JANUARY ROOT - PROGRESS THREAD

This year our theme is GARDENS and this month we will look atAnnual Gardens



Annual gardens are those plants that die in the winter season so you must replant them every year. Each year in an annual garden you could plant the same flowers or change them year to year for variety.

An annual plant completes its lifecycle within one year, which means it does not return the next year. True annuals include flowers like zinnias, cosmos, petunias, geraniums, begonias, impatiens, larkspur, and most marigolds and sunflowers.

Keep in mind that annuals can be less expensive in the short term, but pricier in the long run, from the cost of replanting each year.

Which is your favorite annual?

Here are the members and their goals so far.
Remember if your name doesn't appear, check to make sure you are a member.

Ameise1 0 / 10
atozgrl 0 / 25
benitastarnd 0 / 72
Bookbrained 0 / 70
brakketh 0 / 34
bumblesby 0 / 20
ca_dmv 0 / 12
Caramellunacy 0 / 24
Cecilturtle 0 / 50
clue 0 / 40
Coach_of_Alva 0 / 25
connie53 0 / 36
crazy4reading 0 / 30
curioussquared 0 / 65
CurrerBell 0 / 50
cyderry 0 / 72
deep220 0 / 50
detailmuse 0 / 40
DisassemblyOfReason 0 / 100
EGBERTINA 0 / 25
ell-in-or 0 / 10
enemyanniemae 0 / 50
Familyhistorian 0 / 65
floremolla 0 / 40
fuzzi 0 / 50
HelenBaker 0 / 48
Henrik_Madsen 0 / 50
humouress 0 / 25
Jackie_K 0 / 40
kac522 0 / 75
karenmarie 0 / 10
karns5306 0 / 75
KWharton 0 / 12
LadyBookworth 0 / 30
lindapanzo 0 / 84
madhatter22 0 / 50
majkia 0 / 65
martencat 0 / 18
MissWatson 0 / 75
QuestingA 0 / 50
rabbitprincess 0 / 40
Rebeki 0 / 30
ritacate 0 / 24
Robertgreaves 0 / 72
rocketjk 0 / 30
rosalita memorial 0 / 50
sallylou61 0 / 24
si 0 0 25
torontoc 0 0 30
wandaly 0 0 24
wood0360 0 0 25

So far, this month our goal is 179.

I think that we are all sadden at the news of Julia's (rosalita) death.

In tribute to her there is a separate thread
https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/24198/2024-ROOT-Challenge
where we can read a book from her TBRs for her.

Here is the ticker to see our progress.
Please let us know if you read a book for her. Don't count it toward your goal, put it toward hers.

Sadly, I know very little about gardening. I love to look at them, but I only have a few potted plants on my balcony and usually manage to kill them within a few months. The only exception is a larkspur my sister gave me when I moved into this apartment. It bravely blooms every year.

>3 cyderry: This is a lovely tribute!

I love gardens and gardening. I usually do annuals in pots on my front steps and perennials elsewhere in the yard. I do red and white geraniums and blue lobelia in the pots and by July 4th, I have a nice red/white/blue floral theme for the front steps.

The memorial read is so nice!

Thank you for setting up Julia's new Tribute Thread. I've dug up a couple titles last night.

I don't know much about flowers but I do love Pansies and Impatiens which seem to do quite well on my little balcony.

Have you already added all our ROOTs in this initial count, Chèli? I wouldn't want to double-count my 4.

I've just finished another ROOT, and my total so far for January is 6 ROOTs. I doubt I'll be able to keep this pace up, but it will be good to bank a few extra early on for those months when it's a bit slower!

I've only added the 6 to my own ticker; as per usual I'm leaving the group ticker well alone!

Finished my ROOT # 1 for the year, # 1 for Januari

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Own tickers updated

>6 Cecilturtle: Early on, I try to update weekly to the ticker simply because I can add them up in my head but once the number start to get in the higher range, it takes more time so I just do it once a month. But don't worry about double counting.

I have also logged in my 6th ROOT for this month to my ticker.

First ROOT of the year and the review is on my thread. No tickers updated.

>2 cyderry:. I've read 1 ROOT which I think I reported January 12th (updating ticker, etc.)

>9 cyderry: Thanks!

I'm finished with ROOT 5 for January. My ticker is updated.

I read
ROOTs 2 and 3 for January- no tickers updated and the review are on my thread.

Finished ROOT # 2 for the year, # 2 for January

De storm van de echo's by Christelle Dabos

Own tickers updated

I've finished ROOT #7 for January and added it to my own ticker only.

I just found this thread today. Star dropped.

