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EG's Roots

1EGBERTINA
Edited: Jan 10, 5:23 pm

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2connie53
Jan 1, 5:24 am

Welcome to the ROOTers. Happy New year and please join the group if you want your ROOTs to count in the grand total!

3rabbitprincess
Jan 1, 10:45 am

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

4EGBERTINA
Jan 1, 10:49 am

>3 rabbitprincess: Thank you so much. You as well.

5EGBERTINA
Edited: Jun 21, 7:04 pm

1 JAN 2024:

A Corner of The Universe
Paperboy
The Night Diary
Fighting Words
The Book of Boy
We Dream of Space
What Hearts
The Moves Make The Man
One Came Home
Three Times Lucky
10

Scary Stories For Young Foxes
Freedom Over Me
Dark Emperor And Other Poems of the Night
Carver - A Life in Poems
American Plague
The Tombs of Atuan - READ FOR JULIA
The Dark-Thirty
The Surrender Tree - Poems of Cuba's Struggle For Freedom
Catherine Called Birdy
The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
20

Genesis Begins Again
On My Honor
Savvy
The Planet of Junior Brown
The House of the Scorpion
Upon The Head Of The Goat - A Childhood In Hungary, 1939-1944
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Sweet Whispers Brother Rush
To Be a Slave (1969 Honor)
Winterbound
30

The Winter Room
Middle Moffat
The King's Fifth
The Wanderer
4

The Secret Garden - READ FOR JULIA
Enola Holmes And The Black Barouche
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
Enola Holmes And The Boy In Buttons
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Child Of The Owl
When Women Were Dragons
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye
A Tale of The Western Plains
40

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Sea of Trolls
The Land of The Silver Apples
Gingersnap - ADJ
Tom's Midnight Garden
Ben And Me
Redwoods
The Universe In You - A Microscopic Journey
Chinese New Year, jango
Water Is Water - A Book About The Water Cycle
50

PICTURE BOOKS:
Gravity
Your place In The Universe
Nine Months - Before a Baby Is Born
Tumble

OTHER:
The Original Bambi - The Story of a Life in the Forest
Forestborn
The Napping House

6EGBERTINA
Edited: Jan 4, 8:22 pm

7cyderry
Jan 1, 12:10 pm

Welcome back!

8EGBERTINA
Jan 1, 1:13 pm

>7 cyderry: Thank you

9Jackie_K
Jan 2, 6:42 am

Best of luck with your reading goals this year!

10EGBERTINA
Jan 3, 12:53 am

>9 Jackie_K: Thank you. yours, too.

11EGBERTINA
Edited: Jan 4, 8:23 pm

My pace has picked up quite a bit in the last 30 days, though, I doubt that I can keep it up.
1. Switched to a bigger library so, i no longer have to wait; larger selection; and no transportation
2. Of course, if I don't take time to scribble about my reading, - I can just read in a solid stream. However, I do want to scribble.

12EGBERTINA
Jan 4, 8:22 pm

13MissWatson
Jan 5, 6:19 am

Welcome back and happy reading!

14EGBERTINA
Jan 5, 5:34 pm

>13 MissWatson: Thank you.

15EGBERTINA
Jan 7, 9:36 pm

Officially reached my goal.

16connie53
Jan 8, 4:13 am

Okay, that's early in the year. Congrats.

17EGBERTINA
Jan 8, 7:27 am

>16 connie53: Thank You. Using a new library with thousands more books and able to check out 15 at a time. Ive gone through around 50 Newberys in two months. It would be nice if I could finish them all this year - but who knows.

18connie53
Jan 8, 9:13 am

That's another challenge!

19cyderry
Jan 9, 1:48 pm

wow! already done?!? Sure you don't want to change your goal?

20EGBERTINA
Edited: Jan 10, 10:21 am

>19 cyderry: Thank you, I don't. I felt so pressured last year. I read over 700 books (many small children works) but, I felt as though I were avoiding roots and similar projects. So, perhaps, by having it out of the way I can read more roots, and quit avoiding them with other books.

