APRIL ROOT - Progress Thread

March saw us just squeak back on track to reach our goal, but we'll need to do better in the coming month.
Below is the current list of members that have identified a ROOT goal for 2018 and how many books they read by the end of March.
The percentage is calculated and a star awarded for those on target to reach their goals. More stars for farther toward their goal.

If anyone's number is incorrect, please let me know and I will make the necessary adjustments.
So go out there and dig those ROOTs.

4chin8 13 / 75 17.3%
Amberfly 30 / 65 ★★★ 46.2%
Ameise1 5 / 10 ★★★★ 50.0%
anoplph0ra 0 / 20 0.0%
avanders 2 / 24 8.3%
avidmom 5 / 10 ★★★★ 50.0%
Benita? 21 / 50 ★★★ 42.0%
benuathanasia 77 / 200 ★★ 38.5%
bragan 27 / 100 ★ 27.0%
brakketh 5 / 40 12.5%
brewergirl 12 / 30 ★★ 40.0%
Britt84 13 / 60 21.7%
Caramellunacy 0 / 12 0.0%
clue 10 / 30 ★★ 33.3%
Coach_of_Alva 10 / 50 20.0%
connie53 15 / 36 ★★★ 41.7%
crazy4reading 6 / 30 20.0%
CurrerBell 22 / 75 ★ 29.3%
cyderry 31 / 72 ★★★ 43.1%
DeborahJade 6 / 50 12.0%
deep220 16 / 75 21.3%
deern 6 / 24 ★ 25.0%
detailmuse 16 / 40 ★★ 40.0%
DisassemblyOfReason 16 / 75 21.3%
EEasyReaderII 0 / 60 0.0%
elliepotten 9 / 30 ★ 30.0%
enemyanniemae 20 / 36 ★★★★ 55.6%
Erratic_Charmer 5 / 30 16.7%
FAMeulstee 72 / 200 ★★ 36.0%
Familyhistorian 22 / 55 ★★ 40.0%
floremolla 23 / 60 ★★ 38.3%
funky_george 2 / 30 6.7%
fuzzi 22 / 100 22.0%
Guanhumara 1 / 12 8.3%
Heather19 0 / 50 0.0%
HelenBaker 16 / 48 ★★ 33.3%
Helenoel 1 / 25 4.0%
Henrik_Madsen 13 / 40 ★ 32.5%
h-mb 15 / 40 ★★ 37.5%
Jackie_K 21 / 48 ★★★ 43.8%
janoorani24 3 / 25 12.0%
JBarringer 0 / 365 0.0%
johanna414 9 / 25 ★★ 36.0%
kac522 11 / 40 ★ 27.5%
karenmarie 11 / 42 ★ 26.2%
katayseb 0 / 15 0.0%
kkunker 9 / 40 22.5%
Kristelh 20 / 35 ★★★★ 57.1%
KWharton 0 / 10 0.0%
LadyBookworth 7 / 24 ★ 29.2%
lahochstetler 1 / 50 2.0%
LauraBrook 36 / 100 ★★ 36.0%
leslie98 42 / 100 ★★★ 42.0%
LibraryLover23 11 / 40 ★ 27.5%
lilisin 9 / 50 18.0%
linda.newman 0 / 25 0.0%
lindapanzo 20 / 72 ★ 27.8%
lkernagh 18 / 60 ★ 30.0%
Lisa805 7 / 12 ★★★★★ 58.3%
LoraShouse 4 / 20 20.0%
luvamystery65 8 / 40 20.0%
mabith 2 / 20 10.0%
madhatter22 6 / 60 10.0%
majkia 27 / 50 ★★★★ 54.0%
mandymarie20 2 / 25 8.0%
martencat 6 / 30 20.0%
MissSos 5 / 20 ★ 25.0%
MissWatson 21 / 75 ★ 28.0%
Montarville 2 / 12 16.7%
nancynova 18 / 75 24.0%
nebula21 15 / 35 ★★★ 42.9%
Nickelini 8 / 20 ★★ 40.0%
novawalsh 4 / 30 13.3%
okeres 0 / 25 0.0%
pageturner3 0 / 50 0.0%
Quasifesto 0 / 36 0.0%
quigui 3 / 12 ★ 25.0%
rabbitprincess 22 / 50 ★★★ 44.0%
rainpebble 13 / 24 ★★★★ 54.2%
RavenHill 12 / 91 13.2%
readingtangent 29 / 46 ★★★★★ 63.0%
Rebeki 8 / 18 ★★★ 44.4%
Robertgreaves 31 / 78 ★★ 39.7%
sallylou61 17 / 36 ★★★ 47.2%
si 7 / 24 ★ 29.2%
sibyx 6 / 24 ★ 25.0%
slategreyskies 0 / 50 0.0%
surtsey 0 / 10 0.0%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 21 / 50 ★★★ 42.0%
torontoc 7 / 30 23.3%
vestafan 14 / 50 ★ 28.0%


