1cyderry
The theme and questions this month are related to DISAPPOINTMENTS.
The last few months have been difficult for me - recovery, moving, timetable adjustments, house issues - but I always thought that things would just be fine and I would go on with life as it had been. This past month taught me that even though I thought that all these issues wouldn't stop me from moving forward as before, I was wrong. July was my worst reading month, I believe ever! Too many things to get done and not enough time to do them.
I was disappointed. So how will I address that disappointment?
When you are disappointed with a person, how do you treat them?
When you are disappointed with an outcome, what do you do?
I will not allow disappointment get me down, what about you?
The last few months have been difficult for me - recovery, moving, timetable adjustments, house issues - but I always thought that things would just be fine and I would go on with life as it had been. This past month taught me that even though I thought that all these issues wouldn't stop me from moving forward as before, I was wrong. July was my worst reading month, I believe ever! Too many things to get done and not enough time to do them.
I was disappointed. So how will I address that disappointment?
When you are disappointed with a person, how do you treat them?
When you are disappointed with an outcome, what do you do?
I will not allow disappointment get me down, what about you?
2cyderry
Here are our July totals. Remember, if you are not a member of the group, or have not set a goal, your name will not appear in the list.
The percentages will be calculated and a star awarded for those on target to reach their goals. More stars for farther toward their goal. If anyone's number is incorrect, please let me know and I will make the necessary adjustments. So go out there and dig those ROOTs.
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Ann_R 12 / 20 ★ 60.0%
atozgrl 12 / 40 30.0%
brakketh 11 / 46 23.9%
benitastarnd 60 / 72 ★★★★ 83.3%
bumblesby 11 / 20 55.0%
ca_dmv 11 / 12 ★★★★★ 91.7%
Caramellunacy★ 28 / 25 112.0%
Carmenere 3 / 25 12.0%
Cecilturtle 25 / 50 50.0%
clue 26 / 40 ★ 65.0%
Coach_of_Alva 24 / 25 ★★★★★ 96.0%
connie53★ 40 / 36 111.1%
crazy4reading 1 / 30 3.3%
curioussquared★ 67 / 60 111.7%
cyderry 44 / 84 52.4%
detailmuse 18 / 40 45.0%
DisassemblyOfReason 86 / 100 ★★★★ 86.0%
EGBERTINA★ 135 / 50 270.0%
enemyanniemae 31 / 65 47.7%
Familyhistorian 47 / 65 ★★ 72.3%
floremolla 6 / 40 15.0%
fuzzi 12 / 100 12.0%
HelenBaker 26 / 48 54.2%
Henrik_Madsen 16 / 50 32.0%
Jackie_K 28 / 52 53.8%
justchris 10 / 50 20.0%
kac522 50 / 75 ★★ 66.7%
karenmarie 2 / 10 20.0%
Kristelh★ 39 / 30 130.0%
KWharton 6 / 12 50.0%
lilisin 37 / 100 37.0%
lindapanzo 56 / 84 ★★ 66.7%
LoraShouse 9 / 15 ★ 60.0%
madhatter22 29 / 50 58.0%
majkia★ 70 / 65 107.7%
Miss_Moneypenny 41 / 75 54.7%
MissWatson 43 / 75 57.3%
Nickelini 20 / 35 57.1%
nikolahall 1 / 50 2.0%
pnppl 34 / 42 ★★★ 81.0%
QuestingA 28 / 50 56.0%
rabbitprincess 32 / 50 ★ 64.0%
readergirliz 10 / 24 41.7%
readingtangent 26 / 50 52.0%
rebeki 16 / 25 ★ 64.0%
Robertgreaves 57 / 72 ★★★ 79.2%
rosalita 29 / 48 ★ 60.4%
sallylou61 25 / 40 ★ 62.5%
si 19 / 30 ★ 63.3%
torontoc 9 / 30 30.0%
vestafan 41 / 60 ★★ 68.3%
wandaly 11 / 24 45.8%
We have achievers who have reached their goals.
