Floremolla returns to her ROOTs

Back for an eighth year of reading my own TOMES. Previous years’ reading here:

2017
https://www.librarything.com/topic/268593
2018
https://www.librarything.com/topic/289632
2019
https://www.librarything.com/topic/301559
2020
https://www.librarything.com/topic/314687
2021
https://www.librarything.com/topic/328011#n7700983
2022
https://www.librarything.com/topic/338097#n8017215
2023
https://www.librarything.com/topic/347110#n8149678

Goals will be modest again this year. I finish my garden design diploma in a couple of months and will have more time for reading.

ROOTs Read
1. The Way of All Flesh Ambrose Parry
2. Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
3. The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope
4. Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
5. The Fraud Zadie Smith
6. The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel
7. What a Carve Up Jonathan Coe
8. Beloved Tony Morrison
9. Caledonian Road Andrew O’Hagan
10. Cranford Elizabeth Gaskill
11. Long Island Colm Toibin
12. Hot Milk Deborah Levy
13. The Romantic William Boyd
14. Killing Commendatore Haruki Murikami
15. In Cold Blood Truman Capote
16. Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith
17. Taipan James Clavell
18. Shogun James Clavell
19. The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch
20. Intermezzo Sally Rooney
21. Howard’s End E M Forster
22. The Passenger Cormac McCarthy
23. Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy
24. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
25. Dubliners James Joyce

1. Residential Landscape Acrhitecture – Design Ideas for the Private Residence Norman Booth and James E Hill
2. The Lawn Expert Dr D G Hessayon
3. The Wild Garden William Robinson and Rick Darke
4. The Dynamic Landscape Nigel Dunnet and James Hitchmough
5. Rain Gardens – Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape Nigel Dunnet and Andy Clayden
6. Soil – Resource Management Bryan Davies, Brian Finney and David Eagle
7. Plant Names Simplified A T Johnson, H A Smith and A P Stockdale
8. Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture – from Concept to Form in Landscape Design Grant W Reid
9. Some Branch Against the Sky Geoffrey Dutton
10. The House Book Terence Conran
11. The Essential Tree Selection Guide Henrik Sjoman and Arit Anderson
12. Shrouded in Light Kevin Philip Willman and Michael Guidi
13. Sustainable Garden Marian Boswell
14. Plants and Habitats Ben Avers
15. The Complete Book of Ground Covers Gary Lewis
16. The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (2023 edition) Ed. Chris Young

Non-ROOTs Read

Feeling a wee bit sheepish returning after a long absence, having not done my bit for the 2023 ROOT Challenge. Or rather, I did it, but didn’t log it in time.

Nevertheless, looking forward to catching up with auld acquaintances (never forgot) and making new ones when I have a bit more free time from mid-February. Yay!

Already regretting that I didn’t stack my TBR with shiny 2023 tomes before this new year, but that should focus me on the existing tsundoku - and another few hundred left me by my daughter when she went off to work in Oz.

Happy ROOTing in 2024!

Great to see you back, Donna! Hope that the last couple of months of your diploma goes well, and whatever comes after that is just what you hope for!

Welcome back, Donna! Always great to see you :) Hope the last bit of your diploma goes well!

Hi Donna, love to see you back again. I did neglect my fellow-ROOTers too last year. But we are both back again and give it another try.

Happy ROOTing!

Donna, welcome back and great progress toward your diploma! Have you been to visit your daughter?

Welcome back, Donna!

I'm glad to see you're back, Donna. Happy reading!

Hi Donna!

Welcome back. Ditto re the 2023 ROOT Challenge, so we’re in the same boat. Nice (?) that your daughter left you books when she went off to work in Oz. *smile*