JULY ROOT - PROGRESS THREAD

Half the year is over and we are a bit behind toward reaching our group goal. Any members who signed up with a personal goal and have yet to read one ROOT, have been removed from the general totals to a separate list. The group tickers have been adjusted to reflect this change.






So, let's keep these tickers (password ROOT) moving with everyone adding their progress to the comprehensive goal for all of us. We need to have a total of 3,136 (58%) by the end of JULY to stay on track. We can do it!

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The ticker thread (http://www.librarything.com/topic/148710) is a
huge help in crunching the end of month numbers so if you haven't already posted your ticker there, please do! if there is a * by your name, it indicates there is a ticker on your thread but not on the ticker thread and a & indicates no ticker. This just tells me where I need to go to get the numbers that are not on the ticker thread. I try to keep up on the personal threads during the month, so having to revisit to gather numbers can be a bit time consuming if the system is slow. Any help is appreciated. So if you have a ticker made already, please think about copying the HTML to the ticker thread.

Thanks for your help!
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So, now, Ladies and Gentlemen, BOOKLOVERS - get back out there and read those BOOKS! LETS MAKE A BIG PUSH THIS MONTH!

Here are the individual numbers so far. Please let me know if I need to update anyone. I had a few personal threads I couldn't locate for those not on the ticker thread, so I think I need to find them.

ABVR 13 / 50 26%
alphaorder 6 / 30 20%
ALWINN 9 / 40 23%
Ameise1 6 / 10 60%
amz310783 62 / 80 78%
AnneHudson 10 &/ 50 20%
antqueen 8 */ 60 13%
auntmarge64 28 / 60 47%
bahzah 16 */ 30 53%
BBleil 2 &/ 24 8%
benitasrnad 20 &/ 30 67%
billiejean 16 */ 30 53%
blondierocket 19 / 50 38%
booksloth 13 / 50 26%
Bowerbirds-Library 4 / 50 8%
bragan 55 / 100 55%
brewergirl 25 / 35 71%
Caramellunacy 5 / 25 20%
carmenere 21 / 26 81%
chexmix 5 &/ 75 7%
christina_reads 12 / 20 60%
cindysprocket 11 &/ 50 22%
clue 15 / 30 50%
Conachair 26 / 50 52%
connie53 15 / 20 75%
craso 6 / 12 50%
CrazyMamie 41 / 40 103% GOAL REACHED - CONGRATULATIONS!
cyderry 52 / 105 50%
deep220 12 / 20 60%
DeltaQueen50 59 / 100 59%
DetailMuse 12 / 40 30%
doglover58 16 / 14 114% GOAL REACHED - CONGRATULATIONS!
dudes22 42 / 70 60%
edgewood 16 / 50 32%
Erratic_Charmer 23 */ 83 28%
FAMeulstee 6 / 12 50%
footnotefever 7 / 30 23%
fuzzi 15 / 30 50%
gennyt 13 / 70 19%
hairballsrus 8 / 35 23%
Heduanna 1 / 13 8%
HelenBaker 27 / 50 54%
hemlokgang 15 / 35 43%
Henrik_Madsen 10 / 33 30%
lkernagh 14 / 30 47%
ipsoivan 29 / 50 58%
jebronse 5 / 10 50%
jennyes2011 5 */ 10 50%
johanna414 14 / 20 70%
JoLynnsbooks 2 / 50 4%
jonesli 64 / 175 37%
kac522 11 / 29 38%
karen_o 20 / 40 50%
karspeak 10 / 30 33%
kaulsu 7 / 100 7%
kelsiface 17 / 25 68%
kirconnell 6 &/ 30 20%
kiwiflowa 4 / 25 16%
kkunker 12 / 24 50%
klarusu 10 / 37 27%
konallis 12 / 30 40%
lahochstetler 10 / 50 20%
laura_88 11 / 25 44%
LauraBrook 17 / 100 17%
laytonwoman3rd 14 / 35 40%
librariansteffen2, 23 / 48 48%
lilisin 3 / 5 60%
lindapanzo 68 / 75 91%
LittleTaiko 21 / 30 70%
lizamichelle1 27 / 50 54%
LucindaLibri 9 / 50 18%
luisali 35 / 50 70%
mabith / 12 0%
majkia 42 / 40 105% GOAL REACHED - CONGRATULATIONS!
mandymarie 41 / 250 16%
mareofthesea 60 / 60 100% GOAL REACHED - CONGRATULATIONS!
melonbrawl 10 / 25 40%
midnightlouie 2 / 20 10%
misswatson 4 / 20 20%
mmignano11 12 / 75 16%
moonshineandrosefire 57 / 111 51%
Nicholette 15 */ 100 15%
Nickelini 15 / 50 30%
NielsenGW 20 / 75 27%
paeonia 15 / 24 63%
pcktlnt 2 &/ 30 7%
Pigletto 26 / 60 43%
PolymathicMonkey 20 / 50 40%
psutto 18 / 80 23%
qebo 7 */ 24 29%
Quaisior 37 / 50 74%
rabbitprincess 32 / 50 64%
raidergirl3 21 / 25 84%
rainpebble 25 / 48 52%
ramblingivy 3 / 20 15%
riverwillow 36 &/ 100 36%
Robertgreaves 25 &/ 35 71%
ronincats 27 */ 40 68%
Samantha_kathy 23 / 50 46%
sandykaypax 2 / 12 17%
sarahbradshaw 9 / 30 30%
schatzi 10 / 75 13%
shearon 10 / 25 40%
shinyone 29 / 35 83%
si 1 / 10 10%
sjmccreary 6 / 15 40%
SqueakyChu 4 / 20 20%
staffordcastle 13 / 30 43%
streamsong 16 / 50 32%
susanj67 21 */ 30 70%
Tallulah_rose 8 */ 20 40%
Tanglewood 16 / 20 80%
thomasandmary 6 / 13 46%
thorold 27 / 60 45%
tloeffler 33 / 50 66%
torontoc 25 / 30 83%
tututhefirst 16 */ 15 107% GOAL REACHED - CONGRATULATIONS!
tymfos 33 / 60 55%
vancouverdeb 6 / 12 50%
Vivanofthe Lake 2 / 15 13%
VivienneR 25 / 50 50%
wildbill 11 / 25 44%