EGBERTINA★
Caramellunacy★
Kristelh★
joined by
majkia★
connie53★
curioussquared★
Readers closest to reaching their goals, are:
Coach_of_Alva 96.0%
ca_dmv 91.7%
DisassemblyOfReason 86.0%
benitastarnd 83.3%
The goal for month is 1,644, let's get reading!!
3Cecilturtle
Congratulations to those who have reached their goals! High fives all around to those getting close and those who need a boost - I'm in that third category... like you, Chèli, I haven't been reading as much as I thought I would.
I was disappointed. So how will I address that disappointment?
I used to beat myself up, blame others and generally be unpleasant. I've since learned to breathe, step back, look at the big picture and find a new avenue - it's always a tough moment to go through!
When you are disappointed with a person, how do you treat them?
I try not to project my feelings on a person (anymore!). Understanding how they disappointed me, what impact that had on me helps focus my actions: do I need new boundaries, new rules of engagement, a different approach? Every situation will require a different mindset or solution.
When you are disappointed with an outcome, what do you do?
I think sometimes we forget to grieve when something doesn't work out. I take the time to acknowledge that (sometimes after a big bout of frustration). I've had to deal with career disappointments that took me a long time to get over... at the same time, they got me to where I am now, so it's really not so bad. Perspective is important.
I will not allow disappointment get me down, what about you?
I think you should be really gentle with yourself, Chèli! You've been through a lot and it's important to honour that! Look at all that you've accomplished: it's pretty awesome! I've accomplished all sorts of goals and experienced all sorts of successes that make disappointments seem very unimportant.
I was disappointed. So how will I address that disappointment?
I used to beat myself up, blame others and generally be unpleasant. I've since learned to breathe, step back, look at the big picture and find a new avenue - it's always a tough moment to go through!
When you are disappointed with a person, how do you treat them?
I try not to project my feelings on a person (anymore!). Understanding how they disappointed me, what impact that had on me helps focus my actions: do I need new boundaries, new rules of engagement, a different approach? Every situation will require a different mindset or solution.
When you are disappointed with an outcome, what do you do?
I think sometimes we forget to grieve when something doesn't work out. I take the time to acknowledge that (sometimes after a big bout of frustration). I've had to deal with career disappointments that took me a long time to get over... at the same time, they got me to where I am now, so it's really not so bad. Perspective is important.
I will not allow disappointment get me down, what about you?
I think you should be really gentle with yourself, Chèli! You've been through a lot and it's important to honour that! Look at all that you've accomplished: it's pretty awesome! I've accomplished all sorts of goals and experienced all sorts of successes that make disappointments seem very unimportant.
4EGBERTINA
>1 cyderry:
I think disappointment, like many things in our world, is on a spectrum. There is - “Oh shucks, it is raining!” Then, there is “@#$%^%$#$%^%$#$ Rattsa Frattsa - my checking account bounced!” Then there are much worse events.
Viewing this from the other end of life, I have a different perspective than I would have had as a young person. I was programmed to keep a positive and joyful outlook in all things, and that seemed easy. Not that I didn’t have the normal disappointments of life, I just seemed to be able to take them in stride and plug along. Somewhere in there, this became a societal expectation - “a spoon-full of sugar” philosophy that allegedly solves all problems. Humans feel better suggesting it; they feel better judging those that don’t get in line and subscribe; deep down, society believes that when bad things happen, you are the cause of it, and somehow, intellectually or spiritually, you deserve this bad thing or have brought it upon yourself by not possessing the “proper” attitude. It always remains the responsibility of the individual to shun disappointment and overcome it. Anyone caught in the throes of disappointment is a complainer; is ungrateful; simply refuses to change his attitude. To speak of pain - let alone to acknowledge pain is to be the most willful hedonist, imaginable.
Is there any possibility of acknowledging that circumstances have become overwhelming?
Even when one doesn’t whine or complain, just acknowledging horrendous circumstances is viewed askance. (I’m also reminded that many times when people ere overwhelmed by their own discomfort for your situation- they turn and throw it back on you, as though you have made some personal assault on them and their mental energy)
I hypothesize that when others have not themselves endured unbearable circumstances, they must fear those that have, lest it be contagious. Particularly in the Western world, where disappointments are of a differing variety than in cultures, elsewhere.
