March 2017 ROOB and News: 04/01/17

In February I mentioned that the move to Canada was delayed by "a month or more." Now we're at the delayed by a year point. I can't go into the why of the delay but one thing that we discovered in the process is that we really are at the point where we want / need a slightly larger home.

So now we're planning a local move over the summer. As part of process of getting the house ready, we need to put a large chunk of our home library in storage. I see this as an opportunity to weed our collection, meaning the ROOB challenge is once again a priority.

Reading from my personal collection accounted for 55 percent of my March reads (but seven percent, or two books, were new purchases in March).

5 = all new books, -4 = all to be reads. The goal is to be as close to -4 as possible.

All told, six of the sixteen books I read were purchased this year and published this year — a response to my other goal to stay more current with published books. So of my personal collection, thirty-eight percent are 2017 books, and sixty-three percent are from previous years.

My ROOB average for March improved from -1.89 to -2.07. It was also my best March ROOB score since I started keeping track.

Looking forward to April, my reading will continue to work through books I've bought but don't necessarily want to keep. I will also keep reading one or two newly published books each week (and I have a small pile set aside). I have a few library books out too as I'm still investigating the "crossing the cornfield" trope.

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