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Belladonna1975 0*/ 60 0% * 0
wi_jessamine 0*/ 12 0% * 0
UtopianPessimist 0&/ 42 0% * 0
MaskedMumbler 0/ 35 0% 0
MissDotty 0/ 20 0% 0

Sorry, my total should be 25, not 29.

Cheli, I'm obviously doing something wrong because each month I have to issue a correction. What should I be doing which I'm not, or what am I doing which I shouldn't be?

Hello everyone! According to Goodreads, I'm 8 books (7%) ahead of my goal. :) Happy July - I hope that we all read some good books this month! :)



Here are my monthly totals again:

January 2013
Total books read: 9
Total rereads: 0 (yes!)
Total acquisitions: 7 (4 ebooks)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 17

February 2013
Total books read: 8
Total rereads: 1
Total acquisitions: 41 (6 ebooks)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 12

March 2013
Total books read: 7
Total rereads: 1
Total acquisitions: 7 (1 ebook)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 9

April 2013
Total books read: 11
Total rereads: 0 (yes!)
Total acquisitions: 61 (9 ebooks)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 14

May 2013
Total books read: 9
Total rereads: 2
Total acquisitions: 19 (1 ebook)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 13

June 2013
Total books read: 13
Total rereads: 1
Total acquisitions: 30
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 10

July 2013
Total books read: 15 (as of July 31, 2013)
Total rereads: 1 (as of July 4, 2013)
Total acquisitions: 6 (as of July 15, 2013)
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 16 (as of July 30, 2013)

August 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

September 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

October 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

November 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

December 2013
Total books read: 0
Total rereads: 0
Total acquisitions: 0
Books taken off my TBR pile and sent to new homes: 0

Average time between acquisition and reading: approximately three years (gasp!)
Average number of rereads of acquisitions: 1
TBR books still waiting for new homes: 184

Here is the link to my personal thread as well: http://www.librarything.com/topic/147792

I just added two to my total this week but they don't show on your list yet. My total is now 25 (not 23). Maybe the last one was added after midnight your time, I'm on Pacific Time.

