DECEMBER ROOT - Progress Thread

WE HAVE REACHED OUR GOAL!!!!









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 December.
Any members who have yet to record a ROOT, have been removed to a separate list until they start. The ticker totals have been adjusted accordingly.

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.

Amberfly 44 / 65 67.7%
Ameise1★ 20 / 10 200.0%
avanders★ 26 / 24 108.3%
avidmom 8 / 10 80.0%
BENITA★ 73 / 50 146.0%
benuathanasia 145 / 200 72.5%
bragan 91 / 100 91.0%
brakketh 23 / 40 57.5%
brewergirl★ 32 / 30 106.7%
Britt84 50 / 60 83.3%
Caramellunacy 4 / 12 33.3%
clue★ 31 / 30 103.3%
Coach_of_Alva 45 / 50 90.0%
connie53★ 47 / 36 130.6%
CurrerBell 71 / 75 ★ 94.7%
cyderry★ 102 / 72 141.7%
deep220 53 / 75 70.7%
deern 11 / 24 45.8%
detailmuse★ 41 / 40 102.5%
DisassemblyOfReason 52 / 75 69.3%
eicuthbertson 17 / 25 68.0%
elliepotten 26 / 30 86.7%
enemyanniemae★ 58 / 36 161.1%
Erratic_Charmer★ 33 / 30 110.0%
FAMeulstee★ 294 / 200 147.0%
Familyhistorian★ 69 / 55 125.5%
floremolla 41 / 60 68.3%
fuzzi 81 / 100 81.0%
HelenBaker★ 57 / 48 118.8%
Helenoel 23 / 25 ★ 92.0%
Henrik_Madsen 37 / 40 ★ 92.5%
h-mb 19 / 40 47.5%
Jackie_K★ 64 / 48 133.3%
janoorani24 8 / 25 32.0%
johanna414★ 27 / 25 108.0%
kac522 23 / 40 57.5%
karenmarie 39 / 42 ★ 92.9%
kkunker 13 / 40 32.5%
Kristelh★ 58 / 35 165.7%
LadyBookworth 21 / 24 87.5%
LadyoftheLodge★ 75 / 75 100.0%
LauraBrook★ 174 / 100 174.0%
leslie98★ 109 / 100 109.0%
LibraryLover23 33 / 40 82.5%
lilisin★ 56 / 50 112.0%
lindapanzo★ 82 / 72 113.9%
lkernagh★ 72 / 60 120.0%
This-n-That 11 / 12 ★ 91.7%
LoraShouse★ 25 / 20 125.0%
luvamystery65 12 / 40 30.0%
mabith 6 / 20 30.0%
madhatter22 21 / 25 84.0%
majkia★ 91 / 50 182.0%
mandymarie20 7 / 25 28.0%
martencat★ 30 / 30 100.0%
Miss_Moneypenny 20 / 60 33.3%
MissSos 19 / 20 ★ 95.0%
MissWatson★ 78 / 75 104.0%
Montarville 7 / 12 58.3%
nebula21★ 36 / 35 102.9%
Nickelini★ 20 / 20 100.0%
Quaisior★ 56 / 50 112.0%
quigui★ 13 / 12 108.3%
rabbitprincess★ 93 / 50 186.0%
rainpebble★ 53 / 24 220.8%
RavenHill 21 / 40 52.5%
readingtangent★ 55 / 46 119.6%
Rebeki★ 18 / 18 100.0%
Robertgreaves★ 99 / 78 126.9%
sallylou61★ 38 / 36 105.6%
si★ 24 / 24 100.0%
sibyx 15 / 24 62.5%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 48 / 50 ★ 96.0%
torontoc 29 / 30 ★ 96.7%
vestafan 43 / 50 86.0%

3566 0 3519
The non-particpating members have been moved to this separate section and our goal was reduced from 4,636 to 3,930.

anoplph0ra / 20
EEasyReaderII / 60
Heather19 / 50
JBarringer / 365
katayseb / 15
KWharton / 10
linda.newman / 25
okeres / 25
pageturner3 / 50
Quasifesto / 36
slategreyskies / 50
surtsey / 10

The following were moved to a seprate listing due to lack of participation in the last several months and reaching only 25% or less of their goal.

