DisassemblyOfReason's 2025 ROOTs

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DisassemblyOfReason's 2025 ROOTs

1DisassemblyOfReason
Jan 1, 2025, 4:08 pm



OK, thread in place.

2DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Feb 2, 2025, 1:04 pm

January
1. Death on the Moon by Barbara Hambly
First complete reading.
2. Tales of the Nameless World, V, 1 by Christopher G. Nuttall
First complete reading. Includes Void's Tale, Gennady's Tale, Nanette's Tale, Alassa's Tale, Marah's Tale.
3. The Face by Dean Koontz, read by Dylan Baker
Re-read.
4. The Clock Strikes Twelve by Patricia Wentworth, read by Diana Bishop
Re-read but first time through audiobook.
5. Teckla by Steven Brust, read by Bernard Setaro Clark
First complete reading, first time through audiobook.

3mstrust
Jan 1, 2025, 5:27 pm

Happy ROOTing this year!

4cyderry
Jan 1, 2025, 5:29 pm

Off to a fast start! I wish! Happy reading in 2025!

5connie53
Jan 2, 2025, 6:42 am

Happy ROOTing this new year, DOR. All the best wishes for you and yours!

6rocketjk
Jan 4, 2025, 11:58 am

Happy New Year and thread. I love your ticker. Let's hope for calm seas and clear skies otherwise. Cheers!

7MissWatson
Jan 8, 2025, 8:18 am

You’re off to a good start with your ROOTing, congrats!

8DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Mar 15, 2025, 12:31 pm

February
06. The Devil's Novice by Ellis Peters, read by Patrick Tull
Re-read.

07. The X Factor by Andre Norton, read by L.J. Ganser
Re-read but first time through audiobook, concluding the audiobook of the omnibus The Game of Stars and Comets. This is actually the 3rd of the 4 works in the omnibus, but I skipped it initially to go on to the final book in the omnibus and have now finally looped back. If you've read Dread Companion (in which the female protagonist is the daughter of a Survey scout and is of the opinion that she'd have been supremely happy in that career, but wasn't of the preferred gender), The X Factor is the flip side (the son of a Survey scout who wasn't of the right stuff, psychologically speaking).

08. Schooled in Magic by Christopher G. Nuttall, read by Tavia Gilbert
First complete reading. (Have made multiple false starts at reading this prior to this, but got sidetracked reading other things until now. I enjoy this book, though.)

09. Lessons in Etiquette by Christopher G. Nuttall, read by Tavia Gilbert
First complete reading.

10. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie, read by Joan Hickson
Re-read but first time through audiobook, I think.

11. Phoenix by Steven Brust, read by Bernard Setaro Clark
First time through audiobook.

9DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Mar 30, 2025, 2:18 pm

March
12. The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe, read by Victor Garber
Possibly a re-read; I think this is the first time I've listened to the audiobook. This completes The Bunnicula Collection, which I started listening to for Halloween.

13. The Zero Stone by Andre Norton, read by Charles Constant
Re-read but first time through audiobook. This completes the first half of the audiobook omnibus of Search for the Star Stones. (I'd've said 'zero stones' rather than 'star stones' in the omnibus title, but they didn't ask me.)

14. The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, read by Robert Whitfield
Re-read.

15. Who Thinks Evil by Michael Kurland
First complete reading.

10ritacate
Mar 1, 2025, 9:39 am

>8 DisassemblyOfReason: I really like the Brother Cadfael series and am always sad when I realize there will be no more of a series.

11connie53
Edited: Mar 10, 2025, 6:47 am

Hi DOR. Just popping in to do so. HI!

12DisassemblyOfReason
Apr 5, 2025, 5:12 pm

April
16. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, read by Flo Gibson
Re-read but first time through audiobook. This is the first Jungle Book only.

13DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Jun 7, 2025, 4:28 pm

14Caramellunacy
May 4, 2025, 8:40 am

>13 DisassemblyOfReason: I love Sorcery and Cecilia - The Letter Game sounded like it would be so much fun.

15DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Jul 4, 2025, 10:37 pm

June
21. Death by Gaslight by Michael Kurland
First complete reading, completing the omnibus The Infernal Device and Others (along with The Paradol Paradox, which doesn't have its own entry and isn't book length).
22. Scandal in Babylon by Barbara Hambly, read by Pilar Witherspoon
Re-read.
23. Truckers by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
First complete reading.
24. One Extra Corpse by Barbara Hambly, read by Pilar Witherspoon
Re-read.
25. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, read by Amy Landon
Re-read.

16DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Jul 27, 2025, 5:59 pm

17connie53
Jul 13, 2025, 7:02 am

Hi DOR, here I am again. I hope you are doing alright and reading those ROOTs.

18DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Aug 24, 2025, 11:12 am

August
30. Convergence by C.J. Cherryh, read by Daniel Thomas May
Re-read.
31. The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, read by Patrick Tull
Re-read but first time through audiobook.
32. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix, read by Marisa Calin
Re-read.
33. Constable Country by Catherine Aird
First complete reading.

19DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Dec 31, 2025, 4:02 am

September
34. Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper, read by Anthony Wilson
Re-read.
35. Space Viking by H. Beam Piper, read by Mark Douglas Nelson
Re-read.
36. Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn, read by Marguerite Gavin
Re-read.
37. Broken Roads by Carrie Vaughn, read by Neil Hellegers
First complete reading.

(Updated to put #34 and #35 into roughly their proper position.)

21DisassemblyOfReason
Edited: Dec 31, 2025, 3:59 am

22connie53
Dec 3, 2025, 10:12 am

I hope you will reach your goal, DOR. ROOTing for you.

24connie53
Dec 27, 2025, 10:27 am

Hi DOR, Happy Days for you and your family!

25DisassemblyOfReason
Dec 27, 2025, 8:48 pm

>24 connie53:
Thank you, you too.

Just finished All Systems Red for the first time today, but it doesn't count as a ROOT....

26DisassemblyOfReason
Dec 31, 2025, 3:48 pm

December (continued)
56. Kitty's Greatest Hits by Carrie Vaughn
Re-read, which happened because another short story collection that *isn't* one of my ROOTs overlapped this one.