Happy July 4th! But first, Canada Day is July 1st.

Hi, my total should be 62, not 61, sorry I was late in updating

Hi Cheli, I couldn't seem to update my personal ticker until this morning. Something about the tablet I use at home doesn't work for me. My YTD total is 64.

I see that I most likely won't reach my ambitious goal, but I will try my best and see what happens.

Well - congratulations to all that have finished already! I finished a couple over the weekend, but I knew Cheli was updating so I just figured I'd hold them out till this week. Will update later today.

My first ROOT for the month, bringing my total to 43, Karen Fossum's Don't Look Back. Scandi crime.

Updating all tickers

The tickers are not synchronized.

I just finished The Accidental Tourist and loved it! Am trying to decide whether to keep it one the favourite shelf OR release it for someone else to enjoy ... hmmm...

I just finished Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham- book number 26

I finished between the last days of June and the beginning of July three books: Typhoon, one of my oldest roots, The Wrath of Angels, a masterful story of new and ancient foes, and Il metodo del coccodrillo , a run of the mill detective story. Tickers updated.
Happy July 4th!

I'm actually at 55, not 54. I had one more finished for June that got added to the ticker late, due to me being away on vacation.

Okay, I think I have the June totals corrected and the tickers synchronized. Whew!

2>>Robert, I think my problem is that you start counting mid year and I never can remember where I left off for the previous month as well as non-ROOT vs. ROOT. It would be helpful if you marked an alternate number for the year (#89 -ROOT#55) or a ticker for the ROOTs. But I don't mind making adjustments - God knows I am nowhere close to perfect!

I've finished another this morning, the beautiful Weight by Jeanette Winterson. I've updated all tickers.

I've finished my first two for this month - Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo and Dead as a Scone by Ron Benrey.

One more for me before I slow down with some longer reads: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Tickers updated.

I finished my first ROOT for July, In The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett. Updated my own ticker.

I finished my second ROOT for July, These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer. I do love me a plotting rogue.

updating all tickers.

I've also finished An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor

I loved Irish Country Doctor.

Finished ROOT 7 and updated the main ticker.

I'm at 16. :)

I finished ROOT number 17 and updated all tickers, but the Progress tickers are not synchronized!!!!

First ROOT for July finished and the ticker updated. I am now a third of the way through my challenge with 10/30.

Five roots to go!! Though a big bunch of ILL books just came in from the library for me.

Tweeted by a friend:

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecher

So true!

#27
except in the boudoir. As I recall Henry Beecher was caught having an affair with somebody and it ruined his reputation.

To be honest, I have no idea who he is/was. I just liked the quote.

#30
he was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He was one of several famous "Beecher Preachers" in the Boston area, and was a famous ordained minister. He was also an ardent abolitionist. He was known to be very charismatic and the ladies in particular loved him. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate is the most recent biography of him. There is also a famous YA and children's biography called Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers by the equally famous children's biographer Jean Fritz. Beecher was friends with the authors from Concord, MA. People like Hawthorne and the Alcott family.

Hmm...

The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
Called a hen a most elegant creature.
The hen, pleased with that,
Laid an egg in his hat --
And thus did the hen reward Beecher.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

By all accounts he did get around, did ole' Henry.

A colleague of mine read that biography of him and said that it was very good. Of course, she is interested in all things Transcendentalist and in that period of time in Concord.

