JUNE ROOT - Progress Thread

This month we will be looking at MOTHER NATURE's abilities in creating lakes, rivers, oceans and seas





What makes our world special in the universe is WATER. It can be found in many unique forms - lakes, rivers, oceans, seas
Most are naturally occurring geographical features, but some are artificial. There are types that can be either. For example, most reservoirs are created by engineering dams, but some natural lakes are used as reservoirs. Similarly, most harbors are naturally occurring bays, but some harbors have been created through construction.
Bodies of water that are navigable are known as waterways. Some bodies of water collect and move water, such as rivers and streams, and others primarily hold water, such as lakes and oceans.
But without water, life would not exist on our planet.

Rivers





Lakes






oceans and seas










Many people find being near a body of water relaxing, how about you? Is there a particular body of water that you like to "visit"?

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

Here are our May 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 37 / 62 ★★★ 59.7%
bragan 32 / 75 ★ 42.7%
brakketh 18 / 50 36.0%
ca_dmv 6 / 12 ★★ 50.0%
Caramellunacy 17 / 25 ★★★★ 68.0%
Cecilturtle 29 / 50 ★★ 58.0%
clue 22 / 40 ★★ 55.0%
Coach_of_Alva 22 / 25 ★★★★★ 88.0%
connie53 22 / 36 ★★★ 61.1%
Cora-R 20 / 100 20.0%
crazy4reading 2 / 20 10.0%
curioussquared 38 / 55 ★★★★ 69.1%
cyderry★ 133 / 84 158.3%
detailmuse 18 / 40 ★ 45.0%
DisassemblyOfReason 21 / 100 21.0%
enemyanniemae 32 / 70 ★ 45.7%
FAMeulstee 30 / 48 ★★★ 62.5%
Familyhistorian 36 / 65 ★★ 55.4%
floremolla 9 / 40 22.5%
fuzzi★ 102 / 100 102.0%
HelenBaker 22 / 48 ★ 45.8%
Henrik_Madsen 17 / 50 34.0%
Jackie_K 29 / 60 ★ 48.3%
janoorani24 7 / 20 35.0%
justchris 16 / 50 32.0%
kac522 33 / 75 ★ 44.0%
karenmarie 16 / 30 ★★ 53.3%
Kristelh 25 / 50 ★★ 50.0%
Kwharton 2 / 12 16.7%
LadyBookworth 25 / 30 ★★★★★ 83.3%
lilisin 43 / 80 ★★ 53.8%
lindapanzo 44 / 84 ★★ 52.4%
LoraShouse 7 / 15 ★ 46.7%
madhatter22 9 / 75 12.0%
majkia 47 / 65 ★★★★ 72.3%
martencat 6 / 25 24.0%
Miss_Moneypenny 18 / 80 22.5%
MissWatson 38 / 75 ★★ 50.7%
Nickelini 22 / 40 ★★ 55.0%
Quaisior 9 / 50 18.0%
QuestingA 23 / 35 ★★★ 65.7%
rabbitprincess 26 / 50 ★★ 52.0%
readergirliz 15 / 30 ★★ 50.0%
readingtangent 24 / 40 ★★★ 60.0%
Rebeki 11 / 24 ★ 45.8%
ritacate 6 / 30 20.0%
Robertgreaves 46 / 90 ★★ 51.1%
rocketjk 7 / 25 28.0%
rosalita 17 / 48 35.4%
sallylou61 17 / 24 ★★★★ 70.8%
si 15 / 20 ★★★★★ 75.0%
Tara1Reads 6 / 52 11.5%
torontoc 14 / 30 ★ 46.7%
vestafan 36 / 60 ★★★ 60.0%
wandaly 9 / 18 ★★ 50.0%



We have 2 readers who have reached their goals - cyderry and fuzzi!

Our top star readers closest to reaching their goals, are:

Coach_of_Alva 88%
Lady BookWorth 83.3%
si 75%

The goal for June was 1,343. We've already reached it!

