Crazy4reading reads her own ROOTS 2018

I don't think I hit my goal in 2017, yet. Not sure I will since my reading has waned since Aug. I am planning again to go for about 30 ROOTS in 2018. I will add my ticker later. I will also post more of an introduction this weekend (hopefully).

My Tracker for ROOTS




My ROOTS read in 2018

Books acquired in 2018 (Gifts and/or ARC/ER)
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My TBR Lists (will update when I am home)

Welcome back, Monica and Happy ROOTing

>5 connie53: Thanks Connie!! It is good to be back!

Welcome back to the ROOT group and have a great reading year!

Good luck on your rooting!

Happy reading in 2018!

Happy ROOTing in 2018!

Happy New Year, Monica.

Happy reading in 2018, Monica!

Glad you're with us!

I'm so glad to see you're back. Good luck with your ROOTing!

>7 rabbitprincess: Thanks and it is good to be back!! Hope to finish many ROOTS this year!!

>8 Tess_W:, >9 floremolla:, >10 Familyhistorian: Thanks guys!!

>11 connie53: Happy New Year to you too!! Thank you!

>12 FAMeulstee: Thank you!
>13 cyderry: Glad to be back!
>14 MissWatson: Thanks! Glad to be back!

I finished some books this weekend and will be posting them soon.

So my daughter had some children's books she was getting rid of so she gave them to me. Of course I decided to read some of them before I give them away to different places. Here are the books that I read this weekend. I am counting them as ROOTS since my daughter gave them to me in December.

1. Peter Pan (A Little Golden Book) by Eugene Bradley Coco
2. Disney's Aladdin the Magic Carpet ride by Teddy Slater Margulies
3. Just me and my dad by Mercer Mayer
4. Just go to bed by Mercer Mayer
5. Disney's The Lion King (Little Golden Book) by Justine Korman

I enjoyed all of them. It was nice to revisit the books that my children read when they were young.

I have more children's books to read and I hope to read some of them this week.

>16 crazy4reading:, oh my goodness, I adored the Mercer Mayer Little Critter books when I was growing up! I am pretty sure my Dad read me JUST GO TO BED many, many times. I wonder if we still have any...

Happy ROOTing this year!

I am still trudging through my book club book for this month. Funny thing yesterday I was thinking that tomorrow (meaning Wed 2/14) is out book club meeting. Well I am rushing this month. Our meeting is not until next Wed. I was worried that I wasn't going to have the book finished tonight. I have to stop watching Supernatural and playing Sing Star on Playstation and read. I don't want to stop my exercising since I haven't been doing that too often.

I have been busy with my BF the past couple of weekends. Funny thing is most Saturdays are spent apart as we each do a few things at our own places. Saturday night usually consists of him playing video games and I am either on my computer playing games, or my phone playing games or just looking at Facebook. When I should be reading. I actually enjoy watching him play video games and sometimes want to play along too. It cuts into my reading time.

Today after work I am planning to go home and get in some exercise and then shower and get ready to head over to Tom's place. He works till after 8 pm. I may take some time to read before I head over or play on my Sing Star (which could be a bad idea because I love to sing!!) And 5 minutes has turned into hours.

I am still reading The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. I hope to make some headway with it tonight. I think I will have to listen to music and really concentrate on just reading. I am reading Every Wild Heart by Meg Donohue for my ROOTS.

I finished another ROOT:

#6 Pinocchio by Eugene Bradley Coco

Easy read for young children. A great way to introduce reading to children. I always enjoy revisiting these books.

5 stars

I am still alive!! I actually finished a book!!

#7. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

I enjoyed the characters in this book. I found myself feeling sorry for Lavinia from the beginning. She is an orphaned at a young age and is placed with a family as a servant girl. She doesn't learn the rules of society. Lavinia also makes you realize how children don't judge people by the way they look.

This story takes place during slavery and on a plantation. The way the women both black and white are treated made me appreciate all that we now have. I felt for the black women because they were abused, beaten and looked down upon by the white men. The white women looked at them as whores and their servants.

All the characters were so well developed and I felt for them. Belle who raised Lavinia as her own was one I felt such pain and sorrow for. I am glad our book club read this book this year.

5 stars.

I also have some children's books to add to this list.

I have been so far behind on my reading this year. I am going to post 6 children's books I just read this month. I am trying to clean out my books and I have so many children's books I figure I may as well read them since they are usually quick reads for me. Here they are:

#8. Pocahontas
#9. Pinocchio
#10. The Jungle Book
#11. The Little Mermaid Ariel's Underwater Adventure
#12. Alice in Wonderland
#13. The Rescuers Down Under

They were all cute stories. It was nice to relive the books my kids enjoyed when they were young.

#14. Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

Summer Sisters is the story of two unlikely friends. Caitlin (Cait) and Victoria (Vix) are the summer sisters. Vix life changes when Cait invites Victoria to her father's on Martha's Vineyard during the summer. Caitlin is privileged while Vix family struggles to survive. The two girls start their relationship at the age of 12 and follows them through till they turn 30.

Vix is a very shy, quiet and considers herself ordinary, while Cait comes from a divorced wealthy family. Vix is thrilled that Cait wants to be her friend and invites her to spend the summer with her at her father's place.

I found myself actually feeling for the characters. I felt sorry for Vix at times for the way Caitlin would treat her. Cait was very reckless and did help Vix expand her experiences. I did find myself laughing at times.

5 stars

I finished another book last night:

#15. The Christmas Gift by J. Dietrich

This was a short story about the gift of Christmas that is in all of us. I enjoyed the rhythm of the words.

4 stars

#16. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

I finished this book late last night. I found this book boring most of the time. I didn't get drawn in from the beginning like I wanted to. There were times when the book was interesting, but alas I cannot remember specific locations. I have enjoyed Sherlock Holmes stories but the way it was incorporated into this story just wasn't my cup of tea.

I am not going to let this book stop me from reading other books written by Laurie R. King. I will look at what else she has written and see if they are possibly something I would be interested in reading.

3 stars

I hope I can reach my goal before the end of the year. If not I will try again next year.

>25 crazy4reading: I hope you will reach your goal but 14 more books might be a little to much to read in 25 days. I hope to see you next year!

I might just read some of the children books I have sitting around to get the last 14 in. I have a whole bunch of children books that I should be able to read really quick but I have cookies to bake and some tv shows I am trying to catch up on. I plan to be back next year!!

>27 crazy4reading: Very good. I'm thrilled about next years ROOTing. It will be a good thing to see you back.