ROOT number 18 done: De grens by Riikka Pulkkinen

Updated all tickers. I'm now 18/20 ;-))

Finally two more books off the shelf. All tickers updated.

Another ROOT done and dusted. Updated the ticker, and am now at 11/30.

Halfway through my 27th ROOT and am sitting at 26/48 currently. (not counting the one I am currently reading)
Will update tickers at months end per usual.

Number 27 is read-The Magic of Saida

I'm not rooting very well this month. I've only done one, though I have two started -- 1 fiction, 1 non-fiction. I seem to be taking my time getting through them.

3rd Root for the month completed. Off to update tickers.

I am doing very poorly on my ROOTS challenge, but I've found a tool to help me.

I'm using the new Home Page Module "Your Library Over Time". I have it set to my "To Read" collection with a graph of only 1 month. That puts a big blue "blob-ish" *picture* of the number of my "To Read" books in front of my face each time I start LT from my Home Page (which I'm now trying to do).

I hope this idea helps me and others. So far, it seems to be working a bit better for me than just the ticker.

Last night I began my 28th ROOT of the year & my 3rd of the month, I'm Not Complaining by Ruth Adam.

OK, now I've managed 2 Roots in July -- and ones I've had for a while, too -- Northwest Angle by William Kent Krueger, and Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes by Dwight Boyer.

Tickers are updated.

Finally got another ROOT done: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I read it on our holiday in London, which seemed appropriate. Great vacation, by the way, but obviously it added a number of new books to the TBR pile:

Some Austen novels, a couple of other novels, introductions to Westminster Abbey and St. Pauls Cathedral, a catalogue from the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition in British Museum - if you get a chance to see before it closes in september you should absolutely do it - and a monography on J.W. Turner and his paintings - you should definitely see the Turner-exhibition at Tate Britain as well.

All tickers updated

One more book til I reach my goal of 75.

Cheli, do my totals beyond my goal still count towards the group?

I'm not Cheli, but I'm sure they do count for the group total!

Thanks, Connie. I'll keep counting them here then.

Yes, please do!

I'm keeping adding in my ROOTS even though I've completed my challenge. #45 -

In the Woods - Tana French. Excellent psychological murder mystery with great characterization and wonderful locale descriptions.

Another Root finished, that's 4 so far this month. Off to choose the next one, might make it one of the heavier tomes as it is a holiday week and after settling mother-in-law into a resthome can relax a little...

Good to hear that you can relax a bit, Helen.

#49 oooooo, I own In the Woods sounds like I need to pull it off my shelf and read it soon.

Mission accomplished!! Early this morning, I finished The Coroner's Lunch, my 75th root off my shelf for the year.

For those who might be interested in a complementary challenge for August:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/156934#

I am determined to read only ROOTs if I can...no library books, and no reading any books that follow me home in August. ;)

I've finished The Janissary Tree, started Knit the Season and am continuing with A Pig in Provence both of which I'm hoping to finish by month-end.

OK, finished one more, Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Updating tickers. That's three thus far this month for me.

Well ROOT number 7 took me two months to read.... and the next one was done in a week, so I am back on track with 8 ROOTs (of 12) read :-)

Updated the tickers.

41>> Madeline, that's a great idea however, I think that it is going to be rather depressing for me personally because I set mine to show my unread books and I think that graph is going to be going up rather than down. But I'm going to set with it. Thanks for the tip!

A second ROOT finished in July...Pylon, by William Faulkner. Not one of his best efforts, in my opinion. If I weren't such a fanatic about his work, I'd remove it from my library and make a space for something else. Updated my ticker, and posted a review on the book page.

I've finished A Pig in Provence and Knit the Season and am starting The Stone Carvers and The Bodies Left Behind to get a jump on August.

Just finished #28- The Secret Servant

Well, I got 5 ROOT reads completed and I'm working on one more. Not sure I'll get it finished by tomorrow.

Hope everyone is updating their tickers or threads so that I can whip through tomorrow when I do the tally!

