JULY ROOT - Progress thread

Half of 2014 is gone and we still have ROOTs to go! We are only 33 books off of being on target so let use those lazy days of summer and read at beach or sitting in a hammock or lounging by the pool!
I have placed a ★ for anyone who reached ½ of their goal. If anyone is 7/12 of their goal they got ★★, and two months ahead got ★★★ . This just signifies that you are on target to reach your personal goal if you keep up the same pace. Those without a ★ need to pickup the pace if we want to reach their 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.
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Here are the totals for June. If anybody's number needs 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 July is 2,665.

Three members - Squeakychu, daughterofheaven, and jen.e.moore had already reached their goals and earned a star by their name! In June they were joined by:
christina_reads
tess_i_am48
Ameise1
Caramellunacy



OUR LEADER THIS MONTH STRIVING TO REACH THEIR GOAL IS --- benitastrnad at 90%
But we have several other readers who are nipping at her heels

majkia...............................88.3%
VivienneR..........................88.0%
leslie.98............................86.7%
johanna414......................85.0%

Players
amberfly 32 / 50 ★★ 64.0%
Ameise1★ 11 / 10 110.0%
amobogio 9 / 50 18.0%
ananislaw 30 / 50 ★★ 60.0%
Anoplophora 4 / 41 9.8%
arrianarose 11 / 25 44.0%
AuntieClio 32 / 50 ★★ 64.0%
auntmarge64 20 / 30 ★★★ 66.7%
avanders 17 / 24 ★★★ 70.8%
Avery_dItkarya 3 / 20 15.0%
avidmom 7 / 15 46.7%
bayleaf 3 / 12 25.0%
benitastrnad° 27 / 30 ★★★★★ 90.0%
bohemima 25 / 36 ★★★ 69.4%
bookishmaters 2 / 75 2.7%
bragan 63 / 100 ★★ 63.0%
brewergirl 12 / 35 34.3%
Caramellunacy★ 52 / 50 104.0%
christina_reads★ 25 / 21 119.0%
Claire.Powers 65 / 150 ★ 43.3%
clue 21 / 30 ★★★ 70.0%
Conachair 24 / 50 48.0%
connie53 17 / 24 ★★★ 70.8%
craso 4 / 8 ★ 50.0%
crazy4reading 23 / 35 ★★ 65.7%
cyderry 42 / 84 ★ 50.0%
damarisT 3 / 14 21.4%
daughterofheaven★ 13 / 13 100.0%
deep220 24 / 50 48.0%
detailmuse 16 / 30 ★ 53.3%
dudes22 41 / 60 ★★★ 68.3%
edgewood 10 / 50 20.0%
eesti23 3 / 25 12.0%
emperatrix 3 / 30 10.0%
EricPatterson 1 / 25 4.0%
Familyhistorian 28 / 35 ★★★★ 80.0%
fuzzi 17 / 40 42.5%
HelenBaker 14 / 35 40.0%
hemlokgang 11 / 25 44.0%
Henrik_Madsen 20 / 50 40.0%
Infoquest 42 / 75 ★ 56.0%
inge_87 17 / 36 47.2%
ipsoivan 23 / 30 ★★★★ 76.7%
JackieKirkham 11 / 18 ★★ 61.1%
JacobsBeloved 7 / 20 35.0%
janflora 5 / 50 10.0%
jen.e.moore★ 72 / 50 144.0%
jennyifer24 5 / 12 41.7%
jessibud2 11 / 20 ★ 55.0%
johanna414 17 / 20 ★★★★★ 85.0%
jonesli 40 / 75 ★ 53.3%
kac522 12 / 30 40.0%
karen_o 25 / 45 ★ 55.6%
karspeak 16 / 20 ★★★ 80.0%
Kaydeanne 13 / 50 26.0%
kaylaraeintheway 4 / 15 26.7%
kittym° 6 / 12 ★ 50.0%
kkunker 18 / 36 ★ 50.0%
LadyBookworth 13 / 25 ★ 52.0%
lahochstetler 6 / 50 12.0%
laura_88 6 / 20 30.0%
laurabrook 24 / 50 48.0%
lauranav 16 / 30 ★ 53.3%
laytonwoman3rd 21 / 35 ★★ 60.0%
leslie.98 39 / 45 ★★★★★ 86.7%
lilywren 4 / 25 16.0%
lindapanzo 14 / 36 38.9%
Little Taiko 29 / 50 ★★ 58.0%
lizamichelle° 26 / 100 26.0%
lkernagh 15 / 25 ★★ 60.0%
LongDogMom° 4 / 35 11.4%
LorLe 12 / 50 24.0%
lulaa 4 / 50 8.0%
Maaike15274 46 / 56 ★★★★ 82.1%
mabith 15 / 24 ★★ 62.5%
majkia 53 / 60 ★★★★★ 88.3%
mandymarie20° 20 / 100 20.0%
melonbrawl 9 / 50 18.0%
Merryann 68 / 84 ★★★★ 81.0%
Michael.Rimmer 6 / 12 ★ 50.0%
MissWatson 21 / 36 ★★ 58.3%
moonshineandrosefire 61 / 120 ★ 50.8%
Nickelini° 26 / 50 ★ 52.0%
paulstalder 7 / 50 14.0%
Pigletto 46 / 60 ★★★★ 76.7%
PolymathicMonkey 22 / 50 44.0%
punky° 3 / 50 6.0%
Quaisior° 18 / 50 36.0%
rabbitprincess 36 / 50 ★★★ 72.0%
raidergirl3 10 / 25 40.0%
rainpebble 40 / 50 ★★★★ 80.0%
ramblingivy° 2 / 8 25.0%
riverwillow 12 / 24 ★ 50.0%
RobertGreaves° 36 / 75 48.0%
rubyandthetwins 35 / 48 ★★★ 72.9%
sarahbradshaw 11 / 30 36.7%
scenik1 25 / 45 ★ 55.6%
shearon° 5 / 25 20.0%
shinyone 15 / 25 ★★ 60.0%
Shutzie 15 / 50 30.0%
skyrad43 12 / 20 ★★ 60.0%
SqueakyChu★ 7 / 6 116.7%
streamsong 29 / 50 ★★ 58.0%
SuziQoregon 7 / 18 38.9%
Tallulah_Rose 8 / 20 40.0%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 9 / 50 18.0%
tess_i_am48★ 20 / 16 125.0%
tloeffler 25 / 50 ★ 50.0%
torontoc° 9 / 30 30.0%
tymos 26 / 48 ★ 54.2%
vestafan° 24 / 50 48.0%
VivienneR 44 / 50 ★★★★★ 88.0%
westham89° 9 / 26 34.6%