KEEP READING!

>2 cyderry: Lovely photos Cheli. Yes I find water soothing, especially beaches.
I was unable to update my ticker again, wondering if I need to create a new one. My numbers should read 22/48. I see we have passed the half way make already. Great effort everyone.

Such lovely pictures. Sea and oceans are wonderful.

Finished Root # 23 for the year, # 1 for June

Own tickers updated

Oh, the ocean pictures make me want to pack my bags and head off for the beach. All my favourite holidays have been on the seaside. Watching the waves roll in is so soothing!
And thanks for the stats! I need to get my skates on because some of my planned reads are very long....

I always feel calmed when I'm near the sea in particular - it's the whole sensory experience, the smell and taste of the sea air as much as the sound of the waves and the sight of all that water. I think it's why I love the Scottish islands so much - you're never far from the sea.

I've finished my first ROOT for the month (#30 for the year, meaning I'm half-way to my goal). Just updated my own ticker.

My favorite water spot is The Pond at my home in Kansas. It is were I spent many a Sunday afternoon in the company of my uncles, aunts, cousins, and neighbors playing around in the water and eating good food. As bodies of water go it is quite small. As places of significance it is very large.

My second most favorite water spot is the Missouri River. I love this river all the way from its gushing headwaters at Three Forks, Montana through the bluffs at Great Falls, MT down through the huge dams that think they have tamed this mighty beast, on to its placid spread in through the plains. There is no way that it should be called the Mississippi river basin as the largest portion of it is the Missouri River drainage, but ...

>3 HelenBaker: adjusted your numbers

Really lovely pictures! I find being next to a running river to be extremely relaxing and helps me be present.

Finished ROOT #16! The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. I liked it a lot, just not as much as I'd hoped! That always makes me a little sad, when the book hype doesn't quite live up to my expectations.

Such lovely pictures. Sea and oceans are wonderful.

Finished Root # 24 for the year, # 2 for June

Stad der nevelen by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Own tickers updated

Added my first ROOT of June to my personal ticker: a Doctor Who audio drama by Big Finish called Phobos, by Eddie Robson.

First Root of June and #14 for the year- no tickers updated and the review is on my thread.

I just got back from a 5-day trip to Lombok. Some photos:

Lovely pictures, Robert! What is that big white thing in picture 3?

>14 connie53: It's just a platform in the pool for people to stand on and have their photos taken. The water between the platform and the edge of the pool to the left is very shallow so it is easy to walk across. While we were there, there was a young couple having what I think must have been their pre-wedding photos taken standing there. She was wearing a long gown, and of course the hem got wet.

>8 cyderry: Thank you Cheli. I have completed my first Root for June, albeit off my kindle, From Where I Fell by Susan Johnson and yay my ticker thread has stopped flashing and up to date, 23/48.

>15 Robertgreaves: Thanks for explaining, Robert.

My first ROOT of June is Mary Barton, my own ticker is updated.

Adding two more ROOTs to my ticker for June:

The World Set Free, by H. G. Wells
'Til Death, by Ed McBain

I've read 2 for June:
A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker and An Experiment in Treason by Bruce Alexander.

I've added ROOTs #2 and #3 for June (#31 and #32 for the year) to my own ticker.

ROOT #2 for June and #15 for the year!
The review is on my thread and no tickers updated.

I've finished two ROOTs so far: Trouble at the Brownstone and The Mystery of the Fiery Eye. That brings me up to 19 for the year.

Another root completed, Spellbound by Catherine Robertson, so have reached halfway 24/48.

I finished my first ROOT for June. It was Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. It was Larson's usual fare and I was underwhelmed. I have never been much impressed by Larson's books, but they keep being on my real life Book Discussion group's reading list, so I keep having to read them. I liked the parts of this book that were about Marconi's invention of radio, but didn't like the murder parts. Oh well.

Added ROOT 30 of 50 to my personal ticker: The Ruby's Curse, by Alex Kingston.

