Ireadthereforeiam becomes Ireadmyowntomesthereforeiam

Here is what I have read so far this year.
Books from my own shelves are in bold.
57. The Unconscious Civilisation, by John Ralston Saul 4 stars (NF)
58. Extremes: Life Death and the Limits of the Human Body by Dr Kevin Fong (NF)
59. Degrees for Everyone, by Bob Jones (NZ, satire)
60. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (classic)
61. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (crime)

JUNE:
48. The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin (fiction)
49. My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok (fiction, re-read)
50. Lyrics, Paul Simon (lyrics)
51. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (classic, re-re-read)
52. The ACB with Honora Lee, Kate De Goldi (YA)
53. Northline by Willy Vlautin (fiction)
54. The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler (fiction)
55. Coraline, Neil Gaiman (YA)
56. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (fiction)

MAY:
40. Bereft, Chris Womersley (fiction)
41. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (fiction)
42. The Colour, Rose Tremain (historical fiction, NZ)
43. The God Boy, Ian Cross
42. The Colour, Rose Tremain (bought second hand to read)
41. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (borrowed)
40. Bereft, Chris Womersley (borrowed)

APRIL:
39. Safe Area Gorazde, Joe Sacco (Library)
38. Regeneration, Pat Barker
37. All Quiet on the Western Front (bought second hand to read)
36. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
35. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (borrowed)
34. Decline into Darkness, Gay Oakes (bought second hand to read)
33. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym (library)

MARCH:
32. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johan Wyss
31. The Gospel According to Judas, Benjamin Iscariot/Jeffrey Archer/Francis Moloney
30. The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein (NF)
29. Call the Midwife, Jeniffer Worth
28. The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan (library)
27. Pocket Book Of Dinosaurs - Illustrated Guide To The Dinosaur Kingdom, Dougal Dixon
26. Looking or Lionel, Sharon Snir
25. Somebody Stole My Game, Chris Laidlaw
24. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moshin Hamid (library)

FEBRUARY:
23. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls (library)
22. We Dont Live Here Anymore, Andre Dubus (library)
21. Odyssey and Images, Ron Crosby (NZ, memoir, my own family history, a re-read)
20. Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera (NZ fiction)
19. The Plague, Albert Camus (classic)
18. The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope (poetry)
17. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy (fiction)
16. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (fiction)
15. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (classic fiction)
14. The Forrests by Emily Perkins (library)
13. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (library)

JANUARY:
12. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (classic)
11. Various Pets Dead and Alive, by Marina Lewycka (fiction)
10. Lemona's Tale, by Ken Saro-Wiwa (African fiction)
9. Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx (short story)
8. The Memory of Running, by Ron McLarty(fiction)
7. Leningrad, by Anna Reid (library)
6. The Sense of an Ending- by Julian Barnes (fiction)
5. Old Filth- by Jane (fiction)
4. Quarry- by Damon Galgut (fiction)
3. Mayflower- Nathaniel Philbrick (NFN)
2. Writer MD- edited by Leah Kaminsky (Essays, Short Stories)
1. Mister Pip- Lloyd Jones (NZ fiction)

Yay- so not that bad really. All the ones that weren't from my shelves, were library books.
OK I cheated a tad, as some books I bought so that I could read them and then they ended up on my shelves....8 to be exact.

Thanks to those who re-directed me to the 2013 thread....there I was languishing (not for long) on the 2012 one!

Now that I have had a bit more of a look at the other threads, and have got the gist of it, I might have to adjust my categorisation in post #1.

I do buy a lot of books, but they are 99.5% second hand (only Call the Midwife was new, and it was heavily discounted), and 80% of them are under $5.

Ill be back (as they say) :)

Glad you are back, IRTFIA

Books on my shelves that are to be read:

206

Good. I have a starting point now.

Yay, you made it over here! Welcome again!

>3 connie53: Hi Connie, thanks for stopping by. Im just getting used to the system here on the ROOT threads.

eta:
>5 majkia: hello again! Thanks for steering me in the right direction!

Welcome!

I have Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones on my list for the Commonwealth challenge. How did you like it?

Hi Vivienne, I resisted reading it for quite a while as *ahem* didnt like the cover. I was silly. It was a great read. His next one Hand me Down World was also good but not quite as good as Mister Pip.

Thanks, that's good to hear.

BTW, I know what you mean about the cover. I remember getting rid of a copy of Jane Eyre because I didn't like the cover - and then immediately buying another - with a different cover.

OK
I have decided that I want to read 30 books for the remainder of the year, that are from my own shelves. I wont include any that dont make it to the shelves out of their shop bags :)

Now that I have a goal, I can start trying to reach it!