I have moved the challengers who have yet to record a ROOT read to a separate list and their goals have been removed from the group goal.
When and if they record a ROOT, they will be moved back to the main tickers.

ArmyAngel1986° 0 / 50
Ashuri 0 / 75
Barefoot 0 / 12
becbart 0 / 10
billiejean° 0 / 15
BurntUmberDust 0 / 25
elcee 0 / 8
EllsieFind 0 / 14
h-mb 0 / 12
JustBreathe13° 0 / 12
Kwidhalm° 0 / 25
LissaJ 0 / 75
lmw44039° 0 / 10
mgnm 0 / 12
MissBrangwen 0 / 115
ReneeLaVonne° 0 / 70
Seljordroos° 0 / 40
tanager 0 / 25
Threeatlast 0 / 25
tottman 0 / 25
twiga92 0 / 50
zephyr4 0 / 30




LET'S GET THOSE ROOTS CLEARED - READ, READ, READ!!

GREAT JOB EVERYONE! Keep reading those ROOTs!

Sounds like we're well on our way. Thanks for doing this, Cheli.

If I can get out of my book funk, I'll start contributing again.

Yay, Cheli! Beautiful thread as always, and I am always astounded by the amount of work the record keeping must be.

Yay, everyone! A whisker away from being at 50% shows a lot of dedication.

And Yay, Me. **Grin** I got my second star back this month. I didn't quite finish my last book and wasn't sure which way Cheli would round the fraction of a book I needed to have the second star.

