Tallulah ROOTs again in 2014!

I'm in again in 2014 and aiming for 20 books of my shelves this year. Last year I didn't meet my goal but hope to do better this year.
Again I'm also trying to reduce my TBR-stack by at least 20 books, so to reduce my book bying. It did work somehow last year and I was able to reduce the TBRs not by 20, but by 6 at least. Hope to do better this year.

Rules: I'll count all books that entered my shelves before January 1st, 2014. I am not going to count re-reads. Bu I will count books read in another lamguage before.

My ticker for ROOTs:



My ticker for books added to the shelves:



Books I want to read this year:
Bhagavad-Gita as it is
Das siebte Kreuz
Der Untertan
All of Egypt
Harte Zeiten
Der große neue Knigge
Great Expectations
Schindler's List
Die Bibel und ich
The Silmarillon

January
1. All of Egypt - 10.01.2014 - ***

February
-

March
2. The Silmarillon - 05.03.2014 - ****
3. Death on the Nile - 10.03.2014 - ****

April
4. Der große neue Knigge - 06.04.2014 - **
5. Moving Pictures - 18.04.2014 - ***1/2

May
6. Lords and Ladies - 01.05.2014 - ****1/2
7. The Household Guide to Dying - 18.05.2014 - **

June
-

July
8. The Grand Complication - 19.07.2014 - **

August
9. The Three Musketeers - 09.08.2014 - ****
10. The Housekeeper and the Professor - 21.08.2014 - ****

September
11. Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea - 13.09.2014 - ****
12. Thief of Time - 29.09.2014 - ****

October
-

November
-

December

discarded
+1 The Horse Whisperer (germ. translation) - 24.01.2014
+2 The Left Hand of God (germ. translation) - 09.09.2014
+3 New Orleans Legacy (germ. translation) - 09.09.2014
+4 Der Traum von Troja - 09.09.2014
+5 Glanzvolles Mittelalter: 911-1154 - 13.11.2014
+6-+9 Der Stille Don 1-4 - 13.11.2014
+10 Horace Afoot (germ. translation) - 13.11.2014
+11 Der Vogel mit den goldenen Federn - 13.11.2014
+12 Narziss und Goldmund - 13.11.2014
+13 The Scapegoat (germ. translation) - 13.11.2014
+14 Die Leute von Karvenbruch - 13.11.2014

Books added to TBR: ||*||||||*||||**

Year totals
Books read this year: 44
Books read from TBR (incl. discarded): 12 (26)
Books added to TBR: 4
Librarybooks/borrowed Books read: 16
New books read: 7
Re-Read: 8
Balance: positive (+22)

Welcome, nice to see you again. Do you think you'll buy more than you read?

Welcome, Tallulah-Rose!

Great to have you back. Happy reading :-D

Welcome back and good luck with the challenge! :)

Thanks for the nice welcome!
#2 MissWatson: I hope that I'll don't buy more than I read. But to be absolutely sure, I have that second ticker. If I see that I bring to many new ones I can try and reduce it.

I know that I buy far more than I read (building up a nest egg for retirement?). I would probably keel over with shock if I a ticker showed me how great the discrepancy is...

#7 by MissWatson> I can oh so relate.

Thankfully I have a very strict husband on this subject. He really is a great help at restraining myself on buying new boks. And lately I really don't like byung new books, I've got too bad a conscience about the ones sitting around. I also really broke down my library reads. Hopefully I'll get enough books ROOTed out so that I can do a decent bookshopping again. :-)

Hi Tallulah. Good luck with your challenge.

New reading year started! Although I thought I had had enough fantasy for a couple of weeks, since I just re-read the whole HP-series and Inkheart, I will possibly start The Silmarillon as first ROOT. My husband likes me to read it. We have recently re-acquired the bok after we sold our former copy several years ago. I intended to read the book as long as we had it and now we have it ago, so it definitely counts as a ROOT.

Another goal for me'll be to be a bit more communicative on my own thread and follow/post at some others around here. You're all such lovely people. :-)

I have been updating my LT catalogue, so that my numbers are definitely true for the beginning of 2014: I have all in all 95 ROOTs as of today, of which 4 are already started for several months and I intend on finishing those definitely this year (although I already said that last year -.-)
However, to browse through my shelves brought a great lust to get on with reading, but unfortunately we're leaving house this afternoon for a short trip to have a New Year's celebration at the Warnemünde lighthouse. But maybe this evening I'm going to start or read on a ROOT for 2014...

