Finally Reporting July's Totals

The gang at Flo is still reading away.  Hopefully the umbers will rise now that our staff has returned from the summer break.  For the seventh month we had 4 people read 16 books for a total of 5,228 pages.  Here's what we read:

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Mandela's Way: Fifteen Life Lessons onLife, Love, and Courage by Richard Stengell
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Life After Life by Jill McCorkle
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Jeart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
Mindfulness by Wark Williams, and Danny Penman
The Storyteller by Jodi Piccoult
Zoo by James Patterson
McMafia: A Journey Through the Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Vengeance in Death by J D Robb
Orgy by Larry Levin

Abby at Wildwood read 5 books at 1508 pages.  Here's her reading list:

After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey
Kinsmen by Bill Pronzini
A Killing in the Hills by Julie Keller
The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
Fractured by Karin Slaughter

Please excuse any typs (like the letter "n" missing from the word "numbers").  There is an error on the page and it won't let me re-enter text in the middle of a sentence.  My apologies.  I really do know how to spell.  LOL

Dog Days at HPIR

Here we are at the end of the reading year for MO Book Challenge. We have our same five readers, who read a total of 4158 pages in July. Jim was way out in front with 1667 pages, and yours truly came up second with 996. Here are the 14 titles we read:

Flight Behavior / Barbara Kingsolver 
Waging Heavy Peace /Neil Young 
Harper's Magazine (June 2013)                                             
The One and Only Ivan / Katherine Applegate 
In the Shadow of the Crown / Jean Plaidy 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith  / Jon Krakauer 
Silken Prey / John Stanford 
Plum Lucky / Janet Evanovich 
Lethal Investments / K.O. Dahl 
Open City / Teju Cole 
Myself My Enemy / Jean Plaidy 
Sunset Express / Robert Crais 
Life everlasting: the animal way of death / Heinrich, Bernd 
A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold

Lazy July days at Meramec...

...are not so bad:

Even with many of our team out for the summer or between-semester break, we managed to scrape up 5 participants to read 22 books for a total of 6632 pages. Damaris again led the way with 9 books and 2517 pages. Here's what we read in July:

Prize by Brenda Joyce
What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries
Taming of Ryder Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens
Harvard Square by Andre Aciman
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Not Waving, Drowning by William Stage
Cookbook Conspiracy by Carlisle
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince by Atherton
Not the Killing Type by Garrett
Never Hug a Nun by Killeen
Four Last Things by Hallinan
Homicide in Hardcover by Carlisle
Revenge Wears Prada by Weisberger
Cat Sitter’s Cradle by Clement
So Dies the Dreamer by Curtiss
The Unicorn Sonata by Peter S. Beagle
Bagpipes Brides and Homicides by Kaitlyn Dunnett
The Importance of Being Seven by Alexander McCall Smith
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
The Serpent and the Lamb by Steven Ozment
The Early Slavs by P. M. Barford

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