Friday, August 3, 2012

HPIR Sizzles in July!

Did we just break our own record? Yes we did! Seven readers at Highland Park Instructional Resources read 13,474 pages. The indefatigable Marian read 3170 pages; Sheila was second with 2665, then Jim with 2362. Here's what we read:


Fifty Shades of Grey / E.L. James
Love is Murder / Bestselling authors
The Outlook (July 4, 2012)
Breakdown / Sara Paretsky
Fifty Shades Darker / E.L. James
Joe's Black T-Shirt: Short Stories About St. Louis / Joe Schwartz
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA / Tim Weiner
The Yard / Alex Grecian
Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern
The Sun (March 2012)                                                                                       
The Sun (May 2012)                                                                                           
Red Mist / Patricia Cornwell
The Good Father / Noah Hawley
The Sun (Sept. 2011)                                                                                          
Julip / Jim Harrison
Nano Houses / Phyllis Richardson
New Republic (Aug 2, 2012)                                                                            
Design it yourself clothes: patternmaking simplified / Cal Patch
In the Time of the Butterflies / Julia Alvarez
The Games Men Play: Short Stories and Vignettes / Joe Schwartz
Diamond in the Rough  / Shawn Colvin
Before I Go to Bed / S.J. Watson
Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson / Kent Gustavson
The Lady in the Tower / Jean Plaidy
Birds of Paradise / Diana Abu-Jaber
The Final Problem / Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure of the Empty House / Arthur Conan Doyle
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) / Lewis Carroll
The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael of Wales / Paul Conklin
In Mad Love and War / Joy Harjo
Tunnel of Love: a novel / Hilma Wolitzer
Step.Ball.Change: a novel / Jeanne Ray
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky: a novel / Jeanne Ray
Calling Invisible Women: a Novel / Jeanne Ray
Jurgis Petraskas: poems / Anthony Petrosky
Death in Ecstasy / Ngaio Marsh
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 amazing authors tell the tales / Chris Van Allsburg & others
Delights and Shadows: poems / Ted Kooser
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics / Edited by Alan Aldridge
The Lion is In: a novel / Delia Ephron
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: writers running wild in the Twenties: Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber / Marian Meade
Remedies for Vertigo: poems / Walter Bargen
After You've Gone: short stories /Alice Adams
The Last Lovely City: short stories / Alice Adams
Private #1 Suspect / James Patterson
The Third Option / Vince Flynn
Transfer of Power / Vince Flynn
Eyes of Prey / John Stanford

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