I was pretty ambivalent about the stars at the beginning of the year, but the first thing I checked on this thread was to see if I got that second one. So, for me, it's working!

Hi, Cheli, my total for ROOTS as of June 30th is 16, not 13. I deleted my ticker (which stopped working) from my personal thread, but could you please delete it from the ticker thread if it is still there? Sorry for the hassle, thanks so much for your amazing work!

Woo Hoo! Congrats everyone!!

And Thanks again Chèli!!

>3 lindapanzo: sometimes I find that it's just a matter of finding the right book to get you in gear again... for me, that's often a YA, something that's a really fast read.... then when I'm feeling motivated, I can take on the heavier tomes like the Brothers K... ;)

My total is correct. Glad to see the group is doing so well.

Hopefully, not so many chunkers this month to get me back on track.

Just added #10 Benediction

My total was small because I had three chunksters - Canterbury Tales I finally finished with 912 pages, Shadow of Night was nearly 600, and a Katharine Hepburn bio was over 600 pages but I managed to keep my star!

>>5 karspeak: I can't delete your ticker - only you can do that. If you create a new one and replace the old one the ticker thread in your message that would work.

>10 cyderry: How can I find the ticker thread?

I love the header in this thread! The Fourth of July is my birthday!

Hi Chèli,

I just added my 18 ROOT book, so it's 18/24

I will add it to the group tickers.

ROOT #24 Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell. Awful tripe--moving on to one of my monthly long reads, Mason and Dixon.

>11 karspeak: it's here karspeak: ticker thread

Great job Chèli with the new thread! You got the stats done amazingly fast! Thanks for all the work you put in :)

>15 avanders: Thanks!!!

Great job, Cheli, and we're really close to being right on track -- 49 percent halfway through the year, and heading into vacation time for many folks!

Thanks for the sparkling new thread, Chèli! And happy reading, everyone!

I've finished my first ROOT for July, Ice Station. What a ride! Updating all tickers.

Finished my first July ROOT, Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen.. Lovely!

Me, too! First ROOT down - Buddha by Karen Armstrong.

And I've started my second one for the month - Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain.

Go ticker dog, go! Who'll make that puppy pass 50%?

I read another ROOT. I'm up to 8/6. Tickers were updated.

2nd July root done! Now onto an ER...

Just finished ROOT #8, A Natural Woman by Carole King. I promptly updated my ticker. So that's 8/15 for me.

Finished my first July ROOT (even though I started the book a few months ago...), A Dance With Dragons. Updating my ticker :)

>27 kaylaraeintheway: Hey, it counts!

>28 jen.e.moore:: Thanks! Especially for a 1,000+ page tome (whew!)

ROOT #1 for July (#12 overall) completed - I updated my ticker, and left the group one alone. Jen Campbell's "More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" - I read it in an hour, and it made me laugh out loud. 4/5

Just finished my 2nd July ROOT, Gone Girl. It was fantastic!! That brings my ROOT total to 6 :)

Finished my second ROOT for the month, The Towers of Silence giving me 55 for the year. Updating all tickers.

Still no ROOTs for July. Working on 2 or 3 though.

I finished a ROOT for July this past week, Dead Angler by Victoria Houston.

I've finished my first Root for this month finally - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett.

I bought a very small book for a very small price and read it today The Minicolony Concept: A Different Approach to Feral Cat Control by Dan Winters. Not originally on my list of 15, but I'm counting it anyway! So that makes 9/15.

Third ROOT for the month, Seeker which is a fun space opera about hunting for artifacts through the galaxy.

Updating all tickers.

Finished ROOT 13 of 10 and have updated my personal ticker.

Here is my ticker (I hope). I just joined ROOT today.

Added two; updated tickers.

>>39 sallylou61: WELCOME! It's never too late to join and you are making great progress. I'll update the group tickers.

Would you mind copying your ticker to this ticker thread, please?
https://www.librarything.com/topic/162053

Welcome Sallylou!

Re 41: I have already copied to the July progress ROOT; it is no 39 above. I have just copied it topic 162053. Since I copied it the wrong place, I unsuccessfully tried delete it from the progress ROOT, but kept getting the message I could not delete an empty message.