4chin8 13 / 75 17.3%
crazy4reading 6 / 30 20.0%
DeborahJade 6 / 50 12.0%
funky_george 2 / 30 6.7%
kootibkiteer 2 / 10 20.0%
lahochstetler 1 / 50 2.0%
nancynova 18 / 75 24.0%
novawalsh 4 / 30 13.3%




Ameise1, rainpebble, majkia, readiingtangent, enemyanniemae, Quaisior, rabbitprincess, Kristelh, Benita, connie53, Erratic_Charmer, FAMeulstee, Jackie_K, LauraBrook, cyderry, leslie98, clue, Reebeki, Robertgreaves, MissWatson, detailmuse, HelenBaker, lkernagh,brewergirl, lindapanzo, LoraShouse, johanna414, lilisin, and LadyoftheLodge were joined by si, Nickelini,sallylou61, avanders, martencat, quigui, and nebula21 having reached their goals!


Next in line to join them are:

torontoc 97.6%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 97.0%
MissSos 95.0%
CurrerBell 94.7%


Great job everyone!

KWharton came back and completed their ROOT goal as well and are now at 11/10 books. Their new thread here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/299520

Yay, we did it! And thanks to Chèli for doing the stats. My own November has been a bit slow, but I hope to add a few more ROOTs in December.

Yay! And yes, thanks Cheli for all you do!

Woo! Wonderful job, everyone!

I'm not sure I'll meet my challenge this year, have 19 18 books to reach 100, but I am not giving up. I completed ROOT #82 this morning, Pony Club Camp.

I missed a ROOT on my ticker and am now up to 94 for the year. All tickers have been updated and hopefully not too messed up.

Also, yay! We rule! :)

We did a great job!



Congrats the Dutch way!

First book for December, The Alienist by Caleb Carr. Had this book on the shelf for a long time. Great book!

Well done, all of us. Thank you to Chèli for keeping us all on track and motivated. Here's to a great finale for the year, and onward to a great 2019.

Yay, well done everyone!!!

Well done us :) Thanks Cheli for continuing to herd and encourage us and for collating the figures (NB, anoplph0ra has read 12/20 - I can't see a ticker, but her thread was last posted on on 23rd Nov under the name Rhea).

I've just added #1 for December (#65 for the year) to all tickers.

Agreed, congratulations and well done to all. Thank you for making up the 40% or so short of target I was for the year. Still enjoying my slow meander through my ROOTs and looking forward to more fresh shelf space in 2019.

Yay Group!! Thank you to Cheli and such motivational ROOTers -- you've made it possible over the years for me to move from not meeting my goal ... to meeting it at the last moment ... to increasing it. Looking forward to 2019!

Excellent work everyone!

Just added my first of December to all tickers: Murder Over Dorval, by David Montrose. It's going to make the rounds of my Montréal friends, I think :)

So it sounds like you all want to do this again next year, am I right?

>15 cyderry: Yes, please!

>15 cyderry: Yes! Unbelievably, my TBR never seems to decrease. And thanks so much for your work this year.

>15 cyderry: YES!!!!

>15 cyderry: YES, please!
Thanks for keeping me focussed on my own books. My childrens/YA TBR has decreased from 351 to go at the start of 2018 to 141 now (with 11 adds this year). I hope to finish this project next year :-)

>15 cyderry: Yes indeed!!! :D

>19 FAMeulstee: Anita, that would be awesome if you finish the project next year! :)

>15 cyderry: You know what I'm going to say, right?

YES please!

Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick

1st for December, 72/75

Added my second ROOT for December: Black Money, by Ross Macdonald.

>15 cyderry: Yes please for me too. Slow going but really enjoying slowly reducing the number of unread on my shelves.

>15 cyderry: You're right about me! And thanks for all you do.

Really looking forward to next year's challenge. This has been so helpful for clearing my shelves.

>15 cyderry: Yes!!!!! Very much so.

I noticed KWharton / 10 is back with us.

My first for December is Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

My second for December (#66 for the year) is added to all tickers.

Laura Amy Schlitz, The Night Fairy — middle-reader and a quick 117-pager to help me make my goal.

2nd for December, 73/75

Kate O'Brien, Mary Lavelle

3rd for December, 74/75 and ONE TO GO!

>33 CurrerBell: You can do it, Mike!

>34 cyderry: I JUST DID!

Philip Pullman, I Was a Rat — another quick middle-reader to reach goal.

4th for December, 75/75

I have one more ROOT, a YA that I'm currently reading and I'll probably finish today. After that, I want to get to a couple of door-stoppers because I'm still 2 short on a goal of 15 in the Big Fat Book challenge. One of these door-stoppers is definitely not a ROOT (Olivia Manning's Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, which I half-finished for the Virago Modern Classic group's October author-read and that I want to complete). For another door-stopper, I think I'll probably get to some Library of America (almost certainly a ROOT), but I'll wait and see.