I could be wrong but its my current theory.

Between aging brain syndrome and being forced to continue working beyond my capacity, I never know when I will lose desire/capacity for reading. So, I made a smaller goal; a smaller pressure; and will see if I get more - or less accomplished in reading goals this year. I admire those people that can navigate multiple reading groups; but, I struggled to keep updated with clicker/ticker in this one group. And darn it to heck! now the snow has arrived and I have to get up even earlier to shovel snow to get to work. bleah face :-(

21EGBERTINA
Jan 10, 10:21 am

22EGBERTINA
Edited: Jan 21, 10:21 pm

Perhaps I should re-clarify my methodology from my original thread of 2023.

1. I am counting all books, previously, on my bookshelves. I haven't bought any new books in years.

2. also virtual books. These are books I own on formats such as kindle, etc. I own only a handful of these; and virtual catalogue. These are books already entered into LibraryThing in anticipation of reading at a future moment.

3. counting children's works. Young adult works. Picture Books. I finished all the Caldecott's last year, so there will be significantly fewer this year.

4. counting (and prioritising) Newbery Honor books as I am finishing that project. Includes all Newberys- even those not on my shelves- as this is a project I began several years ago. I began this project, in earnest, in 2015. I am anxious to be done. I believe I may finish them all in 2024, now that I gave myself such a boost in December and January. Many of these titles were in my virtual catalogue - in anticipation of reading and ready to be dated after reading. Virtual catalogue, means that I have entered them here on LibraryThing, even though, I had not, yet, read them.

5. counting books I began earlier. I have numerous relatives moving in and out and I find books that I started in one room, that I vacated for guests, and come across later.

6. counting re-reads - should they occur

So, I'm not just reading willy-nilly. There is plan and procedure.

23EGBERTINA
Edited: Jun 21, 7:00 pm

JANUARY CONTINUED:

NEWBERY HONOR:
A Corner of The Universe
The Book of Boy
What Hearts
Paperboy
Fighting Words
The Moves Make The Man
The Night Diary
We Dream of Space
One Came Home
Scary Stories For Young Foxes
10

Freedom Over Me
Dark Emperor And Other Poems of the Night
Carver - A Life in Poems
American Plague
The Tombs of Atuan
The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - B/S
Genesis Begins Again
The Dark-Thirty
Surrender Tree
Three Times Lucky
20

Catherine Called Birdy
On My Honor
Savvy
The Planet of Junior Brown
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The House of the Scorpion
Upon The Head Of The Goat - A Childhood In Hungary, 1939-1944
Sweet Whispers Brother Rush
To Be a Slave (1969 Honor)
Winterbound
30

The Winter Room
The King's Fifth
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Figgs & Phantoms
A Wish in the Dark
Middle Moffat
The Wanderer
The Avion My Uncle Flew
The Road Home
Eleanor Roosevelt - A Life of Discovery
40

OTHER:
The Secret Garden - READ FOR JULIA
Becoming Muhammad Ali - ADJ
Enola Holmes And The Black Barouche
Enola Holmes And The Elegant Escapade
Enola Holmes And The Boy In Buttons
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose
The Case of the Gypsy Goodbye - RE-READ
Child Of The Owl - ADJ
When Women Were Dragons - ADJ
A Tale of The Western Plains
50

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket
The Sea of Trolls - ADJ
Gingersnap - ADJ
Captains Courageous - ROSALITA/JULIA
The Land of The Silver Apples - ADJ
Tom's Midnight Garden
Ben And Me - ADJ - RE-READ
The Original Bambi - The Story of a Life in the Forest - Re-read new translation
Forestborn
The Magic Cave
60

The Magic Coin
Far To Go
Owl Service
Walden
The Light In The Forest
5

PICTURE BOOKS:
Redwoods
The Universe In You - A Microscopic Journey
Water Is Water - A Book About The Water Cycle
Chinese New Year, Jango
Gravity
Your place In The Universe
Nine Months - Before a Baby Is Born
Tumble
Once Upon A Twice
The Napping House
70