Thanks.

Perfect - and I see another ROOT complete, YEAH!

Dear fellow booklovers,

Id like to introduce myself back to this group. I have been rather inactive on LT lately. I wasn't feeling too good the last two month and could not even think about reading. The reason is a definite happy one: In February next year my husband and I will have become a real little family with a little newborn. :) I had some difficulties with sickness the last weeks Hand was rather tired. But I hope to be back soon and finish some more ROOTs. I'm sorry I let you down on our joint quest.

Edit: Congratulations to all who reached their goals already! Hand go go go to all who're close to reaching! You can do it!

>45 Tallulah_Rose: Welcome back, and congratulations!!!!!

Wow TR, what wonderful news. Congratulations!!!

>45 Tallulah_Rose: Congratulations!

>>45 Tallulah_Rose: WHAT WONDERFUL NEWS! I don't think that excuse has been used before. LOL

@Talullah_Rose Congratulations. Looking forward to a new little reader. Hope it all goes smoothly from now on.

Yeah congratulations!!!

Thanks for the wishes. We're starting into two weeks of vacation tomorrow (nothing big, just enjoying garden and freetime) and I'm sure that'll do us all some good. and I can hopefully get some ROOTs read ;-)

Wonderful news Tallulah_Rose!

I've finished another ROOT The Black Echo - Michael Connelly. Updating all tickers.

One more ROOT down! (personal ticker updated; group tickers left alone :))

#45
That is great news (on the same level as the World Cup win). I figured that there must be a reason you were participating but I sure didn't think of that one.

Just finished reading The Prisoner of Heaven. I have added it to my ticker and will post a review soon. I enjoyed the book as much as I enjoyed The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game, but I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it right after The Angel's Game. I let it molder on the shelf for too long.

Finished my 59th ROOT, I have one more to go to reach my goal!

A Christmas Hope one of Anne Perry's Christmas series. Updating all tickers.

>56 craso: ohhh, good to know! I've also let it moulder too long... hmm....

Every month I feel that I have read hardly any ROOTs but then I look back on my posts and there are always more there than I remember. How does that happen? I am now at 32 read out of a goal of 35.

>45 Tallulah_Rose: congratulations on your good news!

I hit the halfway mark yesterday, 20/40. I am determined to get my ROOTs down to a manageable level. Of course, since I keep buying books...

#60
I know the problem. While my purchases are no where near Cranswickian levels, just last night I bought four books at the local Barnes & Noble and I have placed orders with Alibris for 4 more.

>60 fuzzi: >61 benitastrnad: Yes, the buying of books is an issue. The piles always seem to increase even when I give books away. I started keeping a ticker of the books that I buy to see how many more come in to the house than the ROOTs that are read. I am not sure what I will do at the end of the year - maybe scare myself into buying less books?

Glad to see the group has been moving ahead, while I have been away on vacation - and before that spending a lot less time reading and commenting than normal due to work.

Vacation was great and luckily I got a lot of reading done, too. I will be updating thread and tickers over the next couple of days. Hope I can help get us back on track!

>62 Familyhistorian: last year I started a ticker for books acquired. Once I blew past 75, I discontinued it...

>64 fuzzi: lol yeah, when I got to 100 I got discouraged....

>64 fuzzi: >65 avanders: So no change in book buying behaviour by keeping the ticker? Looks like the solution for both of you was to stop keeping track.

>66 Familyhistorian: I can still keep track of what I buy, as I record them all, here, in a timely fashion.

I think the rate of incoming tomes has decreased...

9 books (so far) in July

19 in June

10 in May...

>66 Familyhistorian: no change really, no... Certain months are high, some are low... And I agree, the best thing is to stop keeping track ;)

#68 by @avanders> agreed. isn't there enough guilt to go round without adding our book addiction to the pile?

>69 majkia: my thoughts exactly! ;)

I have some guilt, but I intend to crush it. As vices go, book addiction isn't a bad one to have! :)

>71 christina_reads: I agree. There are lots worse vices to have. Book addiction is pretty benign and I don't think anyone's life is put in jeopardy by living with a book addict.

