Monday, August 6, 2012

THE VALLEY DOES A LITTLE BETTER, BUT EVEN ABBY CAN'T PUT US OVER THE TOP

The folks at Florissant-Valley may have lost a participant, but we picked up an extra thousand pages from last month.  (Thank goodness Sharon picked up some Wally Lamb!  lol)  Our HP compatriots seem to be kicking all of our derierres so as much as I hate to say it, "Congrats to you guys in the warehouse.  I guess your home lives must be very sad."  LOL!  Just teasing you guys.  We would never be able to do a thing without any of you.  We are so very glad to be alongside all the great men and women of STLCC Libraries!

Now, let's get down to business, shall we?

The combined totals for Flo-Valley and Wildwood are as follows:

# of participants:       6
# of books:               26
  # of pages:              9327


Sandy Morris takes the prize for most books and pages read.  3285!  Twice as much as anyone else in our group!  Turns out July was too hot for her to do anything other than read.  I heard that! 


For those that like to see what's being read (like me):

The Never-Ending Story by Michael Ende
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
In One Person by John Irving
The Vault by Ruth Rendell
When the Thrill is Gone by Walter Mosley
Feast Day of Fools by James Lee Burke
Newsweek magazine (3 issues)
To Kill or Cure by Susanna Gregory
A Killer in Winter by Susanna Gregory
The Hand of Justice by Susanna Gregory
The Mark of a Murderer by Susanna Gregory
A Vein of Deceit by Susanna Gregory
The Killer of Pilgrims by Susanna Gregory
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Innocent by David Baldacci
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamp
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa by by Douglas Rogers
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss  by Vanessa and Helen Williams
Beautiful Ruins: a Novel by Jess Walter
Gone Missing by Linda Castillo
Uncommon Places: The Complete Works by Stephen Shore
Canada by Richard ford
Long Gone by Alafair Burke

Well, that about does it for the Wild Valley crew.  Either next month will be better because faculty will be back, or it will be worse because we're about to hit the crazy times.  Keep reading, all.  We got some librarian butts to kick!  :)


Friday, August 3, 2012

HPIR Sizzles in July!

Did we just break our own record? Yes we did! Seven readers at Highland Park Instructional Resources read 13,474 pages. The indefatigable Marian read 3170 pages; Sheila was second with 2665, then Jim with 2362. Here's what we read:


Fifty Shades of Grey / E.L. James
Love is Murder / Bestselling authors
The Outlook (July 4, 2012)
Breakdown / Sara Paretsky
Fifty Shades Darker / E.L. James
Joe's Black T-Shirt: Short Stories About St. Louis / Joe Schwartz
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA / Tim Weiner
The Yard / Alex Grecian
Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
The Sun (March 2012)                                                                                       
The Sun (May 2012)                                                                                           
Red Mist / Patricia Cornwell
The Good Father / Noah Hawley
The Sun (Sept. 2011)                                                                                          
Julip / Jim Harrison
Nano Houses / Phyllis Richardson
New Republic (Aug 2, 2012)                                                                            
Design it yourself clothes: patternmaking simplified / Cal Patch
In the Time of the Butterflies / Julia Alvarez
The Games Men Play: Short Stories and Vignettes / Joe Schwartz
Diamond in the Rough  / Shawn Colvin
Before I Go to Bed / S.J. Watson
Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson / Kent Gustavson
The Lady in the Tower / Jean Plaidy
Birds of Paradise / Diana Abu-Jaber
The Final Problem / Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure of the Empty House / Arthur Conan Doyle
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) / Lewis Carroll
The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael of Wales / Paul Conklin
In Mad Love and War / Joy Harjo
Tunnel of Love: a novel / Hilma Wolitzer
Step.Ball.Change: a novel / Jeanne Ray
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky: a novel / Jeanne Ray
Calling Invisible Women: a Novel / Jeanne Ray
Jurgis Petraskas: poems / Anthony Petrosky
Death in Ecstasy / Ngaio Marsh
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 amazing authors tell the tales / Chris Van Allsburg & others
Delights and Shadows: poems / Ted Kooser
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics / Edited by Alan Aldridge
The Lion is In: a novel / Delia Ephron
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: writers running wild in the Twenties: Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber / Marian Meade
Remedies for Vertigo: poems / Walter Bargen
After You've Gone: short stories /Alice Adams
The Last Lovely City: short stories / Alice Adams
Private #1 Suspect / James Patterson
The Third Option / Vince Flynn
Transfer of Power / Vince Flynn
Eyes of Prey / John Stanford