Our leaders so far are:

readingtangent 63.0%
Lisa805 58.3%
Kristelh 57.1%

The goal for April is 1,488 Let's widen the margin toward our goal!!!

>1 cyderry:
I wanted to let you know that I have just this morning been able to update my March totals. I read 9 for the month, bringing my total to 13. I have updated my personal ticker & that change should show tomorrow. I did not touch the group one.
I am sorry for this inconvenience. Our internet can be sketchy. :-(

I'm a little behind but considering I've only been reading novels and no comics I'm really proud of myself! And I've already finished my first ROOT for April! Finished Jules Verne's L'etoile du Sud (The Vanishing Diamond) last night and really enjoyed it.

First ROOT of April finished! My thread and all tickers updated.

Thanks once again Chèli for compiling all the numbers and managing the threads! My ROOTing fell off a bit in March (too many books from the library) but I will try to chalk up some extra this month to help widen our margin ;)

Thanks for doing this amongst everything else going on in your life, Chèli.

My numbers are correct. 3 stars! Yippie!

Thanks, Chèli, for keeping track of everybody's stats.

I'm just wondering what we will/must do with the zero readers/posters.

>6 connie53: I wouldn't worry. As we approach year's end, Chèli removes folks who are below a certain percentage and who haven't posted for a certain period of time.

Thanks for doing those stats, Chèli. I'm ready to go!

I've added my first ROOT for April (#22 for the year) to all tickers.

Yesterday I finished up my first ROOT of April: Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters, Vol. 1. I can never go wrong with Big Finish audio dramas.

And this morning I decided to abandon another ROOT: Return of the Sphinx, by Hugh MacLennan.

This brings my YTD total to 24. Almost halfway to my goal!

Both my ticker and the group ticker are up to date.

Hi Cheli, I'm happy with 2*. Glad the group is back on track.
Hope your Mum is stable and your warmer weather sees her improving. In NZ we are in Autumn, my favourite season. Still enjoying warm days but cooler nights. I hope the weather holds for another couple of weeks for my youngest daughter's wedding beside the sea.

>12 HelenBaker: Thank you for your kind wishes. Mom is doing so much better, she's even started her usual rant about going back to the house that she lived in for 60+ years. That will never happen, but even so, it means that she is definitely recovering.

Second ROOT of the month! 11th book of the year! I'm having such a great year!

Finished reading yesterday Akira Yoshimura's Le convoi de l'eau which was beautiful and haunting as most of his works can be. Although less obvious in terms of what he is trying to present, I enjoyed this deep moment in the mountains.

Maybe I should just read all the short books I own to pad my numbers; it's going well so far. :P

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (reread)

1st for April, 23/75

1st root for April - East of Eden by John Steinbeck. 17/48. I will pause to read a new one for book group.

>15 CurrerBell: Have you read the sequel, Children of God?

My first ROOT of the month is Blood Sisters by Barbara Keating and Stephanie Keating. The first in the Langani Trilogy, it follows three girls from boarding school in Kenya in 1957 to young adulthood in 1966. I liked it a lot and look forward to book 2, Durable Fire.

>17 Robertgreaves: I read both of them when they were first published, so it's been years and years. I'll be doing a reread of Children of God later this month (it's for the "Clash of Cultures" theme on the Reading Through Time group), after I've done some Rosamond Lehmann for the Virago monthly author read.

