Thursday, March 1, 2012

Meramec's February 2012 results are in!


Total-- 15 participants-- 70 books--  14,742 pages   [32 hours 15 minutes listened]

Ponder
·         The Battle of Mogadishu - 65 pages
·         Coming of Age in Mississippi - 163 pages

Schmitt
·         Meier.  English Tea Murder; a Lucy Stone mystery.  265pp.  Good grief, the bodies start to fall almost before they can get off the tarmac on the way to England.
·         Friend.  Sheepish; Two Women, Fifty Sheep and Enough Wool to Save the World 263 pp.
·         Dodson. Uglier than a Monkey’s Armpit; Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs and Curses from around the World  122pp. Picked up a handy dandy German put-down
·         Bates. Darling Buds of May. 158pp.  A best seller from England, from the forties… droll – but I guess you really had to be there to “get” all the social caste jokes- at least I hope they were jokes?
·         Brett.  Blotto, Twinks, and the Ex-King’s Daughter 211pp.  Another period murder mystery, simply the lark’s larynx, don’t you know? 
·         Lutz. Head’s You Lose. 301pp.  An snippy epistolary exchange and enough red herrings to feed Sweden for a decade.
·         Daheim. All the Pretty Hearses. 299pp. part of the B&B series, set in Seattle.
·         Evanovich. Explosive Eighteen. 305pp.
·         Kilmer-Purcell.  Bucolic Plague. 304pp. Nice companion piece to Sheepish; more city folks hit upside the head by the realities (and charms) of farming
·         Beaton. Death of a Kingfisher. 245pp. Hamish figures it out, as usual.
·         (10 books 2473 pp.)

Smith, C
·         The Enormous Crocodile, by   Roald Dahl,  22 pages
·         Dewey... There's a Cat in the Library, by Vicki Myron and Bret Witten, 20 pages
·         There are Cats in This Book, by Vivane Schwartz, 12 pages
·         The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians, by Carla Morris, 20 pages

Sciuto
·         The Giver by Lois Lowry - 180 pages
·         Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins  - 390pp.

Tohtz
·         The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press, 388 pages
·         Steele. Japan Fashion Now. 251pp.
Hovis
·         Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, 258 pages
·         The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith, 213 pages.
·         The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock, 347 pages.

Sanguinet
·         Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue. 321 pages. A simply gripping story of a young mother, who was kidnapped as a 19-year-old college student and her 5-year-old son (the narrator) who have been imprisoned in a locked, sound proof shack and plan an escape. Highly recommended.
·         The table comes first [sound recording] : family, France, and the meaning of food / Adam Gopnik.11 hours.(293pp.) An interesting, maybe too detailed (it drags in places) history of food and eating centered on the French experience. Only if you’re a devote foodie.

Fitzwater
·         Believe the Lie by Elizabeth George   608 pages
·         Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre    381 pages
·         Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese   657 pages
·         No Mark on Her by Deborah Crombie     369 pages
·         Buddah in the Attic by Julie Otsuka    144 pages
·         Gossip by Joseph Epstein    219 pages

Sciuto
·         Little Bee  266 pages
·         Steve Jobs  571 pages

Ohmer
·         ITALIAN SHOES by Henning Mankell        audio—9 discs, 10 hours   (247 pages)
·         CHILDREN AND FIRE by Ursula Hegi          (272 pages)
·         OUTLAW ALBUM: STORIES by Daniel Woodrell   (167 pages)  This is the author of WINTER’S BONE which was made into the Academy Award nominated movie.  These stories have the same stark Missouri Ozark setting and themes as did the novel.
·         YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion,  audio—4 discs, 5hours 15 minutes  (227 pages)
·         BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion,  audio—4discs, 6 hours   (188 pages)  Candid reflections on the year after the unexpected death of her husband followed by the loss of her only child a year or two later.  Compelling back to back reads.
·         SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan C. Bradley  (373 pages).

Brazeal
·         The Letters of John Hus: translated from the Latin and the Czech by Spinka, Matthew. 1972.  25 pages
·         Redrawing Nations: ethnic cleansing in east-central Europe, 1944-1948. Ther, Philipp and Ana Siljak eds. pp.121-130, 197-215, 307-325.
·         Living by Faith: justification and sanctification by Bayer, Oswald.  2003  86 pages
·         The Last Flowers of the Middle Ages: from Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and Silesia  Ivo Hlobil, ed. 2000.  pp.25-64, 70-74, 144-146, 158-159, 239-243, 263-274, 302-304.
·         The Long Road Home: the aftermath of the second world war by Shephard, Ben. pp.1-179

Helbling
·           Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures / Brian Selznick. 637 pages.

Freeman
·         Burkert. Mouse’s Lion. 26pp.
·         Carle. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse.  22pp.
·         Jane. Little Goblin Ten. 32pp.
·         Murray. Gingerbread Man Loose in the School. 30pp.
·         Ray. Stars. 32pp.
·         Child. Over the River and Through the Wood. 26pp.
·         Sidman. Swirl by Swirl; spirals in nature. 32pp.
·         Delillo. Falling Man. 246pp.
·         Smith. Grandpa Green. 28pp.
·         Moses. Mary and Her Little Lamb.  19pp.
·         Jeffries. Lady Never Surrenders. 397pp.
·         Sociologist’s Book of Cartoons. 86pp.
·         Moundlic. Scar.  33pp.
·         Lindbergh. Homer the Library Cat. 26pp.
·         Dewdney. Llama, Llama, Home with Mama.  31pp.
·         Daly.  Prudence Wants a Pot. 27pp.
·         Bently. King Jack and the Dragon.  29pp.
·         Measner. Over and Under the Snow. 34pp.
·         Alexander. My Wicked Little Lies 374pp.
·         Laurens. Capture of the Earl of Glencrae.  660pp.
·         (2190pp. 20 books)

Carmody
·         Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber) 534pp.
·         Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo) 256pp.
·         Time for Outrage (Indignez-vous!) (Stéphane Hessel) 41pp.
·         Dance the Eagle to Sleep (Marge Piercy) 232 pp.
·         How to Brew (John Palmer) 347 pp.

Henderson
·         Lost Gold of the Dark Ages, War, Treasure, and the Mystery of the Saxons by Caroline Alexander, 2011, 239 pages

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