Meramec's November books

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Thanksgiving must have worn us out! Meramec's 10 readers read of total of 27 books (our lowest count for the year) and 7321 pages. Maybe we'll do better over winter break in December. Here's what we read:

Secret of the Ginger Mice	Watts
Wild Wings	Lewis
Wolf Story	McCleery
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells	Faulks
Catered Christmas Cookie Exchange	Crawford
Outlander: A Novel	Diana Gabaldon
The Round House	Louise Erdrich
Medicine River	Thomas King
Earth Song Sky Spirit	Clifford E. Trafzer (ed)
Shadow Magic	Patricia C. Wrede
Someone	Alice McDermott
Longest Ride	Sparks
Gone Girl	Flynn
Elsewhere	Richard Russo
Just Kids	Patti Smith
Lutheranism 101	Kinnaman
Foreign and Female	Weatherford
One thousand gifts	Voskamp
Reversed  Thunder	Peterson
Meditations on the Incarnation Passion and Death of Jesus Christ	von Griffenberg
One Summer: America 1927	Bill Bryson
Double Down	Helperin and Heilemann
Song of the Lark	Willa Cather
The Facades	Eric Lundgren
Rivers: A Novel	Michael Farris Smith
Songs of Willow Frost	Jamie Ford
The Expats	Chris Pavone

November Brought out the Readers at Flo

Well, the holidays are fast approaching and vacation sounds better and better everyday.  Evidently the peeps at Flo are preparing to spend the cold, long nights, curled up with their books.  November seems to be a premonition of things to come.

7 people read

25 books for a total 

        7194 pages

The Last Symbol / Dan Brown

Critical Mass / Sara Peretsky

The Chalice of Blood / Peter Tremayne

The Council of the Cursed / Peter Tremayne

Showing Off / Virginia Flowers

Doctor Sleep / Stephen King

Cabinet of the Curiosities / Preston and Child

Tag Man / Archer Mayor

Where'd You Go Bernadette / Maria Semple

Crazy Rich Asians / Kevin Kwan

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How to Read a Painting / Patrick DeRynok

How to be a Person: A Stranger's Guide / Linda West

Graffiti and Street Art / Anna Waclawek

The Stuff of Life / Mark Schultz

Toward a Psychology of Awakening / John Welwood

The New Sun / Tarro Yashima

Woman Rebel / Peter Bagge

Proof of Guilt / Charles Todd

Melissa Explains it All / Melisa Joan Hart

After Dead / Charlaine Harris

Abby at Wildwood did her thing last month as well by reading 7 books for 2574 pages

Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn

The Night Birds / Thomas Maltman

How the Light Gets in / Louise Penny

The Little Friend / Donna Tarrt

Bad Luck and Trouble /  Lee Child

The Shuddering / Ania Ahlborn

Beautiful Ruins / Jess Walter

 

 

HPIR was cooking in November

Yes, we were cooking, not reading. Except Jim, who read 1717 pages. Jane, Monica, and I didn't even break the 1000 mark. We read a total of 3655 pages and 15 titles, here below:

Holy Orders / Benjamin Black
The Round House / Louise Erdrich
Great Granny Webster / Caroline Blackwood
The Circle / Dave Eggers
Dear Life / Alice Munro
Two for the Dough / Janet Evanovich
Room No. 10 / Åke Edwardson
Charming Billy / Alice McDermott
Invisible Murder / Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
The Ides of April / Lindsey Davis
Royal Pains / Leslie Carroll
Three to Get Deadly / Janet Evanovich
The Expats / Chris Pavone
Harper's Magazine (No. 2013)     
A Tale for the Time Being / Ruth Ozeki

Curling up to read at Meramec

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Meramec's 10 readers curled up with 33 books in October, for a total of 9664 pages. Phil & Damaris both read 6 books, but Phil topped the page count at 1586. 

Chicks with Sticks, Lenhard, 261

Murder in Lascaux, Draine, 275

Gone with the Woof, Berenson, 282

Juggler of Our Lady, Blechman and Sendak, 140

Asking Questions, Keating, 282

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Christie, 288

The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri, 339 

The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo, 362  

The Circle, Dave Eggers, 491 

MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, 394 

Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver, 436

Strong Motion, Jonathan Franzen, 508

The Twenty-Seventh City, Jonathan Franzen, 517

Arrangement, Balogh, 380

Children’s books, 120

Hotshot, Garwood, 356

Counterfeit Mistress, Hunter, 312

Bosnian Chronicle, Andric Ivo,   59

Doris  Weatherford, Foreign and Female,  125

Secret Ingredients: the New Yorker book of food and drink, Davie  Remnick (ed.),  39

Seasons in Hell, Ed Vulliamy, 89

Lutheranism 101,   Scot Kinnaman (ed.), 148

Shut Up and Write, Judy  Bridges, 176

True Blue, Baldacci, 163

Zero Day, Baldacci, 363

The Hit, Baldacci, 390

Husbands Secret, Liane Moriarty, 396

Total Chaos, Jean-Claude Izzo, 248

Claire DeWitt & the City of the Dead, Sara Gran, 273

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather, 303

Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America, Dan Balz, 381

Seabiscuit, Hillibrand, 399

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot, 369

HPIR here, to make our small but very meaningful contribution to Reading the Dream. Our four readers (everyone else here must be watching TV) read a total of 3720. Jim read the most, 1497 pages, and then Jane with 1168 pages.