One day, ( or was it several decades of experience), I could no longer implement contradicting positive statements to “re-frame” reality. I am okay acknowledging ( to myself) that things are not that which I would prefer them to be; that my parents never mentioned that that such dreadful realities could exist; that society provides no solutions for circumstances that are not permitted to exist.
The messages are everywhere that if we just re-frame the situation- if we mentally exert ourselves to change our disposition, we will “train” our brains to see the positives and diminish the negatives. Other than for the comfort of those that propound such idiocies ( ahem- I mean such wisdom) - whom does it serve to deny our feelings of discomfort? Why must we be a nation obsessed with positivity? Is there merit to acknowledging less than perfection?
I understand the uses of positive thinking upon children, in preparing them to move through the bad without unnecessary drama and depression - but what about our adult lives? What about when truly unfortunate circumstances do arise and you bring no drama to it? Why must individuals be chastised to look away?
I can acknowledge my discomfort and disappointment and move forward, simultaneously. I prefer the honesty of acknowledgement. I agree with CecilTurtle - be gentle with yourself and feel free to take gentleness for yourself, if others do not have the wisdom to offer it. Allow yourself to feel whatever discomfort comes your way, alongside other remedies for moving forward that are needed. “Spoonfulls-of-sugar” don’t always “help the medicine go down; ” sometimes they are not only unpleasant, but downright nauseating.
I think disappointment, like many things in our world, is on a spectrum. There is - “Oh shucks, it is raining!” Then, there is “@#$%^%$#$%^%$#$ Rattsa Frattsa - my checking account bounced!” Then there are much worse events.
Viewing this from the other end of life, I have a different perspective than I would have had as a young person. I was programmed to keep a positive and joyful outlook in all things, and that seemed easy. Not that I didn’t have the normal disappointments of life, I just seemed to be able to take them in stride and plug along. Somewhere in there, this became a societal expectation - “a spoon-full of sugar” philosophy that allegedly solves all problems. Humans feel better suggesting it; they feel better judging those that don’t get in line and subscribe; deep down, society believes that when bad things happen, you are the cause of it, and somehow, intellectually or spiritually, you deserve this bad thing or have brought it upon yourself by not possessing the “proper” attitude. It always remains the responsibility of the individual to shun disappointment and overcome it. Anyone caught in the throes of disappointment is a complainer; is ungrateful; simply refuses to change his attitude. To speak of pain - let alone to acknowledge pain is to be the most willful hedonist, imaginable.
Is there any possibility of acknowledging that circumstances have become overwhelming?
Even when one doesn’t whine or complain, just acknowledging horrendous circumstances is viewed askance. (I’m also reminded that many times when people ere overwhelmed by their own discomfort for your situation- they turn and throw it back on you, as though you have made some personal assault on them and their mental energy)
I hypothesize that when others have not themselves endured unbearable circumstances, they must fear those that have, lest it be contagious. Particularly in the Western world, where disappointments are of a differing variety than in cultures, elsewhere.
One day, ( or was it several decades of experience), I could no longer implement contradicting positive statements to “re-frame” reality. I am okay acknowledging ( to myself) that things are not that which I would prefer them to be; that my parents never mentioned that that such dreadful realities could exist; that society provides no solutions for circumstances that are not permitted to exist.
The messages are everywhere that if we just re-frame the situation- if we mentally exert ourselves to change our disposition, we will “train” our brains to see the positives and diminish the negatives. Other than for the comfort of those that propound such idiocies ( ahem- I mean such wisdom) - whom does it serve to deny our feelings of discomfort? Why must we be a nation obsessed with positivity? Is there merit to acknowledging less than perfection?
I understand the uses of positive thinking upon children, in preparing them to move through the bad without unnecessary drama and depression - but what about our adult lives? What about when truly unfortunate circumstances do arise and you bring no drama to it? Why must individuals be chastised to look away?
