fuzzi's 2017 ROOT Rehoming Thread

For the books for which I find homes...

My goal in 2017 is 150 books!

Wow, 150 books. That's ambitious.

>2 Familyhistorian: I did 102 in 2016, will give 150 a try!

>3 fuzzi: Impressive. I rehoused about 70, I think, and it was at a Little Free Library so you know some books followed me home.

Really impressive goal. Do you plan to read all of them or are some of them just to be removed?

>5 Henrik_Madsen: >4 Familyhistorian: I try to read them, but sometimes I just look at a book I've had for years and decide I'm not reading it anytime soon...and so OFF to the used book store it goes!

Hope you unearth some great ones!

Good luck with your target!

>7 cyderry: >8 MissWatson: thanks!

Here's to a great 2017 with lots of ROOTing

Happy Rehoming!

And away we go...the results of a cleaning/reorganizing binge this morning:

1. Play Ball, Snoopy (read)
2. Rebel With a Cause (duplicate, unread)
3. The Ortho Home Gardener's Problem Solver (not read, not likely to read)
4. Wildlife in Color (unread)
5. The Visitation by Frank Peretti (unread)
6. Piercing the Darkness by Frank Peretti (probably unread)
7. Keeping Watch by Laurie R. King (unread)
8. Pride and Prejudice (duplicate)
9. Orphans of the Sky
10. Cold Sassy Tree (duplicate)
11. The Tale of Despereaux (unread)
12. The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life (unread)
13. Bible Readings for the Home (not used)
14. Oswald Chambers: the Best From All His Works, Part 1 (unread)
15. Matthew Henry Commentary VI Acts to Revelation (unread)
16. Barnes' Notes Isaiah (unread)
17. A Field Guide to the Birds (duplicate, poor condition)
18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
19. A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
20. Crossing the Continent by Michel Tremblay (ER, read)
21. Foundation by Mercedes Lackey
22. Nelson's Three-in-One Bible Reference (unused)
23. Gardening Essentials (unread)

If there is something you see here that you want, just let me know soon...

To explain what appears to be a discrepancy:

I have read and kept 4 books that qualified as ROOTs.

I have rehomed 24 books.

The 24 rehomed plus 4 read and kept = 28 ROOTs as of 2/4/17.

>12 fuzzi: I too came across Piercing the Darkness this week , but I kept mine. Peretti's depiction of the angels is remarkably different. Well, perhaps the word would be cutting edge. I'm thinking that some current fantasy writers have borrowed their concept of angels from him.

I decided to rehome Piercing the Darkness, as it had been YEARS since I read the first book. If I really want to read it, I'll need to reread This Present Darkness, and can probably find a copy at the library.

Rehoming Follow My Leader after a reread.

Whew! I've rehomed quite a bit since February, but neglected to post them here!

My most recent is A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery.

I like L.M. Montgomery's charming tales of Prince Edward Island as much as anybody, I suppose, and that's coming from someone who has read a lot of her works.

However, A Tangled Web does not only drag out the opening scene to almost the first quarter of the book, but the cast is too large and unwieldy to handle without creating score cards, especially considering most belong to one of two clans: the Darks, and the Penhallows.

This might wind up being a good read, but life is too short for me to continue reading it. No stars, since I did not finish the book.

Here's what I've rehomed since February 16th:

24. Follow My Leader
25. Resolution (duplicate copy)
26. The Moor (duplicate copy)
27. Fortress in the Eye of Time (duplicate copy)
28. Innocent Heroes
29. The Tapestry - Did not read
30. The Aesop for Children - DNF (did not finish)
31. Luck of the Irish
32. Jacob Have I Loved
33. Anna and the King of Siam
34. The Tiger Rising
35. Seven Baptisms
36. Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (unread)
37. I Will Fight No More Forever (unread)
38. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (unread)
39. Diplomatic Immunity (duplicate)
40. A Tangled Web - DNF

I took three boxes of books to the used book store today (some were my son's) and brought home nine:

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat (read it years ago)
Dog Days by Jon Katz
James Herriot's Animal Stories
Capt Kidd's Cat by Robert Lawson (read other books by this author)
and five (5) Ellis Peters Cadfael mysteries I'd not yet read!

The Hermit of Eyton Forest
The Confessions of Brother Haluin
The Leper of Saint Giles
The Raven in the Foregate
The Potter's Field

I also found a copy of Funny Cide, a bio of the racehorse who was the first NY-bred to win the Kentucky Derby, and the first gelding to do so since 1929.

So much for getting RID of books...

>19 fuzzi: I'm hoping to take a box of books to Barter Books next month, which will be great, but I will get credit in return, so it is inevitable that I will gain some. I figure that at least I am gaining books I know I really want to read, rather than books I know I'm never going to read again.

Confessions of Brother Haluin is my favourite Cadfael.