Looks like we are still doing OK. I already have one ROOT done. Maybe I can read more ROOTs this month and get another star. Now if only I could resist putting holds on library books.

Two ROOTs to report for April - A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler and Acqua Alta by Donna Leon. Takes the total to 25/60 for 2018. Both tickers updated.

>13 cyderry: Great news about your mom!

Finally updated my thread this month and added 6 ROOTs, for a total of 42. Did not touch the group tickers at all.

I've read two ROOTs so far in April and updated my personal ticker:

Sergeant York

Betsy and the Great World

Reporting ROOT # 16 for the year, # 1 for April

Heks by Camilla Läckberg

Updating all tickers

Rosamond Lehmann, The Ballad and the Source

2nd for Aprll, 24/75

I listened to Queste, book four in the Septimus Heap series. That makes all the difference in this title. If I had read it I would think it was just another swords and sorcerers epic and standard fare for upper elementary grades to read or for reading aloud to all ages. What sets this series apart is the incomparable narration by Gerard Doyle. He makes any book a delight to listen to. The recorded version would have lots of uses in a school setting as well. Recommended for those who like Harry Potter or need a long book with an excellent narrator for a long trip.

>27 benitastrnad: Why did you have to do that? Make it sound so wonderful, I couldn't resist? Now that's 4 more books (at least) that I have on my wishlist. Thanks.

>27 benitastrnad: I think rats can be such dear little critters. I think it's outrageous how they're so often cast as the villains. That's what I love about Septimus Heap – Stanley Message Rat (who, in caes you didn't know, as his very own Twitter account).

3 ROOTs finished while LT was down, including (finally) the mammoth Infinite Jest! My thread and all tickers updated.

3 ROOTs so far, and reading more short Maigrets will certainly help with the tally!

I've added #2 for April (#23 for the year, so only 1 short of half way to my goal) to all tickers.

Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

3rd for April, 25/75 (so I keep my star)

Hit the halfway point on my goal with Child's Play, a Dalziel and Pascoe mystery by Reginald Hill. Tickers have been updated.

Wow, good going >34 rabbitprincess:!

>35 leslie.98: Thanks, Leslie! :)

Now *past* the halfway point with Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, compiled by W.B. Yeats. All tickers updated.

#29
I did not know that Stanley had a Twitter account. Is he using that to deliver his messages instead of traveling? How boring for him.

I don’t have a Twitter account, or a Facebook, or any of those other accounts. LT is my only social media outlet. Stanley is much more “with it” than I am. But then He isn’t on LT.

#29
Now that Stanley has a family how does he find time for Twitter?

>37 benitastrnad: >38 benitastrnad: Maybe that's why he got a Twitter account, because he's so devoted to his family that he doesn't want to do that much traveling any more? And Stanley is getting on in years, and the kids have taken on a lot of the heavier part of the business.

ETA: You know, getting off on this subject of rats makes me want to do a reread of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. And I see the author's daughter wrote two sequels. Dang it, but isn't this Group about ROOTing? Not about getting more books into the house?

Reporting ROOT # 17 for the year, # 2 for April

Het lot van de Tearling by Erika Johansen

Updating all tickers

>40 connie53: This is the last in the series - have it on my list to read. Was it as good as the first two?

Made short work of ROOT 27 of 50: Death to the Daleks, a Terrance Dicks novelization of a Third Doctor story. I saw this one last month, which prompted me to pull the book off the shelf.

And I've finished my latest Serial Reader read, which I'm counting as ROOT 28 of 50 because I downloaded the ebook from Project Gutenberg as well: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.

All tickers updated!

>41 cyderry:. Yes it was. A bit confusing at times. I think it would be not that confusing if I read the three books with less time between them. Now I had to figure out things and that took a while. But I liked it a lot.

>43 rabbitprincess: Was it in the original Middle English or was it a modernisation?

>45 Robertgreaves: A modernization.

>39 CurrerBell: haha, it's SUPPOSED to be about getting rid of books, but this is LT. Everywhere you turn you'll get hit with a BB!

I'm almost finished with my latest ROOT read Covered Wagon Women Volume 2. I like it, a lot. I plan to find volume 1...

I've added a further ROOT (#3 for April, and #24 for the year so I'm half-way to my goal) to all tickers.

