lindapanzo ROOTS in 2015

Hi, I'm back again for 2015 but, unlike 2014, I plan to include both Kindle books, I own (but not those borrowed) which seem to have piled up in recent months, along with actual books I own.

My goal for 2015: 84 ROOTS or 7 per month.

1. Cover Her Face by P.D. James--finished on 1/1/15
2. Old Fashioned Crooks by Jessica Beck--finished on 1/2/15
3. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers--finished on 1/5/15 (physical book)
4. Red Velvet Revenge by Jenn McKinlay--finished on 1/8/15
5. Blackberry Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke--finished on 1/10/15
6. The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh--finished on 1/15/15
7. Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward P. Kohn--finished on 1/16/15
8. Eggs in a Casket by Laura Childs--finished on 1/21/15
9. Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson by Doug Wilson--finished on 1/28/15
10. A Baked Ham by Jessica Beck--finished on 1/31/15
11. Murder in the Marais by Cara Black--finished on 2/3/15
12. When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning--finished on 2/5/15
13. A Whole New Ballgame by Stephen J. Walker--finished on 2/19/15
14. The Ragtime Kid by Larry Karp--finished on 2/22/15
15. Dangerous Dough by Jessica Beck--finished on 3/4/15
16. Doc by Mary Doria Russell--finished on 3/14/15
17. Ladle to the Grave by Connie Archer--finished on 3/17/15
18. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford--finished on 3/24/15
19. Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood--finished on 3/29/15
20. Baseball's Starry Night by Paul Kocak--finished on 3/31/15
21. Read It and Weep by Jenn McKinlay--finished on 4/10/15
22. Troubled Treats by Jessica Beck--finished on 4/13/15
23. The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption by John Rosengren--finished on 4/16/15
24. Dead Wake by Erik Larson--finished on 4/21/2015
25. Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay--finished on 4/25/15
26. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster--finished on 4/29/15
27. Book Clubbed by Lorna Barrett--finished on 5/2/15
28. Dead Girls by Erik German--finished on 5/3/15
29. Slated for Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan--finished on 5/6/15
30. Missoula by Jon Krakauer--finished on 5/8/15
31. Ming Tea Murder by Laura Childs--finished on 5/13/15
32. A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen--finished on 5/14/15
33--48 16 books donated to public library on 5/16/15
49, Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham--finished on 5/17/15
50. Dead Rapunzel by Victoria Houston--finished on 5/21/15
51. Lethal Letters by Ellery Adams--finished on 5/24/15
52. A Bad Egg by Jessica Beck--finished on 5/26/15
53. Coventry by Helen Humphreys--finished on 5/27/15
54. On Borrowed Time by Jenn McKinlay--finished on 6/2/15
55. Miracle at Augusta by James Patterson--finished on 6/3/15
56. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown--finished on 6/10/15
57. The Case of the Sulky Girl by Erle Stanley Gardner--finished on 6/17/15
58. Save by Roy by Terry Frei--finished on 6/21/15
59. Murder in the Mystery Suite by Ellery Adams--finished on 6/24/15
60. On the Clock: The Story of the NFL Draft by Barry Wilner and Ken Rappoport--finished on 6/27/15
61. The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by Daniel Allen Butler--finished on 7/1/15
62. The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh--finished on 7/5/15
63. Cast Iron Will by Jessica Beck--finished on 7/8/15
64. How Baseball Explains America by Hal Bodley--finished on 7/11/15
65. Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie--finished on 7/27/15
66. Sugar Coated Sins by Jessica Beck--finished on 7/29/15
67. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry--finished on 8/1/15
68. Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood--finished on 8/5/15
69. Golden Girl by Michael Silver--finished on 8/10/15
70. An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson--finished on 8/14/15
71. Death Is a Word by Hazel Holt--finished on 8/15/15
72. The Beatles Play Shea by James Woodall--finished on 8/16/15
73. The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season by Barry Svrluga--finished on 8/19/15
74. The History of Baseball by Christie Hodgen--finished on 8/20/15
75. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah--finished on 8/22/15
76. Tail Gait by Rita Mae Brown--finished on 8/31/15
77. Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger--finished on 9/4/15
78. Killer Jam by Karen MacInerney--finished on 9/10/15
79. The Boys in Brown by Jon J. Kerr--finished on 9/14/15
80. Made in America by Chris Chelios--finished on 9/17/15
81. Lumby's Bounty by Gail Fraser--finished on 9/30/15
82. Pumpkin Pied by Karen MacInerney--finished on 10/2/15
83. Disappearing Ink by Travis McDade--finished on 10/4/15
84. Criminal Crumbs by Jessica Beck--finished on 10/5/15
85. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury--finished on 10/10/15
86. Murder in the Paperback Parlor by Ellery Adams--finished on 10/15/15
87-88. 2 books donated to the library
89. Masters of the Games: Essays on Sports by Joseph Epstein--finished on 10/21/15
90. Churchill in the Trenches by Peter Apps--finished on 10/24/15
91. Sabotage: A Chronicle of the Chesterton Crash by Bryan W. Alaspa--finished on 10/27/15
92. The Kid from Tomkinsville by John R. Tunis--finished on 10/29/15
93. Going, Going Ganache by Jenn McKinlay--finished on 10/30/15
94. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games by Tom and Jerry Caraccioli--finished on 11/1/15
95. Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton--finished on 11/4/15
96. The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood--finished on 11/11/15
97. A Christmas Escape by Anne Perry--finished on 11/14/15
98. Untimely Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan--finished on 11/16/15
99-101 3 books donated to the library
102. The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden--finished on 11/19/15
103. The Piccadilly Pickpocket by Karen Charlton--finished on 11/20/15
104. Merry Mistletoe by Emma Davies--finished on 11/21/15
105. A Dickens of a Murder by Joyce and Jim Lavene--finished on 11/22/15
106. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny--finished on 11/25/15
107. Friar Tuck and the Christmas Devil by Steven A. McKay--finished on 11/26/15
108. Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs--finished on 11/28/15
109. Death on Eat Street by J. J. Cook--finished on 11/29/15
110. Cast Iron Conviction by Jessica Beck--finished on 12/1/15
111. The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans--finished on 12/2/15
112. Mystery in White: A Christmas Crime Story - J. Jefferson Farjeon - finished on 12/5/15
113. A Slice of Murder by Chris Cavender--finished on 12/8/15
114. Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen by Vicki Delany--finished on 12/10/15
115. Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke--finished on 12/13/15
116. One Hundred Semesters by William M. Chace--finished on 12/17/15
117. Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich--finished on 12/19/15
118. Vanilla Vices by Jessica Beck--finished on 12/20/15
119-124 Six books donated to the library on 12/23/15
125. The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay--finished on 12/23/15
126. Cast Iron Cover-Up by Jessica Beck--finished on 12/23/15
127-128 Two donated books
129. Angel With Two Faces by Nicola Upson--finished on 12/30/15

