tho I haven't quite finished The Bee Season by Myla Goldberg, I've decided to start The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker.

>116 Jackie_K: I reread The Time of Gifts recently, and intend to reread From the Woods to the Water as well before tackling The Broken Road. We seem to be in step here.

>118 ipsoivan: It's just been so long since I read the other two that I think I would be at a disadvantage starting The Broken Road if I didn't reread them first.

I have managed to sneak in another short ROOT, a collection of poetry by Kevin Macneil called "Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides". As usual I'll update my own ticker but leave the group one to those who know what they're doing!

Another ROOT and a quick read In the Garden of Iden. This was my first Kage Baker read. A time travel story with some awesome ideas to it. A bit more romance than I like, but otherwise a good read.

Updating tickers

>117 dudes22: ooh, i loved the Bee Season... are you not enjoying it? The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker? never heard of it, but sounds interesting!!

Thanks for all of your congratulations.

>90 Tallulah_Rose:

I don't want to push my luck by increasing my goal. If I add further ROOTS, I'll just add them to help the total goal.

>102 majkia:

We're all doing much better than last year!

Most likely because I picked a very minimal goal so I'm not dragging all of you down! ;)

122 If I add further ROOTS, I'll just add them to help the total goal.

Yay! Thanks! You've done well.

I'm working on my fourth ROOT of the month, which I should easily finish by next week. That will just keep me on pace toward my goal.

Finished my second ROOT for April The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis which means I'm on track for my goal. Off to update the tickers.

Finished Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.

>121 avanders: - It was ok. The family was a little bit too disfunctional for me.

Started Skirt Steak by Charlotte Druckman and am planning to start A Brewing Storm by Richard Castle

I finished Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cheri Priest. It's my fourth ROOT of April, and thus I'm still on pace with my goal. I've updated my personal ticker.

>125 dudes22: lol I can see that ;)

Still reading ROOT number 2 for april Een lofzang voor Arbonne ROOT 9 for the year!

Well, I finished my 48th ROOT on Tuesday, April 22nd! :) Cold Mountain: A Novel. Charles Frazier is a new author for me, but this was an absolutely excellent book, in my opinion! :) And this afternoon, I finished my 49th ROOT - All Through the Night: A Suspense Story by Mary Higgins Clark. Not an absolutely terrible book, by any means, it's just that the mystery wasn't all that suspenseful. At least, in my opinion. :) Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

Hi there, everyone! I finished two ROOTs on Wednesday, April 23rd - The Affair by Lily Maxton and The Duke's Shotgun Wedding by Stacy Reid - both books were actually historical romance novellas. I hope to finish reading at least one - maybe two more ROOTs by the end of the month. :) Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163513.

ROOTs have been popping up all over - let's clip them!

I finished my 3rd ROOT for April (7th for the year), Oliver Sacks "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat". I've updated my ticker but left the group one as usual. I suspect that will be it for April. I'm pleased to be ahead of target for a change. :)

I"ve been bad.... :( I'm hung up on the Simon Serrailer series and the ones I'm reading now aren't ROOTS. hangs head in shame).

2014 is still long enough to make it better, Jean!

I finished two ROOTs this weekend: Der Gangsterboss and Das Ende vor den Augen, French mysteries from the fifties. They have not aged well...My ticker is updated.

I just finished Een lofzang voor Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay and simply loved the book. Going to update the group tickers now!

126> I love that series! Someday I might get around to rereading them...

I am pleased to say that the First Chronicles of Amber have knocked a substantial chunk off my ROOT pile. It feels a little like cheating, since all five books together are about the length of, say, one George R.R. Martin fantasy, but hey!

Finished ROOT #12 for the year -- my halfway point!
Personal tickers updated; left group tickers alone...

The month is almost over! That's why everyone is talking about totals. I'd better get my books finished and my tickers updated.

Congratulations to all of you for all this great ROOTing!