Read my first ROOT for April. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, working on the second, Survival in Auschwitz. Started 4/12/18, Holocaust Rememberance Day.

#2 root for the month - The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa and another almost completed. I hope to be back tomorrow.
>41 cyderry: I must say I do miss the group %ticker but can appreciate that it involves more work for you Cheli, especially when you have so much going on personally.

#41
I found the ending very unique in the world of fantasy. The author really did something fancy with it. I would courage you to read it as I thought it was an interesting way to end the series.

I finished reading the April book for the Two Guido’s mystery challenge. A Walk In The Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio This one turned out to be not much of a mystery but it made the reader like the hero a who lot more.

Apologies--forgot to post some Aries (Mar 21 - April 19) authors:

Mar 22 Louis L'Amour, Billy Collins (American poet)
Mar 25 Flannery O'Connor
Mar 26 Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Erica Jong
Mar 28 Nelson Algren, Mario Vargas Llosa
Mar 31 Nikolai Gogol
Apr 2 Hans Christian Andersen, Emile Zola
Apr 4 Maya Angelou
Apr 8 Barbara Kingsolver
Apr 10 Paul Theroux
Apr 12 Beverly Cleary, Scott Turow
Apr 13 Eudora Welty
Apr 14 Arnold Toynbee
Apr 15 Henry James

You can view many more at: http://librarybooklists.org/literarybirths/index.htm

I've finished my first (and possibly only) ROOT for April. Both tickers updated!

>53 kac522: I will be reading Barbara Kingsolver for this month then.
Another root for the month - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. I loved this book and recommend it.

I've added ROOT #4 for April (#25 for the year) to all tickers - Kelly J Baker's Sexism Ed which I got as an Early Reviewer book. It's my first 5* book of the year (and my first 5* ER too).

I finished reading my nonfiction history book for the Non-fiction Challenge run by Suzanne (Chatterbox.). It was an excellent work of narrative non-fiction by Frederick Taylor. Though it is one of the books that has resided on my bookshelves for a long long time (15 years - at least) Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 was really good reading. It has extensive notes, bilbiography, and appendices, that combined with the text do much to settle the dispute about the actual number of casualties the city experienced. It was well worth the time it took to read it.

Just finished #8 and the first ROOT of April- the review is on my thread- no tickers updated.

Reporting ROOT # 18 for the year, # 3 for April

Het geheim van Montague by Santa Montefiore

Updating all tickers

The Miniaturist was not a very satisfying read - adding it to the ROOT count feels great, though!

>50 HelenBaker: just for you!

>61 cyderry: Aww thanks Cheli. I feel special. I love the little thrill when I manage to shift it .1%.

>62 HelenBaker: Thanks for saying that, I thought it was just me!

>61 cyderry: >62 HelenBaker: Me three

My 5th April ROOT (#26 for the year) has just been added to all tickers, mine and the group.

2nd April ROOT and #9 for the year- review is on my thread and no tickers updated.

FYI - I hope you all noticed that since our theme this year is the stars that the tickers are both skies.

Just finished reading Marguerite Duras : Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall) about two hours ago. I'm finally done with her Indochina "trilogy".

I have finished 5 ROOTs so far, and the last one is by an Aries-born author, Henry James: Washington Square. My own ticker is up-to-date, did not touch the group tickers.

ETA

>67 cyderry: I must admit that I wish tickerfactory would come up with some new tickers. I like to change them each year but am a bit bored with the same ones.

Another two ROOTs for April - Solar by Ian McEwan and Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout. That’s 27/60 for 2018. All tickers updated.

>67 cyderry: nice job, Chèli!

I have finished another ROOT - my thread and all tickers updated (hopefully correctly!).

Third ROOT this month and #10 for the year- review is on my thread and no tickers updated.

I finished another ROOT. Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante. Very good book - if a little slow. It won’t be in my best of the year list but it was a good solid read.

>70 HelenBaker: I agree with that!

Rosamond Lehmann's A Note in Music, which I finished for the Virago monthly read and didn't at all care for (though I very much like what else I've read by her).

6th for April, 28/75

I've just added my 6th for April (#27 for the year) to all tickers. A lovely short read, but absolutely beautiful, a total sensory experience: Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World.

