Quaisior's ROOTs 2013

My goal is to read 50 books I own (and unlike in previous years, this is regardless of how long I've owned them). Last year, I had mixed results: 40 shelf-sitters (books I've owned for at least a year), but I read 70 total books I own(ed), plus a ton of DNFs I didn't count, but I will be counting those this year.

Read:
1. Winning Colors- Elizabeth Moon
2. We Won the Cup! Boston Bruins 2011 Stanley Cup Champions- Boston Herald
3. Dragon Ship- Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
4. Love and Rockets- Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes, eds.
5. The Borrowers- Mary Norton
6. A Dangerous Magic- Denise Little, ed.
7. Peter Rabbit and Eleven Other Favorite Tales- Beatrix Potter
8. The Worst Witch- Jill Murphy
9. Return to Howliday Inn- James Howe
10. Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own- Shawna McCarthy, ed.
11. The Fire Rose- Mercedes Lackey
12. Nighty Nightmare- James Howe
13. Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar- Mercedes Lackey, ed.
14. T-Rex Trying- Hugh Murphy
15. First Warning- Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
16. Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great- Judy Blume
17. The Serpent's Shadow- Mercedes Lackey
18. Changing the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar- Mercedes Lackey, ed.
19. Princess Academy- Shannon Hale
20. Second Wave- Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
21. Call the Midwife- Jennifer Worth
22. The Velveteen Rabbit- Margery Williams
23. The Time Keeper- Barbara Bartholomew
24. The Subtle Knife- Philip Pullman
25. The Gates of Sleep- Mercedes Lackey
26. Third Watch- Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
27. Scottish Brides
28. The Amber Spyglass- Philip Pullman
29. A Soldier's Duty- Jean Johnson
30. Over Sea, Under Stone- Susan Cooper
31. The Last April Dancers- Jean Thesman
32. The Dark Is Rising- Susan Cooper
33. Greenwitch- Susan Cooper
34. Phoenix and Ashes- Mercedes Lackey
35. The Grey King- Susan Cooper
36. Heart's Blood- Juliet Marillier
37. Almost to Die For- Tate Hallaway
38. Silver on the Tree- Susan Cooper
39. Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar- Mercedes Lackey, ed.
40. Mister B. Gone- Clive Barker
41. Investigating Farscape- Jes Battis
42. Trickster's Choice- Tamora Pierce
43. Blade of Fortriu- Juliet Marillier
44. The Wizard of London- Mercedes Lackey
45. Hyperbole and a Half- Allie Brosh
46. Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar- Mercedes Lackey, ed.
47. Farscape Forever: Sex, Drugs, and Killer Muppets- Glenn Yeffeth, ed.

DNF:
1. Villains Victorious- edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers
2. Horrible Beginnings- edited by Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg
3. Snow White, Blood Red- edited by Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling
4. Mars- Ben Bova
5. Wicca Craft- Gerina Dunwich
6. Embracing the Moon- Yasmine Galenorn
7. Celtic Magic- D. J. Conway
8. Fudge-A-Mania- Judy Blume
9. Double Fudge- Judy Blume
10. Discount Armageddon- Seanan McGuire
11. Thistle Down- Irene Radford
12. Prince of Chaos- Roger Zelazny
13. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency- Douglas Adams
14. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul- Douglas Adams
15. The Gunslinger- Stephen King
16. The Drawing of the Three- Stephen King
17. The Waste Lands- Stephen King
18. Rama II- Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
19. The Garden of Rama- Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
20. Rama Revealed- Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee
21. Bright Messengers- Gentry Lee
22. Hawk's Prize- Elaine Barbieri
23. How to Engage an Earl- Kathryn Caskie
24. Winter Love, Winter Wishes- Jane Claypool Miner
25. Child of Tomorrow- Barbara Bartholomew
26. When Dreamers Cease to Dream- Barbara Bartholomew
27. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell- Susanna Clarke
28. Possess- Gretchen McNeil
29. Tall, Dark & Dead- Tate Hallaway
30. The Lady Most Likely...- Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway
31. The Lady Most Willing...- Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway
32. Where's My Hero?- Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Kinley MacGregor
33. Eyes of Crow- Jeri Smith-Ready
34. License to Ensorcell- Katharine Kerr
35. Wicked Game- Jeri Smith-Ready
36. Reserved for the Cat- Mercedes Lackey

Welcome to The ROOT group. Lots of luck!

Thank you. Best of luck to you too.

Well, so far, January hasn't been a complete failure, even though I'm reading slowly. I got through four books and didn't finish three, which are now off my shelves! I hope to finish two more books by tomorrow night.

Will you count y our DNFs in your total?

I'm not sure if I should count them or not. I mean, I didn't finish reading them, but I did get them off my shelves (and posted on swap sites so they won't be staying in my home). I think I will count them then. :D

Good choice - clearing shelves for some is the ultimate goal.

Clearing my shelves is a must because I have several small boxes of book overflow that I want to put on my shelves.

I updated my list, but I didn't include a bunch of Anne McCaffrey books I read in the past and just skimmed through now to see if I wanted to keep them. I ended up getting rid of most of them, so I was able to get one whole overflow box on the bookshelf where the McCaffreys were.

Good job, Quaisior.

Thank you, Connie. I just updated again.

I finally updated my list again. I'm having a bad year in the real life department, so my reading and posting have both slowed way down.

That's sad, Quaisior, I hope the year will have a better ending. But real live gets in the way sometimes of lots of fun-things.

Thanks Connie. Sorry I haven't posted in so long, I've been busy cleaning my house from top to bottom. I updated my list and reorganized it.

Good for you. Glad to see you again.

Thanks Connie.

I did my final update of my lists. I think reading 47 of my own books (and not reading many library books, so I could focus mostly on Mt. TBR) was a moderate success. The 36 DNFs is a huge success though because I used to finish every book I started, no matter how bad it was and how much I hated it. In addition to the books I read and my DNFs, I got rid of 100 books in 2013 (some of those were books I had read before; I periodically go through my shelves and weed out books I don't think I will reread).