NOVEMBER ROOT - Progress Thread

I just want everyone to know how great you are doing! We are very close to reaching our group goal as well as so many who have reached or are almost to their goals! You all are terrific! Give yourselves a big pat on the back!!

Below is the current list of members that have identified a ROOT goal for 2018 and how many books they read by the end of October.
Any members who have yet to record a ROOT, have been removed to a separate list until they start. Others have been moved to a non-participating list since they seem to have become inactive. The ticker totals have been adjusted accordingly.

The percentage is calculated and a star awarded for those on target to reach their goals. More stars for farther toward their goal.

If anyone's number is incorrect, please let me know and I will make the necessary adjustments.
So go out there and dig those ROOTs.

Amberfly 44 / 65 67.7%
Ameise1★ 20 / 10 200.0%
avanders 21 / 24 ★ 87.5%
avidmom 8 / 10 80.0%
Benita★ 66 / 50 132.0%
benuathanasia 145 / 200 72.5%
bragan 81 / 100 81.0%
brakketh 22 / 40 55.0%
brewergirl★ 32 / 30 106.7%
Britt84 50 / 60 ★ 83.3%
Caramellunacy 4 / 12 33.3%
clue★ 31 / 30 103.3%
Coach_of_Alva 31 / 50 62.0%
connie53★ 45 / 36 125.0%
CurrerBell 67 / 75 ★ 89.3%
cyderry★ 92 / 72 127.8%
deep220 50 / 75 66.7%
deern 11 / 24 45.8%
detailmuse★ 40 / 40 100.0%
DisassemblyOfReason 47 / 75 62.7%
eicuthbertson 17 / 25 68.0%
elliepotten 26 / 30 ★ 86.7%
enemyanniemae★ 58 / 36 161.1%
Erratic_Charmer★ 32 / 30 106.7%
FAMeulstee★ 246 / 200 123.0%
Familyhistorian 60 / 55 109.1%
floremolla 41 / 60 68.3%
fuzzi 70 / 100 70.0%
HelenBaker★ 52 / 48 108.3%
Helenoel 21 / 25 ★ 84.0%
Henrik_Madsen 33 / 40 82.5%
h-mb 19 / 40 47.5%
Jackie_K★ 59 / 48 122.9%
janoorani24 8 / 25 32.0%
johanna414★ 27 / 25 108.0%
kac522 22 / 40 55.0%
karenmarie 31 / 42 73.8%
kkunker 0 / 40 0.0%
Kristelh★ 54 / 35 154.3%
LadyBookworth 21 / 24 ★ 87.5%
LadyoftheLodge★ 75 / 75 100.0%
LauraBrook★ 125 / 100 125.0%
leslie98★ 109 / 100 109.0%
LibraryLover23 29 / 40 72.5%
lilisin★ 50 / 50 100.0%
lindapanzo★ 74 / 72 102.8%
lkernagh★ 62 / 60 103.3%
Lisa805 11 / 12 ★★ 91.7%
LoraShouse★ 20 / 20 100.0%
luvamystery65 12 / 40 30.0%
mabith 6 / 20 30.0%
madhatter22 21 / 60 35.0%
majkia★ 82 / 50 164.0%
mandymarie20 7 / 25 28.0%
martencat 27 / 30 ★ 90.0%
Miss_Moneypenny 20 / 60 33.3%
MissSos 19 / 20 ★★ 95.0%
MissWatson 75 / 75 100.0%
Montarville 7 / 12 58.3%
nebula21 33 / 35 ★★ 94.3%
Nickelini 19 / 20 ★★ 95.0%
Quaisior★ 78 / 50 156.0%
quigui 10 / 12 ★ 83.3%
rabbitprincess★ 85 / 50 170.0%
rainpebble★ 53 / 24 220.8%
RavenHill 21 / 40 52.5%
readingtangent★ 50 / 46 108.7%
Rebeki★ 18 / 18 100.0%
Robertgreaves★ 87 / 78 111.5%
sallylou61 35 / 36 ★★ 97.2%
si 23 / 24 ★★ 95.8%
sibyx 14 / 24 58.3%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 45 / 50 ★ 90.0%
torontoc 27 / 30 ★ 90.0%
vestafan 38 / 50 76.0%

The non-particpating members have been moved to this separate section and our goal was reduced from 4,636 to 3,930.

anoplph0ra / 20
EEasyReaderII / 60
Heather19 / 50
JBarringer / 365
katayseb / 15
KWharton / 10
linda.newman / 25
okeres / 25
pageturner3 / 50
Quasifesto / 36
slategreyskies / 50
surtsey / 10

The following were moved to a separate listing due to inactivity in the last several months and reaching only 25% or less of their goal.