Reporting ROOT # 19 for the year, # 4 for April

De twaalf by Justin Cronin

Updating all tickers

Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady

7th for April, 29/75

#17 completed. All tickers updated

I read my second ROOT for April, Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi.

I have finished a few more ROOTs -- my thread and all tickers updated. I have passed my halfway point so am happy with my progress :)

>82 leslie.98: Great progress!

Reporting ROOT # 20 for the year, # 5 for April

De stad van spiegels by Justin Cronin

Updating all tickers

Another ROOT completed on Friday night. Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves. This one was longlisted for the Booker Prize last year. At first I hated this book, but then it got better and the missing pieces came together and it turned out to be a book that will stay with me for some time. No tickers updated.

Fourth ROOT this month and #11 for the year. Review is on my thread and no tickers updated.

I'm assuming that a book you've borrowed from family members years ago and finally get around to reading and returning counts as one of your ROOTs. :-) #6 for the year - slow but steady.

>87 MissSos: The beauty of this group is that each person makes their own rules :)

Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Norton Critical Edition)

8th for April, 30/75

Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

9th for April, 31/75

>89 CurrerBell: How did you like it? I was impressed by Soyinka's play -- I could see why he won the Nobel Prize.

I have finished an audiobook ROOT; my thread and all tickers updated.

I’m up to 14/25 so I’m in pretty good shape right now. I think I might reward myself by buying something new ;)

>91 leslie.98: I gave it 4****, perhaps narrowly so. I might well have rated the play 4½**** but I was also rating the quality of the supplementary materials (it's a Norton Critical) and I'd give them 3*** or at best 3½*** – hence the overall rating of 4****. There were some good critical essays, but overall they tended to be a bit repetitive; and like a lot of the more recent NCEs, the critical styles too frequently tend toward "acadamese."

One thing, after reading the supplementary materials – the play might well act better than it reads, especially once you appreciate the centrality of dance to the performance.

>92 johanna414: Git out there! Kick up yer heels!! DO IT!!!

Reporting a fabulous 5 ROOTS for the month but that's because I didn't report any in March. Back on target for the year with a third of my target completed. Now the shiny and new are calling ...

>94 CurrerBell: I wish I had read a copy with some supplemental materials. I would love to see it performed one day!

I have finished a large ROOT and a large library book (both ~800 pages); now that I am returning to my normal diet of Golden Age mysteries, I should be able to get through another book or two before the month ends. My thread and all tickers updated.

I finished an audiobook ROOT. This one was Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon. It was OK but not at all the thriller that his earlier book The Good German was. But it was fun to read about streets and places I saw in Berlin when I was there.

ROOT #7 for April (#28 for the year) finished tonight and added to all tickers.

6 ROOTs this month, my current doorstopper won't be finished, and I'm off for a long weekend. My own ticker is updated, didn't touch the group ticker.

Finally back with another root - Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. I have waited a long time to read this book but fear I didn't do it justice as it was a busy week with my daughter's wedding and my reading was some what disjointed and lacking in focus. Nonetheless a very good book. 20/48

I don't think I will have any more finished for April now (but am pleased with a total of 7, none of which were abandoned!). I am on a weekend course this weekend, and so will have to catch up with the stuff I'd normally do over the weekend (washing, etc) on Monday, so probably less reading than usual. I've already made a start on May's reads though.

I'm hoping to get one more ROOT completed before Tuesday, but as the weather has been nice and the yard work is calling my name, it might just be one. When the weather turns hot, I'll have more inside time available after work and on weekends. :)

Slow month for me with only 4 ROOTs (visiting grandchildren and other family events took away reading time) but I should be able to finish 1 more bringing me to half my goal for the year.

Here is my granddaughter Molly Kate ready for her dance recital.

>105 cyderry: lovely picture of a lovely girl!

Reporting ROOT # 21 for the year, # 6 for April

Dodelijke affaire by Peter James

Updating all tickers

Tickers off. One shows 1204, the other one 1203.