Go, go, go!!! You can do it.

go for it!

30 Tomes Off my Own Shelf by the end of 2013
1 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon
2 Regeneration Pat Barker
3 The God Boy Ian Cross
4 The End of the Affair Graham Greene
5 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
6 The Colour, Rose Tremain
7 Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
8 The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
9 Lyrics, Paul Simon
10 My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok
11 Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
12 Degrees for Everyone, by Bob Jones
13 The Unconscious Civilization, by John Ralston Saul
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This will be updated and hopefully completed!

The below are my April/May (so far) books that I have read, unfortunately only 3 are from my own shelves!

MAY:
43. The God Boy, Ian Cross ROOT
42. The Colour, Rose Tremain (bought second hand to read)
41. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (borrowed)
40. Bereft, Chris Womersley (borrowed)

APRIL:
39. Safe Area Gorazde, Joe Sacco (Library)
38. Regeneration, Pat Barker ROOT
37. All Quiet on the Western Front (bought second hand to read)
36. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon ROOT
35. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (borrowed)
34. Decline into Darkness, Gay Oakes (bought second hand to read)
33. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym (library)

45. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene ROOT
44. The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers (library)

Latest reads tally:

ROOTS:11
LIBRARY: 7
BORROWED: 3

JULY:
57. The Unconscious Civilisation, by John Ralston Saul 4 stars (NF)
58. Extremes: Life Death and the Limits of the Human Body by Dr Kevin Fong (NF)
59. Degrees for Everyone, by Bob Jones (NZ, satire)
60. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (classic)
61. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (crime)

JUNE:
48. The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin (fiction)
49. My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok (fiction, re-read)
50. Lyrics, Paul Simon (lyrics)
51. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (classic, re-re-read)
52. The ACB with Honora Lee, Kate De Goldi (YA)
53. Northline by Willy Vlautin (fiction)
54. The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler (fiction)
55. Coraline, Neil Gaiman (YA)
56. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (fiction)

MAY:
40. Bereft, Chris Womersley (fiction)
41. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (fiction)
42. The Colour, Rose Tremain (historical fiction, NZ)
43. The God Boy, Ian Cross (fiction, NZ)
44. The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers (fiction)
45. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (fiction)
46. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (fiction)

Good job!

Thanks Connie! I hadn't realised how many of my own I had read. It's a good feeling to be getting through some.

Good job with the ROOTS!

The final 5 months
ROOTS: 22
LIBRARY: 17
BORROWED: -

DECEMBER:
98. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek (Library)
99. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (ROOT)
100. Stonefish by Keri Hulme (library)
101. The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: from Washington Irving to Lydia Dawson (ROOT)
102. Granta: New Fiction Special (#106) (ROOT)
103. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson (ROOT)
104. Mind the Child by Camila Batmanghelidjh (library)

NOVEMBER:
91. Resilience, by Anne Deveson (ROOT)
92. The Secret Island, by Enid Blyton (ROOT)
93. Andris, where are you?, by Ron Crosby (ROOT)
94. The Winter of our Discontent, by John Steinbeck (Library)
95. The Moon is Down, by John Steinbeck (ROOT)
96. Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalising World, by Harvey Perkins and David Thorns (library)
97. The Empty Family, by Colm Toibin (ROOT)

OCTOBER:
86. The Chequebook and the Cruise-Missile by Arundhati Roy (ROOT)
87. I Think Therefore I Am by Lesley Levine (ROOT)
88. The Luminaries, Elanor Catton (ROOT)
89. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (ROOT)
90. Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (library)

SEPTEMBER:
77. The Children of Men, by PD James (ROOT)
78. Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson (ROOT)
79. Sula by Toni Morrison (ROOT)
80. TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann (library)
81. Human Chain, Seamus Heaney (library)
82. Quiet, by Susan Cain (library)
83. Harvest, Jim Crace (library)
84. Hellhound on his Trail by Hampton Sides (library)
85. The Time Machine by HG Wells (ROOT)

AUGUST:
66. A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (library)
67. Closely Watched Trains, Bohumil Hrabal (ROOT)
68. The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway (library)
69. Wild, by Cheryl Strayed (library)
70. Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph (library)
71. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (ROOT)
72. The Beauty of Humanity Movement, by Camilla Gibb (library)
73. The Spinning Heart, Donal Ryan (library)
74. The Eye in the Door, by Pat barker (ROOT)
75. Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney (ROOT)
76 Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck (ROOT)

Impressive!!

Thanks- although, I think I have miss-counted as my totals don't add up :)

That happens to me all the time!

...and I used to count myself good at maths....
;)

That happened to me as well! I think I sorted it out but it still doesn't look quite right. Ah well there is always next year!