Kristel's 2020 ROOts

I will be back later to post my ticker. Not at my computer at present.

I struggled to make 50 last year so I am going to go for 45 Roots in 2020.


1. Memory of Fire, Volume 3, last part of trilogy
2. Under the Volcano by Malcom Lowry
3. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
4. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
5. The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
6. The Grass Is Singing by doris Lessing
7. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Feb
8. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
9. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
10. Germinal by Emile Zola
11. Vathek by William Beckford
12. Amok by Stefan Zweig
13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
14. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
March
15. Elantris by Sanderson
16. The Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter
17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame on my Kindle since 2013 (forgot I even owned it)
18. The Midnight Examiner by Kotzwinkle
19. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson, since 2019
20. Invisible by Paul Auster, 12/2019
April
21. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, owned since 5/2018.
22. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
23. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson
24. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier, owned since Dec 25, 2018. Santathing.
May
25. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
26. Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
27. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, on shelf since 2017.
28. A Heart So White by Javier Marias
June
29. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M Forster
30. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
31. The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter
32. You by Charles Benoit
33. Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
34. Solo by Kwame Alexander, 2018
35. Swing by Kwame Alexander, 2019
July
36. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 2019 SantaThing gift, f2f bookclub,
37. The Return of the Soldier 2013, 1001, traveling book
38. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, since 2016
39. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
40. Johnny Get Your Gun by John Dudley Ball, on tbr since May 16, 2018
August
41. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, borrowed to me Aug 21, 2015
42. The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. On shelf since 2019.
43. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, on my shelf since 2014.
44. The Coldest War: America and the Korean War David Habersham, on my kindle since 2012.
45. The Book of Disquiet: The complete edition by Fernando Pessao on shelf since 2018
September
46. Contact by Carl Sagan
47. a mercy by Toni Morrison on shelf since 2016
48. A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
October
49. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
50. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
51. The Vice-Consul by Marguerite Duras
November
52. Adam Bede by George Eliot

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

Happy New Year! Wishing you a year of fun reading while meeting your ROOTs goals.

Welcome back, Kristel. Happy New Year and Happy ROOTing.

Hope you have a really good reading year!

Good luck with your ROOTing!

#1 root, Century of Wind by Eduardo Galeano.

#2. Under the Volcano, been on the shelf since 2012. So happy to have read it. But this one requires at least a reread sometime.

#3. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Had on shelf since 2018. Rating 3.4

#4 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. On shelf since 2012.

#5, The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea (on shelf since 2018). Very good!

#6. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, one of the newer books on my shelf. Purchased in 2019.

>13 Kristelh: I think that should be # 6, Kristel!

>14 connie53:, thanks for alerting me.

#7. Swan Song by Robert McCammon. On shelf since 2018. NPR top 100 Horror. Entertaining read.

#8. The Red and the Black by Stendhal, purchased 2019, historical fiction, set in post reformation France.

#9. Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. On the shelf since 2019. F2F bookclub read. One I would not have ever picked on my own.

#10. Germinal by Emile Zola. On shelf since 1/13/19. A very good one.

11. Vathek by William Beckford. Owned since June 2019.

12. Amok Stefan Zweig

#13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

#14 The Good Girl by Mary Kubica (on shelf since 2017)
#15 Elantris by Sanderson, on shelf since 2018

#16. The Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter on the shelf since July 2018.

>23 Kristelh: I have good memories for Elantris, Kristel. Good to read you liked it too.

Just finished #17, owned Kindle copy since 2013 which I had forgot and also had audio copy. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.

Finished #18, Midnight Examiner by William Kotzwinkle.

Finished #19, The Name of The Star by Maureen Johnson, on shelf since 7/2019, free audio

Finished #20, Invisible by Paul Auster

#21 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, owned since 5/2018, rated 3.2. Ambitious work about love, art, violence. Coming of age, historical novel set in the 60/70s with flashbacks to WW1, etc.

#22, on my shelf since 2012, The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

#23, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson. Rated 3.2 stars. On shelf since Nov 2018.

>32 Kristelh: Hi Kristel. I see we read the same amount of ROOTS. I'm currently reading # 23 too.

#24 The House on the Strand finished 4/29/2020. On shelf since 2018, SantaThing.

#25 The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

#26, Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty. Enjoyed this locked room mystery, SF book.

# 27. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham. Enjoyed this one. Character study, very autobiographical novel. Written post war. Search for meaning, sexuality.

#28, A Heart So White by Javier Marias Spanish Lit, marriage/secrets

29. Where Angels Fear to Tread by Forster.
30. White Teeth by Zadie Smith, had this on the shelf for quite awhile.
31. The First Time She Drowned audio syn book from summer reading program 2019

32. You by Charles Benoit
33. Becoming Kareem Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

34. Solo amd 35 Swing both by Kwame Alexander

36. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

>42 Kristelh: That is a great book title!

>43 Jackie_K:. It is! A great way to tell an old story line too. Dysfunctional family with a light hearted approach.

#37. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West on shelf since 2013. 1001 BOTM and traveling book

#38 A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, on shelf since 2016. 4.2 stars

#39. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Finished two more roots;
40. Johnny Get Your Gun from 2018 audio sync file free summer program and
41. Being Mortal borrowed to me in 2015. So happy to get this one returned.

So far added two more for August
The Warrior's Apprentice from 2019
Gulliver's Travels from 2014

Finished The Coldest War: America and the Korean War by Ian McEwan, on kindle since 2012.

Finished my 45. book. The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessao.

Congrats on meeting your goal, Kristel, Great job

Yay! Congrats on reaching your goal!

#46. Contact by Carl Sagan, been on the shelf since 2012. Finally!

#47. a mercy by Toni Morrison. The winner of the TOB 2009, read at this time before the TOB playoffs. On shelf since 2016.

I had another root in September #48, A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay. Fantasy, Canadian.

October Roots
49. Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
50. The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
51. The Vice-Consul Marguerite Duras

52. Adam Bede by George Eliot, on shelf since 2014. 4.2 stars.

53. Melmoth the Wandered by Charles Maturin

54. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill

55. Money a Suicide Note Martin Amis
56. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

57. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

58. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Happy Holidays from the Netherlands!

59. Baker's Magic by Diange Zahler, on shelf since 2018. Middle school read. Adventure, magic, ecology, orphan, pirates (maybe too many things!) 3 stars tho I am probably not able to judge a middle school read fairly. I would let my child read this book.

60. Martin Fiero by Jose Hernandez
61. Bibliophile: an illustrated miscellany by Jane Mount

Hi Kristel. Happy New Year and see you in 2021.