I know, I know, I've been falling down on the job. What can I say, the Valley just isn't doing any reading this summer. Probably because a number of our big readers aren't around in the summertime. Lucky dogs. LOL No listing of titles this time, I just want to get the numbers out there for May and June.
May
2 people read 4 books for 1885 pages (see, I told you we weren't reading)
June
3 people read 5 books for a total of 1819 pages (pathetic, huh? lol)
Abby however, is still reading like it's her last day on Earth. The lovely lady at Wildwood read 7 books for 2120 pages in May. She followed that up in June by reading 6 books for a total of 2272 pages.
I vote we steal Abby. ;)
Monday, July 22, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
HPIR is HOT in June!
The summer is melting my brain! I thought I had posted already about June, but no. Our FIVE participants read a total of 25 books and 7250 pages. Jim whupped us all with 2011 pages. I came in second with 1828, which might just be a personal best! Here's what we read:
The Secret History of the CIA / Joseph J. Trento
NYPD Red / James Patterson & Marshall Karp
Ten Thousand Saints / Eleanor Henderson
As Sweet As Honey / Indira Ganesan
The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Private Berlin / James Patterson & Mark Sullivan
Me Talk Pretty One Day / David Sedaris
The Trouble with Chickens / Doreen Cronin
Nate the Great / Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Diary of a Worm / Doreen Cronin
The Hit / David Baldacci
9th Girl / Tami Hoag
The Kill Room / Jeffery Deaver
The Terrorists / Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
12th of Never / James Patterson
The Room / Emma Donoghue
My Cold War / Tom Piazza
The Bone Bed / Patricia Cornwell
The Shadow Woman / Åke Edwardson
The House of Special Purpose / John Boyne
Guilt / Jonathan Kellerman
Blues and Trouble / Tom Piazza
Never End / Åke Edwardson
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies / John Murray
Life everlasting: the animal way of death / Bernd Heinrich
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Meramec in June
Meramec's 7 participants in June read 35 books (same as May!) and 9511 pages. Damaris is in the lead again, with 10 books and 2960 pages. Here's what we read in June:
| J.S. Bach: the complete cantatas | Richard Stokes Trans. |
| Reinventing Bach | Paul Elie |
| The Serpent and the Lamb | Steven Ozment |
| Soultypes | Hirsch and Kise |
| Transatlantic | McCann |
| The Strangler | Landay |
| The Art of Hearing Heartbeats | Jan-Philipp Sendker |
| A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
| Manuscript Found in Accra | Paulo Coelho |
| Maya's Notebook | Isabel Allende |
| Altars of Unhewn Stone | Wes Jackson |
| Sweet Tea Revenge | Childs |
| Handbook to Handling His Lordship | Enoch |
| Pirate King | King |
| I Want to Kill the Dog | Cohen |
| Insane City | Barry |
| Marrying Season | Camp |
| Close Knit Killer | Sefton |
| Murder in Mykonos | Siger |
| A Tine to Live a Tine to Die | Maxwell |
| Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble | Ross |
| One of Our Thursdays is Missing | Jasper Fforde |
| Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Room: A Novel | Emma Donoghue |
| The Matisse Stories | A.S. Byatt |
| Pretty Monsters: Stories | Kelly Link |
| Up on the River: An Upper Mississippi Chronicle | John Madson |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| Three Bags Full | Leonie Swann |
| Golden Egg | Donna Leon |
| Stranger in the Moonlight | Deveraux |
| Vader’s Little Princess | Brown |
| Kingdom of Dreams | McNaught |
| Rabbit & Robot: the Sleepover | Bell |
| Assorted children’s books |
Summer doldrums: May & June for Meramec
Oh, no! We forgot to post Meramec's totals for May! It was a good month, too: our 8 readers read 35 books, 9900 pages. Bobbie & Damaris tied for number of books (&), but Damaris came out ahead with 2147 pages. June totals will be posted shortly...
Books we read in May:
Books we read in May:
| Josephus: The Essential Works | Paul Maier |
| Writing Creative Non-fiction | Tilar Mazzeo |
| Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narrative: the Resurrection | Isaac Williams |
| Reinventing Bach | Paul Elie |
| Speaking From Among the Bones | Alan Bradley |
| The Language of Flowers | Vanessa Diffenbaugh |
| Thursday Next: First Among Sequels | Jasper Fforde |
| Three Bags Full | Swann |
| Bergdorf Blondes | Sykes |
| And the Miss Ran away with the Rake | Boyle |
| Travels with Epicurus | Klein |
| The Suspect | Lescroat |
| Board Stiff | Viets |
| Bat in the Belfry | Graves |
| The Great Leader | Jim Harrison |
| The Strangler | Landay |
| Man Without Breath | Philip Kerr |
| Handbook to Handling His Lordship | Enoch |
| Children’s books | |
| Marrying Season | Camp |
| Sometimes a Rogue | Putney |
| Austenland | Hale |
| Faith | Jennifer Haigh |
| Farther Away | Jonathan Franzen |
| News From Heaven | Jennifer Haigh |
| The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days | Ian Frazier |
| Burgess Boys | Elizabeth Strout |
| The Dinner | Herman Koch |
| Home Truths | David Lodge |
| Leadershift | Orrin Woodward |
| Reseolved | Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady |
| Defending Jacob | William Landay |
| Amity and Sorrow | Peggy Riley |
| Lessons in French | Hilary Reyl |
| The Testament of Mary | Colm Tóibín |
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