TheAmpersand's Final 2015 ROOT report

So the project got started late and it wasn't the reading year it could have been, but here are the longtime bookshelf residents that got cleared off in 2015:

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Short History of the Argentinians by Felix Luna
The Untouchable by John Banville
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
Townie by Andre Dubus III
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Aphrodite: Forgotten Manners by Pierre Louys
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West
The Van by Roddy Doyle

Very well done! Did you reach your goal?

I discovered this group a bit late, so I really didn't have a goal. But I do sleep in the same room that contains my bookshelves, and I had an urge to clear off some of their contents, since I'd been looking at them every day for a good long time. I read a couple of things I honestly never thought that I'd have the chance to get to. The fear of stasis sometimes does wonderful things.

>3 TheAmpersand: I sleep in such a room too. It helps a lot when you are choosing a new book to read.

Perhaps you could join the ROOT group in 2016! To keep going!

The thread starts here: http://www.librarything.nl/groups/2016rootchallengerea

Woohoo! I joined! ("Ik toegetreden," maybe?)

LOL "Ik ben toegetreden" or something like that.

Now where does the Dutch language come from?