Brakketh keeps gardening in 2024

Back again for another year, missed my target in 2023 so reducing to 34 for 2024. Still enjoying the slow reduction of books on my shelves and feeling like I can buy more future ROOTs.

1. All Systems Red
2. Labyrinths
3. Stone Fruit
4. American Journeys
5. Novel with Cocaine

6. Steppenwolf
7. Vladimir
8. My Brilliant Friend
9. The Story of a New Name
10. Those who leave and those who stay

11. Think Small
12. Ship of Magic
13. Raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard
14. Second Place
15. Nightbitch

16. The Vengeance of Rome
17. Vision 1: Little Worse Than Man
18. Moon Knight
19. We3
20. Global Megatrends

Hi Kale, glad to see you back for another year of ROOTing. Very smart to make some room for future ROOTs.

Hello there, happy new year!

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

Welcome back and happy ROOTing!

Welcome back!

January
1. All Systems Red finished 9th January, a short and fun read. Will be seeking out the rest of the series.
2. Labyrinths finished 9th January, amazing short fiction collection with flavours throughout of magical realism and labyrinths.
3. Stone Fruit finished 16th January, impactful and very real feeling story about love, family and break-ups.

>7 brakketh: I read Labyrinths last year. I must admit I struggled with much of it, I don't think my brain is quite wired right to understand it! The language was gorgeous though, even in translation.

January continued
4. American Journeys finished 26th January, love the way Watson writes and the depth of knowledge he brings to topics to help contextualise.

February
5. Novel with Cocaine finished 5th February. Not really my cup of tea, the disaffected youth wasn't really the energy I wanted.
6. Steppenwolf finished 20 February.

March
7. Vladimir finished 11th March.
8. My Brilliant Friend finished 12th March. This has been sitting on my shelf for ages. I really enjoy the portrayal of the changing nature of the friendships.
9. The Story of a New Name finished 27th March.

April, May, June
10. Those who leave and those who stay finished 4th April.
11. Think Small finished 15th April.
12. Ship of Magic finished 3rd May
13. Raising our little girls to be healthy, happy and heard finished 4th May
14. Second Place finished 23rd May

Hi Kale, just popping in to see how you are doing. I hope you are okay and still reading those ROOTs.

July, August, September
15. Nightbitch finished 17th July.
16. The Vengeance of Rome finished 18th July.
17. Vision 1: Little Worse Than Man finished 19th August.
18. Moon Knight finished 20th August.
19. We3 finished 20th August.
20. Global Megatrends finished 28th September.

>13 connie53: Hey connie53, yes still floating around. I have young twins right now who are wonderful and time consuming.

That's wonderful, Kale and worth giving up some of your reading.