I finished my first ROOT, The little bookstore of big Stone Gap : a memoir of friendship, community, and the uncommon pleasure of a good book, back at the beginning of the month and reported it on my thread Jan. 6. My ticker updated. Unfortunately, due to reading books for my book clubs which are not on my own shelves, my progress on ROOTs has been slowed. I was afraid of that. This might turn out to be a slow ROOT year.

I love annuals. My favorites are pansies, petunias, and impatiens. I love the picture of the impatiens at the top! The bright colors are so cheery.

I have finished 10 ROOTs this month, but now I picked up a serious, fat non-fiction book that will occupy me for days, so I think I won't add any more in January.

I'm up to 10 ROOTs so far this month, mostly thanks to papers I'm reading for school. But the 10th ROOT was an actual book: Mystery Man, by Colin Bateman.

>18 MissWatson: Well, I shouldn't have said that. Adding ROOT #11, a re-read before removing it from the shelves.

I'm up to 8 ROOTs. I doubt that I'll have a chance to finish another by Thursday.
My own ticker is up to date.

>1 cyderry: marigolds. Especially the "petite" marigolds that bloom in shades of deep red and orange.

I'm up to 5 ROOTs this month.


Nic of the Woods by Lynd Ward


The Wildlife Atlas by Sylvia A. Johnson


Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan


The River Between Us by Richard Peck


Indian Saddle-up by Glenn Balch

In February I plan to read for rosalita.

I've added my 8th ROOT to my own ticker only. That will be my last for January.

4 for me this month.

5 ROOTs for me this month and I'm trying to get a handle on my library holds lists so I can fit more of my own books in. Not sure how well that is going. But on a positive note, I donated more books to the Little Free Library than I acquired this month.

Zero for me in January - not exactly off to a great start. (I had some library books lined up, but still... At least I'm reading a ROOT now!)

On to February, and hopefully, more ROOTs completed!

ROOT # 3 for the year, # 1 for February

Trots en vooroordeel by Jane Austen

Own ticker updated.

I had 6 ROOT's for January 2024. One of them is a book I have been reading for 2 years! It was a nonfiction month with most of my reading done in that genre. No tickers updated.

Here is the detailed report.
Fiction - Last Act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Recorded Book - Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (this one was 32 hours long!)
Nonfiction - Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life by Andrew Krivak
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of An American Imagination by Brian Jay
Jones
Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman (I have been slowly reading through this book for two years! It was worth reading so I don't regret spending the time on it.)

Finished up January with 16 ROOTs for the month. I highly doubt I will be able to keep up this pace for the rest of the year but it's nice to start on a high note!

February thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/358050#

Here is my somewhat belated report for January 2024:

UpROOTED books: 4
ROOTless books: 4
Added to the treebook TBR shelves: 0

The ROOTs were:

The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner by John Tanner (DNF)
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
Roy: The Most Chaotic Midlife Crisis in Cosmic History by Zachry Wheeler
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

ROOTs in YTD: 4

(Group tickers not touched)

Four ROOTs for January:

7 ... Various, Poems of Hate 1*
16 ... (reread) Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas 4****
26 ... T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems (Norton Critical 2d ed) 4****
30 ... Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat 3½***

A little behind on my goal of 50 (and Poems of Hate was sort of a cheat, considering its paltry length), but my reread of Eliot's early poems in the Norton Critical Edition (a first-read for this NCE) was a heavy read on the supplemental materials; and I also failed to finish my reread of Russell Kirk's Eliot and His Age – which I haven't read in half-a-century and which is still probably the best general intro to Eliot, who was an older friend and a mentor to Kirk. Hoping to get the Kirk book finished in the next week or so.

The Pagels book was a reread (last read when it was published some two decades ago), and having finished it I gave it away to a church reading group where we're going to be doing Thomas next month. Considering how long it's been since I read some of my older books, I include all my rereads among my ROOTs.

Just updating: I read 2 ROOTs in January. I've updated my own ticker but not the group one.

ETA: actually, it was 3 in January.

I had one ROOT for January: Possession.

>36 LisaMorr:
That is a good book! After I read it I wondered why I hadn't read it sooner.

>37 benitastrnad: Isn't that often the case for our ROOTs? lol It was a good literary mystery and a good love story all rolled up into one.

>1 cyderry:. I have finally found the new monthly thread for the year and starred it. I love the theme Cheli. It is summer here and I currently have Zinnias, marigolds and Victorian blue salvia in a raised garden bed off my deck.
>27 Henrik_Madsen:. I, too, got off to a slow start as I had 3 library books to read and 2 of those were 600 and 700 pages. I finally managed a couple of my own by months end.