As I don't think I will be adding any more ROOTs this month, here is my report for April 2018:

UpROOTED books: 10
ROOTless books: 0
Added to the TBR shelves: 3

The ROOTs were:

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs by Adrienne Mayor
The Color of Water in July by Nora Carroll
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
Day Shift by Charlaine Harris
Night Shift by Charlaine Harris
The Bees by Laline Paull
Courtiers by Lucy Worsley
Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather

ROOTs in YTD: 41

Tickers have been updated but hopefully not harmed in the making of this report.

I've squeaked in one more ROOT for April: Kenilworth, by Sir Walter Scott. I've added this to my ticker and the group tickers. Hoping to read more ROOTs in May.

I am reading a nonROOT of 500+ pages, so I will not finish an other ROOT this month.

I have read 28 ROOTs in April, giving a total of 100 (of 200) ROOTs this year. Updated my own & the group goal ticker.

I finished Western Star by Craig Johnson. This is the latest in the Walt Longmire series and I buzzed through this one in a week. Lots of thrilling reading.

I hope to get one more done this month as I only have about 30 pages left in another book and should finish it tonight.

I finished 2 more ROOTs this weekend & hope to squeeze in one more before Tuesday. My thread and all tickers are updated. I notice that there was a considerable discrepancy between the 2 group tickers (~30 books); I was tempted to make the percentage ticker agree with the counting one but didn't.

>105 cyderry: What a cutie, Cheli!

>111 leslie.98: I updated the % ticker yesterday, but today the 10 I added are not showing.

I think I'm done for the month- I read/listened to 6 books, for a yearly total of 26. Updated personal ticker. Now going to bed.

>105 cyderry:. A beautiful granddaughter. Special times.

I managed to finish one more book today - Barbara Kingsolver Omnibus by Barbara Kingsolver, actually the second story Pigs in Heaven. tally so far 21/48.

Only 2 read this month. 9/24.

Personal ticker updated only.

ps cyderry- you have a beautiful granddaughter :+}

Happy reading all...

Finished an other ROOT and have updated all tickers.

I finished another book right under the wire! South of the Northeast Kingdom by David Mamet. This one of the titles in the National Geographic Directions series that I have been steadily reading through this year. This was book 11 for me out of the series. It wasn't as good as some of the other titles in the series, but I was surprised to learn that he has lived in Vermont (year round - not just for the summers) for 40 years.

My final three ROOTs for April - The Interpretation of Murder, The Stone Diaries and War and Peace. That's seven in total for April and 30/60 for 2018.

All tickers updated.

#21 completed. All tickers updated.

I managed to finish off three ROOTs in the past two days. That puts me at 12/40 for the year. All tickers updated.

I read a total of 4 Toots this month, I have not added them to the group ticker. Please go ahead and add them. The last two were Pastoralia and A Little Life.

I did not manage another ROOT for April. :(

I read four and updated my personal ticker only.

I managed to finish my last ROOT for April just in time! My thread and all tickers updated...

>105 cyderry: What a cute photo! Molly Kate looks like she is enjoying herself.

I am calling it at 5 roots for April because I don't have time to review the other 2 ROOTs that I finished so don't want to confuse my numbers. It is hard to remember that I have to do my reviews earlier in the day to have them show in the correct month because I am in the last time zone in North America.

>125 Familyhistorian: I forget how, but it is possible to set LT to show the time and date where you are. WIB, my time zone, is 11 or 12 hours ahead of the east coast of North America (depending on the time of year), and I have no scruples about starting and finishing each month's challenges earlier than other people.

>125 Familyhistorian: adding to >126 Robertgreaves:. I don’t think reviewing books is a mandatory expectation either. I also agree, a few hours or even days, give and take. It has always been okay.

The May numbers are up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/290790

>126 Robertgreaves: You can set your time zone at https://www.librarything.com/settings/account but I don't know what you mean by setting the "date." You can set the date format but the actual date is going to be determined from the time, relative to GMT.

>129 CurrerBell: I set it to my time zone years ago. So long ago I'd forgotten how I did it.

I mean the date 1 May starts at midnight where I am, not at midnight where the LT servers are.

I finished 8 ROOTS in April. No tickers updated.

My ROOTS for April are the following

Fiction

Queste by Angie Sage
A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio
Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrente
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
Western Star by Craig Jonhson

Nonfiction
Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
South of the Northeast Kingdom by David Mamet