CurrerBell's ROOTs for 2024

Books owned or already on mail order as of December 31, 2023. Does not include Kindle (unless book also owned in treeware and Kindle edition was used as a convenient reading format). Goal of 50.

Rereads – some of which can go back as much as half-a-century – are included. Also included are books which were started prior to this year but completed during this year.



Jan (4), Feb (2), Mar (5), Apr (3), May (5), Jun (3), Total (22)

January:

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

Hi Mike, Happy New year and good to see you back with the ROOTers.

Welcome back! Enjoy your reading this year.

Welcome back!

Welcome back and have a great reading year!

Have a great reading year!

February:

20 ... C.S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy (reread) 2½**
29 ... Elizabeth Taylor: Complete Short Stories 4****

Coming along a bit slowly so far this year but accounted for by my reading so far which has included some Big Fat Books.

March:

11 ... Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water 5*****
13 ... Patricia Highsmith, People Who Knock on the Door 2**
16 ... Mikhail Bulgakov, A Country Doctor's Notebook (new read but with reread of "Morphine") 3½***
21 ... Honoré de Balzac, Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute ... other stories 4****
26 ... Patricia Highsmith, Small g: A Summer Idyll 4****

April:

25 ... Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle reread 3***
28 ... Rumer Godden, Thursday's Children 3½***
30 ... Rumer Godden, The Dark Horse 3½***

Nice job, Mike! I just don't get your numbering. For a moment I thought you had already read 30 ROOTs. I guess you have your own system going there.

>11 connie53: April 25th, April 28th, April 30th. The date a book was finished. ;-)

>12 CurrerBell: Thanks for explaining, Mike. I did not make that connection.

May:

13 ... Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea 3***
17 ... Elaine Pagels and Karen King, Reading Judas 4****
21 ... Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet; Country Parson ... other stories 4****
28 ... Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (Norton Critical Edition) 4½****
31 ... T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge 4****

>14 CurrerBell: The book by Kingfisher looks very interesting. I have a few of her on my lists, but not this one.

>15 connie53: It's quite a quick read but very good. It's my first read of hers.

June:

3 ... Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air 4****
6 ... Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways 4½****
7 ... Jean Racine, Phaedra (trans Richard Wilbur) 2½** but see my review, my quarrel being not with Racine but with the Wilbur translation