Here's what we read:

The Monarch Across the Street (in African American Review) / Paul Alan Fahey
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest / Stieg Larsson
Folktales from Turkey / Serpil Ural
Nasreddin Hodja / Raymond C. Clark, compiler
Trick or Treat / Lisa Morton
Sundog : the story of an American foreman, Robert Corvus Strang, as told to Jim Harrison : a novel / Jim Harrison
Returning to earth / Jim Harrison
Harper's (Oct. 2013)                                                                                                                     
The Twenty-Seventh City / Jonathan Franzen
Vampires, Bones, and Treacle Scones / Kaitlyn Dunnett
October Mourning / Leslea Newman
Sail of Stone / Åke Edwardson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman
Royal Pains / Leslie Carroll
Holy Orders / Benjamin Black
Police / Jo Nesbø
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel  / Maria Semple

There's Been Some Reading Going Down in the Valley! Yeah, Yeah, Abby's Been Reading too. LOL

The numbers for Flo-Valley are looking up this month.  October was a good time for reading, and as the winds pick up and the temps drop, I'll bet our totals will continue to rise.  You know that's what I like to see!  :)

What are the numbers, you ask?  Well without further adieu...

7 people read

26 books for a total of

7461 pages

Nice to see us back in the swing of things.  :)  Now for the numbers out of Wildwood:

4 books were read for a total of

1758 pages!  

Looking for book ideas?  Maybe we read something that would interest you.

The Nine:  Inside the Secret World of The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

mr. g by Alan Lightman

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

The Big Necessity by Rose George

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

Relic by Preston and Childs

The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans

The Refuge by Tara Brach

At Home in the Muddy Water by Ezra Bayda

Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

The Odd Women by George Gissing

A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home by Sue Halpern

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

The Leper's Bell by Peter Tremayne

Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke

Giving up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword by Noel Perrin

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine by John K Nelson

Home From the Sea by Mercedes Lackey

Bastion by Mercedes Lackey

The Best of Photojournalism 2003

The Best of Photojournalism 2004 

Slip of the Knot by Denise Mina

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen

Just One Evil Act by Elizabeth George

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

 

Hoping for a renewed commitment for next month

Here's the Breakdown!

4 people read

19 books for a total of

4894 pages

Meanwhile, Abby read 9 books for 3123 pages!  Way to go girl!

Books read:

Inferno by Dan Brown

The Walking Dead Vol. 18 by Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead: Road to Woodbury  by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Through a Dog's Eyes by Jennifer Arnold

Death of Yesterday by MC Beaton

A Street Cat Named Bob: and How He Saved my Life by James Bowen

Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London as Seen Through the Windows of it's Oldest Pub. by Pete Brown

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie

Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

A Dog Named Boo by Lisa Edwards

Touch-Me-Not by Cynthia Riggs

The Seventh Trumpet by Peter Tremayne

Two Graves by Preston & Child

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin

Never Go Back by Lee Child

Hostage by Robert Crais

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

The Dead Hour by Denise Mina

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope by Rhonda Riley

The New Digital Scholar by Randall McClure

The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear

The Call by Yannick Murphy

Now You See Me by SJ Boiton

Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea

 

A slow and sultry September at HPIR.

Given my own numbers for September, I feel like this poor statue. I know I'll look better in October, because I was halfway through a 600-pager when I had to stop and read a 500-pager for my book club next Sunday! Anyway, the THREE readers participating from HPIR read 3236 pages in 12 titles. Jane was the very best with 1386. Here's what we read:

Check Points / Michael Casey
Thrall / Natasha Trethewey
Gun Machine / Warren Ellis
The Abundance / Amit Majmuder
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie / Ayana Mathis
Black Boy / Richard Wright
The Girl Who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson
Sundog: The Story of an American Foreman, Robert Corvus Strang, as told to Jim Harrison: A Novel / Jim Harrison
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam / Nick Turse
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's nest / Stieg Larsson
Harper's Magazine (Sept. 2013) 
Sinners and the Sea / Rebecca Kanner

Tsundoku'd in September

At Meramec, we learned a new vocabulary word this month: Tsundoku. It's that growing list of books that you plan to read, but never do. Never say never: dig into that tsundoku pile!