4chin8 13 / 75 17.3%
crazy4reading 6 / 30 20.0%
DeborahJade 6 / 50 12.0%
funky_george 2 / 30 6.7%
kootibkiteer 2 / 10 20.0%
lahochstetler 1 / 50 2.0%
nancynova 18 / 75 24.0%
novawalsh 4 / 30 13.3%

The group goal has been adjusted from 3904 to 3554.




Ameise1, rainpebble, majkia, readiingtangent, enemyanniemae, Quaisior, rabbitprincess, Kristelh, Benita, connie53, Erratic_Charmer, FAMeulstee, Jackie_K, LauraBrook, cyderry, leslie98, clue, Reebeki, and Robertgreaves were joined by MissWatson, detailmuse, HelenBaker, lkernagh,brewergirl, lindapanzo, LoraShouse, johanna414, lilisin, and LadyoftheLodge having reached their goals!


Next in line to join them are:

sallylou61 97.2%
si 95.8%
Nickelini 95.0%
MissSos 95.0%


The goal for November is 3,257 We've already made it! Let's meet our total goal this month with another 300 ROOTS!

Well done, everyone, and thank you to our leader and motivator for all her hard work.

Was great to accomplish my goal especially considering this year it contained so many novels and not just manga to pad the numbers. Until the end of the year I think I'm going to focus on some of my more difficult reads I've been putting off since I really wanted to reduce the TBR pile this year. This makes my pile more manageable but also gives me leeway to buy more books, especially the English ones when I go back to the states for the holidays.

All those trick or treaters had me going back and forth so much last night that I forgot to update my ticker yesterday. Oh well, more ROOTs to count for November so we're already 4 ROOTs to the good this month.

Thanks for the stats, Chèli!

awesome stats! Thank you so much for all the work you do, C.

Thank you for all your work to keep us on track! Good to see so much progress.

#3
I am trying to do the same thing. I am currently reading a very long book that I have had on my shelves since 2012 and I have another ready to go that has been on my reading list since 2009.

I've just added my 1st ROOT for November (#60 for the year) to all tickers.

Thanks Cheli for all your hard work crunching the numbers!

Just added my first ROOT of November to all tickers: Hamlet, Revenge!, by Michael Innes.

Just read a great thriller called 聖母 (Holy Mother) and was really sucked into it. I don't think I've actually ever read a thriller before so it was a lot of fun. But now I want to check my list of read books to see if I'm not lying. Okay, so I've read Ryu Murakami's Audition which is a psycho horror thriller but this might be the first book I read with detectives. In any case I was going to give the book 5 stars but since I've no way to compare this to other thrillers I put it at 4 stars to give me leeway when rating others when I decide to read more from the genre. But yeah, 51/50 books in my goal. Going to enjoy contributing to the group goal.

First book for November, This is Not a Novel by Jennifer Johnston. A wee gem to start the month off.

With my first book for November, Presidential Lottery: the Reckless Gamble in our Electoral System by James A. Michener, I have reached by goal of 36 books read. I had hoped to reach this landmark by the end of October, but my allergies to falling leaves (their dust and mold) made my eyes very itchy and watery the last weekend in October. I will discuss this book in greater detail on my thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/279785#6621481

>13 sallylou61: Yeah! a few days late is nothing!

I've added #2 for November (#61 for the year) to all tickers. Review to follow on my thread later, hopefully.

Well done, SallyLou. Congratulations.

Got my first ROOT finished for November, Mrs. Mike. I recommend it, and thank 2WonderY for recommending and giving it to me...3 years ago!!

My personal ticker is updated.

And that's #3 for November (#62 for the year) added to all tickers.

Yay to everybody! Lookin' good.

I am finally up to where I can contribute to the group goals.

Finished my first ROOT for November (one that I had counted on finishing for September...), Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea by Diana Marcellas, and the #11 out of 12. The finish line is in sight!

All trackers updated.

Finished first ROOT for November God Emperor of Dune will try and finish the trilogy this November.

Yesterday I finished The Division Bell Mystery, by Ellen Wilkinson, a ROOT that was barely two months old. This is remarkably prompt for me!

And today I FINALLY finished reading Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, in the public-domain translation by Constance Garnett.

All tickers have been updated with both this ROOT and >22 rabbitprincess:.

I just finished my first ROOT for the month. I am trying to read the Regeneration trilogy as a memorial offering in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. I just finished book two in the trilogy Eye in the Door by Pat Barker.