I can acknowledge my discomfort and disappointment and move forward, simultaneously. I prefer the honesty of acknowledgement. I agree with CecilTurtle - be gentle with yourself and feel free to take gentleness for yourself, if others do not have the wisdom to offer it. Allow yourself to feel whatever discomfort comes your way, alongside other remedies for moving forward that are needed. “Spoonfulls-of-sugar” don’t always “help the medicine go down; ” sometimes they are not only unpleasant, but downright nauseating.
5cyderry
>3 Cecilturtle: Merci. Je n'avais pas à ce moment-là pensé à regarder mes réalisations plutôt que mes échecs.
>4 EGBERTINA: I have always tried to look at the bright side of situations because there are people out in the world who are not as blessed as I am but there are times when I look at what I wanted to get done and my timetable seems to have been blown up. But things could be worse.
Thank you all for your support during these unplanned hiccups this year.
Something that has always aided me in keeping a positive attitude is this poem.
DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
by Max Ehrmann ©1927
>4 EGBERTINA: I have always tried to look at the bright side of situations because there are people out in the world who are not as blessed as I am but there are times when I look at what I wanted to get done and my timetable seems to have been blown up. But things could be worse.
Thank you all for your support during these unplanned hiccups this year.
Something that has always aided me in keeping a positive attitude is this poem.
DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
by Max Ehrmann ©1927
6torontoc
ROOT #10 for the year and the first one for August-the review is on my thread and no tickers updated.
7connie53
Hi Chèli. To answer your questions is difficult, because my live as it is now is not at a good place.
01 and 03. I always have been a positive person, I never let things that happened (the early deaths of both my parents before I was 24, which left me, as the eldest of four, with a lot of responsibility and changed the plans for what I wanted to do with my live. Studying English was one thing that never happened)
But I could not change that, because you just can't make them undead. So I shrugged it of and made new plans. And never looked back at what could have been.
02. I realised I was making assumptions as why people acted as they did whenever I felt disappointed in a person, never asking if that was really what they meant. So I made myself ask them what they meant and sometimes my assumptions were right, but most of the times they had other reasons for their behaviour and that was really enlightening.
04. Totally agree whit that. I will be grumpy for a while, but I will get over that and move on.
01 and 03. I always have been a positive person, I never let things that happened (the early deaths of both my parents before I was 24, which left me, as the eldest of four, with a lot of responsibility and changed the plans for what I wanted to do with my live. Studying English was one thing that never happened)
But I could not change that, because you just can't make them undead. So I shrugged it of and made new plans. And never looked back at what could have been.
02. I realised I was making assumptions as why people acted as they did whenever I felt disappointed in a person, never asking if that was really what they meant. So I made myself ask them what they meant and sometimes my assumptions were right, but most of the times they had other reasons for their behaviour and that was really enlightening.
04. Totally agree whit that. I will be grumpy for a while, but I will get over that and move on.
8cyderry
>7 connie53: I understand about the necessities of life changing your life plan. Guess God had different ideas for us than we did.
Take care.
Take care.
9MissWatson
>1 cyderry: I've had to think about this a while, because, tbh, there haven't been any serious disappointments in my life. But then I never went for big goals and when things didn't work as I expected, it was usually my own fault.
10fuzzi
The older I get the more I realize that plans rarely come to fruition. I can be disappointed, but I try to not dwell in my disappointments.
My dh and I made plans for our retirement years. We were going to purchase a travel trailer and see the country. We also were looking at moving to another state closer to our grandchildren.
But 2 1/2 years ago my dh contacted early onset dementia, immediately after his second Covid shot. He's disabled, and I cannot retire early, we cannot move, and travel upsets him. His condition is progressing to a point that he has no short term memory anymore.
Yes, I am disappointed, but I have to find positives or I would be depressed by our future together. My gardening and husbandry (I now have chickens) are bright spots in often dreary days.
I don't know what the future holds, but my faith helps to keep me going.
And as far as being disappointed in others? I recall that others may be disappointed in me. We're all fallible humans.
My dh and I made plans for our retirement years. We were going to purchase a travel trailer and see the country. We also were looking at moving to another state closer to our grandchildren.
But 2 1/2 years ago my dh contacted early onset dementia, immediately after his second Covid shot. He's disabled, and I cannot retire early, we cannot move, and travel upsets him. His condition is progressing to a point that he has no short term memory anymore.
