APRIL ROOT - Progress Thread

In 2022 the theme that I have selected is a hybrid again. We will be looking at MOTHER NATURE and all her many talents and we will be also looking at how those talents can influence the places that we find to settle into with a good book.

Mother Nature's talents to be highlighted in APRIL are RAIN, RAINBOWS, and FLOWERING TREES






















Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere and with it comes spring showers which nurture all flowers and trees that have been dormant in the colder weather. The sun seems to shine longer and the flowers pop up to brighter our days.

What are your favorite signs of spring?

THE PASSWORD IS ROOTS. PLEASE REMEMBER TO CLICK ON NEW TICKER AFTER YOU HAVE UPDATED

Here are our March totals for 2022. Remember, if you are not a member of the group, or have not set a goal, your name will not appear in the list.

benitastarnd 25 / 62 ★★ 40.3%
bragan 23 / 75 ★ 30.7%
brakketh 13 / 50 ★ 26.0%
ca_dmv 3 / 12 ★ 25.0%
Caramellunacy 10 / 25 ★★ 40.0%
Cecilturtle 16 / 50 ★ 32.0%
clue 14 / 40 ★★ 35.0%
Coach_of_Alva 9 / 25 ★★ 36.0%
connie53 10 / 36 ★ 27.8%
Cora-R 16 / 100 16.0%
crazy4reading 2 / 20 10.0%
curioussquared 22 / 55 ★★ 40.0%
cyderry 68 / 84 ★★★★★ 81.0%
detailmuse 13 / 40 ★ 32.5%
DisassemblyOfReason 18 / 100 18.0%
enemyanniemae 18 / 70 ★ 25.7%
FAMeulstee 19 / 48 ★★ 39.6%
Familyhistorian 20 / 65 ★ 30.8%
floremolla 6 / 40 15.0%
fuzzi 92 / 100 ★★★★★ 92.0%
HelenBaker 14 / 48 ★ 29.2%
Henrik_Madsen 14 / 50 ★ 28.0%
Jackie_K 18 / 60 ★ 30.0%
janoorani24 7 / 20 ★★ 35.0%
justchris 14 / 50 ★ 28.0%
kac522 19 / 75 ★ 25.3%
karenmarie 16 / 30 ★★★★ 53.3%
Kristelh 18 / 50 ★★ 36.0%
Kwharton 2 / 12 16.7%
LadyBookworth 14 / 30 ★★★ 46.7%
lilisin 24 / 80 ★ 30.0%
lindapanzo 30 / 84 ★★ 35.7%
LoraShouse 5 / 15 ★★ 33.3%
madhatter22 9 / 75 12.0%
majkia 29 / 65 ★★★ 44.6%
martencat 1 / 25 4.0%
Miss_Moneypenny 18 / 80 22.5%
MissWatson 28 / 75 ★★ 37.3%
Nickelini 13 / 40 ★ 32.5%
Quaisior 1 / 50 2.0%
QuestingA 16 / 35 ★★★ 45.7%
rabbitprincess 17 / 50 ★★ 34.0%
readergirliz 10 / 30 ★★ 33.3%
readingtangent 12 / 40 ★ 30.0%
Rebeki 7 / 24 ★ 29.2%
ritacate 6 / 30 20.0%
Robertgreaves 27 / 90 ★ 30.0%
rocketjk 4 / 25 16.0%
rosalita 12 / 48 ★ 25.0%
sallylou61 12 / 24 ★★★★ 50.0%
si 9 / 20 ★★★ 45.0%
Tara1Reads 4 / 52 7.7%
torontoc 8 / 30 ★ 26.7%
vestafan 24 / 60 ★★ 40.0%
wandaly 6 / 18 ★★ 33.3%

The goal for April is 896.

>1 cyderry: beautiful photos.

I love evening primroses.

Thanks for all your hard work, Chèli

Thanks for the gorgeous pictures, Chèli! And for doing the numbers.
My spring always starts when the narcissi come out that the city gardeners have planted in the parks and public spaces.

I love to sit on my screen porch and smell the hyacinth and lily of the valley in bloom while I read a good book. Unfortunately, it's also the time when the cottonwood trees in the yard drop their cottonseeds. My husband and I call that "snow" season.

