The Valley is Wild with...."Meh". lol

I felt the picture to the left was appropriate because I know that I have been neglecting all of my "bound paper friends" this past month.  I choose to blame it on the Fall semester starting, and I'm sure a number of my colleagues will join me in placing the blame squarely there.  :)

So, let's get to the point and publish our totals which have taken a hit this month.  I'm hoping to see us begin to trend upward again soon, especially since we have two new adjunct reference librarians that will be joining us for the month of September.  So for the other campuses...enjoy the low numbers now, because they aren't going to last.  We're out for blood next month! 

FLORISSANT VALLEY

# of Participants:     6

# of Books:               24

# of Pages:            7429

WILDWOOD

# of Participants:     1

# of Books:              3

# of Pages:             912

WHAT THE GANG READ:

The Serial Killer Whisperer by Pete Earley

Cathy's Book by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman

The Abolition of Marriage by Maggie Gallagher

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Shakespeare: the World as Stage by Bill Bryson

Claire de Lune by Jetta Carleton

The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton

Do Dogs Dream? by Stanley Coren

Mystery in the Minster by Susanna Gregory

Murdered by Nature by Roderic Jeffries

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith

Family Patterns by Kristin Eckhardt

Unhooked by Woolverton & Shapiro

Justice by Karen Robards

The 11th Hour by James Patterson

The Passage by Justin Cronin

Before the Poison by Peter Robinson

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Roy Anuradha

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Plus there were some editions of Newsweek in there as well.

Now....CRACK THOSE SPINES!!!!

Meramec. August.

Meramec’s grand total for August:  8481 pages, 33 books. Betty once again takes the lead with 12 books, 2708 pages.

Yes, I know we're very late posting, but the fall semester hit us like a whirlwind! 

The books:

Jeanette Walls, Half-Broke Horses, 272

Diana Abu-Jaber, Birds of Paradise, 362

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth, 256

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire, 391

Anne Sinclair Mehdevi, Persian Folk and Fairy Tales, 117

Jean Russell Larson, Palace in Bagdad: Seven Tales from Arabia, 95

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay,390

Jim Carroll, Petting Zoo, 336

Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 303

Barrett, Bookmarked for Death, 297

Jeffries, A Lady Never Surrenders, 388

Gouveia, Creative Stuff, 183

Barrett, Murder is Binding, 281

Gregory, A Plague on Both Your Houses, 406

Dunnett, Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides, 279

Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up, 354

Mark Haddon, Red House,264

John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back, 228

Gary Thomas, Sacred Pathwaysk,  224

Richard Schmidt, Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality, 145,  pp.186-330

Steven Ozment, A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People, 202,  pp.124-325

Il Sung Na, Hide and Seek, 32

Helen Lester, All for Me and None for All, 28

Bob Graham, Bus Called Heaven, 37

Marion Dane Bauer, Dinosaur Thunder, 31

Jane Feather, Bachelor List, 343

Jane Feather, Bride Hunt, 373

Jane Feather, Wedding Game, 349

Celeste Bradley, Duke Most Wanted, 342

Celeste Bradley, Desperately Seeking a Duke, 332

Celeste Bradley, Duke Next Door, 352

Paul Meisel, See Me Run, 24

Jane Feather, Unsuitable Bride, 465

HPIR: Leading the way YET again! ;-)

Here I thought I was late posting the HPIR numbers, but we're first again! Our 8 participants this month read a total of 12,160 pages. For the first time, Marian was NOT the champeen reader in our crew. What happened? Did she get a smart phone? Because that's what happened to me in August and why I couldn't even break out of triple digits. Evale came in first with 2248 pages, then Sheila with 2073, and then Jane with 2064. Here's most of what we read:

Private # 1 Suspect / James Patterson
Root of wild madder / Brian Murphy
Little house on a small planet / Shay Saloman
Victims / Jonathan Kellerman
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born / Ayi Kwei Armah
Catching Fire / Suzanne Collins
The Outlook / S&P
Ignore everybody / Hugh MacLeod
The Annunciation / Ellen Gilchrist
Enemies: A History of the FBI / Tim Weiner
The Rose Without a Thorn / Jean Plaidy
Calico Joe / John Grisham
The Beast / Anders Roslund & Borge HellstromGone Girl / Gillian Flynn
Private Games / James Patterson & Mark Sullivan
Mockingjay / Suzanne Collins
Waterland / Graham Swift
The Great Leader : a Faux Mystery / Jim Harrison
Guilty Wives / James Patterson & David Ellis
The Outlook / S&P
15 Seconds / Andrew Gross
Black List / Brad Thor
Cutting for Stone / Abraham Verghese
Marriage Bargain / Jennifer Probst
Harper's Magazine (June 2012)             
The Man in the Window / K.O. Dahl
Yellowrocket: poems / Todd Boss
Big City Eyes: a novel / Delia Ephron
Pavilion of Women: a novel / Pearl Buck
Libby: the Alaskan diaries and letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880 / Libby Beaman
Traveling Mercies: some thoughts on Faith / Anne Lamott
La Petite: a memoir of childhood / Michele Halberstadt
East and West: stories / Pearl Buck
West of West: poems / Walter Bargen
The Sixth Wife / Jean Plaidy
Childhood Education v.87:6                     
The Big Thirst / Charles Fishman
The Last Werewolf / Glen Duncan
Dorchester Terrace / Anne Perry
Built-in furniture / Jim Tolpin
Shadow of Night / Harkness