Anyway, I'VE DONE IT!

I made it! I just finished listening to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (by Lewis Carroll; narrated by Michael Page) which had been in my audible library since 2012! I will probably get a couple more in before the end of the year. Whatever that number ends up being, that will be my goal for next year (plus one!)

Excellent Mike and Tanya!

Moving on....

Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road

5th for December, 76/75

Hi all! Have just added 3 books for December. Which brings me to 24/24.Goal met!! :+}

Personal ticker updated only..

Congratulations to everybody that has met their goal. Well done! Bravo !!!"+}

And those that are still going...you can do it!! "+}

Happy reading all.
ps I will be back in 2019!! "+}

Well done, all. Congratulations. Here's to an equally successful 2019.

Just wanted to update you all that I will be setting up next year between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Still fleshing out a theme, anyone want to make a suggestion?

>41 cyderry:

12 Succulent Desserts? Not only can we all join together and read but maybe we can bake together as well!

>42 lilisin: will definitely look into this idea!

I've just added #3 for December (#67 for the year) to all tickers.

I finished my first ROOT of December, a rather disappointing young girl's tale, and I'm currently reading another, much more engaging ROOT. I wonder if I can make it to 80?

Added my third ROOT of December to the tickers: 1921, by Morgan Llywelyn. Finishing this book also means I've read all of the books in my 2018 "pool" that I created at the beginning of the year!

Between rehoming books today and the ROOTs I have read this month, my 2018 ROOT goal is close: 97 done, 3 to go.

Personal ticker is updated.

>47 fuzzi: Go fuzzi!

>47 fuzzi: You can do it!

Added my fourth ROOT of December to all tickers: Doctor Who: The Vault, by Marcus Hearn, a very heavy book chronicling the first 50 years of Doctor Who. I received it as a Christmas present the year it came out and am only just now getting to it...

American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's to Now (ed. Peter Straub). Also meets the Big Fat Book challenge @750pp.

6th for December, 77/75

And a fifth ROOT for December: Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl, by Terrance Dicks. You can tell I'm getting closer to Christmas vacation because I'm pulling out the Doctor Who novels...

>1 cyderry: I actually reached my 10/10 goal and added 1 for a total of 11/10 or 110%.
:)
ETA: I updated my ticker on the ticker thread. Sorry about that!

Woo! When comparing my list of ROOTs for 2018 and my ROOT thread, I discovered I was off by two books...

...AND I FOUND THEM!

My total of ROOTs for 2018 is 99 out of my goal of 100, and I'm halfway through The Four Graces...

I'm so close!

>15 cyderry: Yes, definitely! I made my 2018 goal, but I got off track posting in the summer and never recovered :(. Then I gave up. Maybe in 2019 I can participate better! I miss it.

Last evening on the way home from our family Christmas with our children, the grands & the great grands.............I completed my first December ROOT. A Frances Hodgson Burnett; I just love her writing.

>56 rainpebble: which one?

I squeezed in one more amid the holiday preparations and have now read 80 ROOTs. Looking forward to next year!

My 4th ROOT for December (#68 for the year, so 20 over my original target!) is a 5* read and one I'm recommending to absolutely everyone: Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep.

My first ROOT for December is also my 30th book read that has been in my possession for over six months- I have reached my 2018 goal.

After somehow screwing up my old ticker thread, I have a new one that I'll add to the original ticker only thread. And, what the heck, I'll add it below for good measure.

I hit my goal of 100, and am currently sitting at 133! So happy that we hit our goal this year, and can't wait to see what the final total is at the end of the year!

I can add three to our December totals taking me to 60/48. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from New Zealand.

#5 for December (#69 for the year) added to all tickers. It was another 5* read (Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini, beautiful but heartbreaking).

I should add at least one more, hopefully two, before January.

Finished yesterday what is likely the final ROOT of the year!

2019 ROOT group has been created!

Join in https://www.librarything.com/topic/300954

>66 cyderry: - Thanks Cheli and thank you for all you do to keep the group going.

>66 cyderry: Woo hoo! I'm in!!

Just got my ticker set up. Thanks, Cheli!

In the 100 books in 2018 challenge I've so far hit 144 (and I expect to add at least a couple more by New Year's). My current ROOTing for 2018 is 77/75 (and I expect to add one more by New Year's). So I decided this year to up my ROOTing goal to 100 and try not to buy as many new books.