Yes, I am disappointed, but I have to find positives or I would be depressed by our future together. My gardening and husbandry (I now have chickens) are bright spots in often dreary days.
I don't know what the future holds, but my faith helps to keep me going.
And as far as being disappointed in others? I recall that others may be disappointed in me. We're all fallible humans.
11connie53
>10 fuzzi: I'm so sorry to hear that, Fuzzi.
Reporting ROOT # 41 for the year, # 1 for August
Wild Country by Anne Bishop
Own ticker updated.
Reporting ROOT # 41 for the year, # 1 for August
Wild Country by Anne Bishop
Own ticker updated.
12Cecilturtle
>10 fuzzi: What a turn of events, Fuzzi... thank-you for sharing and for bearing this situation so gracefully.
I'm logging in my First August ROOT, 26 altogether.
This is not a Book by Michael Picard
All tickers are updated.
I'm logging in my First August ROOT, 26 altogether.
This is not a Book by Michael Picard
All tickers are updated.
13Cecilturtle
ROOTs 2 and 3 for August with Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown and Un café avec Marie by Serge Bouchard; 28 overall.
Group tickers are updated.
Group tickers are updated.
16benitastrnad
>10 fuzzi:
I am also somewhat disappointed in my retirement. I have been retired 5 months and have spent 4 of them caring for my mother. It is not the way I wanted to start my retirement. I thought I would have a year or two to myself, but things have not progressed that way.
I am also somewhat disappointed in my retirement. I have been retired 5 months and have spent 4 of them caring for my mother. It is not the way I wanted to start my retirement. I thought I would have a year or two to myself, but things have not progressed that way.
17clue
>10 fuzzi:, >16 benitastrnad: Before I retired I had a meeting with the financial planner I would be using. He talked to me about the very thing you are discussing. He encourged me to do anything I really wanted to do asap and not wait because he had had so many clients who had unexpected circumstances keep them from being able to do the things they had been looking forward to for years. I've been retired 10 years as of this month and I've done some of the things I wanted to do but so much has happened I didn't expect, including the deaths and relocations of family and friends. I was widowed with no children at a young age and sometimes I look around and wonder where everybody went. Currently I'm taking care of my younger sister who is bipolar and has Alzheimer's. One of the things I've learned is to do what I can do that will bring me pleasure even if it's a small thing. And Benita, I hope you will just have to delay things you wanted to do rather than give them up entirely.
18Cecilturtle
ROOT 4 for August and 29 overall - finally catching up a bit
Bain de sang by Jean-Jacques Pelletier, on my shelves since 2021.
Group tickers are updated.
Bain de sang by Jean-Jacques Pelletier, on my shelves since 2021.
Group tickers are updated.
19atozgrl
Reporting my first ROOT for August, and 13th overall. It looks like I've fallen behind on my ROOTing goal for this year. Having gotten involved in LT this year and tackling several challenges, I find I'm reading more books that aren't ROOTs than I had originally planned. Not to mention that most of my ROOTs are nonfiction and tend to be on the longer side, so my progress is a bit slow. I may not reach my goal for this year, but I will keep plugging away.
My personal ticker has been updated.
My personal ticker has been updated.
21rabbitprincess
Added my first ROOT of August to my personal ticker: Fell Murder, by E.C.R. Lorac.
22connie53
Reporting ROOT # 42 and # 43 for the year, # 2 and 3 for August
Crowbones by Anne Bishop
Bloedlijn by Angela Marsons
Own ticker updated.
23torontoc
ROOT #11 for the year and the second for August- the review is in my thread and no tickers updated.
24MissWatson
I have pulled four ROOTs this month and hope to add a few more before I leave for a vacation at the end of the month.
25connie53
Reporting ROOT # 44 for the year, # 4 for August
Dolende zielen by Angela Marsons
Own ticker updated.
Dolende zielen by Angela Marsons
Own ticker updated.
