laura_88's 2014 ROOT Challenge

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1laura_88
Dez. 11, 2013, 6:36 am

I didn't meet my goal in 2013 so I have reduced my goal to 20 in 2014. Hope this year is going to be more succesfull. Every book I own counts so books that I acquire in 2014 will also be included.


2connie53
Dez. 11, 2013, 10:52 am

Welcome again, Laura!

3rabbitprincess
Dez. 11, 2013, 4:44 pm

Best of luck this year! :)

4rainpebble
Jan. 1, 2014, 2:45 am

Hi Laura. Good luck with your challenge.

5laura_88
Jan. 1, 2014, 10:12 am

Thanks everyone! In the start of year 2014 I have 180 TBRs waiting to be read...

6laura_88
Jan. 8, 2014, 11:15 am

Well I'm slowly reading my first ROOT book Bleak House. My copy is 936 pages long and I've read 43% of it so far. After finishing this huge book I'll probably read something shorter for this challenge. :)

7connie53
Jan. 8, 2014, 11:34 am

WOW, that's lot of pages! Respect.

8rabbitprincess
Jan. 8, 2014, 5:55 pm

>6 laura_88:: Good idea! I need to get cracking on Bleak House myself. I'm not even at the point where I stopped reading last time!

9laura_88
Jan. 9, 2014, 11:03 am

#7 Thanks Connie!
#8 I'm really liking the book, but it will take awhile before I finish it.

10tymfos
Jan. 9, 2014, 11:08 am

That's a really impressive volume to take on for your first ROOT. Wow!

11laura_88
Jan. 9, 2014, 11:17 am

#10 The group read in the Category Challenge group really pushed me to start this book and I'm glad it did. I'll guess at some point of the year I will try to find the short TBR books to meet my challenge... Maybe my goal for 2015 should be to read Les Miserables which I also own (and is one of the longest books in my TBR).

12BurntUmberDust
Jan. 9, 2014, 3:27 pm

Wow, 9e36 pages is a huge task for the first ROOT! Hope you enjoy it.

13Tallulah_Rose
Jan. 11, 2014, 2:09 pm

Hope you enoy Bleak House. It takes up a bit of pace in the second half, if I remember rightly, so I hope it will hold on to be an anjoyable read.

14laura_88
Jan. 13, 2014, 8:42 am

#12 & 13 I'm still enjoying Bleak House and I only have 100 pages to go. :) Will probably finish the book today.

15cyderry
Jan. 13, 2014, 3:18 pm

Bleak house took me 3 months! Keep going!

16laura_88
Jan. 14, 2014, 4:49 am

ROOT #1 Bleak House by Charles Dickens
This was a great book to start my ROOT challenge. I had previously read and liked Great Expectations so I knew the writing style of Dickens. I really enjoyed the book and towards the end it started to be a real page-turner.

17MissWatson
Jan. 14, 2014, 5:02 am

Congratulations!

18laura_88
Jan. 14, 2014, 7:53 am

#17 Thanks! :)

19connie53
Jan. 14, 2014, 8:07 am

Yeah, you finished the big one!! Way to go.

20Tallulah_Rose
Jan. 18, 2014, 6:35 am

Congrats on finishing Bleak House. Glad you liked it, it really takes up pace towards the end.

21laura_88
Jan. 23, 2014, 3:47 pm

#19-20 Thank you both!

ROOT #2 Beowulf
This seems to be a month of classics for me. This was luckily a lot shorter than Bleak House. :)

22connie53
Jan. 23, 2014, 3:58 pm

Yes!!! good job.

23MissWatson
Jan. 24, 2014, 6:27 am

Which edition of Beowulf did you read? The new one by Seamus Haney?

24laura_88
Jan. 24, 2014, 6:53 am

#23 I read a Finnish translation of Beowulf.

25MissWatson
Jan. 24, 2014, 8:03 am

Ah, thanks! That is an edition I can not put on my reading list...

26laura_88
Jan. 30, 2014, 7:52 am

ROOT #3 Maaninkavaara by Miika Nousiainen
Martti starts to train his daughter to be a champion runner, after his son dies. He has some unique training methods but not all of them are good for his daughter.

27connie53
Jan. 30, 2014, 2:11 pm

Wow, I just realized you are from Finland! I looked at the title of your ROOT and thought: What is that?

I really like the multicultural groups here!

28laura_88
Jan. 30, 2014, 2:30 pm

Yes sometimes it's hard to know where are everyone from. I am from time to time suprised when I notice that someone that I've thought to be man/woman is actually the opposite sex. That usually happens when I can't guess that from the username.

29Merryann
Jan. 30, 2014, 9:27 pm

This has nothing to do with books, Laura, but I love your Finnish Pelican's hockey commercials! (Saw them on wimp.com)

30laura_88
Jan. 31, 2014, 5:15 am

Had to watch them from youtube because I hadn't seen them before. Hilarious :D

31connie53
Jan. 31, 2014, 2:20 pm

> I'm trying to keep track of every ROOTer in an excel sheet!

32laura_88
Feb. 13, 2014, 7:12 am

ROOT #4 Through A Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
Book #15 in the Brunetti series. An ok mystery although it took awhile before the crime happened.

33Merryann
Feb. 14, 2014, 1:24 am

>Book 15, That's a departure from most mystery. Was it annoying that the crime didn't happen right away?

34Caramellunacy
Feb. 14, 2014, 5:47 am

It's been quite a while since I last read a Brunetti, but they're big favorites in our household - too bad it was only ok for you.

What's up next for your reading?

35laura_88
Feb. 14, 2014, 6:51 am

#33 Well in the beginning Brunetti interviewed some people who were later involved in the case so it wasn't that bad.