>45 Tallulah_Rose: Welcome back, and best wishes!

I'm not ROOTing much this month. I finished the one I mentioned earlier, and have a couple of others I'm slowly working on, but most of what I've finished lately have been library reads or books too new to count.

I must admit, the biggest disadvantage to having a book addiction is moving. I'm coming up on my third move in as many years and I am not looking forward to the number of boxes I'm going to need.

ROOT 25: Mason and Dixon. At times totally baffling, but I just trained myself to either reread until I got it or to close one eye and move on. Despite the difficulty, I really loved this one.

Finished my first ROOT for July, Star Wars Rule of Two, my 19th overall. All tickers updated.

I just completed my 2nd ROOT for July & my 45th for the year. Five to go & I will meet goal. Yea!~! But I do not intend to stop there so I am hoping for 75 to 80 by year's end. That should help us with our numbers as I am not planning to change my goal but just to over it.

(I just realized that I missed one in June so will add it to my July totals which will then = 46. :-)

Yeah rainpebble! I'm not doing a good job on Roots this month. Some library holds came in so I've been reading them so I can take them back. Hopefully I'll be able to finish a couple of Roots I have started.

Well, I see that I am not alone in the activity of book buying.
However, I keep track of what I buy (or try to) because I have another personal challenge I call Bookshelf Booty.

In my version of Bookshelf Booty, I'm trying to remind myself that when books come into to my house they need to be read soon. My goal is that 75% of new books in are read in the current year. (This should help reduce the ROOT books for next year.) Hopefully, that will include the books that I actually purchased as well as downloaded to my Nook so that those books that show in my acquisition ticker will be read in timely manner.

This reminds me that I need to update my ROOT Thread.

I've been somewhat under the weather myself - it's been so hot and humid lately, that I'm actually feeling a bit nauseous. I've been keeping up with my reading though! ;) Anyway, I finished my 36th book on June 27th - Mind Games (Cassie Scot) by Christine Amsden.

My first book that I read in July was If That Looking Glass Gets Broken by Karl Drinkwater. This was actually a very, very short story (5 pages)! ;) Up next was The Donor (Part One) by Nikki Rae - part one of a three-part novella. My third book that I read in July was The Dancing Boy by Michael Matson. My fourth book that I read in July - 40th for the year so far - was a book that I finished late last night - The Last Ancient by Eliot Baker! :)

>79 cyderry: -- ooh I really like that name - Bookshelf Booty! 75% of new books read is amazing and inspiring. I would be blown away if I could reach that level of self-control!

I'm keeping a list of what I acquire, separate from just adding them to my LT catalog. The list somehow keeps it more in my face so I'm more aware of it and how many I've acquired and how many I have read.

I've kept the list for several years. I think it's a bit like starting a financial budget. First you keep track of everything without making changes, and then you decide if changes can (or need) to be made. I believe I'm definitely acquiring fewer books this year, although it's a bit hard to tell since I've acquired quite a few from my parents' library as we close their house.

I'm at the point where something has to give, so I'm culling and reading and trying to buy less. The problem is that I get a lot of pleasure from buying books my friends here on LT recommend and I feel my unread books are a treasure-trove. If only it weren't so much fun to go treasure hunting!

My 2nd ROOT for July (13th for the year) is now read - Stephen Clarke's "1000 Years of Annoying the French". 3.5/5. I'll update my ticker but leave the group one alone.

>74 jen.e.moore: I know, that's rough! That's why I ended up getting rid of SO MANY BOOKS over several years.. finally had it pared down to (way too small!!) a "normal" sized library (for book owners anyway ;)) in 2011... We've only moved once since then (to a house we finally *bought* - so hopefully here for a while!), so hopefully that will help w/ the problem of moving ;)

>79 cyderry: love it! Bookshelf Booty, heh heh.. :)

We still have a week left to go and we are about 175 books from the monthly goal. There are a little 100 of us actively working on ROOTs and if we all finished the ROOT we're reading (I assume you are reading a ROOT) and then read 1 more, we could be back on target to reaching the group goal!

So sit back on the beach or your recliner or even in bed, and READ THOSE ROOTS!