The Silmarillion has been on my bookshelf for about 20 years, carted from one house to the next and I've never read it. Now I'm going to be lazy and wait to see what you're thinking of it. If you say it's good, I think I'll dust it off and start reading mine!

Uho, I sense some pressure there. Truthfully I have to admit, I picked one of the already started ROOTs from last year to finish before starting with The Silmarillon. But as soon as I start it, I'll post it here. :)

I struggled to get on with Tolkien when I tried to read him. One day maybe I'll try again, but I'm determined not to buy many books this year while I still have so many books outstanding to read first!

About 10 years ago, when the first LofR movie came out, I read the Ring-trilogy. It was a bit difficult to get into his writing, but I liked the story. After that I read The Hobbit, but didn't find it as good as the Lord of the Rings. Years later I read the trilogy again, in original englisch version, and still found the writing difficult. I think I'll soon try again on The Hobbit, maybe even this year, but first of all try The Silmarillon. But my husband already warned me, that the writing is still dificut and the story not that gripping, but he liked Morgoth and therefore wants me to read it. :-) I let you know what I think, so maybe you're getting tempted on buying something new ;-)

>14 Tallulah_Rose:, No, no pressure at all! Actually, if the writing is difficult, I'm going to put it off some more anyway. :)

I finished my first ROOT of the year: All of Egypt. It was some kind of tourist guide, with background information on all the important sightseeing spots. I learned quite a few things about egyptian history and how different spots where discovered. I really liked the drawings of David Roberts showing the archeological sites in their state of discovery. Quite impressive what has been done since then.
But I think stil a bit more information on some things would have made it even more informative. Also I didn't like howthe author described the different halles and exponates in the Museum of Egypt in Cairo. It would have needed photos of every things described. Also some of the more archeological/architectural words should have been explained in some kind of glossary.
Still as sort of tourist guide it was informative and I'm happy that I finally read it.

ETA:
shelf duration: either 15 or 13 years. I bought this definitely on one of our visits to Egypt, which where in 1999 and 2001, but I'm not quite sure which year I bought this book. Nice time, though. Gives me the creeps actually... (the duration on my shelf, not the visit to Egypt ;) )

Your first ROOT finished! Isn't it a wonderful feeling? Congratulations.

Did the book make you long to return to Egypt for another visit?

Actually I like to visit Egypt again some day, but for now, I've got too much on my action list (not only travel wishes), that that'll have to wait. But there are some things I'd like to see that I have not yet seen in Egypt. It definitely is a beautiful and culturally rich country.

I've been to Egypt several times. had to cancel my last planned trip due to the political situation there. I doubt I'll get back there now. :(

Little update here. As I was skimming through the shelves I had the feeling to pull out soem books I had already read, but didn't feel connected to them any longer, because I didn't like them or I don't like them any more. So I sorted out a few. And I discarded one I had not yet read, so that's ine more ROOT for me this month.
I also decided that there are 4 books, that I'll not read in the current edition (german translation) but rather in the original version. But I'll let them stay on my shelves, because they are really pretty hardcover edition and I'm not able to give them away. Therefore I'll not count them as ROOTs.

I also started The Simarillon. I first read the two forewords by Christopher Tolkien and started the letter of J.R.R. Tolkien to his editor, but couldn't finish it, so I skippedj it and started the real story instead (Ainulindale). It starts somehow like the Old Testament. I have so far only read a few pages and cannot possibly say anything. I'll keep you posted. :-)

I'd really like to visit Egypt some day (though I think I'd like to wait a bit for things to hopefully cool down a bit) - I'm sure your first ROOT would have had me trying to book tickets, though!

You've also reminded me that I have Amelia Peabody's Egypt lurking on my shelves that I'd love to get around to!

Egypt definitely is a wonderful place, do visit it someday when things are a bit calmer again. It has such a rich history and has so much to teach us. I have not even seen most of it, but it is a beautiful country, in it's very own way.

Just a little status report: I am still working on The Silmarillon, it's definitely interesting and way easier to read than I actuallly thought, but sometimes it's a bit dull. Just've been to a chapter where the geography and topography of Middle earth is explained.
Also I just quit work last week and was very busy showing all the stuff to my successor and had to handle the change. I don't like changes. Therefore I hadn't had that much time and pleasure in reading.
Tomorrow my new job will start, I will have more time compared to the old one, but will need some time to get used to the new situation. Also have quite a list of things hat need to be done now I've got more free time again.