#34 Actually I finished another ROOT book last night. Don't know what will the next book for this challenge. I have a lot of library books I should read.

ROOT #5 Kiitos, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
This book contained two longer Jeeves and Wooster stories ("Right Ho, Jeeves" and "Thank You, Jeeves") and one short story (Jeeves Makes An Omelette). I read the first story a couple of years ago but for some reason didn't read the rest until now.

36laura_88
Mrz. 30, 2014, 6:35 am

Unfortunately no ROOTs for me this month. I was busy reading library books and me and my fiancée took a trip to Barcelona. I'll try to do better next month!

37connie53
Mrz. 30, 2014, 6:36 am

Just keep it up, Laura!

38Merryann
Mrz. 30, 2014, 11:54 pm

I'd trade ROOTs for Spain, too! :) Did you have fun?

39laura_88
Mrz. 31, 2014, 2:27 am

>38 Merryann: I sure did. :) Great food, lots to see and the weather was just right for me, not too hot.

40MissWatson
Mrz. 31, 2014, 2:07 pm

Barcelona? Of course that's way better than ROOTs. That has been on my list for ages. Soon, I keep promising myself. What did you like best?

41laura_88
Mrz. 31, 2014, 2:22 pm

>40 MissWatson: Well I liked everything so it's hard to say just one thing. And we saw only some parts of the city: for exemple Sagrada Familia, Montjuïc, Parc Güell and La Rambla. We already talked about which places to visit if we go there again... :) Barcelona is a beautiful city and I hope you get a change to go there.

42laura_88
Mai 14, 2014, 6:08 am

Finally I read a book from my own shelves... I've been busy with library books. I will start a part-time job next month in a local library so I don't see the library book pile getting any smaller.

ROOT #6 A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust by George R.R. Martin
This is the first part of A Dance with Dragons. It's been a few years since I read A Feast for Crows so I was quite happy to return to Westeros. I liked the book alot and now I have to wait patiently for the second part of the book to be published in Finnish. The publishing company which translates these books to Finnish is very small so it has taken awhile to get the translation done. If everything goes as planned the second part will be out this month. I'll probably buy that one too.

43laura_88
Aug. 26, 2014, 2:34 am

OK this was a short one but it still counts! :)

ROOT #7 The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister by George R.R. Martin
Short quotations from the Song of Ice and Fire series. Tyrion is one of my favourite characters so I had to buy this book.

My next ROOT read will probably be the second part of A Dance with Dragons.

44MissWatson
Aug. 26, 2014, 3:35 am

Welcome back and have fun with the Lannisters!

45Tess_W
Aug. 30, 2014, 7:46 pm

How is the part-time job in the library going?

46laura_88
Aug. 31, 2014, 11:39 pm

>45 Tess_W: It's been great working there. Three months has just flown by. I have nice co-workers and the customers are usually friendly too. :)

47laura_88
Sept. 5, 2014, 3:51 am

ROOT #8 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Flavia is such a wonderfull character. I will continue reading this series, but this was the only Flavia book in my TBR.

48Familyhistorian
Sept. 6, 2014, 5:55 pm

>47 laura_88: I have The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie on my shelf as well. Not yet a ROOT but you piqued my interest with your comment about Flavia. Maybe I should get to this book sooner rather than later.

49Tess_W
Sept. 6, 2014, 7:47 pm

I'm really glad the library job is going well! What a great job for a book lover!

50laura_88
Sept. 15, 2014, 7:36 am

ROOT #9 A Dance with the Dragons : After the Feast by George R.R. Martin
And the waiting game starts again... It kills me to think that I have to wait for a few years before I can read the next book in the series. I want to know what happens now! Luckily we have the tv-show to help past the time... :)

51connie53
Sept. 29, 2014, 2:36 pm

I'm still reading part 4, Een feestmaal voor kraaien. So I can take it slow and read all the remaining books before the newest one is written and published.

52laura_88
Sept. 30, 2014, 9:37 am

>51 connie53: Lucky you... :) I've been reading the translated versions of the books so I first have to wait for the original to get published and then for the translation. Well I have tons of other books to read while waiting. :D

53connie53
Okt. 6, 2014, 2:18 pm

I'm reading the translation too.

54laura_88
Nov. 20, 2014, 11:51 pm

ROOT #10 Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami
I'm a fan of Murakami's writing and this book did not disappoint me.

So I got halfway with this challenge this year. I have one ROOT in progress, should finish it soon but there is no way I can read 20 ROOTs this year. Well there's always next year. :)

55MissWatson
Nov. 21, 2014, 5:12 am

The most important thing is that you enjoyed the books.

56Tess_W
Nov. 21, 2014, 6:55 am

I agree with MissWatson!

57laura_88
Nov. 22, 2014, 8:34 am

>55 MissWatson:, >56 Tess_W: I know. :) Working in a library makes it sometimes difficult to concentrete on the books I own.

58rabbitprincess
Nov. 22, 2014, 10:23 am

>57 laura_88: The library is tempting enough to me as a patron; I can imagine how much more tempting it would be when you actually work there! :)

59connie53
Nov. 24, 2014, 2:50 pm

I agree with MissW and Tess. Just enjoy what you are reading!

60laura_88
Nov. 26, 2014, 8:50 am

>58 rabbitprincess: Well let just say I have over 60 books borrowed from the library...

>59 connie53: That won't be hard. :)

ROOT #11 The Dinner by Herman Koch
I didn't find any likable character in this book. It was still interesting though.

61Tess_W
Nov. 26, 2014, 5:46 pm

>60 laura_88: I did not like The Dinner at all! I found it to be a no-brainer, but perhaps that's just in my lil world!