December 2015

STLCC's 7 readers read 38 books in December for a whopping 12983 pages!!
(A few of these were read in earlier months and just now reported).

Ella the Slayer	A.W. Exley
Heart of the Kraken	A.W. Exley
Cleanly Wrong	Mell Eight
Dragon Consultant	Mell Eight
Wish in One Hand	B. E. Sanderson
Heart of Ice	K.M. Shea
Feynard	Marc Secchia
Aranya	Marc Secchia
Sad Book	Michael Rosen
Dorothy Must Die	Danielle Page
Dishing the Dirt	McCall Smith
Death Comes to Kurland Hall	Catherine Lloyd
the Woman Who Walked in Sunshine	Alexander McCall Smith
Marry Me at Christmas	Susan Mallery
Manhattan Mayhem	Various
Winter Stroll	Elin Hilderbrand
We're Going on a Bear Hunt	Michael rosen
A Dangerous Woman	Sharon Rudahl
A Christmas Escape	Anne Perry
The House of Silk	Antony Horowitz
Soul	Tobsha Learner
Powers in a Teenage Witch	Ian Schrauth
Ancillary Mercy	Ann Leckie
We Never Asked for Wings	Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Yes, Please	Amy Poehler
The Girl in the Spider's Web	David Lagercrantz
Purity	Jonathan Franzen
Open Grave	Kjell Eriksson
A Free State	Tom Piazza
The Hanging Girl	Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Gods of Guilt	Michael Connelly
The Black Box	Michael Connelly
The Drop	Michael Connelly
Void Moon	Michael Connelly
Warriors for Jerusalem	Donald Neff
Warriors Against Israel	Donald Neff
Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945	Donald Neff
Fifty Years of Israel	Donald Neff
BiblioTech: why libraries matter more than ever in the age of Google	John G Palfrey
The Residence
Kickback
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette	Judith Thurman

November totals

The STLCC Reading the Dream Team read 24 books in November, 7460 pages. We had 12 participants.

Thinspired by Mara Schiavocampo
Closer to the Heart by Mercedes Lackey
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the world that made him
Mistress of the Wind by Michelle Diener
Polio: an American story byDavid Oshinsky
Escape from Camp 14: one man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West, by      Blaine Harden
Checking Out Love  by R. Cooper
A Little Familiar by R. Cooper
Soul  by Tobsha Learner
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Leaving Tabasco byCarmen Boullosa
Frangipani by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
A Breath of Snow and Ashes byDiana Gabaldon
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
The Way of the Wolf by Martin Bell
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Sick in the head : conversations about life and comedy by Judd Apatow
Dashing through the snow by Macomber
Trimmed with murder by Goldenbaum
Winter Wonders by Melody Carlson
Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier

Anxiously Awaiting Winter!

...the newest book in the Lunar Chronicles (new window), not the season!

As a child, fantasy was always my go-to genre for reading and still is! The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer proved to be exceptionally appealing to me as an adult, especially the book titles. The main character for each book in the series embodies a well-known princess character from traditional literature, but the series is set in the future where the moon is now inhabited and that society is at odds with the people of Earth. The author creatively weaves folkloric traditions into the fabric of science fiction throughout the series and I anxiously look forward to getting my hands on Winter!

October Totals:

9692 pages
34  books
12  readers

Books we read in October: 

The Wilds	Donna Augustine
The Last Necromancer	C.J Archer
Her Majesty's Necromancer	C.J. Archer
Circus Mirandus	Cassie Beasley
Checked Out	Elaine Viets
The Bark Before Christmas	Laurien Berenson
Only a Kiss	Mary Balogh
Girl Waits with Gun	Amy Stewart
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up	Marie Kondo
The Library	Scott Douglas & Andy Sweat
Woof	Spencer Quinn
Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson
In a Dark, Dark Wood	Ruth Ware
Cancer: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was First Diagnosed	Michele Ryan
Superfood Smoothies	Julie Morris
The Wright Brothers	David McCullough
A Lucky Life Interrupted	Tom Brokaw
The Cookbook Collector	Allegra Goodman
How to Be Black	Baratunde Thurston
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
The Best of Our Spies	Alex Gerlis
The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education	Karl Kapp
Games, Gadgets and Gizmos for Learning	Karl Kapp
Because of Mr. Terupt	Rob Buyea
Euphoria	Lily King
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay	Elena Ferrante
East of Eden	John Steinbeck
Fates and Furies	Lauren Groff
Funny in Farsi	Firoozeh Dumas
Above the Waterfall	Ron Rash
The Stupidest Angel	Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job	Christopher Moore
Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson
The Maid's Version	Daniel Woodrell

Try to remember, that time in September...