For my recent birthday I got a gift card for a book shop from my old work and I'm going to spend it on a bread baking book, so I can't be tempted on adding anything to the TBR pile. :-)

@ Tallulah_Rose: I hope your new job is all that you hope it will be!

Are you reading anything besides De silmarillion? A Light and fluffy read??

All the best in your new job, and happy baking! Fresh-baked bread is so yummy.

>26 connie53:, 27 Thanks for the wishes. I hope that the new job will be delightful. Except for the colleagues (who were brilliant) it can't get worse than the last job.

>26 connie53: No, I currently don't read anything lighter or fluffier. My reading mood is a bit reduced these last days, due to the changes. Like I said, I usually can't cope with changes very well, even if I put them up myself.
Also 's usually the beginning of a year that I get a household flash and am eager to clean the apartement ;-) and with thises fine weather the last two weeks, I am also already tempted to work in the garden. Thank goodness it's going to be a bit more cold and snowier the next days again. Maybe that'll spark my reading mood again. :-)

Happy post-birthday and bread book. I can smell that wonderful fresh baking smell of bread...

The new bread book found the way into the home and the first dough is sitting in the fridge to be baked tomorrow morning. I can smell the freshly baked buns already!

I hope the reading mood comes back again!

Ahh, Spring cleaning. I just suppressed an enormous urge to go and wash the curtains! It's to early for that.

Curtain washing urges! Truly the first sign spring is approaching! Yippee!

I just want the weather to be a bit warmer so I can have the doors open so the curtains will dry faster. And it's one curtain per washer. They are rather big (ceiling to floor)

The weather forecast says winter is not going to come back this year. Can't believe it actually, last year we had snow and really frosty temperatures until end of March! Now I'll have to go tending the garden at the weekend and I'm completely not prepared for it. There are so many things I'd like to do before giving my whole attention to the garden. But hey, that's life. I'll just have to find a way to coorganize garden and the other stuff.

No progress yet in my reading unfortunately. With my new working place my travel time to and from work has decreased significantly and since this was my major reading time, that's rather bad. Have to find a new major reading time. But for now it would probably help not to forget my book at hime, so that I could read if I wanted to... damn...

You don't HAVE to start on your garden just yet! Weather forecast is not always accurate. You can postpone it to another weekend! No panic!

I finally finally finally finished The Silmarillon. It started off a bit slow, just like most history books do. And honestly, the Silmarillon is a history book. But towards the middle of the book it got mor and more interesting, with knowing all the different people and persons, their backkground, the setting and so on. It ended with the endingg we all know from The Lord of the Rings, but that part was just a short description of things that happened. The Silmarillon ends with the 3rd age of the world.
I liked it very much and like I said it got really god towards the end. The german translation was also very nicely done. The book provided maps of Middleearth while it was young and it had appendices for pronounciation of the elbish names, an index of important people and places and a genealogical tree of some elben-houses shwoing the relation and ancestry of Aragorn. (I founf that to be fascinating). What I liked most was the parts where we already knew some legends from the LOTR-books and now getting them told properly.

You see I could write and wirte, because it fascinatd me :-)
I gave it only 4 stars because on some stories I would have like a bit more information or detail. The last fight with Morgoth was done in a few pages, but it took almost the whole book to get there. That was disappointing. Also I would have liked maps after the final fight against Morgoth and one about Middleearth during the time of the 3rd age. Also I wouls have liked to know who actually send the Istari. But maybe there are other books in which I can find these answers.

The Silmarillon finished and recommended to everyone who likes some background knowledge to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Don't what's up next, but I'm really eager to get into some 'new' ROOTs!

I admire your perseverance! I couldn't finish The Silmarillion. Glad you enjoyed it!

>37 rabbitprincess: rabbitprincess Thanks. When did you stop the book? For me it took up a bit of action after the middle, when ome characters appeared that were already, however shortly, mentioned in LOTR, like Luthien and Beren. And then it got really interesting for a history book.

I started Death on the Nile today. It started off quite good, like most Agatha Christie does (as far as I hae read her). I already know the story, because I saw the phanomenal movie stqrring Sir Peter Ustinov as Poirot. It's great. So, I like to see how the book will develop for me.

