Tallulah_Rose joins as well in 2015

I'm in again in 2015!

In 2014 I set a goal of 20 ROOTs. I managed to read 12, but discarded another 14 books, so I managed 26 ROOTs altogether, for the first time surpassing my goal!
In 2015 we expect some addition to our family in January. Therefore I don't know how much I will be able to concentrate on reading and reduce my goal to only 12 books.




Rules: I'll count all books that entered my shelves before January 1st, 2015. I am not going to count re-reads. But I will count books read in another language before.

ETA: To make things easier I decided to record all my reading here instead of starting a thread at the 50 Book Challenge as well. So it's probably going to be a little longer list this year.

Books I want to read this year:
Bhagavad-Gita as it is
Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Das Elternbuch
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Roots are indicated bold and with numbers in front. All other books are borrowed or rereads.

January
1. - Snow White Must Die - 06.01.2015 - ***
2. - Die Beste zum Schluss - 11.01.2015 - ****
3. # Silber Das erste Buch der Träume - 23.01.2015
4. # Silber Das zweite Buch der Träume - 24.01.2015
5. # Claudine at St. Clare's (germ. translation)- 26.01.2015

February
6. * Mörder im Gespensterwald - 05.02.2015 - ***
7. # The Second Form at St. Clare's (germ. translation)- 13.02.2015
8. # Hanni und Nanni im Geisterschloss - 14.02.2015
9. - Der Altmann ist tot - 19.02.2015 - **1/2
10. - Dear Germany: Eine Amerikanerin in Deutschland - 25.02.2015 - ***

March
11. - Mörder im Zug - 01.03.2015 - **
12. - Mörder im Chat - 07.03.2015 - ****
13. - The Eyre Affair (germ. translation) - 15.03.2015 - ***
14. - Hogfather (germ. translation) - 22.03.2015 - **
15. - Making Money (germ. translation) - 27.03.2015 - ****1/2

April
16. - Herrentier - 03.04.2015 - ****1/2
17. - The Rosie Project (germ. translation) - 07.04.2015 - ****1/2
18. - Einmal breifrei, bitte! - 16.04.2015 - ****
19. - Entschuldigung, sind Sie die Wurst? - 17.04.2015 - ****
20. - Isch geh Schulhof - 24.04.2015 - ****
21. - Übertrieben tot - 27.04.2015 - ****
22. - Miss Buncle's Book (germ. translation) - 29.04.2015 - **1/2

May
23. * Going Postal - 04.05.2015 - ****1/2
24. - Night School (germ. translation) - 09.05.2015 -
25. - Night School Legacy (germ. translation) - 12.05.2015
26. - Night School Fracture (germ. translation) - 13.05.2015
27. - Night School Resistance (germ. translation) - 14.05.2015 -

June
28. - Equal Rites (germ. translation) - 01.06.2015 - ***
29. - Schattenparker, Bordsteinrammer und andere Fahrschüler - 03.06.2015 - ****
30. - Nö, du störst nicht, ich bin gerade in der Bahn! - 07.06.2015 - **
31. - Bin Isch Freak, oda was? - 10.06.2015 - ***
32. - The Hunger Games - 13.06.2015 - ***1/2
33. - Sehr geehrtes Facebook - 14.06.2015
34. - Isch hab Geisterblitz - 18.06.2015
35. - Catching Fire - 25.06.2015 - ***1/2
36. - Mockingjay - 28.06.2015 - ***

July
37. - Men at Arms - 02.07.2015 - ****1/2
38. - Das Geheimnis von Greenshore Garden - 10.07.2015 - ***
39. - Eine unbeliebte Frau - 12.07.2015 - ****
40. - Elchtest - 17.07.2015 - ****

August
41. - Tiefe Wunden - 09.08.2015 - ****
42. - Mordsfreunde - 18.08.2015 - ****
43. - Night School: Endgame - 21.08.2015 - ***
44. - Wer Wind Sät - 28.08.2015 - ***

September

October
45. - Kalter Grund - **1/2

November
46. - * Silber. Das dritte Buch der Träume - 17.11.2015 - ***

December

discarded
Deutschland schafft sich ab - 16.09.2015
Das große Buch der Seidenmalerei - 26.10.2015
Studienbuch Linguistik - 26.10.2015
Wallensteins Lager / Die Piccolomini - 26.10.2015
Bildung: Alles was man wissen muss - 26.10.2015
A Game of Thrones - 26.10.2015
A Clash of Kings - 26.10.2015
A Storm of Swords - 26.10.2015
A Feast for Crows - 26.10.2015
Ovids Verwandlungen - 26.10.2015

Books added to TBR:

Year totals
Books read this year: 46
Books read from TBR (incl. discarded): 10
Books added to TBR: 7
Librarybooks/borrowed Books read: 38
New books read: 3
Re-Read: 5
Balance: positive (3)

legend:
* = new
- = borrowed/library
# = reread
(x.) = ROOT

Great to have you back. How is your pregnancy. I hope you feel well.

