HelenNZ New Root Goal for 2019

Hi all. I am still thinking through what strategy to use this year to achieve my goal. I have lifted it to 54 from 48 as I read 60 this year. However with a new grandchild on the way I might become a bit distracted this year.
Last year I used various challenges - Title Alphabet, Author Birthdays, Colour challenge etc.
I wonder if I might be less structured this year but with at least 350 books to read I could find myself struggling to choose which book next...

Hi Helen, good to see you back for 2019. And we can share the grandmother-experience since I will become a grandmother again too.

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

Welcome back, it sounds like you've got a busy year ahead!

Welcome back and congrats on your grandchild!

Finally underway with some roots. Two New Zealand titles to start the year

January.

1. The Quiet Spectacular by Laurence Fearnley
2. The Silicon Tongue by Beryl Fletcher
3. After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
4. Secret Son by Laila Lalami
5. Early Warning by Jane Smiley

February.
6. The Story of a New Zealand River by Jane Mander
7. While I was Gone by Sue Miller
8. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
9. Iridescence by Peter Wells

>8 HelenBaker: I have Toen ik even weg was on my shelves, Helen. Nice to read you did enjoy it. Up the TBR is moves.

March.
10. Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
11. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
12. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
13. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
14. When the Moon is Low by Nadia Hashimi

April.
15. Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields
16. The Blackbird sings at Dusk by Linda Olsson
17. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
18. Poor People Poor Us by John Evelyn Broad
19. Shame and the Captives by Thomas Keneally

Hi Helen, you read some nice books in the last months. Good job!

I just read The Sisters Brothers as well!

20. Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
21. Balancing Act by Joanna Trollope
22. Disquiet by Julia Leigh
23. Collected Stories by Patricia Grace

June.
24. Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts
25. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
26. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

July.
27. Baby by Annaleese Jochems
28. The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
29. The Warden by Anthony Trollope

>15 HelenBaker: I loved the book by Ruth Ozeki! And read your review. We have the same thoughts about this wonderful book.

August.
30. Barn Blind by Jane Smiley
31. Fallout by Sadie Jones
32. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
33. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
34. Shelter by Frances Greenslade
35. The Predictions by Bianca Zander

September.
36. Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
37. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
38. Restoration by Rose Tremain
39. Restless by William Boyd
40. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
41. I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson

October.
42. An Accidental Terrorist by Steven Lang
43. Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
44. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
45. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
46. Corner Shop by Roopa Farooki

November.
47. The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant
48. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
49. Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
50. Dirt by David Vann
51. The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson
52. The Earth Cries Out by Bonnie Etherington
53. American Appetites by Joyce Carol Oates
54. The Good Mayor by Andrew Nicoll

Hi Helen, You are doing great with your ROOTS. Only 3 more to go.

>22 connie53:. Thanks for your continued support, Connie. Yes the goal is in sight.

Goal reached with a month to spare.

>24 HelenBaker: Hooray, well done!

Congratulations!

Yeah!

>25 Jackie_K:, >26 MissWatson:, >27 connie53:, thank you, I am glad the pressure is off for this busy month, as reading pace slowing.

December.
55. The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
56. The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
57. Daylight Second by Kelly Ana Morey
58. The Outlander by Gil Adamson
59. Essential New Zealand Short Stories edited by Owen Marshall
60. Blue Blood by Stevan Eldred-Grigg

Yay I managed to reduce my TBR shelves by 8 books. Not huge but a progress.

Woo hoo, excellent work!

>30 HelenBaker: Good Job, Helen!