Finished my second ROOT for November, Sojourn by R. A. Salvatore, and with that met my goal! I might read one or two more ROOTs till the end of the year, but for now, I have a few Early Reviewer books waiting for me :)

All tickers updated

ROOT #2 is done, Tawny by Thomas C. Hinkle, and on my shelves unread since 2012!

Personal ticker updated.

#26
I read tons of Thomas C. Hinkle books when I was much younger. My grandmother's house was full of them. The horse books, the dog books, and I loved them all. How did that book read now? Was it dated?

>24 benitastrnad: I have completed that series. I should have picked up a World War 1 novel for the weekend too. I tend to do this around ANZAC day in New Zealand, but this anniversary is definitely one to commemorate.

Reporting ROOT # 46 for the year, # 1 for November

Het vuur by Katherine Neville

Tickers updated.

>27 benitastrnad: not dated in the sense of men and women's roles, don't recall one woman in the entire book. It takes place in the wilderness and plains of Kansas, date not clear.

Reporting ROOT # 47 for the year, # 2 for November

Gezien de feiten by Griet op de Beeck

Tickers updated

ROOT #28 and first of Nov- no tickers updated. The review is on my thread

ROOT #3 this month The Leper of St. Giles has been completed and added to the rehoming box. Personal ticker has been updated, too.

ROOT #2 this month and 29th of the year- no tickers updated and review is on my thread

I finished another ROOT. I finished listening to Darke by Angie Sage over the weekend. This is book 6 in the Septimus Heap series. This series would make such great read aloud books for the elementary grades. There are so many life lessons in these books. In this book Septimus and Simon finally begin to patch up their sibling relationship and are starting to learn to trust each other. Nico and Snorri split, and Jenna and Septimus come to an amicable friendship. Beetle is starting to get resentful of Septimus always being in the lead. In short, everybody in the books is growing up. Even Spit Fire. Good stuff for kids. One more book to go in this series and it is done.

I completed ROOT #4 for November last night, a good read by Conrad Richter: Tacey Cromwell. It's not one of his best works, but still worth reading. Off to the used book store it goes!

I completed My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie.

32/30

#2 root for November, When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale, 6 years on the TBR shelves, now moved.

I finished the last book in the Regeneration trilogy. Ghost Road by Pat Barker won the Booker Prize back in 1995. I thought it was the weakest of the trilogy because there was to much in it about what I thought was a distracting storyline. But what do I know? It was a good memorial to WWI.

Finished another ROOT yesterday: MacGregor's Gathering, by Nigel Tranter. All tickers have been updated.

My first for the month: Velma Bourgeois Richmond, The Faerie Queene As Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures.

I finally found this one a week or so ago while doing some much needed housecleaning and sorting of books. It was a tedious read – 3½*** for its comprehensiveness, but weak on analysis. I won it on Early Review, though, and I've owed TPTB a review for a couple years now, so it was worth the ROOTing.

1st for November, 68/75

Third ROOT for November finished; The Crystal Shard (graphic novel), by R. A. Salvatore. Tickers updated.

I completed ROOTs #75 and #76 this week, total of 6 for November, so far.

I'm making a stretch run to get as close to my goal of 100 as possible...maybe even achieving it!

I finished another off the TBR list. Quietly In Their Sleep also published under its UK title Death of Faith by Donna Leon. This was book 6 in the Brunetti series and I enjoyed it. I think the UK title was a better choice for the novel as it was more about what Brunetti was thinking and feeling during the course of the book.

I've added #4 for November (#63 for the year) to all tickers.

Added a staggering 90th ROOT of the year to all tickers: Up Front..., a memoir by Victor Spinetti.

Another root for me, Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne. A superb book taking me to 55.

>46 rabbitprincess: wow, nice job!

I finished #77 last night, The Virgin in the Ice.

I have finished three ROOTs so far, one by Stephen Crane who was born under Scorpio. Too many new and shiny books this month.

Just added another ROOT to all tickers: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, by Craig Ferguson. I listened to the audiobook read by Craig Ferguson, and it was excellent.

>50 rabbitprincess: I saw that book in Barter Books once and am kicking myself that I didn't get it. I've heard so many good things about it.

>51 Jackie_K: It's really good, and not just because he says lovely things about Peter Capaldi ;) Definitely grab it if you see it again!

I finished reading Golden Spruce by John Vaillant. This was a great example of narrative nonfiction and very enlightening about the state of our coastal temperate rainforests. While very interesting to read it should scare everybody.

Two more roots completed The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller, Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver, but probably the last for the month as currently reading a borrowed book. 57/48 and hoping to pass 60 by years end.

That's #5 for November (#64 for the year) added to all tickers.