What a lovely pictures! Great job, Chèli,

Reporting ROOT # 11 for the year, # 1 for April

Ik zal je vinden by Linwood Barclay

I can relate to all the pictures of rain, Cheli. The blossoms are pretty though.

The cotton from the cottonwoods in the spring is one of the things I miss about Kansas. I also miss the flying propellers from Elm trees.

Beautiful pictures. I like the sounds of spring. The birds start their noise making and you know springs on its way.

I finished my first ROOT for April. This was a memoir by the great Chef Eric Ripert. The book was 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert. Ripert is the head Chef at La Bernardine and has the record for longest held 3 star Chef in the US. It is a record he held for 10 years. I enjoyed this book and if a person is interested in the food scene it is one I would recommend.

I love these photos of rain. We are entering autumn and are desperately in need of rain. Hopefully soon.

Added my first ROOT of April to my personal ticker: The Tenth Doctor, Vol. 2, a Doctor Who comic set during the First World War.

I've just added my first ROOT for April (#19 for the year) to my own tickers. It was a good one - Outpost by Dan Richards.

Reporting ROOT # 12 for the year, # 2 for April

Het gruwelhuis by Franck Thilliez

Own tickers updated!

Just finished my first 5* book for 2022 - Lost Coast Literary by Ellie Alexander. I've been reading her series books but I'm glad I picked up this new stand alone. It was sensational!

I finished another ROOT this week. It was Travels In Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White. This was a good memoir even if it was melancholy in tone and tenor. It is also terse but packed with a huge amount of emotion. It was on the National Book Award longlist back in 2015 and it deserves to be on that list. It was good reading.

I finished my first ROOT of April (17th of 2022): Peace Talks by Jim Butcher which I purchased 12/22/21.

I love the Spring Images!

I have three titles for April so far for a total of 19 this year.

What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad, which I've had since 2021
La Mare au Diable by George Sand on my shelves since 2008!
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, new to me this year

Group tickers are updated.

Reporting ROOT # 13 for the year, # 3 for April

Rood waas by Patricia Cornwell

Own tickers updated!

That's ROOT #2 for April (#20 for the year to date) added to my own ticker, group ticker left well alone!

And hot on the heels of >21 Jackie_K: I've now added ROOT #3 for April to my own ticker as well.

My reading is glacial these days, but I've finally added a second ROOT for April: Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett. Personal ticker is up to date.

Reporting ROOT # 14 for the year, # 4 for April

Het familiegeheim van Florence Grace by Tracy Rees

Own tickers updated.

I knocked out a ROOT! Stallions Gate by Martin Cruz Smith. I bought this one to read while I was stuck in an airport back in November. I had finished my long tome I brought along and (horrors) had nothing to read. I purchased this book and as soon as I got off the plane I tried to forget about it. The book was OK, but it just didn't hold my interest. I think that if I had been trapped in that airport for a couple more hours I would have finished it that day. As it was, I didn't pick the book up again until last weekend, and even then I didn't devote myself to reading it. It's not a clunker, but just not a winner either.

I've just added my 4th ROOT for April (#22 for the year overall) to my own ticker.

ROOT 4 for April and 20 overall: State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton; really fun and fast-paced.

Group tickers updated

I read alot over the Easter weekend, but none of them were ROOT's! With all those books on my shelves I opted to read new titles from the library that weren't off of my TBR list. How can I do that when I know I have books at home to read?

Just added an audio ROOT to my personal ticker: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser. I've read this book many times in print, but this was my first time with the audio.

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

#10 for the year and second ROOT for April- I reread this book for my upcoming book club meeting. ( we are still on zoom)

Two more April ROOTS (for a total of 3 for April and 19 for 2022).

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, purchased June 2021
Hard Rain by Irma Venter, purchased April 2020

Another ROOT done. # 15 for the year, # 5 for April

Own Ticker updated!

I finished one more ROOT Today. Almost American Girl - Robin Ha, purchased October 2020. That makes 4 for April and 20 for 2022.

I've just added ROOT #5 for April (#23 for the year) to my own ticker.