Who's That Knocking On Christmas Eve?
The Turnip
The Tale Of The Tiger Slippers
Why The Sea Is Salt?
Carnivores
Why The Sea Is Salt? - Mary Howitt
Why The Sea Is Salt? - Andrew Lang
Coral Reefs
8

24EGBERTINA
Edited: Jan 30, 3:29 pm

86 Roots -(unless I add something in 24 hours)
40 Newbery Honor
84 in my Book List
4 (Four Essays/ Reviews

Ended up buying books for the first time in years. Didn't want to. Was given a B & N gift card for my birthday. Found some Newbery Honors.

25EGBERTINA
Edited: Mar 1, 8:54 am

FEBRUARY:

NEWBERY/HONOR:
Scorpions
Crazy Lady!
Wringer
Getting Near to Baby
The Wright Brothers - How They Invented The Airplane
In The Beginning - Creation Stories From Around The World
Perilous Gard
Afternoon of The Elves
After Tupac And D Foster
What Jamie Saw
10

Yolonda's Genius
The Ear The Eye The Arm
Gandhi Fighter Without a Sword
Mountain Born
Bright Island
Solitary Blue
Homesick - My Own Story
Ring of Endless Light
A Girl Named Disaster
Shabanu - Daughter of the Wind
20

Dragonwings
CARNEGIE:
The Little Book Room
ADJACENT:
Summer of My German Soldier
A Long Road on a Short Day
One Smart Sheep
Will You Sign Here John Hancock?
Why Don't You Get a Horse - Sam Adams?
Who's That Stepping On Plymouth Rock?
And then what happened, Paul Revere?
Alexander Hamilton - The Outsider
30

PROJECT NEWBERY:
The Rest and Be Thankful - An Infamous Road Through 'A Mountain In Torment'
An Odd Kind Of Piety - The Truth About Gandhi’s Sex Life
Gandhi Is Deeply Revered - But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny
WW2 Metal Factories Were 'Hell On Earth' Where Women Were Scalped And Men Decapitated
How This ‘Vintage’ Baking Soda Grew Popular on the Oregon Trail
The Original Bambi Isn't Kid's Stuff — And It Carries Significant Lessons For Today
Book Review - The King's fifth
Books Gave Me the World

OTHER:
The World Was Never the Same - Events that Changed History
The Great Debate
Beyond The Betrayal
1177 BC
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Hidden Figures
Burning The Books
Before 1776
In Europe's Shadow
The Wright Brothers
40

Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an
Snow Child
42

YOUTH:
Bullfinch's - Age of Fables
National Parks of The USA
The Wishing Tree
Letters For Father Christmas
Ballet Shoes
47

PICTURE BOOKS:
Mouse Tales
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
Almost Time
50

26EGBERTINA
Edited: Feb 24, 2:08 am



27handshakes
Feb 14, 12:19 am

HOW?! Teach me your ways!

28EGBERTINA
Feb 14, 9:49 am

>27 handshakes: chuckles. some of them are picture books. I try for one book a day. Over the weekends, I try for more. I am slowing down. I knew I couldn't keep the pace Forever. I just really was motivated to finish as many Newbery Honor Books, as possible. I want to finish the Last of them, so that I can tackle so many other books.

29handshakes
Feb 14, 2:10 pm

Ohhh are most of them children's books?

30EGBERTINA
Edited: Feb 14, 9:55 pm

>29 handshakes:
there is more than that - but, yes, sometimes i can knock out a handful of picture books; 2-3 young adults, in between something more rigorous. Realistically, I could read a Dickens every day; or a NF sociology every day, but I like to mix it up. Not sure how much History, I've done yet this year, but I feel as though, I did a reasonable amount, last year. Not sure the NF books are always much thicker than the YA. Reading Hume or Nietzsche might slow me down, these days, but your basic NF doesn't drag along. There are some days my brain slogs and I end up reading the book twice, but it has not been too bad the past few months. Highly unlikely, I will attempt anything, tonight after a 12 hour shift.

