Well the good folks at the Florissant Valley branch have been hard at work reading, reading, and reading some more. Here's where we stand for the month of January 2012:
10 Participants
49 Books
9,181 Pages
And the crowd goes wild! Not a bad showing for the first month of competition. Some of the other campuses may have done slightly better than we did, but don't you worry. This fight is still young, and we will be VICTORIOUS!
The books we read, plus a funny cat pic at the end. :)
1. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (468 pp)
2. Missed Connections: Love, Lost and Found by Sophie Blackall (128 pp)
3. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (185 pp)
4. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (406 pp)
5. Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich (305 pp)
6. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai (324 pp)
7. 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles, St Louis by Steve Henry (259 pp)
8. With a Little Luck by Caprice Crane (308 pp)
9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (387 pp)
10. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill and John Archambault Martin Jr. (36 pp)
11. Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Archambault Martin Jr. (40 pp)
12. Just Saving My Money by Mercer Mayer (32 pp)
13. Biscuit Goes to School by Alyssa Capucilli (21 pp)
14. Scat, Cat by Alyssa Capucilli (32 pp)
15. Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton (32 pp)
16. Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman (40 pp)
17. The Super Hungry Dinosaur by Martin Waddell (32 pp)
18. The Boy Who Cried Ninja by Alex Latimer (32 pp)
19. The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson (40 pp)
20. A Color Clown Comes to Town by Jane Belk Moncure (32 pp)
21. The Care and Keeping of You by Valerie Schaefer (104 pp)
22. Living the Mindful Life by Charles Tart (252 pp)
23. Waking Up by Charles Tart (323 pp)
24. Western Civilization by Jackson Spielvogel (28 pp and still reading)
25. Luring a Lady by Nora Roberts (161 pp)
26. Guilty by Karen Robards (58 pp)
27. Skyjack: The Hunt for DB Cooper by Geoffrey Gray (302 pp)
28. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (103 pp)
29. A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (339 pp)
30. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson (465 pp) - 2 people read this one.
31. London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (280 pp)
32. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (48 pp)
33. Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon (35 pp)
34. Dead Cert by Dick Francis (150 pp)
35. Mark Martin: Driven to Race by Bob Zeller (20 pp)
36. Dave Navarro: Don't Try This at Home by Neil Strauss (253 pp)
37. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steif Larson (503 pp)
38. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith (213 pp)
39. Zero Day by David Baldacci (436 pp)
40. As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong (371 pp - 7hr, 40 min.)
41. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (277 pp)
42. Eau Claire Leader Telegram Newspaper 1/01 - 1/05 (120 pp)
43. Newsweek 1/09, 1/23, 1/30 (197 pp)
44. The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Clause: A Novel by Tim Slover (162 pp)
45. Miles Standish by Daniel K Davis (118 pp)
46. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (205 pp)
47. Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Downing (63 pp)
48. After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Stevn (424 pp)
(Remember Dragon Tattoo was read by two people.
Didn't think it was necessary to list again.)
Our top reader for the month was Karen Sprong with a grand total of 17 books and 2056 pages. Yay, Karen! Three other participants read over 1000 pages in one month. Congrats to all. We rock!
Oh yeah, I promised you all a funny cat pic..... :)
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