MARCH ROOT - Progress Thread

In honor of St. Patrick's day our garden this month is a BOG GARDEN






A bog garden is a type of garden that employs permanently moist soil to create a habitat for plants and creatures which thrive in such conditions. It may exploit existing poor drainage in the garden, or it may be artificially created using pond liners or other materials to trap water in the area.

Here are the members and their goals so far.
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Ameise1 1 / 10 10.0%
atozgrl 4 / 25 16.0%
awwarma 2 / 10 ★ 20.0%
benitastarnd 14 / 72 ★ 23.6%
Bookbrained 7 / 70 10.0%
brakketh 4 / 34 11.8%
bumblesby 4 / 20 ★ 20.0%
ca_dmv 1 / 12 8.3%
Caramellunacy 6 / 24 ★★ 25.0%
Cecilturtle 13 / 50 ★★ 26.0%
clue 8 / 40 ★ 20.0%
Coach_of_Alva 12 / 25 ★★★★ 48.0%
connie53 7 / 36 ★ 19.4%
crazy4reading 3 / 30 10.0%
curioussquared 25 / 65 ★★★ 38.5%
CurrerBell 6 / 50 12.0%
cyderry 21 / 72 ★★ 29.2%
deep220 4 / 50 8.0%
detailmuse 14 / 40 ★★★ 35.0%
DisassemblyOfReason 6 / 100 6.0%
EGBERTINA★ 149 / 25 596.0%
ell-in-or 6 / 10 ★★★★★ 60.0%
emmanuelfakunle 0 / 7 0.0%
enemyanniemae 8 / 50 16.0%
Familyhistorian 7 / 65 10.8%
floremolla 0 / 40 0.0%
fuzzi★ 58 / 50 116.0%
handshakes 2 / 32 6.3%
HelenBaker 5 / 48 10.4%
Henrik_Madsen 4 / 50 8.0%
humouress 3 / 25 12.0%
Jackie_K 13 / 40 ★★ 32.5%
JaxlynLeigh 0 / 25 0.0%
jhbaker 0 / 12 0.0%
kac522 17 / 75 ★ 22.7%
karenmarie 1 / 10 10.0%
karns5306 1 / 75 1.3%
KWharton 2 / 12 ★ 16.7%
LadyBookworth 0 / 30 0.0%
lindapanzo 22 / 84 ★★ 26.2%
LisaMorr 8 / 40 ★ 20.0%
madhatter22 7 / 50 14.0%
majkia 18 / 65 ★★ 27.7%
martencat 0 / 18 0.0%
MissSos 2 / 25 8.0%
MissWatson 20 / 75 ★★ 26.7%
murphyse 1 / 10 10.0%
nebula21 1 / 12 8.3%
nenasfilla 6 / 64 9.4%
QuestingA 10 / 50 ★ 20.0%
rabbitprincess 18 / 40 ★★★★ 45.0%
readingtangent 9 / 55 16.4%
Rebeki 7 / 30 ★ 23.3%
ritacate 10 / 24 ★★★★ 41.7%
Robertgreaves 14 / 72 ★ 19.4%
rocketjk 3 / 30 10.0%
rosalita memorial 25 / 50 ★★★★★ 50.0%
sallylou61 5 / 24 20.8%
si 3 / 25 12.0%
starkittyn 0 / 25 0.0%
torontoc 4 / 30 13.3%
twogreys 6 / 24 ★★ 25.0%
wandaly 3 / 24 12.5%
wood0360 0 / 25 0.0%



We actually have some fast starters - fuzzi and EGBERTINA - have already reached their goals!

March's goal is 622

Already mentioned in the February thread:

Finished another ROOT # 1 for March, # 8 for the year.

Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune

Own ticker updated.

I have finished my first ROOT of March today and enjoyed it very much: Die rätselhaften Honjin-Morde.

My stats are wrong- I have already read 4 books!

First ROOT for March, #9 for the year - Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist, a ROOT since 2019. Updated my own ticker.

I love the bog gardens!

edited to fix touchstones.

>1 cyderry: I thought about creating a bog garden for my little ponds but settled for growing irises and rushes in baskets by the edges.

Beautiful photos.

My first ROOT for March is Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer. It is book translated from the German. Historical fiction about WWI.

I've finished I Am Your Judge and have updated my personal ticker.

What a beautiful garden! I'm lucky to live right next to a bog: there's a delightful boardwalk through it. I went there this morning: the ice is melting, the spring birds are coming back and the earth smells rich and ready to sprout!

I finished my first March ROOT from 2023: The Bourne Treachery by Brian Freeman.
Only my ticker is updated.

Second ROOT for March completed, short book trivia book, The Book Lovers' Miscellany, #10 for the year. My ticker updated.

>1 cyderry: Ooh, that's so green!

I'm glad I don't live anywhere near a bog - in the tropics that's just asking for mosquitoes.

Reporting my first ROOT for March, Paragon Lost, which takes my total to 4. My ticker updated, but not the main one.

I finally finished another ROOT - Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson. Don't bother taking the time to read this one. It isn't worth it.