My ticker is up to date and I will not finish any ROOT tomorrow.

Mine is up-to-date as well.

I've finished 3 ROOTS for July! Please update the ticker for me, thank you!

My ticker is up to date :)

I updated my ticker as well. Grand total is now 76. I've been staying away from the library, hopefully this will help. I don't think I will meet my goal, but we'll see.

My ticker is updated. I have read 2 more this month for a total of 17 against my goal of 30. Still on target!

My ticker is up to date.

Next month I'm planning on only reading books I already own, so hopefully my ROOT total will look better by the end of August.

After a very slow start, I finished strong with 4 ROOTs for July bringing my total up to 33/35!! Updating all tickers.

Report for July:

Trees uprooted: 4
Leaves swept up: 6
Added: 8

Total ROOTS in the year to date: 29

Uprooted this month were:

Edmund Crispin's The Moving Toyshop
Jason Rosenfeld Pre-Raphaelites
Karen Jay Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club
N G L Hammond's The Classical Age of Greece

No tickers were touched in the compilation of this report.

In keeping with the group theme, here are my July Totals:

Ancient Oaks Pruned: stands for older books read from my TBR pile: 9
Young Saplings Pruned: stands for newer books read from my TBR pile: 6
Trees Replanted: stands for rereads from my TBR pile: 1
New Seeds Planted: stands for additions to my TBR pile: 6
Trees Transplanted: stands for books that were donated: 16

My ticker is up-to-date, but I'm hoping to get one more book finished before the end of the day, if this happens I will up-date my ticker as soon as possible - as I'm in the UK I should get this done before you do your whip through!

Edited to say that I didn't manage to finish the book in time for the end of the month, but it count towards August when its finished.

Finished another book last night making it 5 this month and taking my tally to 32/50. Tickers updated.

After a couple month break, I am back to report a year to date total of 12 ROOTS. I have not touched the ticker.

I am a little behind, but hope to start catching up here in the third quarter. (Although I did not make much progress in July. HA!)

Two more Roots: Heart of Steel - a steampunk adventure and romance with well done female characters - and Suite française: a true masterpiece. All tickers updated.

I just joined ROOT, so my brand new ticker is at 0 for a reason! I'll soon be up to 1 though :-)

>71 Robertgreaves: Edmund Crispin! Hadn't thought of him since I read him as a kid. My mum was a big fan of English murder mysteries. Thanks for the reminder.

I'm up to date on the tickers. Sadly, only 2 ROOTS read this month.

Still trying to finish one last book today...will update my ticker when I'm done!

Though I did not finish any books in July, I discarded two which brings me to 11 of 20.

(My second challenge of reading more books off the shelf than bringing on to it is therefore at 2 positive. Meaning so far this year I've read two more books off the shelves than I added on to them. Yeah)

>41 SqueakyChu: I really like this idea, and I've tailored it to my own needs. I just went through my library and added to my 'to read' list all the books that I would like to reread -- I have a lot of books that I read so long ago, it's almost as if I never read them. It has given me a new incentive to just read off my own shelves.

I don't have a ticker, and don't touch the group ticker, but here are my stats as of the end of July, for whoever does the updating:

edgewood 21 / 50 42%

I find it interesting that my personal status matches the group's 42.1%.

I finished 2 more ROOTs this month, for a grand total of 14 out of 20. I have updated my personal ticker but haven't touched any group tickers.

I read 5 ROOTs in the month of July and have updated both my ticker & the group ticker.

>78 ipsoivan: I loved Edmund Crispin when I was a teenager. I desperately wanted to be Gervase Fen when I grew up.

AUGUST Thread is up.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/157343#

I finished 3 ROOT books in July. I did not update any tickers or do any stats.

I can't believe I actually read 7 books from my TBR pile in July! That brings my total to 23 - just one short of my goal. I have updated the tickers.

I completed my second ROOT for July in the very last minutes of July. Tickers updated.

At last a ROOT for the month. Off to update tickers.