Thursday, October 18, 2012

THINGS AREN'T SO WILD IN THE VALLEY.




Well, the gang at Flo have slipped to our lowest numbers since we started this thing.  I guess our real lives have interrupted our literary ones.  Not so good for competition, but not bad for our personal lives I guess.  :-)

Here's what we have to report for September 2012:

Number of participants:     6
Number of books/mags:      23
Number of pages read:        6143


Our lone wolf, Abby, kicked some butt last month though.  As if.  She knocked out:

Number of books:     6
Number of pages read:   1900    


So, if you are interested (and I always am) here's some of what we read last month:

Interred with their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
"8" by Dustin Lance Black
The Plague by Albert Camus
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
The Story of Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad by Kate McMullan
The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F Kennedy
Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne
True Blue by David Baldacci
Wanted Man by Lee Child
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman
Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
Lost on Planet China by J Maarten Troost
Drug Crazy by Mike Gray
The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil
Looking for Alaska by John Green
When We Were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
Breed by Chase Novak
The Cove by Ron Rash
Lone Wolf by Jodi Piccoult


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

September in HPIR

10,575 pages, baby. And 41 titles. That's what we read here in HPIR in the month of September. Marian was back on top with a whopping 3127 pages. Jim came in second with 1871 pages, and then Jane with 1740 pages. Bring it, Flo. Valley!

American Boy / Larry Watson
The Last Fix / K. O. Dahl
Dorchester Terrace / Anne Perry
The Sun (October 2011)                                                   
The Sun (August 2012)                                                     
Torch / Cheryl Strayed
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett
The Orphanmaster / Jean Zimmerman
Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives / Poe Ballantine
The Absent One / Jussi Adler-Olsen
Sweet Talk / Julie Garwood
You Don't Want to Know / Lisa Jackson
The Outlook (September 10, 2012) / S&P
The Outlook (September 17, 2012) / S&P
Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn
Salt Dancers / Ursula Hegi
Sisterhood of Dune / Brian Herbert &Kevin J. Anderson
The Big Cat Nap / Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
Stay Close / Harlan Coban
Another Time, Another Life: The Story of a Crime / Leif G.W. Persson
Crescent dawn / Cussler
Live Wire / Harlan Coban
Wicked Appetite / Janet Evanovich
The Wind through the Keyhole / Stephen King
Imperial Woman: a novel / Pearl Buck
I've lost my hippopatamus: more than 100 poems / Jack Prelutsky
When women were birds: 54 variation on voice / Terry Tempest Williams
What to Look for in Winter: a memoir in blindness / Candia McWilliams
Untold Story: a novel / Monika Ali
Stay awake: short stories / Dan Chaon
The bluebird effect: uncommon bonds with common birds / Julie Zickefoose
A durable fire: new poems / May Sarton
Books: a living history / Martyn Lyons
Let's celebrate: festive poems / Compiled by John Foster
Stories / Kathrine Mansfield
The talk-funny girl: a novel / Roland Merullo
Little girls in church: poems / Kathleen Norris
Meditation: an indepth guide / Ian Gawler and Paul Bedson
The Big Thirst / Charles Fishman
The Sun (February 2012)

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Meramec's September Reads

Wow, what a month! Despite our extremely busy schedules, the Meramec team was 8 strong and managed to read 8910 pages in 31 books! Top honors go to Donna, who reads loooong books: an amazing1650 pages in only 4 books, and Jana, who read 7 books (but fewer pages).

Deaver, XO, 383
Scalzi,  Redshirts, 317
Laurens, Capture of the Earl of Glencrae, 660
Horwitz, Midnight Rising; John Brown and the Raid that started the Civil War, 365
Adler-Olsen, Keeper of Lost Causes, 395
Groom, Shiloh, 440
French, Broken Harbor, 450
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 415
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness,  303
Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles, 269
Lee Child, Running Blind,  360
Lee Child, Persuader,  352
Robert Kolb, Luther and the Stories of God,  183
Father Andrew, The Seven Signs of Christ,19,  pp.77-94
Robert Browning, Robert Browning’s Poetry,  7, 127-133
Philip Sheldrake (ed.),   Heaven in Ordinary: George Herbert and His Writings,   171
Father Andrew,  Love’s Fulfilment ,170, pp.1-62, 79, 85-192
Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki,  Alice’s Piano, 225
Alfred Lord  Tennyson, In Memoriam, 22
Strickland, Haircuts at Sleepy Sam’s, 33
Murray, Graham and Jet Get Wet; the Wonders of Weather, 32
Feather, Hostage Bride, 346
Feather, Accidental Bride, 328
Feather, Least Likely Bride, 378
Suzanne Desrochers, Bride of New France, 294
Kathleen MacMahon, This Is How It Ends, 346
Bernhard Schlink, Summer Lies, 229
Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move, 353 
Kuhns,  A Simple Murder, 322
Forni, Thinking Life, 175
Tuchman, Guns of August , 575