31handshakes
Feb 15, 1:31 am

How many hours a day do you read?

32EGBERTINA
Feb 15, 7:44 am

It varies. 8 to 12. But I can sneak in a chapter here and there sometimes at work. If I drive a client around town, I can sneak in a chapter or two when the client is in a store.

33Cecilturtle
Feb 15, 8:39 am

>32 EGBERTINA: Holy smokes! Way to set the bar! That's definitely goalz :D

34handshakes
Feb 15, 9:05 am

Dang. How many hours a week do you work?

35EGBERTINA
Feb 15, 4:50 pm

between 30 - 40; some days, such as yesterday, I fill in for someone else; that is harder . i try to find the balance between helpful and killing myself for ingrate employers that couldn't care less about you as a human as long as somebody shows up.

36handshakes
Feb 15, 10:52 pm

>35 EGBERTINA: Yes, don't do that! To them you're just a body.

37LisaMorr
Feb 16, 4:08 pm

This is the most amazing amount of reading I have ever seen! Well done you!

38EGBERTINA
Feb 16, 4:16 pm

>37 LisaMorr: Thank you. not certain if it is more or less than last winter. I usually tucker out, soon.

40EGBERTINA
Edited: Mar 1, 9:05 am



FEB- stopped at 149

41EGBERTINA
Edited: Apr 1, 4:36 pm

PROJECT NEWBERY:
Mrs Field Mouse's Dinner Party
The Misunderstood Asthma of Theodore Roosevelt - Abstract
Scum Of The Earth
What Is The CAWPILE Review System?
All Through The Night
The Sands of Dee
Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid - (Sir She Said)
Dabbling In The Dew
The Fairies
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
10

How Ramona Quimby Taught a Generation of Girls to Embrace Brashness
Book Review - Donner Pass and Those Who Crossed It George R. Stewart 1960 96 pages
The Reiver's Wedding
Oranges and Lemons
Marching Through Georgia
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
Auld Lang Syne
Press On
I'm Nobody Who Are You?
Outwitted
20

Who Has Seen The Wind
Trees
Destruction of Sennacharib
The Village Blacksmith
A Red Red Rose
Song - To Celia (Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes)
The Wreck Of The Hesperus
See It Through
The Tyger
The Highwayman
30

The Lady of Shalott
Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee
Hope Is A Thing With Feathers
Jabberwocky
Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee)
Ozymandias
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Road Not Taken
Still I Rise
40

Auld Man's Mare's Dead
Auld Robin Gray
The Broom Of Cowdenknowes (Bonny May)
Flowers Of The Forest
Farewell to the Banks of Ayr
The Holy Fair
Cumnor Hall
Robin Hood And Guy of Gisborne
Sir Andrew Barton
HardyKnut
50

An Address To The Inhabitants Of Boston (Particularly The Thoughtless Youth) Occasioned By The Execution of Levi Ames
Edward, Edward (Ballad)
The Gaberlunzie Man (Jolly Beggar)
Fair Rosamond
A Yankee Ship (Blow Boys Blow)
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
The Wellerman
The Building Of The Ship
Blood On The Risers (Gory Gory What A Helluva Way To Die)
60

What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?
Hoist The Colours
Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare Ye Well)
Leave Her Johnnie Leave Her
As Pants The Hart For Cooling Streams
The Blue And The Gray
Jog On, Jog On The Footpath Way (Autolycus' Song)
Cushy Cow Bonny
Two Birds
Cold And Raw The North Winds Blow (Winter Song)
70

The Mail Coach
Nose, Nose, Jolly Red Nose
The Farmington Canal Song
As The Dew Flies Over The Mulberry Tree (Jennifer Gentle)
Milkman Milkman Where Have You Been
Colonial Cooking

43EGBERTINA
Edited: Apr 2, 12:16 pm



MAR - 243

46EGBERTINA
May 1, 8:26 pm

MAY:



april 309

47Ann_R
May 11, 10:33 pm

This message has been deleted by its author.