>3 HelenBaker: I was having trouble updating my ticker for a while (it kept scrolling, no matter which browser I tried it on) but it's working for me now. Maybe yours will be the same?

Added ROOT 31 of 50 to my personal ticker: Agent in Place, by Helen MacInnes. I've had this one on the go for a while, despite its short page count, so glad to have it finished.

ROOT 16 for the year and the third for June. The review is on my thread and no tickers updated!

Finished Root # 25 for the year, # 3 for June
Babes in the wood by Mark Stay

And ROOT # 26 for the year, # 4 for June

De IJzerkoning by Julie Kagawa

Own tickers updated

And ROOT # 27 for the year, # 5 for June

De IJzerprinses by Julie Kagawa

Own tickers updated

Finished a ROOT! I read Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George. This one was for the LT Nonfiction Challenge for June. The topic was Science and Medicine and this book fit in perfectly. It was a series of essays and each essay had to do with a different topic but all of the topics were about blood. Very interesting, informative, and an easy book to read. I really liked this one.

Finished reading two more ROOTs this month.

Personal ticker updated. :)

I've added 2 more ROOTs (#4 and #5 for June; #33 and #34 for the year) to my own ticker.

>27 KWharton: Yes mine suddenly has come right after a couple of months. I note you are another NZer. So maybe it is related to our location. Pleased it has come right though.

I have finished two more roots, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason and The Dutch House by Ann Patchet, 26/48

I've added 4 titles for June. I hope to another by end of the month, but my reading is slowing down with the summer finally here!

Group tickers are updated

And ROOT # 28 for the year, # 6 for June

Wolkenstad by Anthony Doerr

Own tickers updated

I'm back! I dropped off the map for almost 3 months due to intense morning sickness that was hugely exacerbated by reading, but I'm feeling better and starting to make up for those missed months.

So far for June, I'm sitting at 13 ROOTs demolished and I think I'll be able to pull out another one or two. Only my personal ticker has been updated; I'm too intimated by the thought of messing up the group ticker to mess with it!

I just finished my 6th ROOT for June (#35 for the year to date) and added to my ticker. I highly recommend this one - Notes from an Island by Tove Janssson & Tuulikki Pietila, which is just beautiful.

>38 Miss_Moneypenny: congratulations, and welcome back!

Added ROOT 32 of 50 to my personal ticker: Witchmark, by C. L. Polk.

Well, I'm in major recovery mode from my knee replacement.
Here's what I looked like after 4 days. The bruises are popping! The swelling is the worst! I feel like my skin wants to just crack open!

Needless to say my concentration is a bit off.

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I may be a bit slow on the July thread, bear with me.

>42 cyderry: Goodness, I hope that doesn't feel as painful as it looks, Chèli! We will survive if the July thread isn't up right away. :)

I've had a spasm of reading productivity and finished two more ROOTs for the month: Citizen Cash: The Political Life of Johnny Cash and The Mystery of the Fiery Spider. There's a very slight change I might finish another, but we'll see. I'll make sure the ticker on my thread is updated by July 1 either way.

>42 cyderry: No wonder your concentration is off, Chèli. I hope this doesn't last for long, it looks painful.
We will wait patiently for the July thread.

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I have read 4 ROOTs in June, making a total of 34/48

>42 cyderry: Wishing you a speedy recovery, Chèli

>42 cyderry: Yeowch! Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Added ROOT 33 of 50 to my personal ticker: Tales from New Earth, a Big Finish audio box set in the worlds of Doctor Who.

Here is my report for June 2022:

UpROOTED books: 14
ROOTless books: 4
Added to the treebook TBR shelves: 0

The ROOTs were:

Voyager
Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Lord John and the Private Matter, all by Diana Gabaldon
Marcus Agrippa by Lindsay Powell
Mary Queen of Scotch by Rob Rosen
Caitlin Ross and the Commute From Hell by Brian Olsen
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache by Martin Aston
Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Jack of Eagles by James Blish
A Spell for a Chameleon by Piers Anthony

ROOTs in YTD: 60

(Group tickers not touched)

I won't finish my current ROOT today, so my final poll for June is 3. Must do better next month!