Finished Death on the Nile yesterday evening. It was agood, quick read and I enjoyed it. Although I like Miss Marple more, I also appreciate the Poirot cases. I already new the Basic Story because of the movie starring Sir Peter Ustinov (as Poirot) and Maggie Smith (as Ms Bowers). The book had some more side stories, one of which was quite obvious, but the other one I didn't even guess. Good Story here with Poirot. Recommend for everyone who likes Agatha Christie or cozy mysteries in general.

Have to choose another read now. I am currently in a fluffy mood, so something easy and quick is required. I have mostly classics or Nonfiction left on the TBR, so it's possibly going to be a Pratchett, or I'll start/read on in the Song of Ice and Fire-series. There are also a few in the 'trivia' section, but even they seem to be a bit more thoughtful.

I found the Song of Ice and Fire series dangerously addictive. The stuff about the tournaments is way over the top, I thought, until I read a book about the Tudors, and they actually did commission this kind of elaborate armour and stuff. It reads like fantasy, but the political infighting and intrigue is probably lifted straight from the history books.

I decided on a book gift from this year: The World Without Us. I already know grwat parts of the documentation, but like to read it now. Also, one should read the newcomers and avoid the growing of Mt. TBR!

Maggie Smith is in Death on the Nile? I'll have to request that one from the library! :)

Yes, she is starring both Christie films with Sir Peter Ustinov. Make sure to check out Evil under the Sun as well, she is starring there also. She is a great actor, isn't she. But her role in Death on the Nile is a smaller one, in Evil under the Sun I like her better.
Oh and if you're a fan of Maggie Smith you should also check 'Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' or 'From Time to Time' (Set in Green Knowe, from the book I heard).

I would not call song of ice and fire light and fluffy!

Finished The World Without Us today. No ROOT though, because I just got it as a Christmas gift in December. It was a very interesting, speculative but fascinating read. I recommend it to everyone who is interested in the environment, different scenarios about what would happen if all humans were gone, but also in history of the world's fauna and flora. I definitely learned lots of things and the author but loads of effort and research into this book. I'll give it 4 stars, because I would have liked a kind of conclusion at the end where one scenario featuring the whole earth would be described (not just one particular scene).
Another newbie entered the shelves today: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. So far, I've only added 2 books to the TBR, but read 4 of it. That makes a reduction of 2 books :-)

I started The Big Book of Etiquette yesterday. There's nothing much to say so far. It covers etiquette in basic areas like greeting, but also business etiquette and etiquette in different countries.

>47 Tallulah_Rose: how do you like it thus far, Tallulah?

>48 connie53: connie53: I'm still not very far in. It's giving the basics on etiquette (I'm in the basic's chapter), but I would like a bit more explanation ot examples. Need to see how the chapters on business and private etiquette. Thanks for asking though.

I'm just getting caught up reading threads and see you finished the Silmarillion and done a whole bunch more reading, also! Congratulations! :)

Thanks, I'm currently also trying toget caught up with the threads. It's tough, isn't it? ;-)

Yes. It's a bit like being at the sixteen course banquet for salad and soup then leaving when the bread rolls came and coming back as the servers are clearing away the first set of plates. I've got to scurry around and see what everyone ate while I was gone.

It's nice that nobody gave my chair away. :)

>50 Merryann: , >51 Tallulah_Rose: I'm doing just the same thing. RL is too busy right now. So every day I start at the bottom of the starred threads list and try to work my way up.

But every day that list seems to get longer.

Yeah somehow it seems so. Usually I can read a good deal of the threads on weekends, but there are some longer ones that get longer and longer and longer...o.o

Merryann, no one would ever dream of giving your chair away!

Thank you, Tallulah_Rose. And you and Connie don't worry. April is going to be better than March. :)

Copying from the monthly thread:
I didn't finish any more today, so that is 2 for March and 4 for the year.
Unfortunately I already added 3 books, but that still keeps one book ahead. And I have several ROOTs going, so should probably finish some of them soon.
I added Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore today. I amvisiting my hometown and since I am usually here when the shopd are closed, I took the opportunity to visit the local bookstore. And there it was. And it is a small bookstore, living mostly of summer tourist. So it's kind of my duty to buy a book when I'm in, isn't it?