I am way, way, late getting the totals up for September!
Give me a break, it's my first time.
September marks a new year for the MO Book Challenge. Here's what we read:

Brick Lane/ Monica Ali
How to Be Both/ Ali Smith
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/ J.K. Rowling
The House of Memories / Monica McInerney
Go Set a Watchman/ Harper Lee
Friction/ Sandra Brown
Make Me : a Jack Reacher Novel/ Lee Child
Steadfast / Mercedes Lackey
Blood Red/ Mercedes Lackey
The Maid’s Version/ Daniel Woodrell
Little Women / Louisa May Alcott
Make Me / Lee Child
And then there were none/ Agatha Christie
Run you down / Julia Dahl
The Burning Room / Michael Connelly
To kill a mockingbird/ Harper Lee
The Fiery Cross/ Diana Gabaldon
The House of Memories / Monica McInerney
Euphoria / Lily King
How to be a grown-up/ Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Novel Habits of Happiness/ Alexander McCall Smith
Alphabetical/ Michael Rosen
Found Floating/ Freeman Crofts
Woof/ Spencer Quinn
The Road to Character/ David Brooks
Font of Life/ Garry Wills
My Rock and Salvation/ Zip Rzeppa
The Night Circus/ Erin Morgenstern

That's a total of  28 books, 10,335 pages, and 11 team readers!!

August Numbers. Finally. :)

The last month that I will be posting our numbers for the Missouri Book challenge.  I believe Mrs. Janice Hovis will be taking over statistician duties next month.  Have fun, Janice!  Get yourself a big ole binder!  :)

Okay, how did we do for August?  Well, let me tell you...

11 people

29 books

9427 pages

For those that like to look at what kinds of things us librarians read...

Young Eliot: From New York to the Waste Land by Robert Crawford

Brush Back by Sara Paretsky

Shirley: A Tale by Charlotte Bronte

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Bertie Plays the Blues by Alexander McCall Smith

Haunted by Kay Hooper

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

A Slender Thread by Katherine Davis

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Scents and Sensibility by Spencer Quinn

Wicked Charms by Janet Evonovich

How to be a Grown-Up by Emma McLaughlin

Malice at the Palace by Rhys Brown

Woof by Spencer Quinn

Bee Line to Trouble by Hannah Reed

The Lion by Nelson DeMille

Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews

V for Vendetta by Steve Moore

A dirty Job by Christopher Moore

the Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

On God's Side by Jim Walls

Thomas Crammer: Theologian by G W Bromily

Our Daily Bread: German Village Life by Teva J Sheer

The Book of Common Prayer by Alan Jacobs

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

July Numbers

I'd love to read to you, little man!  :)

Sorry, the first of my little birdies flew the coop this week and I'm wishing for my little man again.  

Here are the numbers for July:

11 people
49 books
13,910 pages



The things we read:

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos
The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths
Langston Hughes by S. L. Berry
Shirley: a Tale by Charlotte Bronte
A Dog's History of the World by Laura Hobgood-Oster
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
World Gone By by Denis Lehane
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Invisible City by Julia Dahl
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Reckless by Tom Clavin
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Communion Town by Sam Thompson
Raising the Global floor by Jody Heymann
Last Chain on Billie by Carol Bradley
Saint Odd by Dean Koontz
How it All Began by Penelope Lively
Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacobs
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
A Perfect Match by Fern Michaels
A Murder, A Mystery, A Marriage by Mark Twain
Not Always a Saint by Mary Jo Putney
Purl Up and Die by Maggie Sefton
Little Heathers by Mildred Kalish
Street Craft by Riikka Kuittinen
Cultivating Creativity by Maria Fabrizio
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Started Early, took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie
The City & the City by China Mieville
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
The Swimmer by Joakim Zander
Beginning HTML and CSS by Rob Larsen
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Way of Jesus Christ by Jurgen Moltmann
On God's Side by Jim Wallis
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
The Water Knife by Paulo Bacigalupi
The Wealth of Nature by John Michael Greer
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
The Cove by Ron Rash