48EGBERTINA
May 12, 12:24 am

>47 Ann_R: Thanks.

51EGBERTINA
Edited: Jun 30, 5:28 pm



may - 358
june +37
minus 3 for julia

53atozgrl
Jun 10, 5:41 pm

A belated hello, as I have finally found your thread. I'm not sure why I didn't find it earlier, but I've finally gotten around to a visit.

I'm amazed at how many books you have read this year, children's books notwithstanding. Congratulations on your progress! You'll cover for any of us who fall short of our ROOTing goals.

One of these days I hope to tackle reading the Newbery winners as well. But the various challenges I have found here on LT are keeping me from starting lists like that so far. Maybe I'll get to it one of these days.

54EGBERTINA
Jun 10, 6:00 pm

>53 atozgrl: Hello and Thank you.

I dont pop up in the circulation often. Instead of a new thread every book; I just edit them all month and start a new one, monthly.

As far as book, books- my count is between 250-300. Once I hit my goal, I track my research articles, too. Also, I have been tracking titles mentioned in the Newbery's; poems, songs, whatnot. It sort of surrounds me with the backdrop of the time/setting of the story.

I, too, have many reading projects waiting after I finish the Newberys.

I, just now deciphered your moniker. boy am I slow. Ive been saying it like one word - atoz - and wondering what it meant; sometimes I would see the "oz" part and wonder if had something to do with oz. Finally saw that it is three parts. duhhh. four when you count grl. so many clever play-on-words.

stop by anytime.

55atozgrl
Jun 10, 6:53 pm

>54 EGBERTINA: Well, my moniker actually comes from an episode of the original Star Trek, where there was a librarian named Mr. Atoz. And obviously, they had a play on words with A-to-Z for the character's name, though I didn't notice that when I saw the episode as a kid. Since he was a librarian, I borrowed the name for my moniker here.

Since Baum apparently got the idea for Oz from a file that was labelled O-Z, the play on words (letters) just continues. And I don't mind having Oz as part of my moniker either, since The Wizard of Oz was my first favorite book, and film.

57EGBERTINA
Jun 29, 6:00 pm

59EGBERTINA
Edited: Jul 31, 7:27 pm

STATS FOR JULY:

BOOK LIST: - 282 (books - no articles)
NEWBERY/HONOR: - 7
JULY: - 64+ have a few unentered, yet
PROJECT NEWBERY/ESSAYS: - 23+
NON-FICTION: - 10
ROOTS: -35
NON-ROOTS: - 3

60EGBERTINA
Edited: Aug 28, 10:54 am

REMOVED

61EGBERTINA
Edited: Aug 27, 6:41 pm

NEWBERY/HONOR:
Abraham Lincoln - Friend Of The People
Journey Outside
Chucaro
The Great Wheel
Better known as Johnny Appleseed
Americans Before Columbus
Mr Justice Holmes

PROJECT NEWBERY:
Elle Melle Deg Fortelle (variations)
Sønner av norge
Astri Mi Astri
Forgive Me
Come Out Ye Continentalers
Butter Coffee - The Facts, The Myths, And An Easy Recipe
Old Ironsides

NON-FICTION:
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Christmas Among The Lumberjacks
Dilworth's Spelling-book Improved - A New Guide To The English Tongue
The rudiments of English grammar, adapted to the use of schools; with notes and observations, for the use of those who have made some proficiency in the language
The young ladies' English grammar; adapted to the differential classes of learners. With an appendix
The English Grammar of William Cobbett - Carefully Revised And Annotated by Alfred Ayres
sylvan comprehension
The Path Out of Loneliness
We Don't Talk Anymore
Rajneeshpuram - Inside
10
Captive - A Mother's
When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple
Don't Call It A Cult
Going Clear - Scientology Hollywood And The Prison Of Belief
Coercive Control - How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