27Miss_Moneypenny
Hi all! Checking in after an absolutely hellacious cross country move that involved a lost cat, the epic Taylor Swift Eras tour, finding the lost cat, a miscarriage of a very wanted second baby, a moving company that completely gouged us (a $4,000 overcharge which we have thankfully received back now) and then took 4 weeks to deliver our stuff, a flooded apartment for my poor parents, finding out our sweet dog has a corn allergy after moving her to a state known for it's corn, a dear friend being diagnosed with metastasized stage 4 breast cancer, and my husband contracting diverticulitis that's required not one but two trips to the ER in the last 2 weeks. It's not an understatement to say this has been the worst summer of my entire life, but I'm very glad to report that I think the worst of it is over and we can move on to the more joyful business of settling down.
Logging in today after so many weeks away and seeing "DISAPPOINTMENT" as the theme for this month was so on the nose for me that I had to laugh and laugh.
Needless to say, I only had 2 ROOTs for July and have logged 4 for August. But now that our stuff is here and my knitting/reading corner is set up, I'm itching to get lost in some epic fantasy stories! My personal ticker is updated, I haven't touched the group ticker.
Logging in today after so many weeks away and seeing "DISAPPOINTMENT" as the theme for this month was so on the nose for me that I had to laugh and laugh.
Needless to say, I only had 2 ROOTs for July and have logged 4 for August. But now that our stuff is here and my knitting/reading corner is set up, I'm itching to get lost in some epic fantasy stories! My personal ticker is updated, I haven't touched the group ticker.
28Jackie_K
>27 Miss_Moneypenny: Oh my word, that all sounds horrific! And I'm so sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I know that pain, and can only wish you good and gentle recovery. Glad you're finally in the new place though, have fun settling down and making the new place home.
29cyderry
>27 Miss_Moneypenny: When I pick the theme for the month it usually is something that has touched me recently, so disappointment is something that I have been going through the last few months, but I have found that if I just hold on, good times will come back. Hang in.
30clue
>27 Miss_Moneypenny: I hope that the reading/knitting corner brings you solace and indeed, the horror of recent weeks has ended!
31Cecilturtle
>27 Miss_Moneypenny: I'm so sorry to read of your misfortune. Wishing you strength and courage.
ROOT 5 for August and 30 overall: Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
Group tickers are updated
ROOT 5 for August and 30 overall: Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs
Group tickers are updated
32connie53
I'm so sorry te hear that, Caity. I hope you can enjoy some of the little things now and feel safe and secure n your new home.
33connie53
Reporting ROOT # 45 and 46 for the year, # 5 and 6 for August
Idil, een meisje - Yasmine Allas
De wrede prins - Holly Black
Own ticker updated.
Idil, een meisje - Yasmine Allas
De wrede prins - Holly Black
Own ticker updated.
34Cecilturtle
ROOT 6 for August and 31 overall with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which I've had since 2008.
All tickers are updated.
All tickers are updated.
35lilisin
Since my last update I finished the following three books.
Cédric Gras : Alpinistes de Mao (Mao's Alpinists)
Jules Verne : Autour de la lune (Round the Moon)
Nella Larsen : Passing
And as of the moment I'm completely enraptured by Dracula. I can't put it down!
My reading is starting to pick up again and I'm now at about 40 books out of my 100 book goal. The end of the year will be quite a frenzy I feel! Oops!
Cédric Gras : Alpinistes de Mao (Mao's Alpinists)
Jules Verne : Autour de la lune (Round the Moon)
Nella Larsen : Passing
And as of the moment I'm completely enraptured by Dracula. I can't put it down!
My reading is starting to pick up again and I'm now at about 40 books out of my 100 book goal. The end of the year will be quite a frenzy I feel! Oops!
37Miss_Moneypenny
Thanks for the comfort everyone! It's been rough but things are definitely slowly turning around.
38MissWatson
6 ROOTs so far, and I'm currently reading a non-ROOT. I'm not sure I can squeeze in another one before I leave for my island vacation.
39connie53
Reporting ROOT # 47 and 48 for the year, # 7 and 8 for August
De gevallen koning - Holly Black
De verbannen koningin - Holly Black
Own ticker updated.