Yes, I'd say that's a good reason to buy new books :)

A very good reason. :)

Thought so too :-)

I have started Murder at the Vicarage on Sunday. I read it before as german translation, but don't remember whodunit. It's really interesting. Unfortunately Miss Marple does not play as big a role as I would hope, but she is very present. And I like her. It won't count as ROOT of course, because I already read it before.

I finally got the time to track down people on LT again so I found you and starred your thread.

Glad to see you back benita! Thanks for starring my thread and welcome here again.

Can someone maybe help me: I somehow managed to to accidentally click the 'ignore'-button on the April-ROOT-thread and am now unable to un-ignore it so to speak. Could someone guide me on how to undo it?

I finished The Big Book of Etiquette. It was a disappointment. It focused way to much on business, even in the private etiquette part. Also it was dealing with very high class businesses, at least what I can tell from my point of view. It contained chapters on application and application imterviews and also on child raising. The chapters on application for jobs shouldnt' have been in there the way it's done. It was too little on how to behave or dress. There shouldn't be examples for application letters and such.
The chapter on child raising was interesting. There are some points I agree with but I'm not sure if it should be topic in an etiquette book.
All in all the described behaviour was generally too little and a bit more history and how it developed would have been better. Also it tried to give etiquette for several different countries. But that was too short. It should have been skipped for a additional book. The space could have been used better.
A disappointing read, I gave it 2 stars.

Yesterday I started my new acqusition Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. It started of great and it is a quick read. I really like the narrator's voice and the bookstore is intertig. It drew me in instantly. I also like the way it deals with modern technology. I really like to see how it develops.

I finished Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore today. It was a quick, light read and I really enjoyed it. It is a mystery, a consiracy, it deals with a secret society and the secret of immortality and it's about books and a bookstore with a quirky owner. And I really liek how it connected the 'old' world of printed books (or 'Antique Reading Devices' as some people in this group call them) and the new technology e-reader and and all the search engines provide for people. It does not try to show that one is better than the othef. In fact it shows, that both can very probably co-exist or even support each other. I like that.

I read "Die Schakkeline ist voll hochbegabt, ey!". It was a very interesting book about a woman working for cases of pssible child abuse or general as an expert on children, families and psychology and gives advice to court and youth welthfare service how to proceed with problematic family situations. In this book the author described some of her more impressive cases, but she brings it about with a bit of humour. Still she takes things seriously and I think heer approach on certain details is great. The cases are all very serious and touchythought provoking and she brings them about in the right tone, but also shows the absurdity of certain behavior without loosing too much respect for the people involved. A great book!
It's only borrowed from the library, so no ROOT, but definitely a great, fascinating and fast read!

>61 Tallulah_Rose:, I don't know at all how to un-ignore something, but would you like me to copy your question over there, onto the April main thread page? That may get an answer, and then I'd copy the answer back to you here.

Oh thank you, but I could solve the problem meanwhile. If you ignore a thread, it will go down to the bottom of the group list of threads. So all you have to do is to got to the bottom of all threads and there you can unignore them. There used to be an eaier way back with the old design, and there probably iis one with the newer as well, but I haven't found it yet... :-)

To un-ignore a thread:

1) In the left sidebar of Talk, click on "More options".
2) Click "Ignored topics" to show a list of threads you're ignoring.
3) Click the title of the thread you want to un-ignore.
4) At the top of the thread, click "Stop ignoring".

I had to do that myself once while using LibraryThing on my iPad. My fingers are too big for touchscreens.

Thank you so much for this explanation! I will use it in futue if it hppens agin. By me it's also becauseI use LT on our tablet Pc and sometimes I'm accidentally touching the display a the wrong place and ignore a thread.

I'm glad you got the answer. :)

Just informing that I started the original 'Knigge' by Adolph Freiherr (engl. Baron) Knigge: Über den Umgang mit Menschen and Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett last week. Both are quite good, but the Knigge will take some time. The stle is old, from the late 18th century, and though I agree with him on most things he has to say about how to treat other people and behave to lead a happy and content, the things he says are not always too easy to understand. As far as I can tell, the original Knigge still has a lot to say that counts for today's world as well!

>67 rabbitprincess: Copied and pasted in my LT how to list. Thanks for explaining.

On friday I finished Moving Pictures. It was a good satire about movies and stardom and quite funny at times, but not my favorite.

I started another Pratchett: Lords and Ladies late yesterday evening. So far it is very promising, it seems that the witches AND the wizards will be working on the same issue. I really like to see how that's going to work out!

Dear fellow booklovers,

Id like to introduce myself back to this group. I have been rather inactive on LT lately. I wasn't feeling too good the last two month and could not even think about reading. The reason is a definite happy one: In February next year my husband and I will have become a real little family with a little newborn. :) I had some difficulties with sickness the last weeks Hand was rather tired. But I hope to be back soon and finish some more ROOTs. I'm sorry I let you down on our joint quest.

Oh and since my last post I finished some books: See the first post.

>74 Tallulah_Rose: Congratulations! I hope now that you are emerging from the fug of sickness you can enjoy your pregnancy! What wonderful news :)

I had my baby in November last year, and have really enjoyed reading to her. Unfortunately she is now at the age where everything needs to be grabbed, crumpled up and put in her mouth, so I'm having to hold the book quite a way away from her while I'm reading, otherwise I would probably be paying endless fines to the library for ruining their books! I'm sure she'll get over it soon enough, and I can't wait for her to be old enough to choose her own books!

I followed through your stories a bit earlier this year and it impressed me that you read to your little Baby girl. I think I'm ging to try that as well. And for you I hope she'll soon learn hat books are better enjoyed when not eaten ;-) She'll soon learn how great books are!

Such happy news! All the best wishes!

>74 Tallulah_Rose: Congratulations! That's certainly a happy excuse. :)

Congratulations! That's just an excellent reason to be absent!

With feeling better and stuff I managed to finish a book I started in June or so: The Grand Complication. It's a mystery book about a librarian, a library, an old man and the search for a famous, stolen clock made for Marie Antoinette. It was a weird read, I couldn't relate to the main character or anything and was constantly wondering about the library he was working in and how the library itself worked. I am sure some people will like this book, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.

I started today The Three Musketeers. I'm not far into it yet, but it seems to become a way easier and funnier than I expected.

Die to some doctor's appointments today and yesterday I was able to read quite a bit in The Three Musketeers. I have not yet finished it, but it is a really easy and entertaining read. I don't even know the story, so it also is a gripping story. So far, I definitely recommend the book!

Welcome back, and congratulations on your lovely news!

I finished The Three Musketeers a few weeks ago. It was a really good, interesting and fascinating read. I always imagined it to be a bit more on the 'classical-boring' side, but it was funny, lively and easy. I really liked the characters, although they had some weird traits to them. There were also some mysterious ways they prevented those many 'accidents', but it was a fantastric read and I recommend it!

I also read The Housekeeper and the Professor. It was a nice, quiet read and full of friendship. I got it from a friend, who did not like it and could not even finish it, but I really liked the freindship which established between the housekeeper and the professor and especially the son. I wanted to hug all of them during the read and I found it wonderful who they accepted the disability of the professor and even visited him after he lost all his ability to have short term memory. Also recommended!

ETA: Uuh, I just saw that I now reached half of my goal for this year. I'm not sure if I will be able to reach my goal, but I will try. If my next choices will be as good as the last two ones, I will at least have some good time while reading.

The Three Musketeers is on my TBR list. Perhaps I will move it up on the list!

Such happy news, congrats!! And a very good excuse to be away from LT for a time. I'm happy you are back again.

I went through my shelves and discarded of 3 books I finally confessed I will probably never read, because I have no interest in them:
The Left Hand of God, New Orleans Legacy and Der Traum von Troja. That brings me to 13 of 20 ROOTS this year.

But I also have been a tiny Little bad. We had a family tour last Weekend and have been to a Museum where they were also selling old books for 1 €. I could hold on me and bought one book as an replacement for one I already have and one new book.

ETA: So far I'm still reading the two-volume book Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea. I have arrived in the second volume, it's a nice book, but it's not thrilling me, as Anne would say. I will Count this as 1 ROOT after I've finished, but 2 in my 50 Books challenge.

I'm thinking of doing that exact same thing. Discarding books I will never read. I'm planning on cleaning my bookcases and I have a carton box ready!

Yes sometimes it is the best Thing to do. My husband does it regularly when the pressure is getting worse and he feels uncomfortable with alle the books he has still to read. And I sometimes just realise that there are certain books in my bookcases I will never read. Or will never read again and since I need the space earlier or later, I will get rid of them.

Yes, I did it. I put 5 books in a box and I still have about 1000 books to look at.

I'm cleaning out a bookshelf, today, as a matter of fact!