JUVENILE:
Year of the Pilgrims, 1620
The year of the flying machine - 1903
When The New Year Came In March
Children of the Great Depression
The Lost Library
Escape To Witch Mountain
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

OTHER:
Vineyard Prey
Behind The Shattered Glass
A Curious Beginning
A Perilous Undertaking
A Treacherous Curse
An Impossible Impostor
The Goodbye Man
The Final Twist
Some Danger Involved
A Dangerous Collaboration
A Grave Robbery
A Red Herring Without Mustard

NON-ROOT:
The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story

62connie53
Aug 18, 4:15 am

Hi Egbertina. You have been reading so many books. Applause to you.

63EGBERTINA
Aug 18, 5:42 am

>62 connie53: Thank you. You, too, have been busy. Plus, you get to read in more than one language.

64connie53
Aug 18, 8:54 am

I sometimes hardly know in which language I'm reading a book.

65Cecilturtle
Aug 18, 4:03 pm

>64 connie53: it's the true mark of bi- or multilingualism ;-)

66EGBERTINA
Edited: Sep 28, 2:47 pm

STATS FOR AUG:

BOOK LIST: - 325 (books - no articles)
NEWBERY/HONOR: - 7
AUG: - 49
PROJECT NEWBERY/ESSAYS: - 7
NON-FICTION: - 15
ROOTS: - 48
JUVENILE: - 7
MYSTERIES: - 12
NON-ROOTS: - 1

67EGBERTINA
Edited: Sep 28, 2:47 pm

GETTING READY FOR SEPTEMBER:

1963:
Men of Athens - NOPE
1967:
Jazzman - NOPE
1969:
Schlemiel - NOPE
1970:
The Many Ways of Seeing - NOPE
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68EGBERTINA
Edited: Oct 1, 6:04 pm

SEP:

NEWBERY/HONOR:
Enchantress of The Stars
After The Rain
Hurry Home Candy
Magic Maize
The Golden Name Day
Men Microscopes And Living Things
Banner In The Sky
Commodore Perry
The Secret River
The Gammage Cup
10
The House Of Sixty Fathers
The Witches Of Worm
Dragonwings
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
The Eyes and the Impossible
The Thief
Anpao - An American Indian Odyssey
Animal Family
Incident At Hawk's Hill
Thistle And Thyme
20
Paine: Freedom's Apostle
21

PROJECT NEWBERRY:
I am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General
I'm Called Little Buttercup
The Boy Who Lived In A Badgerhole
Tryggare kan ingen vara
Ack Värmeland, du sköna
Skona Maj Valkommen
Happy Birthday
Tenting On The Old Camp Ground
The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Spring, The Sweet Spring
10
Under The Greenwood Tree
The Year’s At The Spring
33

JUVENILE:
Naomi's tree
The Boston Tea Party
Confucius : The Golden Rule
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Marco Polo
Declaration Of Independence Freedman
Big
The Truth About Dragons
In Every Life
A Savage Thunder
40
Blizzard
44

MYSTERY:
The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie
A Murderous Relation
The Face Of A Stranger
Dangerous Mourning
48

NON-FICTION:
Kirkham's Grammar
Educated - A Memoir
Goodbye Sweet Girl - A Story Of Domestic Violence And Survival
God's Secretaries - The Making of the King James Bible
The Frontiersmen
The Rational Method In Reading - Fifth Reader
Saints And Rebels
Gage And Co's Educational Series - Book V - Canadian Readers
56

OTHER:
To The Lighthouse
Before We Were Yours
58

NON-ROOT:
Paper Wishes - audiobook
Nonsense! The Curious Story of Edward Gorey
Blizzard Of Glass
3

69EGBERTINA
Sep 9, 3:25 pm

DNF:

CHOCOLATE WAR

I'm not going to count this. Didn't even get through the first chapter. I was looking forward to this dystopia leaning work. I assumed that it was banned for violence. Maybe not. After the first graphically male allusion, I decided I wasn't going to wait for more. I thought it was a book for teens - not teen males. I really dont need to know the inner-workings of that kind kind of teen angst. ugh. I wouldn't ban it; I just would ignore it.

