Monday, May 20, 2013

Meramec reporting late, but going strong!

Meramec's numbers for April are way up! Our 12 readers read a total of 40 books, 11774 pages. Becky Helbling tops the chart with 6 books and 1823 pages. Here's what we read in April:

 
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing  Charlie Papazian
Brewing Classic Styles  Jamil Zainasheff & John J. Palmer
The Famished Road  Ben Okri
Autobiography of Us  Aria Sloss
Tenth of December  George Saunders
Cocktail Waitress  James M. Cain
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain  Betty Edwards
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet  Jamie Ford
This One is Mine  Maria Semple
Then End of Illness  David Agus
The Fall of the Faculty  Benjamin Ginsberg
The Phantom  Jo Nesbo
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children  Ransom Riggs
Something Rotten  Jasper Fforde
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance  Lois McMaster Bujold
Death of Yesterday  M.C. Beaton
Death of Yesterday  M.C. Beaton
Blueberry Muffin Murder  Fluke
Lady of Expectations  Laurens
Farewell,  Dorothy Parker  Meister
Killer Crust  Cavender
Nothing to Lose  Lee Child
Bride by Moonlight  Carlyle
Conquest of Lady Cassandra  Hunter
And Then She Fell  Laurens
And Then the Miss Ran Away  Doyle
Rascal  Chris Brady
Leadershift  Orrin Woodward
Five Love Languages of Children
Launching a Leadership Revolution
A Short History of the Early Church  Harry R. Boer
The First Muslim: the Story of Muhammad  Lesley Hazleton
Twentysomething: why do young adults seem stuck  Henig
Touch  Tiffany Field
Authority Vested  Mary Todd
The art of fielding  Chad Harbach
The Burgess Boys  Elizabeth Stout
Unwanted  Krisitina Olston
Midnight in Peking  Paul French
Life After Life  Kate Atkinson



FLO'S TOTALS ARE EMBARASSING



Well the gang here has really slipped.  We had all of 3 readers reading 7 books for a total of 2469 pages.

At least Abby is still chugging along at the Wildwood campus.  She managed to put away 8 books for a total of 2665 pages.





Here's what got read:
A Feast For Crows by George R R Martin
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Sleep No More by Iris Johansen
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Death of Yesterday by M C Beaton
Sacrifice by S J Bolton
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Portable Henry Rollins by Henry Rollins
Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton
The Snow Child by Edwyn, Ivey
Safe House by chris Evans
The Good House by Ann Leary

Monday, May 13, 2013

HPIR lags in April

Our five participants logged a total of 3088 pages. Jim was first with 1431 pages, then Jane with 1036. We need a renaissance! Here's what we read:

"Getting Closer" in New Yorker magazine / Steven Millhauser
"There was a ripping sound" in African American Review / Quincy Scott Jones
"Signs and Deliverance" in African American Review / Edward Kelsey Moore
A Sunless Sea / Anne Perry
"Paranoia" in New Yorker magazine / Said Sayrafiezadeh
"The Other Place" in New Yorker magazine / Mary Gaitskill
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet / John G. Turner
Private London / James Patterson & Mark Pearson
A Girl Like You / Maria Geraci
Death Angels / Åke Edwardson
Harper's Magazine (April 2013)                                                                                      
World War Z / Max Brooks
Gifts of the crow / John Marzluff and Tony Angell
Forest Unseen / David George Haskill
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatism Won the Heart of America / Thomas Frank
Bones are Forever / Kathy Reichs
The Fire Engine That Disappeared / Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahloo