JUNE ROOT = Progress Thread

Okay, everybody we didn't catchup in May and June will be the last month that we will carry those members who haven't yet started to participate. For those of you that have been reading your ROOTs, keep at it, we will get there, I'm sure. But since we are currently under the sign of the twins, let's redouble our efforts to get back on track.
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 May.
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.

4chin8 13 / 75 17.3%
Amberfly 37 / 65 ★★ 56.9%
Ameise1★ 10 / 10 100.0%
anoplph0ra 0 / 20 0.0%
avanders 2 / 24 8.3%
avidmom 5 / 10 ★★ 50.0%
Benita? 35 / 50 ★★★★ 70.0%
benuathanasia 126 / 200 ★★★ 63.0%
bragan 42 / 100 ★ 42.0%
brakketh 14 / 40 35.0%
brewergirl 19 / 30 ★★★ 63.3%
Britt84 30 / 60 ★★ 50.0%
Caramellunacy 1 / 12 8.3%
clue 17 / 30 ★★ 56.7%
Coach_of_Alva 12 / 50 24.0%
connie53 28 / 36 ★★★★★ 77.8%
crazy4reading 6 / 30 20.0%
CurrerBell 38 / 75 ★★ 50.7%
cyderry 43 / 72 ★★★ 59.7%
DeborahJade 6 / 50 12.0%
deep220 32 / 75 ★ 42.7%
deern 8 / 24 33.3%
detailmuse 26 / 40 ★★★ 65.0%
DisassemblyOfReason 29 / 75 38.7%
EEasyReaderII 0 / 60 0.0%
elliepotten 12 / 30 40.0%
enemyanniemae 26 / 36 ★★★★ 72.2%
Erratic_Charmer 6 / 30 20.0%
FAMeulstee 131 / 200 ★★★ 65.5%
Familyhistorian 35 / 55 ★★★ 63.6%
floremolla 33 / 60 ★★ 55.0%
funky_george 2 / 30 6.7%
fuzzi 29 / 100 29.0%
Heather19 0 / 50 0.0%
HelenBaker 27 / 48 ★★ 56.3%
Helenoel 1 / 25 4.0%
Henrik_Madsen 18 / 40 ★ 45.0%
h-mb 18 / 40 ★ 45.0%
Jackie_K 34 / 48 ★★★★ 70.8%
janoorani24 3 / 25 12.0%
JBarringer 0 / 365 0.0%
johanna414 16 / 25 ★★★ 64.0%
kac522 12 / 40 30.0%
karenmarie 22 / 42 ★★ 52.4%
katayseb 0 / 15 0.0%
kkunker 13 / 40 32.5%
Kristelh 27 / 35 ★★★★★ 77.1%
KWharton 0 / 10 0.0%
LadyBookworth 9 / 24 37.5%
LadyoftheLodge 37 / 75 ★ 49.3%
lahochstetler 1 / 50 2.0%
LauraBrook 51 / 100 ★★ 51.0%
leslie98 62 / 100 ★★★ 62.0%
LibraryLover23 19 / 40 47.5%
lilisin 16 / 50 32.0%
linda.newman 0 / 25 0.0%
lindapanzo 43 / 72 ★★★ 59.7%
lkernagh 33 / 60 ★★ 55.0%
Lisa805 8 / 12 ★★★★ 66.7%
LoraShouse 10 / 20 ★★ 50.0%
luvamystery65 11 / 40 27.5%
mabith 5 / 20 25.0%
madhatter22 14 / 60 23.3%
majkia 48 / 50 ★★★★★ 96.0%
mandymarie20 7 / 25 28.0%
martencat 13 / 30 ★ 43.3%
Miss_Moneypenny 6 / 60 10.0%
MissSos 9 / 20 ★ 45.0%
MissWatson 33 / 75 ★ 44.0%
Montarville 4 / 12 33.3%
nancynova 18 / 75 24.0%
nebula21 27 / 35 ★★★★★ 77.1%
Nickelini 9 / 20 ★ 45.0%
novawalsh 4 / 30 13.3%
okeres 0 / 25 0.0%
pageturner3 0 / 50 0.0%
Quasifesto 0 / 36 0.0%
Quaisior 22 / 50 ★ 44.0%
quigui 3 / 12 25.0%
rabbitprincess 43 / 50 ★★★★★ 86.0%
rainpebble★ 24 / 24 100.0%
RavenHill 15 / 91 16.5%
readingtangent 44 / 46 ★★★★★ 95.7%
Rebeki 11 / 18 ★★★ 61.1%
Robertgreaves 47 / 78 ★★★ 60.3%
sallylou61 20 / 36 ★★ 55.6%
si 11 / 24 ★ 45.8%
sibyx 10 / 24 ★ 41.7%
slategreyskies 0 / 50 0.0%
surtsey 0 / 10 0.0%
Tanya-dogearedcopy 29 / 50 ★★ 58.0%
torontoc 13 / 30 ★ 43.3%
vestafan 21 / 50 ★ 42.0%


Ameise1 and rainpebble have reached their goals!

Next in line to join them are:

majkia 96.0%
readingtangent 95.7%
rabbitprincess 86.0%
connie53 77.8%
nebula21 77.1%
Kristelh 77.1%

The goal for June is 2,318 Let's get back on track!!!
If the non-particpating members don't start in June, they will be moved to a separate section and our goal will be reduced from 4,636 to 3,920 and the June goal would be 1,960.

>1 cyderry: Hi Cheli, I don't know if it's just me, but I've just tried to update the group tickers, and although I can get the % ticker as a hyperlink, the number ticker (the first one) isn't providing me with a link to tickerfactory to update it (does that make sense?) - it's just a static picture at the moment. I'll try again later - I've updated my ticker in any case (so it's #1 for June and #35 overall for the year).

>2 Jackie_K: I think I fixed it.

>3 cyderry: Thank you - and I've updated all tickers now!

Wheww! I kept my third star. I wasn't sure if I would.

Thanks for all your hard work, Chèli, in doing this. I hope your fundraiser went well.

Cowabunga, that's a lot of stars! Great work, everyone!

I've just added my first ROOT of June to all tickers: Henry V, by William Shakespeare.

OH dear.... *blushes* I think there has been a mistake somewhere. My goal for the year is 10 ROOTS; I've read 5. I'm 1/2 way through my goal.

Congrats are not in order just yet.

I'm working on it though!

I finished my first ROOT for June -- mostly read in May but read last 50 pages in June -- which is コンビニ人間 which was excellent and coming out on June 12th in English as Convenience Store Woman.

My first ROOT for June is The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper. (9 ROOTs total for the year.) Personal ticker updated only. Thank you! :-)

I've just added my 2nd for June (#36 overall, so 3/4 of the way to my goal) to all tickers.

Thanks for doing the numbers, Chèli. I'm working on my first ROOT of the month.

I just finished my first ROOT for June, a vintage (1957?) Heinlein titled Double Star. I'm about to tackle my second ROOT: The Innocents Abroad.

I'v lost all my stars. That can't be right. ;-((

>13 connie53: My mistake, sorry about that. I fixed the opening message.

>14 cyderry: Thanks, Chèli!

Just finished two ROOTS for June! Yippee!

>1 cyderry: My numbers are not right. (OH, how I wish though!!!!)
My personal thread ticker is right and so is the one in the group ticker thread.
:)
Thanks.

First root for June completed, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

Four ROOTs complete for June so far (10 read total, 50 to go).

The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Mossflower by Brian Jacques
Mattimeo by Brian Jacques

All tickers updated!

>17 avidmom: Sorry, I fixed it, I seem not to have done too well this month.

>20 cyderry: Understandable. That's a LOT of numbers to crunch!!!! I have no idea how you do it.

Thanks for fixing it. :)

Added my second ROOT of June to all tickers: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, by Terrance Dicks. This brings me to only 5 ROOTs away from my goal!

I completed my first ROOT for June, The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam.

I finished my first ROOT for June. Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio was translated from the Italian. It was a good solid Perry Masonlike courtroom drama.

Reporting ROOT # 29 for the year, # 1 for June

Dit is het begin by Sean French

All tickers updated.

Oh no 35%, will need to put my reading shoes on if I'm going to meet my target. Congratulations to all who are on track or who have already got there.

Fifth ROOT complete for June (11 read for the year, 49 to go).

Sailor Moon vol 1 by Naoko Takeuchi

All tickers updated!

Finish 2 ROOTs - Bleeding Tarts and Shadow Dancing - and halfway through another!

I've been doing well this year re. ROOTS but then suddenly, a bunch of library books came in. Sigh. I'll try to read at least a few ROOTs this month.

My goal, for the end of June, halfway through the year, is an even 50.

Finished my second ROOT of June, Autobiography of a Geisha.

ROOT 6 complete for June (12 read for the year, 48 to go).

Sailor Moon vol 2 by Naoko Takeuchi

All tickers updated!

I just completed my 3rd ROOT for June. Will update personal ticker at month's end.

Can't decide which ROOT to read? How about choosing one of these Gemini authors:

May
21 Dante, Harold Robbins

22 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

23 Scott O'Dell, Margaret Wise Brown

24 William Trevor, Bob Dylan, Michael Chabon

25 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ludlum, Jamaica Kincaid

27 Arnold Bennett, Dashiell Hammett, John Cheever, Tony Hillerman, Rachel Carson

28 Ian Fleming, Walker Percy, Maeve Binchy

29 G. K. Chesterton, T. H. White

31 Walt Whitman

June
1 Colleen McCullough

2 Thomas Hardy, Barbara Pym, Carol Shields

3 Allen Ginsburg, Larry McMurtry

5 Richard Scarry, Margaret Drabble, Ken Follett

6 Aleksandr Pushkin, Thomas Mann

7 Elizabeth Bowen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Orhan Pamuk, Louise Erdrich

9 Patricia Cornwell

10 Saul Bellow, Maurice Sendak

11 William Styron

12 Johanna Spyri, Anne Frank

13 Dorothy Sayers

14 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jerzy Kosinski

16 Joyce Carol Oates

17 John Hersey

18 Gail Godwin

19 Tobias Wolff, Salman Rushdie

20 Lillian Hellman

21 Jean-Paul Sartre, Mary McCarthy, Ian McEwan

Check out the whole list at: http://librarybooklists.org/literarybirths/index.htm

ROOTs 7 and 8 complete for June (14 read for the year, 46 to go).

Sailor Moon vol 3 by Naoko Takeuchi
The Prestige by Christopher Priest

All tickers updated!

I've added ROOTs #3 and #4 for June (#37 and #38 for the year) have been added to all tickers. I'll add reviews to my thread later today.

I've finished 2 ROOTs for June, The Leavers (obtained 2017) and The New York Trilogy (obtained 2016).

I've finished another ROOt and have updated all tickers.

I have made things easy on myself by picking comparatively short books. Six ROOTs so far in June, and I am past the halfway point now.

My 2nd ROOT for June is The Wind in the Willows. Personal ticker updated. Thank you. :-)

It took me almost 4 months but I finally finished Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler. This was the February selection for the local Barnes & Noble Book Club. I had trouble with it. It moved to slow at the beginning and was just full of old tropes about fortune tellers and librarians, but it had just enough new fresh twists that I kept at it. I think it was mediocre as a novel but I think there are readers out there who will love it.

I've added ROOT #5 for June (#39 for the year) to all tickers. It was a really short ER book - always good for the totals!

Finished my third ROOT of June, Han Kang's Human Acts. I was very pleased with this one as I did not like The Vegetarian at all but still could recognize that she was a good writer.

I am three ROOTs in for the month for a total of 38 out of 55. The last one was a good one The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Norton Critical Editions).

1st for June, 39/75. Not doing that well on ROOTing, though I have had 6 non-ROOTs so far this month. I'll still be keeping my star, but I ought to try picking up a bit on the ROOTs between now and the end of the month.

(Edit to fix touchstone)

I've finished another ROOT and have updated all tickers.

>1 cyderry: My numbers are a bit off in the list above, currently I'm at 19 ROOTs, not 10. Thanks for keeping all the stats updated, and good luck everyone with your challenges!

I finished Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter on Friday and absolutely loved it.

ROOT #6 for June (#40 for the year) added to all tickers.

Apologies if anyone in the last minute saw the % ticker. I inadvertently missed out a digit from the total, and the percentage went from 40.7% to 4.1%! All sorted now, so hopefully I've spared cheli a heart attack!

At last I can report another Root for the month, New Zealand Short Stories edited by C.K. Stead. I have been sidetracked by a new book for an online discussion. The pressure is on to catch up for the month.

I've met my ROOT challenge! Yipee! I'm celebrating by reading a library book! Will continue to ROOT toward the group goal though.

>48 Jackie_K: LOL

>50 majkia: Congrats!!

>50 majkia: Congratuations!

> 50 With months to go! Good for you.

>50 majkia: Congrats!!

I have been neglecting my computer & LT for several weeks and so I had finished a few ROOTs in May that I didn't manage to include. I have now updated both my thread and all the tickers with those & a few ROOTs for June as well. Cheli, no need to change my May stats unless you really want to...

FINALLY finished my third ROOT of June: Du bon usage des étoiles, by Dominique Fortier. All tickers (personal and group) have been updated.

>48 Jackie_K: my heart is okay. It missed a beat, for a minute but okay now. LOL

>50 majkia: Yeah, knew you could do it!

Just finished my third ROOT on this hot Sunday afternoon, Storm in the Village by Miss Read.

I love the Miss Read books. I have read all of them at least twice.

>57 clue:, >58 LadyoftheLodge: Love Miss Read, too, although I'm reading them for the first time... so glad to hear I have lots of good reading ahead of me!

>58 LadyoftheLodge:, >59 kac522: Oh, I love them too! I haven't read all of the Fairacre series so I started from the beginning. I am surprised but very happy to see there are 20 books in the series, I thought It was much shorter than that.

Reporting ROOT # 30 for the year, # 2 for June

Een nieuw begin by Robert Jordan

All tickers updated.

>60 clue:, >59 kac522: I started to read the Miss Read books many years ago, when I got them from a book club. I started with the Fairacre series and worked my way through the Thrush Green books. I am so happy to see they are available as ebooks. I was sorry when Dora Jessie Saint aka Miss Read passed away. As a retired teacher, I love to read about the small village schools, which seem to be a thing of the past. I also like the Gervase Phinn books. If you have not found them, check them out!

I finished American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow. I discovered this book while browsing the library shelves and checked it out. Didn't read it. Then earlier this year I found it at my local Friends of the Library Used Bookstore and purchased it for $3.00. This was a really good find and worth every penny of the $3.00 to purchase it and read it.

Added my fourth ROOT: a re-read of Emma, by Jane Austen. All tickers updated.

>60 clue:, >62 LadyoftheLodge: Have you read Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love ? It's a collection of Miss Read's shorter pieces: a few stories and non-fiction pieces, selected and edited by her daughter and her long-time editor. The introduction by her daughter is especially interesting. It came out in 2015.

>65 kac522: Oh, I'll definitely look that one up, thanks for the tip!

>62 LadyoftheLodge: I don't know where I got them, but I have the 3rd and 4th books in The Dales series on my shelf. Must run down the first two soon.

I've just added ROOT #41 for the year (#7 for June) to all tickers.

This one was awesome: Swimming With Seals. 5* read, everyone should read it!

2 more off the shelf on to the stack, Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson, I Know Why the Caged Bird sings by Maya Angelou. Not sure how that is progress as they just move from one room to another but both great reads. We are soon re-carpeting the entire house and the family is looking at my books thinking oh my goodness how are we going to move Mum's books temporarily?

Yay moved the percentage ticker! :-)

I managed to finish 12 ROOTs this month and really surprised myself with this. My own ticker is updated, didn't touch the group tickers. I'll be out of town for two weeks, see you back in July!

>68 HelenBaker: They do that here too. We have to paint the ceiling and the walls in the coming year. So now I'm saving cardboard boxes to store them somewhere.

>65 kac522: I do have that one! It has been on my TBR list for years. Maybe it will go on vacation with me this summer. I am off to Alaska next week!

>68 HelenBaker: I had to move my entire home library (!!!!) from northern Indiana to south central Indiana some years back when we moved. I learned to pack the books in small boxes so they are not too heavy. . . .

>71 connie53:. Yes painting and wallpapering happening here too. I am contemplating not boxing as we are doing only one half of the house first, because yes boxes of books are heavy. then a new kitchen and the other side...
Another book finished, Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill, but it left me feeling so traumatised I had to take myself to the library for something light and fluffy. It does occur to me that the last three reads were on racism, rape and child abuse and neglect. The library book did the trick, an easy read and one off the wishlist, so a form of progress.

I've finished The Seventh Sacrament and have updated all tickers.

The Stories of Muriel Spark (1985). This is an older edition and I'm actually reading the (newly acquired) 2014 e-book All the Stories of Muriel Spark, but I've so far finished all the stories in this long-owned 1985 edition so I can claim it as a ROOT and pass it on to a friend.