De gevallen koning - Holly Black
De verbannen koningin - Holly Black
Own ticker updated.
40clue
I've read 3 this month and will read one more, maybe have to be a small one, to get 4 for the month.
41curioussquared
I'm at 9 for the month and hoping to squeeze in ~two more.
42benitastrnad
It has been a disappointing reading month. However, I did manage to knock one of my long time on the shelf books off. I finished reading Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland. I it wasn't the best book I have ever read, but I didn't Pearl Rule it either.
44kac522
>43 torontoc: Ann Patchett is hit or miss for me--but I love Our Town, so I may give Tom Lake a try, especially after I saw this interview on PBS with the author about the book: https://www.pbs.org/video/tom-lake-1692298811/
45MissWatson
Adding one more before I leave for my vacation. I'm now at 50/75. See you all in September!
46Cecilturtle
ROOT 7 for August and 32 overall with Mémoires d'un tricheur by Sacha Guitry, a delightful little read. I may even be able to squeeze in a last for August.
All tickers are updated.
All tickers are updated.
47Jackie_K
I've just added my 4th ROOT for August (#32 for the year) to my own ticker. It was a 5* read - Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard.
49atozgrl
I have completed my second ROOT for August, and 14th for the year: Ribbon of Sand: the amazing convergence of the ocean & the Outer Banks by John Alexander and James Lazell. My own ticker has been updated.
50benitastrnad
I finished another ROOT for the Reading Through Time group here on LT. This one was Annette Vallon by James Tipton. This one was a work of historical fiction and was set in the French Revolution. It was over long, and was written in first person, which I dislike, but it was an OK novel. One thing in its favor was that it was NOT set in Paris. It was in Bayonne and Blois and that made its take on the French Revolution a bit different of a slant.
51benitastrnad
I also listened to two books that were on my TBR list while driving back from Kansas. All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. These were books one and two in the All Creatures Great and Small series by James Herriot. Easy listening for many miles on the road. I have started book 3 All Things Wise and Wonderful but have not finished it yet.
52rabbitprincess
Added The Maintenance of Headway, by Magnus Mills, to my personal ticker. This brings me to 36/50 ROOTS for the year.
53enemyanniemae
4 this month, 35 for the year
54Robertgreaves
Here is my report for August 2023:
UpROOTED books: 7
ROOTless books: 16
Added to the treebook TBR shelves: 2
The ROOTs were:
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard Crick
Bodies Politic by David Wishart
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (DNF)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Sergius mencari Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
The Diamond Setter by Moshe Sakal
ROOTs in YTD: 64
(Group tickers not touched)
UpROOTED books: 7
ROOTless books: 16
Added to the treebook TBR shelves: 2
The ROOTs were:
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard Crick
Bodies Politic by David Wishart
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (DNF)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Sergius mencari Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
The Diamond Setter by Moshe Sakal
ROOTs in YTD: 64
(Group tickers not touched)
55Jackie_K
Pretty sure that I'm not going to get any more ROOTs read in August, so my total is 4 for the month and 32 for the year. Ideally I'd wanted to be at 35 by the end of this week in order to still be on target. So no star for me this month either!
56readingtangent
I'm woefully behind in updating my thread (spent most of the summer moving, and it took up a lot of time), but my current ROOT count is 53--so, over the past few months, I've surpassed my goal! I intend to keep going. Unfortunately, I can't seem to update my ticker right now. All I see on my thread (and on the ROOT ticker thread) is a photo error icon. I'll keep trying, and I'll catalog the individual books I've read on my thread, too, hopefully this weekend! Congrats to everyone who has made their goal! :)
57Cecilturtle
ROOT 8 for August and 33 overall - phew! good catch up month
Aimez-vous Brahms by Françoise Sagan
All tickers are updated.
Aimez-vous Brahms by Françoise Sagan
All tickers are updated.
58lilisin
I've read three more books since my last post.
Shi Dan : Mémoires d'un eunuque dans la cité interdite (Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City)
Shinsuke Numata : La Pêche au toc dans le Tôhoku
Bram Stoker : Dracula
Leading to my best reading month so far this year at 6 books, and more importantly, a reading pace of about 50 pages a day. (My reading page average for the year was at 21 pages a day.) I had a difficult first half to the year due to personal life so it feels good to well, feel good again which means wanting to read again.
