Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Curling up to read at Meramec

H.Ch.Baron / Woman With Book. Fine Art.Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 12 Nov 2013.http://quest.eb.com/images/109_164239

Meramec's 10 readers curled up with 33 books in October, for a total of 9664 pages. Phil & Damaris both read 6 books, but Phil topped the page count at 1586. 

Chicks with Sticks, Lenhard, 261
Murder in Lascaux, Draine, 275
Gone with the Woof, Berenson, 282
Juggler of Our Lady, Blechman and Sendak, 140
Asking Questions, Keating, 282
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Christie, 288
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri, 339 
The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo, 362  
The Circle, Dave Eggers, 491 
MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, 394 
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver, 436
Strong Motion, Jonathan Franzen, 508
The Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen, 517
Arrangement, Balogh, 380
Children’s books, 120
Hotshot, Garwood, 356
Counterfeit Mistress, Hunter, 312
Bosnian Chronicle, Andric Ivo,   59
Doris  Weatherford, Foreign and Female,  125
Secret Ingredients: the New Yorker book of food and drink, Davie  Remnick (ed.),  39
Seasons in Hell, Ed Vulliamy, 89
Lutheranism 101,   Scot Kinnaman (ed.), 148
Shut Up and Write, Judy  Bridges, 176
True Blue, Baldacci, 163
Zero Day, Baldacci, 363
The Hit, Baldacci, 390
Husbands Secret, Liane Moriarty, 396
Total Chaos, Jean-Claude Izzo, 248
Claire DeWitt & the City of the Dead, Sara Gran, 273
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather, 303
Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America, Dan Balz, 381
Seabiscuit, Hillibrand, 399

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot, 369


HPIR here, to make our small but very meaningful contribution to Reading the Dream. Our four readers (everyone else here must be watching TV) read a total of 3720. Jim read the most, 1497 pages, and then Jane with 1168 pages.

Here's what we read:

The Monarch Across the Street (in African American Review) / Paul Alan Fahey
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest / Stieg Larsson

Folktales from Turkey / Serpil Ural

Nasreddin Hodja / Raymond C. Clark, compiler

Trick or Treat / Lisa Morton

Sundog : the story of an American foreman, Robert Corvus Strang, as told to Jim Harrison : a novel / Jim Harrison

Returning to earth / Jim Harrison

Harper's (Oct. 2013)                                                                                                                     

The Twenty-Seventh City / Jonathan Franzen

Vampires, Bones, and Treacle Scones / Kaitlyn Dunnett

October Mourning / Leslea Newman

Sail of Stone / Åke Edwardson

The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman

Royal Pains / Leslie Carroll

Holy Orders / Benjamin Black

Police / Jo Nesbø

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel  / Maria Semple

There's Been Some Reading Going Down in the Valley! Yeah, Yeah, Abby's Been Reading too. LOL



The numbers for Flo-Valley are looking up this month.  October was a good time for reading, and as the winds pick up and the temps drop, I'll bet our totals will continue to rise.  You know that's what I like to see!  :)

What are the numbers, you ask?  Well without further adieu...


7 people read
26 books for a total of
7461 pages

Nice to see us back in the swing of things.  :)  Now for the numbers out of Wildwood:

4 books were read for a total of
1758 pages!  

Looking for book ideas?  Maybe we read something that would interest you.

The Nine:  Inside the Secret World of The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
mr. g by Alan Lightman
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
The Big Necessity by Rose George
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Relic by Preston and Childs
The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans
The Refuge by Tara Brach
At Home in the Muddy Water by Ezra Bayda
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
The Odd Women by George Gissing
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home by Sue Halpern
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
The Leper's Bell by Peter Tremayne
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword by Noel Perrin
A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K Nelson
Home From the Sea by Mercedes Lackey
Bastion by Mercedes Lackey
The Best of Photojournalism 2003
The Best of Photojournalism 2004 
Slip of the Knot by Denise Mina
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini