Not Nearly as Much Reading Over the Holidays as I Hoped.

So, the Christmas break didn't produce the numbers we were looking for either but, what can you do.  Celebrating with friends and family can easily dig into reading time.   However, we did manage to still put up some respectable numbers for the month.  Especially when you consider the fact that we lost a couple of participants this time around.  The numbers for Florissant Valley look like so:

Participants:     6

 Books:            21

Pages:          6841

Now Abby, on the otherhand is still reading like a champion and adds her 7 books that totaled 2099 pages to the district totals.

District totals for the month:

Participants:     21

Books:              94

Pages:        25,104

Here's what the folks at Flo and Wildwood read:

Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades Darker

Fifty Shades Freed

Rough Country

Death of a Maid

Death on a High Floor

Below Stairs

Not Working

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Lewis & Clark: An Illustrated History

What's a Dog For?

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend

Lambs to the Slaughter

The Odyssey of KP2

Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Wonderland Avenue

I Want my MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

Gone Girl

Heading Out to wonderful

A Map of Home

Maisie Dobbs

A Christmas Homecoming

The Dud Avocado

Heft

The Thirteenth Tale

Several issues of Newsweek

Happy New Year!

Yes, I know New Year's Day was two weeks ago...
Meramec is finally getting our act together to post the Dec. 2012 totals... our 8 readers this month read 32 books and 9050 pages. Damaris was in the lead in both categories: 9 books and 2543 pages.
Here's what we read:

Sherman Alexie	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Deutsch	Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
Daly	Murders in volume 2
Daly	Evidence of Things Seen
Daly	Book of the Dead
Beverly	Unlikely Countess
Phillips	The great Escape
McManus	They shoot Canoes don’t They?
Kuhns	A Simple Murder
Jasper Fforde	The Eyre Affair
Balogh	Dark Angel and Lord Carew’s Bride
Bain	Margaret Truman’s Experiment in Murder
Stead	Bear Has a Story
Landry	Treat or Treat
Clare	Wicked Nights with a Proper Lady
Fallen	Jensen
Joyce	Surrender
Catherine Reef	The Bronte Sisters: the brief lives of Charlotte,  Emily and Anne
Jennifer Worth	The Midwife: A memoir of birth joy and hard times
Jennifer Worth	Call The Midwife (audiobook)
Michael Chabon	Telegraph Avenue
George Higgins	Outlaws
Jeffrey Toobin	The Oath: the Obama White House and the Supreme Court
William Boyd	Restless
Rian Malin	My Traitor's Heart:  an Afrikaner exile writes of South African society and politics
Henry Wiencek	Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and his slaves
M.L. Stedman	The Light Between Oceans
	1968
	God With Us
Mark Strand	Hopper
	L is for Lollygag
John Updike	The Afterlife and Other Stories

HPIR slacks in the holidays

You would think that with all the time off work we would be able to post some fat numbers. But no. For whatever reason, many of us were off our game in the month of December. The six readers who participated this month read 7114 pages in 34 titles. Of course Marian read 2435, Jane came in second with 1463, and Monica followed with 932. My own personal excuse for coming in last? Reading non-fiction all month.

Meditation: an indepth guide / Ian Gawler and Paul Bedson
A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History / Thomas Bender
Kiss the Dead / Hamilton, Laurell K.
GSA Today, Nov. 2012
Confederacy of Dunces / John Kennedy Toole
Harper's Magazine (August 2012)                                                                                      
Cunning corvids / Moss, Mary Beth
Mink River / Brian Doyle
XO / Jeffery Deaver
Learning Curve: How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace / Alison J. Head
A Land More Kind Than Home / Wiley Cash
I, Michael Bennett / James Patterson &  Michael Ledwidge
Visions of Sugar Plums / Janet Evanovich
A Christmas Treasury of Yuletide: Stories and Poems / Assorted authors
A Christmas Garland / Anne Perry
Call the Midwife: a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times / Jennifer Worth
Chasing Cezanne: a novel / Peter Mayle
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections / Nora Ephron
Naked: essays/memoir / David Sedaris
An Uncommon Appeal of Clouds: a novel / Alexander McCall Smith
The Art of Procrastination: a Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing or Getting Things Done by Putting Them Off / John Perry
In Rooms of Memories: essays / Hilary Masters
A Daughter's Tale: the memoir of Winston Churchill's youngest child / Mary Soames
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: a novel / Ransom Riggs
The Pocket Mirror: poems / Janet Frame
How to Dunk a Doughnut: the science of everyday life / Len Fisher
Ambient Findability / Peter Morville
St. Zita Society / Ruth Rendell
Quiet : the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking / Susan Cain
Bird brains : the intelligence of crows, ravens, magpies, and jays / Candace Savage
The Last Man / Vince Flynn
Political Suicide / Michael Palmer
Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African-American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap / Teresa D. Hill