70EGBERTINA
Sep 23, 11:24 pm

DNF:

The Children's Blizzard

I must be getting sensitive in my old age. I really wanted to know more about this story, but my stomach was turning over the insipid behaviour of the first daughter. (forgotten name). I usually can handle a smidgen of G/PG romance, but this girl seemed so subordinated to the interests of boy ( her own age) that was one of her students. I just wanted blizzard - not his eyes were so soft and understanding. YUK. understanding eyes- from a boy- you hardly know; cause that is how meaningful relationships are formed. It was really making me cringe. I probably wouldn't have cared if it had been presented, differently, but so closed to the intro, and all her thoughts about his ghastly understanding eyes. Insipid comes to mind. Its one thing to have a crush and quite another to have no sense of your own self as a human whose main function does not revolve around someone else.

71connie53
Sep 24, 8:05 am

Hi Eg! It's really funny to call you Eg because my nickname on my Dutch bookclub is Egwene and they call me Eg too sometimes.

On the books. >68 EGBERTINA: impressive list! I'm in awe.

72EGBERTINA
Edited: Sep 26, 11:44 am

>71 connie53: Thank you for stopping by. I like Eg, too.

I am wondering how my lists will change, now. I have completed my goal of all the Newbery books, medal and Honor. (except for four that cannot be found) Still trying to catch-up on my writings.

73EGBERTINA
Sep 28, 2:46 pm

74EGBERTINA
Edited: Sep 28, 3:22 pm

STATS FOR SEP:

BOOK LIST: - 370 (books - no articles)
NEWBERY/HONOR: - 21
SEP: - 62
PROJECT NEWBERY/ESSAYS: - 12
NEWBERY ADJACENT - 10
NON-FICTION: - 8
ROOTS: - 58
JUVENILE: - 15
MYSTERIES: - 4
OTHER: - 3
NON-ROOTS: - 3
DNF - 2

76EGBERTINA
Edited: Nov 28, 12:46 pm

STATS FOR OCT:

BOOK LIST: - 392 (books - no articles)
NEWBERY/HONOR: - 3 - Project Complete as Far As Able
OCT: - 24
PROJECT NEWBERY/ESSAYS: - 2
NEWBERY ADJACENT - 1
NON-FICTION: - 5
ROOTS: - 23
JUVENILE: - 6
MYSTERIES: - 3
OTHER: - 4
NON-ROOTS: - 0
DNF - 0

Reading slowing down, partly health issue; mostly because I finished Newbery Project and havent found a new project. Have been writing, some.

78Cecilturtle
Nov 6, 10:30 am

>77 EGBERTINA: Mansfield is one of my all-time favourites! I hope you enjoyed her short stories as much as I did.

79EGBERTINA
Nov 6, 11:52 am

>78 Cecilturtle: I'm still deciding. I'm just not a short story person. Also, I've found out that I dont get the same attachment to literature , now that I am an older person. So many books, I should have read as a much younger person. I try to be aware that some of my responses may not have been "mine" at all; but a response of a much altered brain.

80EGBERTINA
Edited: Nov 28, 12:57 pm

STATS FOR NOV:

BOOK LIST: - 408 (books - no articles)
NEWBERY/HONOR: Project Complete as Far As Able
NOV: - 18
PROJECT NEWBERY/ESSAYS: - 3
NEWBERY ADJACENT - 0
NON-FICTION: - 5
ROOTS: - 21
SHORT STORIES: - 3
JUVENILE: - 5
MYSTERIES: - 1
KING ARTHUR: - 3
NON-ROOTS: -
DNF -

Actually, have read numerous health-based articles; doubtful that I will catalogue them. Sometimes, I catalogue particular ones, but unlikely to track these. So, it seems that I have traded books for other reading. I have picked out two small roots for December.