I've finished Quilt as Desired by Arlene Sachitano. Probably my last for this month.

I have read 3 ROOTs in April for a total of 16. (I'm reading another one now, but I most likely won't finish it by the end of the month.) Only 5 away from my goal now! I've updated my personal ticker but haven't touched any group tickers.

Actually, I have finished another Root for this month Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas. It was rather raw out today so I postponed my errands and spent the day with a book instead. But I really think this will be my last for the month.

I finished my second ROOT for the month - Flu by Gina Kolata. I should finish one more tomorrow evening. It was a very slow reading month for me as real life got in the way.

Its been a bad month for reading, long story mainly to do with lots of work deadlines, but I've started reading lots of books and my reading's been interrupted and I've put them down and not picked them up again. So not a single ROOT has been finished. Good job I got ahead last month.

I finished 2 ROOTS in April, getting me to 6/20 in total. I'm quite behing, but I hope to get back on track some time. Congrats to all for the great progress!

Only 4 ROOTS for me this month, I am a little behind thanks to my new fascination with using Overdrive to read library books.

Lately I've been finding that even with reading glasses my eyes can't read for long periods of time with smaller really light print or fonts that are close together. I will never go strictly e-book, but some of the older physical books I have will have to be replaced in electronic form.

I have decided to pull more ROOTS for May to try to catch up.

Here is my report for April 2014:

UpROOTED books: 3
ROOTless books: 2
Added to the TBR pile: 7

My ROOTS were:

Peter Carey's The Chemistry of Tears
Rumi's Selected Poem: Penguin Classics
Mary Beard's The Roman Triumph.

ROOTS in YTD: 25

No tickers were harmed in the compilation of this report.

Two ROOTs for me this month: The Autistic Brain and Lexicon. ATU.

Ok I read 3 ROOTs in April, putting me at that halfway mark, 12 of 24!
I'm reading another ROOT now, but I won't be able to finish by the end of April (today) :)
My personal tickers have been updated, I have never touched the group tickers.

Congrats everyone on digging up your ROOTs! Whether fast or slow, we're making progress!

Hello there everyone! :) Well, I think I may have gained back a star or two, but I'll leave it to Cheli to figure out the final calculations! :) At the moment, I'm reading 1 ebook ROOT (every book on my TBR pile I consider to be ROOTs, so I guess that's not much of a distinction.)

Anyway, I thought that since I probably won't be able to finish reading this ebook by tonight, I'd do my ROOT Reading Wrap-up now.

My April was much better than I was expecting - five more than last April! :) So, in keeping with the group theme, here are my totals for this month:

Ancient Oaks Pruned: stands for older books read from my TBR pile: 1
Young Saplings Pruned: stands for newer books read from my TBR pile: 6
Trees Replanted: stands for rereads from my TBR pile: 0 (yes!)
New Seeds Planted: stands for additions to my TBR pile: 28 (what can I say?! - I am so weak! :))
Trees Transplanted: stands for books that were donated: 1
Leaves Swept Up: stands for books that were purged: 3

Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163513

All of my personal tickers are updated :) Thanks so much, Cheli!

Finally caught up with updating my personal tickers for April (*ahem and March :( )

I added 4 ROOTs in April to bring my total to 36 on the year:
33. Battle Cry of Freedom; the Civil War Era by James M. McPherson; {acquired 6/24/2009; a reread; (5*)
34. The Pearl by John Steinbeck; {acquired prior to joining L/T}; (5*)
35. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks; {acquired prior to joining L/T) (4*)
36. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks; {acquired 3/17/2009}; (1 1/2*)

Have updated my own ticker but didn't touch the group one.

Good job everyone!

One more to add for April, Herself Surprised by Joyce Cary.

Sara Monday is a sweet-natured rogue, a kind of 20th century Moll Flanders, and this is the story of her career as cook, wife, artist's muse and... well, no spoilers. Sara always seems to turn her setbacks into benefits to herself and to those she loves; it's a pleasure to see how her mind works. She is, however, a surprise to herself--hence the title.