Yes! I can do it! I actually have a slow down at work and some time off next week, so I will plow through as many as I can.

I've finally finished my second Root for this month Dying Light by Stuart MacBride.

#86
How did you like that book. I have several of his titles and haven't gotten around to reading them yet.

@84 Yes, ma'am. I'm planning to finish my current ROOT by the weekend so I can get another one in before the end of the month.

I am wondering if my target for this year was over-ambitious. I'm starting to resent longer books, thinking "This isn't keeping my ROOTs on target".

>87 benitastrnad: - I wrote a little bit more on my own thread, but basically it's very dark and some places are somewhat gruesome.

Real life is interfering with my reading at the moment, I'm not sure if I can contribute significantly this month. I am trying, though, to finish my current ROOT. 150 pages of small print left...

I'm still adding books read on vacation and plan on reading one or two more this month. Hopefully we will get back on track soon!

Huzzah! I just read my 60th ROOT and completed my ROOT challenge!

Updating all tickers.

>92 majkia: Congratulations! 60 ROOTs and a completed challenge before August. That is really impressive.

>92 majkia: Yes, congratulations! I hope to follow you very soon with a much more modest total of 30 ROOTS.

>>92 majkia: Great Job! Hope you enjoyed them all!

>92 majkia: - Good Job!

>92 majkia: Congrats Majkia!!

ROOT 26: The Good Soldier. Worthwhile just to try to figure out how Ford manages to establish a character's qualities only to sweep them away deftly in the next sentence.

I loved it, even if it made for painful reading.

ETA: I've updated all my reading on the group tickers as well as my personal tickers.

Hello there, everyone :) I haven't read too many ROOTs in July - only two so far. However, by the end of June I had read 64 ROOTs. I'm currently nearing the end of my third ROOT for July, My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira - which is such a sad book, but so good! :)

>92 majkia: Kudos!

Thanks all! Be assured I will continue to count ROOTS which will help our stats. :)

I just finished #11 Root- the review is on my thread.

Just finished two more ROOTs. I'm on track to meet my goal. Updated all tickers.

I finished one more ROOT (Vintage Murder) and may squeeze in another before the end of the month. Updated my ticker but not the group ones...

I think that when I reach my ROOT goal (just 5 more books!) I will take on a new challenge: reading the oldest ROOTS on my shelves. There are some that I've been staring at for about 37 years. Those that I read will be added to the Group results, and I will feel some relief.

I've recently reread part of Susan Hill's Howard's End is on the Landing, and I long to be able to KNOW these books in the way that she writes of, not just know their covers.

#89
I just hope that they aren't in the same gruesome league as the Jo Nesbo books. I have four by Stuart MacBride on my shelves.

I'm finally done registering and reviewing my holiday reading. All tickers are updated.

Everything I read on vacation were ROOTs so July is turning out pretty good for me. I hope to add a couple more before the end of the month.

>106 benitastrnad: - I've only read the first of the Nesbo books, but I would say that the MacBride series is at least as gruesome if not more so. And MacBride has multiple series, so it might depend on which ones you have.

#108 by @dudes22> and 106: I think the MacBrides are much better than the Nesbo book I've read. Granted only the first one so far.

I just finished ROOT #12 - see the review on my thread.

I finished ROOT 14 of 10 and have updated my personal ticker.

Finished what will probably be my last Root for this month - The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert.

Read a ROOT yesterday! In avoidance of an ARC I'm reading (and not enjoying), I picked up a ROOT, so now I'm at 22/24! (personal tickers updated/left group tickers alone)

Just added another ROOT: Eugen Ruge: In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts which is a pretty outstanding novel on the history of a family in GDR.

Various tickers updated!

Not sure if I'll be able to do one more, but I did finish the ROOT I was working on: an audiobook of Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard.

Finished my first Overage ROOT, The Book of Lost Things . Very good.

Updating all tickers.

I finished 2 today, The Immoralist and The Enchanted April. All tickers have been updated.

Finished my second ROOT of the month, which is behind my required pace but much better than I've been doing lately. Maybe things finally ARE starting to turn around.