Welcome back and good luck!

best of luck with your rooting!

>2 Ameise1: Thank you. Everything is fine. Im staying home now, but there is still much to do and for some reason I don't feel like reading my own books at the moment. So I'm rather reading some borrowed books currently. We expect our little girl end of January. Maybe in early January I will be able to tackle some ROOTs. :-)

Oh yes, a little one can really mess up your reading time :-) My life has been turned upside down these past 5 weeks and I don't think I will make my goal this year.

What happened in your life? I couldn't finden a hint on the other threads. Are you going to participate in ROOTs again in 2015?

Congrats on the new addition to the family!

I have a 5 week old son who is keeping me busy. I posted my goal for next year in the sign up three but haven't had time yet to set up my own. I also need to update my three for this year at some point.

>9 Conachair: Wow, congratulations! :)

>9 Conachair: congratulations! And Tallulah_Rose, I hope that the remainder of your pregnancy goes well and you have plenty of time to relax!

>9 Conachair: Congratulations! Enjoy the time with your son. We can hardly await the time our little daughter will be born.

Good to see you, Tallulah_Rose. And congratulations on your pregnancy! A little girl! Lovely.

May all your wishes come true.

So dar this year I managed to read quite a lot, but no ROOTs. Somehow my own books do not appeal to me right now. I have quite a couple of books checked out from the library still. Sorry to let the group down, I hope that in due time I will read some ROOTs.

It happens! I'm sure the group would agree, you need to read what you enjoy!

Plus don't forget you have another little person taking a lot of your time! Just come back when you're ready, no doubt we'll still be here! (the TBR pile will definitely still be here!!).

ROOTs will come when it's time, Tallulah. Al long as you read what you enjoy and maybe need right now. We will be here!

Hi there, I've dropped out of LT the last month for soo many private things going on. I still haven't manged to read any TBR but we sorted out some books and so I discarded a few, I will not be going to read any time soon. So that means I brought 9 ROOTs to the challenge.

Here's hoping you can sneak in some reading time for yourself!

I'm so glad to see you back, Tallulah. I hope the private things are not bad things and If they are I hope they will be dealt with soon. And I hope you will have some reading time!

>20 Tess_W: an >21 connie53: Thank you both! I had quite a lot of reading time the first half of the year, just no ROOT books appealed to me unfortunately. Now I have just not the right mind to read anything. An no, the private things are not bad at all, it is just so many things to do and the little one needs attention and some things that have been delayed for quite a while ando on and so on... ;) I hope that I will have everything fixed up soon and get some more reading done before the end of the year!

>22 Tallulah_Rose: As long as they are good things! Reading will come back. Just enjoy your little one while she is still little. You can read your books any time, but you can't keep your daughter little!

>23 connie53: Oh Connie that is so very true! My daughter is 2 this week (she was about 1 month old when I joined the 2014 ROOT group), and I can't believe how grown up she is! We are still reading together though! (although she turns over several pages at a time so it's not usually the full story she gets!)

As long as she learns to like books, she can turn as many pages as she wants! She will get the story in time!

Yes exactly! I figure as long as she is learning to love books then that is the main thing! There are particular books that she specifically asks for, already! (she'll call them things like "baby book" or "elephant book", but we know what she means!).

It so funny the way little kids talk and mothers understand them no matter how they say it. I remember when Jeroen was 1,5 year old. We went on vacation and Jeroen stayed with my sister and her (now) husband. I wrote down words he used, so my sister could understand what he was asking for or talking about.

Yes, I love how we have been able to 'tune in' to her language. Occasionally there are words that stump us (she says 'fuffun' a lot, it took us ages to realise she was meaning 'that one'), but she is getting clearer and clearer. Today she was pointing at the book pile on the table and saying 'ow book', it took me a few seconds but then I realised she meant "That's not my Owl" (no touchstone but here's the amazon link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thats-Not-Owl-Fiona-Watt/dp/1409587584/ ) which she got as a present earlier this week.

So cute!

wow that really is cute! I can't await to see how my little one is turning out. She is now 10months old and already so "grown up". She ist pulling herself up amd stand and even tries a few steps. And she loooves books. Wherever we are she finds them. And at home she has her own little shelf at the bottom of the living room with some of her books. Ebery now and then she takes up one or two and tries turning the pages, looking at the pictures etc. It is so amazing!

It just turned out I forgot one book I discharged earlier, so I am now at 10 out of 12 ROOTs!

You can do it, I'm sure. Just two more!

>30 Tallulah_Rose: Ahhhh, that's great. She must have her love for books from you!

>32 connie53: Or probably because they are to be seen the whole time in the living room, where we ware most, and also she had a few in her room, even before she was born. 😉 I hope it keeps until she gehts older.

As to the ROOTs: I started a book yesterday, Yeah me! It was no ROOT as such since I only boight it this year, but nevertheless one of my own books. Maybe I'll reach my goal by the end of the year...

You can make your own rules, so you decide if it counts ;-)

>33 Tallulah_Rose: sure you can! You can do it!