Welcome back, Linda! Good luck with your challenge :)

Nice to see you here! Good luck with your ROOTing.

Good luck, Linda!

Good luck rooting!

ROOT ROOT ROOT for the home team!

Good luck, Linda! Ebooks always seem so harmless until you look at the actual number of them that you have. Then...not so much. :)

Good luck!!

Happy New Year Linda! The great think about Kindle books is that you don't have to worry about where you're going to put them! But I'm still an old-fashioned paper girl in the end. Which doesn't mean I don't HAVE Kindle books, just that I don't count them.

Ah, the silly rules we make for ourselves!

Hi Terri, I certainly see the merit in your comments which is probably why, it seems, I count only actual paper books every other year and both paper books and Kindle books during the other year.

Hi Linda! I'm going to try to ROOT out a few books this year - I can't wait to see what you'll be reading!

Good start!

Good luck with your 2015 challenge Linda. Happy New Year!

Halfway through the year and I've read 60 of my 84 ROOTS. I'm hoping to be an "extra contributor" this year.

Great progress!

Well done!

>14 lindapanzo: woo hoo! Congrats on that amazing progress!!

Awesome, Linda! Way to go!

Finished root #75 at 2 am today. Probably my favorite book of the year, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.

Wow, I'm impressed! Also will check out The Nightingale!

Well done on reaching your goal!

>21 Jackie_K: not quite there. 75 just seemed like a milestone number.

Oh whoops! You're right, it is a milestone (and some - it's taken me this long to get to 17, and several of those were really short!). :)

Finished my 10th ROOT of the month this morning!!

Yeah!!

So close! 7 ROOTs to go!

Finished my 79th ROOT last night. Just five to go til I reach my challenge goal.

Maybe a countdown is in order?

Yeah, countdown!

5 to go! Good job!

>30 connie53: I've had a big reading slump the second half of this month, though. I should've been finished by now.

You will get them, I'm sure!

I'm counting!

I finished my 81st ROOT with 15 minutes left to go in the month, last night.

Three ROOTs left to go.

Great progress!

>33 lindapanzo: - You can do it!

Counting: 4 to go!

Finished my 83rd ROOT late last night.

One left to go!!!

Mission accomplished!!

I finished my 84th ROOT of the year, just now, reaching my goal.

>38 lindapanzo: Congratulations!

>38 lindapanzo: woo hoo! Congratulations!

WOW, WOW! Very good!

Congrats!

Congratulations!!!!

Hurray, Linda! :D