Hi all. Apologies for absence. I have finally updated my thread and the group total. I have struggled to find time to get to the computer with one daughter and 2 year old grandson living with us. Reading pace has slowed but I have managed to keep this thread on target.

Finished Dave Barry's Greatest Hits last night. A little dated, but still funny.

I have read 5 ROOTs on the month:

44. We That Were Young by Irene Rathbone; GREAT WAR THEME READ; {acquired 05/09/2010}; (4 1/2*)
45. Gilgamesh by Joan London; Orange; {acquired 7/19/2011};
(4 1/2*)
46. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadia by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; {acquired in June of 1966 from my father at my H.S. graduation. It is a 1908 edition and his father gave it to him before me.}; (5*)
47. When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin; {acquired 09/07/2007}; (5*)
48. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver; {acquired 09/02/2007}; (4*)

I've updated my ticker but not touched the group ticker.

Onward & upward!~! Two more to meet goal. WOOT WOOT!~!

KEEP UP THE GREAT READING EVERYONE! :-)

I can add at least one ROOT this month. My ticker is updated.

>>121 rainpebble: How wonderful o have a book that's been passed down from generation to generation and 5* to boot! Your ROOTs all seem to have been great reads this month!

>121 rainpebble: I have some old books myself, which have been in our family for many years, and I must agree with Cyderry. It adds a little extra to reading.

Last night I finished Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka, which I bought in Prague two weeks ago. It is brilliant and compelling like hardly anything else I have ever read. It also adds to our totals and all tickers are now updated.

I finished 2 ROOTs for July, bringing my personal total to 18. No tickers updated.

Just finished my last ROOT of the month, The essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel. Review coming tomorrow on my thread and it will be positive!

All tickers updated.

added #13 updated numbers ticker

8 ROOTS completed for July, my individual ticker has been updated.

I managed to finish off one more for July, so I'm one ahead of schedule. All tickers have been updated.

I finished 1 in Jul, updated my personal ticker but not the group one.
I'm excited to see next month's Staats. I hope we were able to catch up.
Congratulations to all those great members who reached their goals and are contributing to the group still!

Here is my report for July 2014:

UpROOTED books: 7
ROOTless books: 1
Added to the TBR pile: 3

My ROOTS were:

Moonlight Blogger by Carol Fisher Saller
The Frequent Flyer by James Ashton and Sarah Wood
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Cook
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Harper Connelly Collection by Charlaine Harris
The Celibate by Michael Arditti

ROOTS in YTD: 43

No tickers were harmed in the compilation of this report.

I read 3 ROOTS this month for a total of 28/21. I have updated my ticker but haven't touched the group tickers.

I just finished my 29/30 for ROOT, and I'm hoping to get one more in today. I've chosen a book of short stories, and have not much else planned, so I think I will make it.

ROOT 29 was Life After Life--totally loved it.

ETA: I've updated my own and group tickers.

Something weird is going on with tickers--or is it just me? When I look at the group ticker of percentages in the July thread, I see my OWN ticker for another challenge. Does anyone else see this? I know that I have struggled with my tickers 'migrating' from my ROOTs challenge to my 1001 Books challenge.

Managed to read 5 ROOTs in July?! Surprise to me.... ;)
So I'm at 22/24 now!
Personal tickers are updated; I never touch the group tickers.
I'm reading a ROOT, but I won't finish tonight, so those are my final July numbers.

My total ROOTS for the month is 2 for a total of 23 out of 30. I thought I might get another finished but I won't make it.

>134 ipsoivan: No, it's not just you.

Do you go through all the stages and copy the html-code, when you update your ticker? That might explain why your 1001-ticker has accidentially showed up here. (If you had worked on your own ticker and didn't get the ROOT-ticker copied before pasting it here.)

If you update like that, it is more work than necessary. You can just click the ticker, login, update the numbers and press 'next' - then the update is completed and you can go back, refresh and check the number.

We road tripped yesterday to spend time with my ill brother in hospital. I was able to finish my 6th ROOT for the month & 49th for the year. I am one away from goal.
49. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin; {acquired 08/24/2009}; (4*)
I have updated my personal ticker; not touched the group one.