Here are ROOTs 5 and 6 for April (22 overall):
Certains soirs de catastrophe, a long poem by Stefan Psenak which I borrowed from the library
Appetites by Caroline Knapp which I've had since 2015

Group tickers are updated

I finished another ROOT. This one has been on my shelves since 2019. Gunpowder Gardens: Travels Through India and China in Search of Tea by Jason Goodwin. I love reading travel books and this one was really good. It was a traditional travel book, but so much fun to read. Goodwin is a good author and his mysteries are also very good.

I have completed two roots so far this month,Berlin Poplars by Anne B. Ragde and Goodwood by Holly Throsby*. I am feeling very frustrated as once again my ticker page is flashing and I am unable to update my ticker.
So my count should read 16/48.

I have finished 11 ROOTs so far this month. I think I have gotten my reading mojo back! I'm hoping to finish 2 more before my new book comes.

After reading a couple book club books, I am back with ROOT #11 of the year: Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami. Most of these stories were really well written, though I feel like I needed to be a little smarter to understand the allegorical content.

ROOT #11 for the year and the third one for April. No tickers updated and the review is on my thread.

April is turning out to be a slow month, five ROOTs so far. My own ticker is up-to-date.

Another ROOT done. # 16 for the year, # 6 for April

Doodsangst by Peter James

Own Ticker updated!

I finished listening to another ROOT. This one was Ask and the Answer book two in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness. This recorded version was very well done and was a very good listening experience. I will start on Book three in this series as soon as the recorded version of it comes back to the library.

#12 for the year, and #2 for April: Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks. I received this as a Book of the Month Club selection back in 2017. It was definitely just okay for me.

ROOTs 7 and 8 for April (total of 24) - doing pretty well this month :)
Spectacle by Jacques Prévert which I acquired last year
The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith which is new to me.

Group tickers are updated.

3 more ROOTs finished. Hoping to get 1 more done.

I just zipped through another book for April: Toasting Up Trouble by Linda Wiken. I don't read a lot of mysteries, and I like the idea of a cozy mystery. However, when the author's first line of the book was one character saying that calories don't count on Fridays, I was turned off and remained that way for the rest of the book.

Another ROOT done. # 17 for the year, # 7 for April

Ik volg jou by Peter James

Own Ticker updated!

>1 cyderry: Great pictures. We have had an awful lot of rain this year, and it has continued this month.

Finally finished one more ROOT for this month.

Gook luck everybody!

I added another one, so it's six ROOTs in April.

6 this month for a YTD total of 24. Updating personal ticker.

Total books this month ,4.
Personal ticker updated only, 18/30.
Happy reading all!

Six ROOTs read in April, making a total of 25.
Personal ticker updated.

I've added ROOT #6 for April (#24 for the year) to my own ticker. I suspect that'll be my last one for Aprili.

I had hoped to get another ROOT in, but I don't think I'm going to, so here is my report for April 2022:

UpROOTED books: 9
ROOTless books: 7
Added to the treebook TBR shelves: 2

The ROOTs were:

Soho Noir by T. S. Hunter
The Madman's Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching
Humble Pi by Matt Parker
Murder Past Due by Miranda James
The Bone Ritual by Julian Lees
Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson
The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy
Life, the Universe and Everything and Mostly Harmless, both by Douglas Adams

ROOTs in YTD: 36

(Group tickers not touched)

I got my count off by one over last month but ending this month the correct count is 17 read, 23 to go!

Added one last ROOT to my personal ticker for April: Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

Only three ROOTS completed during April - 4.3.2.1. by Paul Auster, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Wolf, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, bringing my total to 9/40 for 2022.

I’m halfway through three other books so not feeling too despondent about my lack of progress just yet.

All tickers updated.

>47 cyderry: Cheli I am still unable to update my personal ticker thread. My tally should read 16/48. I have been heavily sidetracked by library books.

I managed to read 10 ROOTs this month, a better showing than the last few months.

>59 floremolla: You also have to give yourself some credit for 4.3.2.1- that's a long book!

May thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/341518#7826630

I had 8 ROOT's in April. No tickers updated.

Here are the ROOT's I cleared out this month. It was another good month.

2 Sound recordings:
32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line by Eric Ripert
Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

2 Nonfiction books:
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White
Gunpowder Gardens: Travels Through India and China in Search of Tea by Jason Goodwin

4 Fiction books:
Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
Patriarch by Martin Walker
Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig Johnson
Persephone Station by Stina Leicht