Well, we still have not heard from our gang at Forest Park, but I gave them warning that I'd be posting totals today for the district. Before blogging on the MO Book Challenge Blog, I thought you all might like to know just how fantastic we did!
Participants: 34
Books: 169
Pages: 41,970
Talk about Rockin' and Rollin'! Keep up the great work guys. Oh, who are we kidding? Does anyone really think reading is "work"? :)
Monday, April 16, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
The Lone Warrior @ Wildwood...
...continues to amaze with her totals! Abby read 9 more books last month with a grand total of 2408 pages. Very impressive. How the woman finds any time to read I do not know but, so grateful she fits it in! LOL!
For those that are interested, here's what she read:
Death of a Kingfisher by M C Beaton
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Troll Garden and O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Death of a Kingfisher by M C Beaton
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Troll Garden and O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Glass Demon by Helen Grant
College Libraries and Student Culture by Lynda Duke
Friday, April 6, 2012
Meramec Marches On!
Meramec's March 2012 titles are in! We had a whopping16 participants read 66 books for a grand total of 17,000 pages! (Yes, I know, it's a round number, better double-check that math).
Samantha
Tothz 5 books 1889 pp
Kim
Harrison, "For a Few Demons More", 456 pg.
"The
Outlaw Demon Wails", Kim Harrison, 455 pgs.
"White
Witch, Black Curse", Kim Harrison, 504 pgs.
"Black
Magic Sanction" by Kim Harrison, 487 pgs.
"Pale
Demon" by Kim Harrison, 437 pgs.
Janice
Hovis 6 books, 1735 pp (10 hrs, 40 min)
House
Rules by Jodi Picoult, 529 pp.
Death of
a Kingfisher by M.C. Beaton, 245 pp
As the
Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong, 7 hours, 40 min. (320 pp)
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 3 hrs. (192 pp)
The
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 374 pp
I am
Half-Sick of Shadows: a Flavia De Luce Novel by Alan Bradley, 297 pp
Bonnie
Sanguinet
2 books, 562 pages
College
libraries and student culture : what we now know / edited by Lynda M. Duke and
Andrew D. Asher, 191 pages.
Started
Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson, 12.5 hours, 371 pages
Margaret
(Peggy) Bowe 4 books 897pp.
The Bucolic Plague 304 pg
Where Things Come Back 228 pg
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 163 pages
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich 202 pages
Damaris Schmitt 4 books 969 pp.
Riggs. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie. 239 pp.
Grounds for Murder 217 pp.
Sweeney Todd Demon
Barber of Fleet Street 198pp
Brandon. Double Booked for Death 325pp.
Becky
Helbling 4 books 1740 pp.
1Q84 / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the
Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. 925 pages
Loon Lake / E. L. Doctorow. 258 pages
Tomatoland : How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed our Most Alluring Fruit / Barry Estabrook. 220 pages
Star Island / Carl Hiaasen. 337 pages
Donna Fitzwater 7 books 2245 pp.
The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries 403
The
Tiger's Wife 368
Death of a Kingfisher
245
State of Wonder 368
Henry and Clara 358
Defending Jacob 421
Ragnorak The end of the
Gods 192
-retelling
of Norse myth about the end of the world by A.S. Byatt
Scott
Armstead 2 books 524 pp.
Bryson. Neither Here nor There 270 pp.
Bryson. The Thunderbolt Kid. 254pp.
Jana Brazeal 7 books 673 pp.
Number the Stars by Lowry, Lois 137 pages
My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the
Music of Bach by Stapert, Calvin 225 pages
The Sacred Image in Art by Hall, Marcia pp.1-39
Bach’s B minor Mass by Terry, C.S. 47 pages
The Long Road Home by Shephard, Ben (still slogging)
pp.179-255 ( 76 pages)
Lazarus: A Contemporary Reading of John 11:1-46 by Byrne,
Brendan pp.37-68
The Inner voice of Love by Nouwen, Henri 118
pages
Patti Sciuto 2
books 944 pp.
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 528 pages
Amber Room 416 pages
Martha Henderson 1 book 230 pp.
How to train a wild elephant and other adventures in
mindfulness, 230p.
Bobbie Ohmer 3 books
1080pp.
Life of Pie by Yann Martel (AUDIO 9 discs 11.5
hours) 319 pages
Trail of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz 375pp
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth (AUDIO 12 discs 14
hours) 386 pages
Molly Dubberke 2 books 457pp.
Moon tiger by Penelope Lively (208 pages)
Confessions of a prep school mommy handler: a memoir by Wade Rouse (249 pages)
Christine Smith 2 books 508 pp.
Mystic Fear, J. Whitford, 333 pp.
Big Hair and Flying Cows, Dolores Wilson, 175pp.
Phil Carmody 6 books 1407 pp.
Pity the
Billionaire (Thomas Frank) 225pp.
Qigong Empowerment
(Liang, Shou-Yu) 348 pp.
Toolbox for
Sustainable City Living (Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew) 241 pp.
Raylan (Elmore
Leonard)263 pp.
The Breakdown of
Nations (Leopold Kohr)244pp.
The Sociologist's
Book of Cartoons (The New Yorker, The American Sociological Association)86pp.
Betty Freeman 9 books 1002 pp
Princess Charming, Nicole Jordan, 357
Max's Castle, Kate Banks, 37
I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klarsen, 26
Hugs from Pearl, Paul Schmid, 34
Born & Bred in the Great Depression, Jonah Watson, 33
Rosie Sprout's Time to Shine, Allison Wortche, 31
11 Experiments that Failed, Jenny Offill, 36
Solomon Crocodile, Catherine Rayner, 32
Satin Seduction, Allison Knight, 416
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