>42 cyderry: Ouch. Take your time, Chèli.

So June was busy with COVID and end of semester so only 1 book read! Total now 26/30.
Personal ticker updated only.

Cyderry -wishing you a speedy recovery!

Happy reading all!!!

Cyderry- yes, have a good recovery!

5 for me for June, bringing the YTD total to 37. Updating personal ticker.

Take care of yourself, Cyderry- we'll be here. Read, rest and heal.

>42 cyderry:. That looks very painful. Take it easy. Hope you are feeling better soon.

The July thread can certainly wait.

My total for the month is 6, I had hoped to get one more in this month and could still do it, but then my writing assignment will be late so I'd better be sensible :)

5 for me this month -- I might try to finish one more up tonight, but it probably won't happen.

I hope your recovery is quick, Chèli!

Holding steady for the month at 33/50 ROOTs read. Take care, Chèli!

>42 cyderry: you have my sympathy. I'd forgotten how grossly swollen my leg was after my hip replacement...I swore it was going to explode.

>42 cyderry: oh, Chèli, that looks awfully painful! Wishing you more comfort and a very speedy recovery.

Numbers-wise I’ve not managed to get to the halfway point of my goal, but it’s still achievable - 17/40 for the year so far.

>58 fuzzi: you are right! I feel like the skin could just split right open!

>60 cyderry: ❤️❤️❤️

Are you using ice?

>61 fuzzi: LOTS OF ICE!

>62 cyderry: best thing. I don't recall using any painkillers, just ice. In the hospital after the surgery they took away my morphine pump, I wasn't using it enough.

Hip replacement is supposed to be easier than knee. Don't push it, listen to your doctor.

I've pulled the numbers and noticed some tickers aren't working. Could everyone check the ticker thread and make sure that your ticker is showing properly.

>64 cyderry: My ticker is correct as of this posting (38 completed toward goal of 75)

>64 cyderry: For those having problems with their ticker, I have found that the ticker site works better if you use Chrome rather than other browsers such as Firefox. And for some reason which I don't understand it works better on my laptop at home than on my work computer.

>42 cyderry: I hope you're feeling more comfortable soon!

>64 cyderry: Thanks for the heads up. None of my tickers were working! The ROOT ticker should be good now.

>64 cyderry: My ticker looks okay.

>64 cyderry: My ticker is okay.
I noticed 7 tickers not showing.

My ticker appears to be displaying properly.

My ticker is fine there, Cheli.

Actually I did manage to finish a 7th ROOT yesterday after all, but as you've already got the numbers for June I'll save it and add it as my first of July once the July thread is up.

>42 cyderry: Oh boy... I'm supposed to have knee surgery 26 July. I'm having third and fourth thoughts about that.

>64 cyderry: my ticker is displaying correctly: 106.

I had 8 ROOTS in June. A couple of them were big books! here is the rundown for the month. No tickers updated.

Fiction
Paper Bark Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
Trace Elements by Donna Leon
Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons

Nonfiction
Who Did It First?: 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World by Julie Leung
Nine Pints: A Journey THrough the Money. Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George

Recorded Books
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

My personal ticker is right. 26/30

>72 majkia: Jean, don't be discouraged. Not knowing what kind of surgery you are planning, I can't advise, but I have had 3 surgeries (arthroscopic) on this knee before and had no problems. Just old age and full replacement has this effect, I think. Family members and friends have done this surgery and several weeks after are glad they did. Keep me posted.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/342721#

JULY thread is up! I hope everything is right but remember I am on painkillers!

>42 cyderry: Oh my! That looks awful! And not all all like my knee after surgery.

>72 majkia: Don't get scared, Jean. I would do it again in an instant. It meant my backpain was gone too and I could walk without any pain again.

Mine looked like this



BTW: my ticker is just fine and up to date!