2nd for June, 40/75

Have just added 4 books to my total. 13/24.

Only personal ticker updated.

I finished an audiobook ROOT over the weekend - my thread and all tickers updated.

My fifth ROOT for June has been added to all tickers: Bloody Scotland, a collection of short stories edited by Lin Anderson. Each story, by a different Scottish author, is set at a different historical site somewhere in Scotland.

Just finished reading Soldiers Alive by Tatsuzo Ishikawa about the Japanese fighting through China on their way to Nanking. It was neither enlightening, neither harrowing: an average "okay". Hoping to finish one more Japanese book before the end of the month if I can find time for it between violin practicing and the World Cup.

ROOTs 9, 10, and 11 complete for June (17 read for the year, 43 to go).

Sailor Moon vol 4 by Naoko Takeuchi
Sailor Moon vol 5 by Naoko Takeuchi
Sailor Moon vol 6 by Naoko Takeuchi

All tickers updated!

I don't think I will get any more read to completion by the end of the month so I am going ahead and listing my June total. I did 5 for a grand total of 34. (last month's total did not get added) Updating my personal ticker.

One more for the month, We Are All completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, taking me to 33/48.

Just finished my last root for June, 24 ROOTs read, making a total of 154/200.
Updated the tickers.

I've completed 3 this month for a total of 20/30.

I may finish one more title by tomorrow night, so I will make my final report on my June reading on Monday. I already know it will be less than it was last month.

It took all month to get through the 752-page monster Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648, but I got it in under the wire!

Adding my last ROOT for June: The Human Factor, by Graham Greene. I'll definitely meet my goal in July :D

Here is my report for June 2018:

UpROOTED books: 9
ROOTless books: 7
Added to the TBR shelves: 0

The ROOTs were:

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
An Unnatural Vice by KJ Charles
Arrival by Ted Chiang
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson
Greeks and Their Heritages by A. J. Toynbee
Road Rage by Ruth Rendell
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

ROOTs in YTD: 56

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

Just sneaking in one more ROOT for June (#8 for the month, #42 overall for the year) and adding to all tickers. Not that that's made much of a dent in my decidedly acquisitive month, but...

>90 Jackie_K: I hear you about the acquisitive month, Jackie. I am looking at this month's pile and hoping it doesn't topple over. There are a lot of skinny books in there too!

I just posted my 7th read which will be it for this month for a total of 42/55.

Reporting two ROOTs for the month, bringing me halfway to my total for the year (15/30). Hurrah!

However, I daren't count the number of acquisitions this month. I think I'm just ahead with the "my ROOT pile will be smaller at the end of the year". But I'm not counting new ROOTs yet ...

Personal ticker updated.

I just wanted to report a few more ROOTs are now under my belt, bringing my total to 35. I updated my ticker but did not touch the group one.
Congrats to all who have or are close to meeting your goals. What fun to see these numbers add up. And once again Cheli, thank you so much for all you put into this group.

Only one ROOT this month- too many new books that I had to read!
#14- review is on my thread

Only two this month. All tickets updated.

A few days ago I finished Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall, which gives me 3 ROOTs for the month. I think I'll be keeping a star (but just one), reading too many new books this month. I'll have to do a little catch-up next month, but I have some quickie reads I can do for the Reading Through Time group that will also count as ROOTs.

3rd for June, 41/75

I read a total of 7 ROOTs for June. A good month for me. I am at 34 for the year. I did not update the group ROOT.

I finished 3 more ROOTs during the past few days. My thread and all tickers updated. Fingers crossed that we reached our goal this month!

JULY thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/293061#

I had 5 ROOT’s for June. No tickers updated.

I have time now so will enter in the books I read for the June Root.

1. Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio - this one is for the Two Guido's Mystery Challenge here on LT.
2. Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler - this one was for the local Barnes & Noble bookstore book club. It took almost 4 months to get done with it.
3. Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff- This was my recorded book for the month. It is book 2 in the Illuminae Files series and I am having great fun with this YA Sci/Fi series.
4. American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow - This one is for the Non-Fiction Challenge that is hosted by Chatterbox here on LT.
5. Venetian Reckoning by Donna Leon - This one is the July book for the Two Guido's Mystery Challenge hosted by myself and Tymfos here on LT.

There was lots of variety in my June reading and, while it wasn't as many titles as in the previous months, I am satisfied with my totals.