Your March theme made me smile, as I am 40% Irish ancestry. Those are beautiful gardens, lush comes to mind.

Finally a root for March, Independence Day by Richard Ford, 7/48. Off to the shelves to choose a shorter book, perhaps by an Irish author in keeping with this month's theme.

I've finished my second March ROOT, for a total of 5 ROOTs. My ticker updated but not the main one.

A warning for us all!

>17 cyderry: :0)

>17 cyderry: So true!

I've added my first two ROOTs for March (#14 and #15 for the year to date) to my own ticker only.

Finished another ROOT # 2 for March, # 9 for the year.

Het geheime boek van Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

Own ticker updated.

ROOT #5 for the year and first for March. The review is on my thread and no tickers updated.

ROOT'd Silver Pigs as a DNF, but it's headed out the door so it counts.

And 2 more roots for March, Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan andThe Dressmaker & the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold.

Finished ROOT # 3 for March # 10 for the year

The Holly King by Mark Stay

Own ticker updated.

I have finished 9 ROOTs this month, that's 29/75. I'll be off to Paris tomorrow and offline until April, so I wish you Happy ROOTing until then!

Finally finished a densely-written, 850 page behemoth - Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy. Glad that one's finally off my "I should finish reading this someday . . ." list!

>27 MissSos:
Very interesting book? I am going to be reading Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell when I get back home (the second of her books about Doc Holladay). According to Russell, Doc Holladay's paramour was an Esterhazy. Her father was court physician to Emperor Maximillian of Mexico and came to North America with Maximillian and his army.

I've added a third ROOT for March (#16 for the year to date) to my own ticker.

My third ROOT for March is The Women by Kristin Hannah

I finally finished Neanderthal: Neanderthal man and the story of human origins by Paul Jordan, which is my first ROOT for March and may be the only one I finish this month. My personal ticker is updated.

That's #4 for March (#27 for the year) added to my own ticker.

I've finished another ROOT Small Mercies and have updated my personal ticker.

ROOT #6 for the year and the second for March. No tickers were updated but the review is on my thread.

Two more roots completed and one off my Man Booker challenge, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and Border Crossing by Pat Barker, both excellent books and recommended. I am almost back on track at 11/48. Although next up is a library book for me.

Belatedly reporting another ROOT for March (I actually finished it last week). My personal ticker updated (to 6) but not the main ticker. I read Guidal: Discovering Puracordis which I received as a LibraryThing Early Reviewer book.

My third and probably last book for March is Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson.

I finished two more ROOTs for March, one from 2012 and one from 2022. My ticker is updated!

>37 clue:
I read her book on the wedding dress and really enjoyed that one. I do much of my own sewing and so appreciated her combination of historical fiction and sewing.

I finished Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee and really enjoyed this ROOT. I liked it so much that I got the next one in his series of memoirs. Moment of War. I will start that one later this weekend.

Hi all, have just updated only my personal ticker with 5 books.
Happy reading all!

And cyderry love the bog! So green!

I ROOTed 11 books from my shelves and my TBR list. No tickers updated.

It was a very good reading month for me. It helped that I had no TV for a week and so I listened to books while I was knitting. For that reason my recorded books count this month will be really high.

Nonfiction - 4
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
Harney & Sons Guide to Tea by Michael Harney
Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Jerry Ellis

Fiction - 1
Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer

Recorded Books
Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Gone Again by James Grippando
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Here is my report for March 2024:

UpROOTED books: 6
ROOTless books: 8
Added to the treebook TBR shelves: 0

The ROOTs were:

An Immense World by Ed Yong
Act of Mercy by Peter Tremayne
Hemlock At Vespers by Peter Tremayne
The Case of the Undiscovered Corpse by Charlie Cochrane
Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles
First Ladies of Rome by Annelise Freisenbruch

ROOTs in YTD: 20

(Group tickers not touched)

My personal ticker is up to date with 27 ROOTS read this year.

I read 5 ROOTs this month. Not up to my usual pace but better than the previous months this year. I'm now up to 12 out of 65.

I have 6 ROOTs for March, 19 total. The last book, Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon, was a gift from my mom last year. It's a really emotional account of the author's experience as she describes the night she spent in the Anne Frank Museum.
It's part of a Museum series, which seems really interesting, with all sorts of different authors and places.

Third ROOT for March was The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and fourth was Watership Down - both very good - which gets me up to 12 for the year so far.

read 4 for March- total 12 for the year

>45 Jackie_K: I deleted message 45 because I was talking rubbish and accidentally credited myself with 27 ROOTS instead of 17. A bit of wishful thinking there, sadly!

>28 benitastrnad: It was . . . odd. Very experimentally written, although it finally settles into something like a normal narrative in the last 100 pages or so. It was a book of stream-of-consciousness tidbits. Interesting history scattered around, but there's a reason it took me months to slog my way through it! I love Mary Doria Russell's Sparrow series - I'll have to read the Doc Holladay series one day!

The April thread is up.
I got caught up looking at the beautiful gardens.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/359774#n8491682

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