I finished listening to Scythe by Neal Shusterman while driving back from my Thanksgiving in Nashville. At first I hated this book but ended up liking it.

Antonia White, As Once in May. I read it for the Virago Modern Classic group's November author read and really enjoyed it. I'm quite a fan of White (her novel Frost in May is my third favorite novel, after Jane Eyre and The Master and Margarita) but As Once in May was a posthumous collection edited by White's elder daughter, Susan Chitty. Much (but not all) of the fiction pieces were just so-so, but White's autobiography (that ran only through the age of four) was a wonderful recollection of early childhood which somehow reminded me of Muriel Spark's Curriculum Vitae. I don't recommend As Once in May, however, if you don't already know at least White's four novels.

Second for November, 69/75.

Did an 11th hour change to my book and ROOT goals for the year. I'm still probably not going to make them, but my tickers will look a little less pitiful. This year has been all about Turner Classics. I've read less than half of what I read last year, but I have finally seen all the Thin Man movies, so there's that.

Finished another ROOT on the bus today: Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie. All tickers have been updated.

My report for November:

UpROOTED books: 12
ROOTless books: 4
Added to the TBR shelves: 4

The ROOTs were:

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Flatlander by Larry Niven
Chronicle of the Russian Tsars by David Warnes
The Complete Poems by Catullus
Shards of Murder by Cheryl Hollon
Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
The Merchant's House by Kate Ellis
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell
Embassytown by China Miéville
Operation Pax by Michael Innes
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
Agatha Raisin and the First Two Tantalising Cases by M. C. Beaton

ROOTs in YTD: 99

Tickers have been updated but hopefully not harmed in the making of this report

I had an exceptional reading month in November, 49 ROOTs read!
Making a total of 294 ROOTs in 2018.

Updated the tickers

>61 FAMeulstee: don't you sleep??? :D

I thought I was doing well this month, have 10 ROOTs completed and one more probably to add this evening, Tunnel in the Sky:


Mrs. Mike by Nancy Freedman


Tawny by Thomas Hinkle


The Leper of St Giles by Ellis Peters


Tacey Cromwell by Conrad Richter


The Radney Riding Club by Josephine Pullein-Thompson


Thundering Hooves edited by Christine Pullein-Thompson


The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters


The Desperate People by Farley Mowat


Time For the Stars by Robert Heinlein


One Day Event by Josephine Pullein-Thompson

Current ROOT total is 80, should be 81 by tomorrow. Personal ticker updated.

I have read 3 ROOTS in November for a total of 34 against a goal of 30.

F. Tennyson Jesse, The Lacquer Lady. I'm hoping to have one more completed today.

3rd for November, 70/75

>62 fuzzi: Yes, fuzzi, I do sleep ;-)
Giving it a try to get to 500 books total this year...

One last ROOT for November: a re-read of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré. All tickers have been updated.

I read a total of 5 ROOTs for November all gravy at this point and I remembered to update my ticker. Hopefully the added books will actually show on the ticker by the time the totals are being added up.

I read 4 books for ROOTS this month, I updated by Ticker but not the group ticker.

Keith Bildstein, Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of Prey, finished in the wee hours of Dec 1 and counted for November.

4th for November, 71/75

DECEMBER Thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/299611

I read 7 ROOTS this month. It was a better reading month than I thought it would be.

I had time for very little reading in November. Preparation for selling & moving house is very time consuming. I managed 4 books total with 2 of them being ROOTS.
54. The Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg; (4*); acquired 1/29/2017
55. The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp; (5*); acquired 5/27/2017

I have updated my personal ticker but did not touch the group one.
Thank you for all you do. And congrats everyone on a good month again.

I read 4 works of non-fiction that were ROOTS this month.

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas - Book 6 in the Throne of Glass series by Maas
Eye in the Door by Pat Barker - Book 2 in the Ghost Road Trilogy about WWI
Ghost Road by Pat Barker - Book 3 in the Ghost Road Trilogy and Booker Prize Winner
Quietly in Their Sleep by Donna Leon - Book 6 in the Guido Brunetti series

I listened to 2 works of fiction that were ROOT titles this month

Darke by Angie Sage - read by the incomparable Gerard Doyle and book 6 in the Septimus Heap series
Scythe by Neal Shusterman - book 1 in the Arc of the Scythe series and read for my Barnes & Noble Book Discussion group

Both were great listening books. I recommend both of them for people who are looking for a good commute book.

I read one work of narrative nonfiction for the Nonfiction challenge. This was Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant. It had been on my TBR list for ages. (Maybe since it came out back in 2005.) It was a worthy read and I recommend it.