This "not buying so many" may be easier than it seems, because I'm currently engaged in a massive project to catalog everything I've got in numbered boxes and tagged by number on my LT catalog. I've been doing this for years and already had a couple thousand boxed, but this will clean up my floors and tables and everywhere else and probably bring my boxed total to over 3K. Since I'll better know what I currently have, I might really be more inclined to dig into ROOTS.

As usual, to qualify, the book must have been owned by the end of 2018. Kindle does not count (but I can use Kindle for convenience of reading a book that I already have in treeware).

Thank you, Cheli--you are AWESOME!

>66 cyderry: Yay!

>14 rabbitprincess: Murder over Dorval sounds like something I would like RP because I grew up around there - my father used to work at Dorval airport!

I finished my second ROOT for December for a total of 71/55.

>72 Familyhistorian: Nice! This does make some reference to the previous book in the series, The Crime on Cote des Neiges, but I think it could still be read first if you wanted.

>14 rabbitprincess: You got my interest with Murder Over Dorval, RP. My father used to work at the Dorval Airport and we lived in a community at the end of the runway.

Only two ROOTs for December so far for a total of 71/55.

I've just added #6 for December (#70 for the year) to all tickers.

So I thought I added a new ticker for 2019, but it apparently has formatted over my 2018 ticker :-/
When you do you end-of-year count, please add my 54 books!

Added another ROOT to all tickers: Doctor Who: Blackout & The Art of Death, a set of two audio-exclusive adventures featuring the Eleventh Doctor.

I am now at 59 61 books for the year, so a bit higher than the total in the progress count at the top of this thread.

Added one more to my total, Album of Horses, which has been on my shelves unread for 5-6 years, woo!

I had a great reading month in December, 70 ROOTs down! Making a total of 364 ROOTs in 2018.
Updated all tickers.

One more (#7 for December, #71 for the year) added to all tickers. And it was another good one - Julian Barnes' The Noise of Time.

This will be my final ROOT for 2018 - I've already got a couple on the go for January, looking forward to seeing everyone over in the 2019 group!

My goal was 30 for the year and I'm closing the year out at 34. Ticker is updated. It was fun following everyone this year and I look forward to doing so again in 2019.

My target for the year was 50 and I fell one short with 49. That's six this month, and I've updated my ticker.

Added one more to my total of the year, 365 ROOTs in 2018.

>83 vestafan: but that’s 49 you might not have read without your goal. Good job!

I added two more for a total of 73/55.

>84 FAMeulstee: That is amazing, Anita!

Added ROOT #102 this evening, and updated my personal ticker, but the ticker won’t show the new number...site must be slow.

Here is my report for December 2018:

UpROOTED books: 9
ROOTless books: 10
Added to the TBR shelves: 20

The ROOTs were:

The Seven Wonders by Steven Saylor
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Dangerous Ground by Josh Lanyon
Fire and Waterby Andrew Grey
The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish (DNF)
Have Personality Disorder, Will Rule Russia by Jennifer Eremeeva
The Snake, The Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters

ROOTs in 2018: 108

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

I'm going to finish the year on 28 of 40 for the year. A little disappointing but happy to have cleared more shelf space. Looking forward to playing again in 2019.

Hope everyone's having a safe and happy holiday season.

Ending the year with 64 books. Updated my personal ticker.

See you all next year!

Read 5 books for December for ROOT and ending with a total of 63. My personal ticker is updated. Here's to 2019 and another great year of ROOTing.

You're right, of course, given various unforeseen events I'm pleased to have achieved 49. Who knows what next year will bring, but an aim does focus the mind.

Happy New Year's reading!

I am finishing the year with 61 roots. In to the New Year we go. Happy reading in the New Year everyone.

Finishing the year with 32 ROOTs toppled - two more than I was aiming for and definitely more than I expected. Some of my favourite books of the year have been from the depths of my shelves, so thank you for finally persuading me to actually read them! :D Happy New Year everyone!

Will calculate our final numbers on Wednesday.

>57 fuzzi:;
fuzzi, it was Theo: A Sprightly Love Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Just a wee book but so good as are all of Burnett's. It was my 56th ROOT of the year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONE AND ALL!

>96 rainpebble: argh! A Book Bullet!!!!!!!!

:)

2018 has ended and here are the final numbers that I was able to gather.