Shi Dan : Mémoires d'un eunuque dans la cité interdite (Memoirs of a Eunuch in the Forbidden City)
Shinsuke Numata : La Pêche au toc dans le Tôhoku
Bram Stoker : Dracula
Leading to my best reading month so far this year at 6 books, and more importantly, a reading pace of about 50 pages a day. (My reading page average for the year was at 21 pages a day.) I had a difficult first half to the year due to personal life so it feels good to well, feel good again which means wanting to read again.
59benitastrnad
ROOT report for August 2023
I read 7 ROOTS. I should have a total of 67 books for the year. The breakdown of what I read is as follows.
Nonfiction -
Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Vohlleben
Fiction -
Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Annette Vallon by James Tipton
Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland
Bruno's Challenge: Stories of the French Countryside by Martin Walker
Recorded Books -
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
I read 7 ROOTS. I should have a total of 67 books for the year. The breakdown of what I read is as follows.
Nonfiction -
Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Vohlleben
Fiction -
Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Annette Vallon by James Tipton
Fool's Tale by Nicole Galland
Bruno's Challenge: Stories of the French Countryside by Martin Walker
Recorded Books -
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
60LoraShouse
>5 cyderry: I've always liked that poem, even if I have a hard time believing it.
This has been a tough couple of months for me too. My husband has been in the hospital and then in a rehab facility. He is now at the end of the time his insurance will pay for it. So we are at the point of having to apply for Medicaid. So embarrassing. And so hard to find all the paperwork, never mind filing it.
I am attempting to be nice but beginning to have a hard time with that. I have decided to let go of some things, but even that is difficult with so much drama and trauma going on. Best would be to have somebody to talk to, which I mostly don't right now.
Meanwhile, I need to apologize for being so late posting this month's only ROOT. Possibly you won't see it before it's next month. Guess that's not the worst that could happen right now though, so no worries.
This month's ROOT was Hidden Evidence by David Owen. It's a book about the history of forensics in crime solving. I had a hard time reading it, but that's not the book's fault. It's just that all the crime scene photographs and case histories sort of hit me wrong during the hospital experience. I was much more cheered up by reading a couple of funny cozy mysteries. Wish I had more of those on this year's to-read list.
Thanks everyone, especially Cheli, for all your hard work and all you do.
This has been a tough couple of months for me too. My husband has been in the hospital and then in a rehab facility. He is now at the end of the time his insurance will pay for it. So we are at the point of having to apply for Medicaid. So embarrassing. And so hard to find all the paperwork, never mind filing it.
I am attempting to be nice but beginning to have a hard time with that. I have decided to let go of some things, but even that is difficult with so much drama and trauma going on. Best would be to have somebody to talk to, which I mostly don't right now.
Meanwhile, I need to apologize for being so late posting this month's only ROOT. Possibly you won't see it before it's next month. Guess that's not the worst that could happen right now though, so no worries.
This month's ROOT was Hidden Evidence by David Owen. It's a book about the history of forensics in crime solving. I had a hard time reading it, but that's not the book's fault. It's just that all the crime scene photographs and case histories sort of hit me wrong during the hospital experience. I was much more cheered up by reading a couple of funny cozy mysteries. Wish I had more of those on this year's to-read list.
Thanks everyone, especially Cheli, for all your hard work and all you do.
61Familyhistorian
I'm counting 5 ROOTs read for this month because that's all I've posted about so I'm at 52 out of 65 so far.
62cyderry
OMG, I completely forgot that it is now September!
I was so busy unpacking my books, that I didn't realize that the month changed!
Will be working on numbers tonight!
I was so busy unpacking my books, that I didn't realize that the month changed!
Will be working on numbers tonight!
63kac522
>62 cyderry: Unpacking books ALWAYS comes first!
64cyderry
My apologies to everyone for the delay. The September thread is now up!
https://www.librarything.com/topic/353432#8223429
https://www.librarything.com/topic/353432#8223429