>20 Jackie_K: good point. I've gotten better at rehoming books that I might have enjoyed but don't feel a great urge to reread. Some of the books I've let go are ones that I can get easily at the library if I really feel like a reread.

And some are just not worth the effort...

>21 Robertgreaves: I am trying to read them in order, will be getting to that one soon!

Hi Fuz, just stopping by to say Hi. I've been away from LT for some time due to RL things. But now I'm back trying to keep up with threads.

I always keep forgetting you have two threads going ;-))

>23 connie53: good to see you!

I've got more than two threads, lol, but stop by any of them when you get a chance. It's always good to "see" familiar faces. :)

>24 fuzzi: just the two threads in the ROOT group, I hope!

>25 connie53: I think just two here...

I rehomed Find Momo Coast to Coast: A Photography Book today, to the daughters of friends. The girls (9 and 5) were excited about finding the dog in all the photos!

Since June 17th, I have rehomed these:

41. Reagan Inside Out
42. The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books
43. The Four Swans
44. A Place of Her Own
45. Animal Stories for Girls
46. A Home for Jessie
47. Sing Down the Moon
48. Find Momo Coast to Coast

Ticker updated!

>27 fuzzi: Oh! I didn't know there was another Find Momo book. What fun!

Ha! My library system has it.

>28 2wonderY: yep. And I was lucky enough to win it as an ER book. :)

Glad your library has a copy available.

Those two girls are so cute, such "normal" children (typical?), and yet somewhat well-behaved. They don't own a dog, so I think it was doubly-intriguing to them to look for one hiding amongst the pages.

Hmm. Somewhere in my main "reading register" I have miscounted the number of my rehomed books. I don't have time right now to figure out which one I forgot, and since they are actually NUMBERED in this thread, I'll go back and adjust the ticker, AGAIN. Ha!

I was hoping to come close to my rehome goals this year, but since I've not been able to read as much as I wanted, it leaves me no choice but to...

...PURGE.

Yes, the dreaded word, the not-as-nice verbiage that can also be described as rehoming, though the former sounds more severe.

I've decided to go through my shelves, and remove the books that meet the following criteria:

1. Unread (I have 266 books in this category as per my LT stats)
2. Unlikely to be read any time soon
3. Fairly easily obtained through free/cheap sources if I decide I want to read it in the future

So, yes, watch as I go through my titles, and make the difficult decisions of what will stay, and what will not.

Stay tuned...

Good luck with rehoming those books, Fuz!

>31 connie53: thank you! I have been looking at the piles and the shelves, and thinking...

And it starts...wave one of the purge, 43 51 books:

Unread, likely to remain unread:
Sense and Sensuality: Jesus Talks to Oscar Wilde on the Pursuit of Pleasure by Ravi Zacharias
Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Spymaster: Call for the Dead, a Murder of Quality, the Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LeCarre
Night Manager by John LeCarre
A Perfect Spy: A Novel by John LeCarre
Stained Glass by William F. Buckley Jr
Spytime by William F. Buckley, Jr
The Jeweler's Eye by William F. Buckley Jr
Preacher's Quest (First Mountain Man) by William W.Johnstone
Preacher's Fortune (The First Mountain Man #12) by William W.Johnstone
Absaroka Ambush (First Mountain Man #3) by William W.Johnstone
Rage Of The Mountain Man by William W.Johnstone
Warpath of the Mountain Man by William W.Johnstone
The Return of the Mountain Man by William W.Johnstone
The Last Mountain Man by William W.Johnstone
Matt Jensen The Last Mountain Man The Eyes of Texas by William W.Johnstone
Violence of the Mountain Man by William W.Johnstone
O Jerusalem by Larry Collins
Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series) by Orson Scott Card
Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy by Olive Ann Burns
The First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
John Adams by David McCullough
The Big Year by Mark Obmascik
The Man Who Moved a Mountain by Richard C. Davids

Read, easily borrowed if I decide to read again:
The First Mountain Man by William W.Johnstone
The First Mountain Man: Preacher by William W.Johnstone
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Virginian by Owen Wister
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
THE THORN BIRDS by Colleen McCullough
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
Spencer's Mountain by Earl Hamner, Jr.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Uncommon Wisdom of Ronald Reagan: A Portrait in His Own Words by Bill Adler
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma : A Signet Classic by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Read, unlikely to read again:
Fiddler on the Roof: Based on Sholem Aleichem's Stories by Joseph Stein
Upstairs Downstairs (Upstairs Downstairs, No. 1) by John Hawkesworth
In My Lady`s Chamber (Upstairs Downstairs, No. 2) by John Hawkesworth
The Years of Change (Upstairs Downstairs, No. 3) by Mollie Hardwick
The War to End Wars (Upstairs Downstairs, No. 4) by Mollie Hardwick
On With the Dance/Endings and Beginnings (Upstairs Downstairs, No. 5 & 6) by Michael Hardwick
A Girl Named Sooner by Suzanne Clauser
First Aid and Health Care for Cats by Charles Bell
The Dog Whisperer by Paul Owens
Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan

That's just the first set of bookshelves...

Added these to the purge stack:

First Aid and Health Care for Cats by Charles Bell
The Dog Whisperer by Paul Owens
Cesar's Way by Cesar Millan
The First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
John Adams by David McCullough
Spytime by William F. Buckley, Jr
The Big Year by Mark Obmascik

Also, cannot locate, think this has already been purged:

The Man Who Moved a Mountain by Richard C. Davids

If I find it, I won't count it a second time...

Impressive cull!

>35 floremolla: thanks. It needed to be done, badly.

Way to go!

>38 fuzzi: That's the vacuum effect.

>38 fuzzi: Hopefully though (this is what I'm telling myself) that the books we order now that we're more enlightened ROOTers are more likely to be good reads and worth keeping.

>39 2wonderY: hahahahaha!

>40 Jackie_K: the four I ordered included the only Brother Cadfael books that I have not read and do not own. As I have been reading this series, I have been rehoming them with the local used bookstore, so I know they won't be a permanent fixture on my shelves!

As of this evening, I have rehomed 112 books in 2017.

Getting to 150 is going to be tough, but I'm going to still try...

Good work, so far, fuzzi! Have you regretted any of your rehomings afterward? I know most books are only an internet click away but I still struggle to part with what I've read.

>43 floremolla: I'm the exact same - I got rid of 4 this year, all books I really disliked. If a read is OK but not earth-shattering I still feel I ought to keep it in case someone else might like it.

>43 floremolla: thank you.

In the past I have regretted some of my rehomings, but am at a point in my life where I just need to suck it up and unload my shelves.

Books I was keeping for a reread are rehomed if they can be easily found online, or at the public library. For example, I rehomed all my Jane Austen books except Pride and Prejudice. I probably will reread them all, but they're easily available. I am not going to rehome my Anne Bosworth Greene volumes as they are almost 100 years old and a little harder to replace.

>40 Jackie_K: I missed your comment back in October, sorry.

Since I've joined LT, I've added many, many books to my library, based upon what others said. I've found that some recommendations have steered me to books I love, but not all. There have been a few recommended reads which I gently closed and put in the cull bag after only a couple chapters. Different tomes for different homes!

My daughter's keen for me to keep my fiction so that she can have it when she gets a place of her own - not sure when that'll be, given her outgoings are currently equating her income while she gets a foothold in her profession.

In the meantime my weeding out is in single figures, like >44 Jackie_K:, because I'm not under pressure for space just yet. The day will come, though!

>46 fuzzi: I've actually started two separate wishlists on amazon now - the main one (which is public) for books I'd like to own and so would be happy for people to buy for me, or I go through it every now and again when I fancy a treat, and one I've called the 'library list', which is BBs I've taken but which I think I can quite happily get from the library and decide from there whether or not I want my own copy. It's very rare that I buy a book immediately after being hit by a BB, the wishlist has helped my acquisition rate a lot (which is actually a bit scary, because even with the wishlist I'm still buying more than I'm reading!).

>47 floremolla: that's when an attic is handy...

>48 Jackie_K: not a bad idea! I have created the categories "wishlist" and "recommended to me" for my library here on LT. I can then access these lists when I'm in a bookstore, to see what I'm looking for.

Two books followed me home today, from the Goodwill thrift store...

>50 fuzzi: pesky books, they will do that! I'll be popping in to my favourite charity shop today and seeing what's clinging onto me as I leave ;)

>48 Jackie_K: I did almost the same thing Jackie. A BB-list is in one of the first posts in my Thread.

Ah, but one of the ones that followed me home was SO good! It's a little book called Sheep by Valerie Hobbs. I gave it 4 1/2 stars.

>53 fuzzi: Well, what do you expect from a sheep? Admit it, you had a shepherd's crook and a sheepdog with you.

>54 Robertgreaves: hahaha!

It is actually about a Border collie. Maybe the wool gloves attracted him...

Today seventeen books headed for new homes!

Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest
The Quicksilver Horse by Anne Digby
Jonathan Edwards: Basic Writings
Mew is for Murder
Aquariums For Dummies
Christianity Is Jewish
Birds of North America
The Moor
A Field Guide to the Butterflies
Mimosa
A Field Guide to the Ferns
A Field Guide to Wildflowers
Dwight L Moody
The Long Goodbye
Winds of Change
Winds of Fate
Winds of Fury

Total for this year is 129, which is 21 shy of my goal of 150...what else can I rehome in order to get there? ::looks around::

I know you can do it, Fuz!

The Dain Curse just went in the rehoming box...

Forgot to mention it, but There's an Owl in my Shower went a rehoming too.

And Striding Folly is headed for the rehoming box as well.

Eighteen books to go...

This year I have added 123 books to my library...I think I'm making headway!!

Two days left...seventeen rehomes to go...it's not looking good...

Gogogogogo!