Amberfly 44 / 65
Ameise1★ 20 / 10
avanders★ 26 / 24
avidmom★ 11 / 10
BENITA★ 87 / 50
benuathanasia 145 / 200
bragan★ 100 / 100
brakketh 28 / 40
brewergirl★ 36 / 30
Britt84 50 / 60
Caramellunacy 4 / 12
clue★ 34 / 30
Coach_of_Alva★ 56 / 50
connie53★ 47 / 36
CurrerBell★ 77 / 75
cyderry★ 111 / 72
deep220 53 / 75
deern 11 / 24
detailmuse★ 41 / 40
DisassemblyOfReason 61 / 75
eicuthbertson 18 / 25
elliepotten★ 32 / 30
enemyanniemae★ 64 / 36
Erratic_Charmer★ 36 / 30
FAMeulstee★ 365 / 200
Familyhistorian★ 73 / 55
floremolla 48 / 60
fuzzi★ 102 / 100
HelenBaker★ 61 / 48
Helenoel 23 / 25
Henrik_Madsen★ 42 / 40
h-mb 19 / 40
Jackie_K★ 71 / 48
janoorani24 8 / 25
johanna414★ 29 / 25
kac522 23 / 40
karenmarie★ 44 / 42
kkunker 13 / 40
Kristelh★ 63 / 35
LadyBookworth★ 24 / 24
LadyoftheLodge★ 75 / 75
LauraBrook★ 133 / 100
leslie98★ 109 / 100
LibraryLover23 35 / 40
lilisin★ 64 / 50
lindapanzo★ 89 / 72
lkernagh★ 76 / 60
This-n-That 11 / 12
LoraShouse★ 26 / 20
luvamystery65 12 / 40
mabith 6 / 20
madhatter22 22 / 25
majkia★ 100 / 50
mandymarie20 7 / 25
martencat★ 31 / 30
Miss_Moneypenny 20 / 60
MissSos★ 22 / 20
MissWatson★ 80 / 75
Montarville 8 / 12
nebula21★ 38 / 35
Nickelini★ 23 / 20
Quaisior★ 78 / 50
quigui★ 14 / 12
rabbitprincess★ 100 / 50
rainpebble★ 56 / 24
RavenHill 21 / 40
readingtangent★ 55 / 46
Rebeki★ 18 / 18
Robertgreaves★ 108 / 78
sallylou61★ 40 / 36
si★ 26 / 24
sibyx 21 / 24
Tanya-dogearedcopy 48 / 50
torontoc★ 30 / 30
vestafan 48 / 50


WE READ 3,850 ROOTS!!!




Ameise1, rainpebble, majkia, readiingtangent, enemyanniemae, Quaisior, rabbitprincess, Kristelh, Benita, connie53, Erratic_Charmer, FAMeulstee, Jackie_K, LauraBrook, cyderry, leslie98, clue, Reebeki, Robertgreaves, MissWatson, detailmuse, HelenBaker, lkernagh,brewergirl, lindapanzo, LoraShouse, johanna414, lilisin, LadyoftheLodge, si, Nickelini,sallylou61, avanders, martencat, quigui, and nebula21 reached their goals previously!


The final push at the end brought 11 more to their goals! Steadily they worked and reached the finish line.

CurrerBell★
LadyBookworth★
fuzzi★
Henrik_Madsen★
elliepotten★
bragan★
MissSos★
avidmom★
Coach_of_Alva★
torontoc★
karenmarie★

Great job everyone! 47 of the 75 (63%) active participants this year reached their goals.
I hope that everyone enjoyed the challenge and will try again in 2019!

I read 7 more ROOTs in December that should be added in to the totals. Sorry for being late with this info. I have been away from Internet access for almost two weeks.

I read two books in December. One of them I have had checked out from the library for 6 years. It was a good book, it just took me some sustained time to get into it.

1. Noble Radiance by Donna Leon
2. South Riding: An English Landscape by Winifred Holtby

December is always a good listening month as I spend a long time in the car traveling for the Christmas break. I listened to 5 books this month. I decided to catch up on the Flavia de Luc mysteries so they are the majority of books for this month. I finished the last of the Septimus Heap books. One series done and now ready to start another.

1. Fyre by Angie Sage. Book 7 in the Septimus Heap series
2. West With the Night by Beryl Markham
3. Speaking From Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
4. Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
5. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley

All of them made the miles much easier to tolerate.

Woohoo! Congratulations all, whether you reached your goal, vastly exceeded it, or just did your best and had a good time along the way. And thank you Cheli for hosting, that was so much fun. :) Happy New Year, and happy reading for 2019!