Here are our totals for September:
9 participants
36 books
11118 pages

Damaris & Phil tied for number of books read (6), but Damaris came out ahead of the pack in page count with 1856!

Here's our September list:
Lady at Last by Joyce
Stolen Bride by Joyce
Perfect Bride by Joyce
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
Fox’s Book of Martyrs by John Fox(e)
Foreign and Female by Doris Weatherford
The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe
Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt
Holy Orders by Benjamin Black
Si-cology 101: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle by Si Robertson (w/ Mark Schlabach)
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Dark Duke by Moore
Time Flies by Cook
First Rule of Ten by Hendrik & Lindsay
Sometimes a Rogue by Putney
Christmas Carol Murder by Meier
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder by Fluke
Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
The Dog Who Came in From the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith
First to Kill by Andrew Peterson
Intelligence by Susan Hasler
The Forgotten by David Baldacci
Zero Day by David Baldacci
Ralph by Lois Ehlert
Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Gran
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by Rakoff
Heft by Moore
Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Goldbraith
Lets Explore Diabetes with Owls David Sedaris
Holy Orders by Benjamin Black
Human Factor by Graham Green
Canada by Richard Ford
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Meramec's August List (with a few from July)

We've been busy readers but slackers when it comes to posting. Meramec had 7 participants, including a new power reader (welcome, Linda!) We ready 42 books and 11025 pages. We neglected to post 2 of our July readers, so they are included here: an additional 2 readers in July, 7 books, and 3579 pages.


Here's what we read in August (with a few from July):
The Brave Cowboy Edward Abbey
The Movement of Stars Amy Brill
And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini
The light in the ruins: a novel Chris Bohjalian
Art of Fielding Chad Harbach
Behind the Scenes at the Museum K. Atkinson
The Early Slavs P.M. Barford
The Hidden Europe: What the Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us Francis Tapon
Going Solo Eric Klinenberg
Death Set to Music Paul S. Minear
The First Thousand Years: a Global History of Christianity Robert Louis Wilkin
Storm Front Castle
Impossible Attraction Joyce
Dark Duke Moore
Children’s books
Promise Joyce
Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1930 Doris Weatherford
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
Ocean at the End of The Lane Neil Gaiman
Wave Sonali Deraniyagala
Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell
Enigma Robert Harris
Beautiful Redemption Kami Garcia
The Colonel's Mistake Dan Mayland
The Leveling Dan Mayland
The Daily 5 Gail Boushey and Joan Moser
First to Kill Andrew Peterson
Kira, Kira Cynthia Kadohata
Shadow Michael Morpurgo
Decent Interval Brett
Dog Days Watson
Heirs and Graces Bowen
Vampire Bones and Treacle Scones Dunnett
Hen of the Baskervilles Andrews
Stupidest Angel Moore
Impossible Attraction Joyce
Compound Murder Crider
On Canaan’s Side Sebastian Barry
A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
Waiting for Sunrise William Boyd
Old City Hall Robert Rotenberg
Ophelia Cut John Lescroat
American Spirit Dan Kennedy
The Baffler No. 21 John Summers (ed.)
The People of the River's Mouth: In Search of the Missouria Indians Michael Dickey
The Silver Star Jeannette Walls
Q Luther Blissett
Time Flies Claire Cook
The Curiosity Stephen P. Kiernan

Flo's Wild totals for August

Well there isn't much to report from our neck of the woods.  We only had three people participate this go 'round.  The three of us read only 9 books for a total of 2542 pages.  Pretty pitiful, huh?


Abby on the other hand is chugging away with her monster list of 7 titles for a total of 2113 pages. 


Perhaps things will pick up here.  I hope so.  It would be nice to get back in contention again!



The Books We Read:

Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love and Courage by Richard Stengel
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
The Brotherhood: The True Story of Two Cops who Murdered for the Mafia by Guy Lawson and     William Oldham
Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire by Rick Cowan
Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The Big Necessity by Rose George
Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
After Visiting Friends by Michael Hainey
Kinsmen by Bill Pronzini
A Killing in the Hills by Julie Keller
The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
Lost by S J Bolton

HPIR in August

This month we are down to 4 readers. We did pretty well, reading 4928 pages in 18 titles. That is our final contribution to this year's reading! Here's to more and better participation next year. 

The Blind Man's Garden / Nadeem Aslam 

Harper's Magazine (July 2013) 
Alex Cross, Run / James Patterson
A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold
Manuscript Found in Accra / Paulo Coelho
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll
William's Wife / Jean Plaidy
New Geography of Jobs / Enrico Moretti
A Delicate Truth / John Le Carré
The Sentry / Robert Crais
On Canaan's Side / Sebastian Barry
Eighty Days / Matthew Goodman
Wasted Vigil / Nadeem Aslam
City of Refuge / Tom Piazza
The Cat Whisperer / Mieshelle Nagelschneider
Permanent Party / Michael Casey
The Headmaster's Wager / Vincent Lam