One of the beauties of the book is Sara's gift of description. Here is a random sample:

The sun was so bright as a new gas-mantle--you couldn't look at it even through your eyelashes, and the sand so bright gold as deep-fried potatoes. The sky was like washed-out Jap silk and there were just a few little clouds coming out on it like down feathers out of an old cushion; the rocks were so warm as new gingerbread cakes and the sea had a melty thick look, like oven glass.

I've updated all tickers.

I managed 10 ROOTs for the month of April and have updated all the tickers I'm supposed to -- I think.

I still don't think I'll get a star this month though. :(

Just in time for the chimes of midnight (local time) I finished Im Alleingang zum Mississippi. My ticker is updated, didn't touch the group ticker.

I finished 3 ROOTS in April. Did not update any tickers. Not bad considering that one of them was a monster at 800 pages and 24 CD's.

Hello everyone! My April was really, really great! - a bit of a slow start, but I was able to finish the month really strongly in double digits. :) So, in keeping with the group theme, here are my totals for this month:

Ancient Oaks Pruned: stands for older books read from my TBR pile: 6
Young Saplings Pruned: stands for newer books read from my TBR pile: 16
Trees Replanted: stands for rereads from my TBR pile: 0 (yes!)
New Seeds Planted: stands for additions to my TBR pile: 45
Trees Transplanted: stands for books that were donated: 27

I started reading House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III this afternoon. I'm not that far into the book yet, but I hope to be very soon.

Here is the link to my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

All of my personal tickers are updated :) Thanks so much, Cheli!

I managed three this month, for a total of 23. I've updated my personal ticker and left the group one alone.

I felt like I was falling behind in April but I managed to read 3 ROOTs for the month:

Valentine by Jane Feather
Death of a Bore by M.C. Beaton
Dear Fatty by Dawn French

I have updated my ticker.

I've read 2 this month for a total of 16 against my goal of 30.

Poets' Corner by John Lithgow
Roseanna by Maj Sjowall

Sorry, between surgery, physical therapy and new car shopping, I've fallen behind on the end of the month calculations. Hoping to catchup tomorrow.

Ooh...new car! Be sure to post some new car smell here for us to enjoy, okay?

I finished my ROOT for the month (In a Sunburned Country) with 30 minutes to spare!

My ticker is updated :)

I didn't finish A Study in Scarlet last night, so my total will stand at 2 for the month and 19 total. I have several ROOTS that I'm reading now, so May's totals should be higher.

I took a peak back at my last year's thread and I'm about 5 ROOTS ahead of where I was this time in 2013. That's worth cheering about!

But wait! There's more! ;)

I finished Beedle last night, so for April, I read 4 ROOTs, bringing my total to 13 of 24!

Only read six books in April, but of those 6 half were ROOTs!

:)

No MAY ROOT thread yet? :(

My total is now 9 ROOTs for the year.

Chèli, just relax. You had surgery so we can expect you to take some time for yourself. We can wait!

>167 connie53: I agree with Connie. Cheli, just keep recovering from your surgery!

I only finished one ROOT in April, bringing my total up to 10. I'll do better in May!

I'm sorry, I didn't realize/remember that Cheli had surgery...ITA, we can wait for the May thread! :)

Get better, soon.

I read 3 ROOTS in April - less than in previous months.
Arsenic and Old Cake by Jacklyn Brady
A Covent Garden Mystery by Ashley Gardner and
Nickeled and Dimed to Death by Denise Swanson

Just woke up and feeling so good - MAY ROOT thread is first on the agenda! Thanks for being patient!

Hurray, glad you're feeling better! :)

Glad to hear that you're feeling better, Cheli!

MAY IS FINALLY POSTED!

glad to hear you're feeling better.