>137 Henrik_Madsen: I haven't copied my own html code into the group ticker, so I'm not sure how this is happening.

I recently wondered why it was fewer steps to update totals on the group tickers, then noticed that Cheli had set them up using a savings ticker rather than a counting ticker. I went into my own
ROOT thread and changed my tickers to be savings tickers as well, and suddenly they starting migrating to other groups I am in where I had set up tickers. Then this morning, I saw my 1001 Books ticker in the July ROOT group thread! The horror!

Sorry to the whole group--and especially to Cheli, as I fear that you will need to redo it. Perhaps I should delete my own tickers?

Two ROOTs added this month, giving me a total of 27 for the year. Only 9 more to go!

My personal tickers are up to date.

Five ROOTS read this month for a total of 41/50. I've updated my personal ticker but not the group one.

I read 4 ROOTS this month. I did not update any tickers.

Just finished my third ROOT of the month, with just a couple of hours to spare. I'll mark the tickers.

And I just finished my 30th ROOT--Continent by Jim Crace.

I'm visiting my family on the West Coast, so I'm in a different time zone and well under the wire.

This completes my ROOT challenge! All future ROOTs will be added to the group total.

>144 ipsoivan: Congratulations! It must feel great to complete the challenge already at the end of July. Very impressive.

>139 ipsoivan: That is just plain weird. I didn't want to stick my nose into anything, it was just the only way I could see it happen.

>145 Henrik_Madsen: No worries. It's fixed now, and even allowed me to fill in my data without changing again.

And thanks for the congratulations. It does fill good to be done, although I have a long way to go on my TBR challenge, which is why I tried to finish this early. For the TBR, I pledged to read a long work each month this year, and it's been a struggle. They are all quite dense. Next up, The Magic Mountain, I believe. I may be a while!

Congratulations on completing the challenge, ipsoivan.

Thanks! It was a modest goal this year, but it feels good to have met it. Harder things await, as I try to finish my TBR Challenge.

August ROOT is posted.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/178599#

Hello again, everyone! :) I'm just gathering together my totals for July, but I think I may have fallen just a little bit behind this month...not too much, but I'm hoping to do better next month. :)

In keeping with the group theme, here are my July totals:

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: 4
Trees Replanted: stands for rereads from my TBR pile: 0 (yes!)
New Seeds Planted: stands for additions to my TBR pile: 4
Trees Transplanted: stands for books that were donated: 18

My personal tickers and thread are all up to date, here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/163437

Sorry this is late! My July total is 2 ROOTs bringing my ROOT total to 6!

July Statistics
Books Read - 21
Books Towards Goal - 21/100
Percentage - 21%

Only 1 this month. Way off pace for me.

Hi there, everyone! ;) Sorry for the delay in posting my totals. Anyway, my July was pretty good - I read four more ROOTs than last July so I suppose that is certainly nothing to sneeze at! ;) lol! So, in keeping with the group theme, here are my totals for the month of July:

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: 5
Trees Replanted: stands for rereads from my TBR pile: 0 (yes!)
New Seeds Planted: stands for additions to my TBR pile: 1 (not as bad as it could have been, I suppose! :))
Trees Transplanted: stands for books that were donated: 1
Leaves Swept Up: stands for books that were purged: 4

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

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

My total ROOTs for July was 5. I am late with my total as no internet since yesterday. Hope to have it fixed by next week.

Cheli, I had forgotten to update my ticker on my last July book. My year-to-date ROOTs total as of 7/31 was actually 28. My bad!

>155 tymfos: You're having internet issues, too? Ours has been horrible lately.

Yes, I came home on Friday to the news that there was no internet or TV. The guy from the phone company was here to fix it today but no luck. They are going to have to send the ground crew out. That means a whole long weekend unplugged. I am not sure why this always happens to the internet and TV. If it had been the phone I don't think my son or I would have even noticed.

And three more for July; updating tickers.

Finally updated my ticker and figured out how to add it to the ticker tracker. I am up to date, since I am 8/12!

Sorry it took so long to get my ticker in the right thread.