Wednesday, June 13, 2012


Meramec totals for May: 9 participants, 52 books, 16127 pp. The amazing Samantha tops everyone!!!!

Damaris 11 books  2983 pp
Childs, The Agony of the Leaves, 301
Slan, Make, Take Murder,  348
McCall Smith, Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, 257
Allan, Antiques Disposal, 232
Viets, Final Sail, 260
Goldenbaum, Fatal Fleece, 321
Brown, Big Cat Nap, 224
Sayers, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 345
Fluke, Cinnamon Roll Murder, 333
Yang, Level Up, 160
Clark, Gypped, 202

Janice   7 books, 2004 pp
Orson Scott Card, Shadows in Flight, 327
Katie Ward, Girl Reading: A Novel, 341
Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, 257
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader, 218, 4.5 hours
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 362, 6.5 hours
Gregory Maguire, What-the-Dickens: the Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, 295
Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, 204

Bonnie Sanguinet  3 books, 908 pp
E. L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley, 208
Diana Gabaldon, The Scottish Prisoner, 534
Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, 166

Scott 2 books  1003 pp.
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath, 619
Echo Burning, Lee Child 384 

Samantha  13 books  4483 pp.
Marianne Stiilings, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evie, 371
Ray Bradbury,  The Martian Chronicles,  182
Mike Resnick , The Buntline Special: A Weird West Novel,  321
Alan Moore and David Lloyd,  V for Vendetta,  286
Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra, Just A Pilgrim,  235
Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches,  579
Jane Ann Krentz, In Too Deep,  339
Mercedes Lackey, One Good Knight,  360
Mercedes Lackey, By The Sword,  492
Mercedes Lackey, Oathblood,  394
Sarah McCarty, Reaper's Justice,  294
Genevieve Valentine, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti,  284
Jacqueline Lepore , Immortal With a Kiss,  346

Jana 4 books  1134 pp.
Madeleine Albright, Prague Winter  pp.11-449
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, 276
Gerda Weissmann Klein, All But My Life, 261
Ben Shephard, The Long Road Home,  pp.255-414  (finally made it)

Phil 4 books 1482 p.
Carole DeSanti, The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R., 419
Lori Andrews, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did, 253
Naomi Wolf, The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom From My Father on How to Live, Love, and See, 278
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall: a novel, 532

Molly 2 books, 531 pp
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 288
Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist, 243

Bobbie 6 books 1599 pp.
Stewart O'Nan,  The Odds: A Love Story, 179 
Mark Childress,  Crazy In Alabama, 383 
Chris VanAllsburg, Chronicles Of Harris Burdick, 195
Chris, Pavone, Expats, 327
Willa Cather, My Antonia, 346
Lou Beach,420 Characters, 169


Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Abby Continues to Impress!

The Lone Wolf at Wildwood has put up some more impressive numbers for our little competition.  Ms DeShane has managed to put away a total of 4 books with a page count of 1147!!  Woot Woot!!  Evidently this was a slow month for Madame Librarian but, I'll take that kind of slow any day. 

Books Abby read:
Managing Student Assistants
Lost in Shangri-La
Swamplandia!
A Bad Day for Scandal



Summer Is Here! I Can Tell Because FVs Participation Numbers Went Down. :-(

Well, the reference staff is off and our numbers took a hit this month.  However, we still put in one heck of a fine showing!  My hope is that we will hear from our absent peeps for the next month.  That is if they check their e-mail over the summer.  ;-)
Here's what we accomplished without them:

Number of Participants:     6
                                                            Number of Books:            36 (9 are magazines)
                                                            Number of Pages:            7144

A Listing of what we read (some interesting stuff here):

Newsweek
Entertainment Weekly
Missouri Conservationist
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Firefly Clock by Sheri Reynolds
The Blood Pressure Miracle by Frank Mangano
A Summer of Discontent by Susanna Gregory
How the Dog Became the Dog by Mark Derr
Death of a Kingfisher by M C Beaton
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz
Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn
Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
Finley Learns to Swim by Christianne Jones
The Berenstain Bears Plau T-Ball by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Blue Sky by Audrey Wood
Pets by Eliza Comodromos
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (RIP, Maurice)
You Be You by Linda Kranz
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Nearing Home by Billy Graham
Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalk to Fusion by Billy Messenger

Well folks, that's all she wrote.  Tune in next month to find out how many of us read 50 Shades of Grey.  LOL


Thursday, June 7, 2012

HPIR May totals

Here we are again, ladies and gentlemen, with 7 participants, 39 titles, and a total of 9165 pages. As usual Marian is the champeen with 2933 pages, and Jane (2236 pages) and Kirsten (1405 pages) are the runners up. Here's what we read:

Northwest Corner/John Burnham Schwartz
The small house book/Jay Shafer
Goddess of the Green Room/Jean Plaidy
College Libraries and Student Culture: What We Now Know/Duke & Asher, eds.
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?/Toure
The Enormous Door/Reynolds Price
The Oklahoma Cowboy Band/Carla Chlouber
Stolen Prey/John Sandford
The Drop/Michael Connelly
77 Shadow Street/Dean Koontz
The Civilized World/Susi Wyss
Catching Fire/Suzanne Collins
The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition… Socialism/John Nichols
Victoria in the Wings/Jean Plaidy
Acceptable Loss/Anne Perry
Cell 8/Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom
Harper's Magazine (May 2012)
The Christmas Wedding/James Patterson & Richard DiLallo
Meridian/Alice Walker
Evans Above/Rhys Bowen
Indivisible by Two: lives of extraordinary twins/Nancy L. Segal
The Hidden flower/Pearl Buck
An urgency of stars: poetry/Geraldine Mills
The weight of feathers: short stories/Geraldine Mills
The dovekeepers/Alice Hoffman
State of wonder/Ann Patchett
The beginner's goodbye/Anne Tyler
My dog Tulip/J.R. Ackerley
The body's questions: poems/Tracy K. Smith
In the field, among the feathered: a history of birders and their guides
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detectives/Alexander McCall Smith
Duende: poems/Tracy K. Smith
How the Garcia girls lost their accents: a novel/Julia Alvarez
The Queen's Secret/Jean Plaidy
Kill Alex Cross/James Patterson
Fine art of small talk/Debra Fine
Age of Innocence/Edith Wharton
Nanjing Requiem/Ha Jin