LATE AGAIN, AND WITH LOW NUMBERS TO BOOT. :/

Well, Flo didn't do all that well this month.  The Valley seems to be slipping in our reading.  Thank goodness for our colleagues at the other campuses that still keep our stats for the state challenge, high!

This month we are reporting a total of 22 books and mags, read by 8 people for a total of 6905 pages.

I don't know gang, we need a little motivation to crack some spines.  lol

Our beloved Abby, out in Wildwood did a spectacular job (as always) by consuming 5 books worth a total of 2180 pages.  The woman can READ!!  :)

Some of the titles we read:

The Dave Store Massacre by Ron ebest

My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Hiss and Hers by M C Becton

The Gift of Pets: Stories Only a Vet Could Tell by Bruce Coston

The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer by Renee Fleming

Least of Evil by J M Gregson

The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

Guy Noir and the Case of the Straight Skinny by Garrison Keilor

Whores: An Oral biography of Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction by Brendan Mullen

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers: an Oral and Visual History by Brendan Muller

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux

Zero Day by David Baldacci

Gone by Randy Wayne White

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg

The Beautiful Mystery by Louis Penny

Night Watch by Linda Fairstein

And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman

Q Road by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Sovereign by C J Sansom

The Twelve by Justin Cronin.

Several issues of Newsweek Magazine as well



October at Highland Park

What would you campus peeps do without us at Highland Park? We do all the behind-the-scenes work to keep your libraries well-stocked, and we kick your behinds every month in MO Book Challenge (and pump up STLCC Libraries' numbers). Our SEVEN readers read a total of 10,225 pages. Marian, the perennial champeen reader, read 2869 pages; Sheila came in second with 2160; Jim was third with 1648. I was fourth, BTW, with 1451 pages, but we won't mention fourth place. Here's what we read: 
  
Caught / Harlan Coban
Back Fire / Catherine Coulter
The Wind through the Keyhole / Stephen King
Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion / Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank (ed)
The Race / Clive Cussler
Those Who Save Us / Jenna Blum
The Happiness Project / Gretchen Rubin
Creole Belle / James Lee Burke
11th Hour / James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
The Outlook (October 8, 2012) / S&P
The Brass Verdict / Michael Connelly
Harper's Magazine (September 2012)                            
The Sun (June 2012)                                                              
Low Pressure / Sandra Brown
The Outlook (October 15, 2012) / S&P
The Boy in the Suitcase / Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
The Racketeer / John Grisham
The Outlook (October 22, 2012) / S&P
Salt Dancers: a novel / Ursula Hegi
The Rainbow: a novel / Pearl Buck
Plant Dreaming Deep / May Sarton
Alaska: a novel / James A. Michener
As They Were: Essays / M.F.K. Fisher
The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: a novel / Alexander McCall Smith
In Revere in Those Days: a novel / Roland Merullo
Wish You Were Here: a novel / Graham Swift
War Stories: Poems About Long Ago and Now / Howard Nemerov
Grand and Arsenal: Poems / Kerri Webster
The Porcupine: a novel / Julian Barnes
The Voice of the Poet: Poems / Elizabeth Bishop
Rite of Passage: a novel / Richard Wright
Playing Through: a Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coasts / Curtis Gillespie
World Without End / Ken Follett
The Time in Between / Maria Duenas
Girlchild / Tupelo Hassman
Corduroy Mansions / Alexander McCall Smith
Presidents Club                                                                       
In the garden of the beasts / Erik Larson
God Clobbers Us All / Poe Ballantine
What's the Matter With Kansas? / Thomas Frank

Meramec in the lead (in posting, at least)

Meramec's 9 October participants read 9043 pages in 30 titles! Phil and Bobbie are tied in number of titles (6 each), but Phil takes the lead with 1953 pages.

Here's what we read in October:

Mindlin	Your Playlist Can Change Your Life
Heyer	Behold Here’s Poison
Brown	Good Eats – the Early Years
Adamson	Beware the Laughing Gull
Alexander	My Wicked Little Lies
Bill Bryson	A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Jesmyn Ward	Salvage the Bones
Michael J. Sandel	What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Kim Fay	The Map of Lost Memories
Michael Chabon	Telegraph Avenue
Joanne Harris	Chocolate: A Novel
Robin Sloan	Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Louise Erdrich	The Round House
Gretchen Rubin	The Happiness Project
Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki	Alice’s Piano
Tennyson	In Memoriam
Mark Kurlansky	1968: The Year that rocked the world
Elisabeth Sifton	The Serenity Prayer
Lorrie Moore	Gate at the Stairs
Philip Kerr	Prague Fatale
Kurt Andersen	True Believers
Sandra Cisneros	Have You Seen Marie
David Levithan	Lover’s Dictionary
Jan-Philipp Sendker	Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Douglas Adams	The Salmon of Doubt
Lee Child	Trip Wire
Michael Chabon	Telegraph Avenue
Jussi Adler-Olsen	The Absent One
Dennis Lehane	Live by Night
Patrick Flanery	Absolution