Meramec reporting late, but going strong!

Meramec's numbers for April are way up! Our 12 readers read a total of 40 books, 11774 pages. Becky Helbling tops the chart with 6 books and 1823 pages. Here's what we read in April:

 

The Complete Joy of Homebrewing	Charlie Papazian
Brewing Classic Styles	Jamil Zainasheff & John J. Palmer
The Famished Road	Ben Okri
Autobiography of Us	Aria Sloss
Tenth of December	George Saunders
Cocktail Waitress	James M. Cain
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain	Betty Edwards
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet	Jamie Ford
This One is Mine	Maria Semple
Then End of Illness	David Agus
The Fall of the Faculty	Benjamin Ginsberg
The Phantom	Jo Nesbo
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children	Ransom Riggs
Something Rotten	Jasper Fforde
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance	Lois McMaster Bujold
Death of Yesterday	M.C. Beaton
Death of Yesterday	M.C. Beaton
Blueberry Muffin Murder	Fluke
Lady of Expectations	Laurens
Farewell,  Dorothy Parker	Meister
Killer Crust	Cavender
Nothing to Lose	Lee Child
Bride by Moonlight	Carlyle
Conquest of Lady Cassandra	Hunter
And Then She Fell	Laurens
And Then the Miss Ran Away	Doyle
Rascal	Chris Brady
Leadershift	Orrin Woodward
Five Love Languages of Children
Launching a Leadership Revolution
A Short History of the Early Church	Harry R. Boer
The First Muslim: the Story of Muhammad	Lesley Hazleton
Twentysomething: why do young adults seem stuck	Henig
Touch	Tiffany Field
Authority Vested	Mary Todd
The art of fielding	Chad Harbach
The Burgess Boys	Elizabeth Stout
Unwanted	Krisitina Olston
Midnight in Peking	Paul French
Life After Life	Kate Atkinson

FLO'S TOTALS ARE EMBARASSING

Well the gang here has really slipped.  We had all of 3 readers reading 7 books for a total of 2469 pages.

At least Abby is still chugging along at the Wildwood campus.  She managed to put away 8 books for a total of 2665 pages.

Here's what got read:

A Feast For Crows by George R R Martin

Molokai by Alan Brennert

Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly

World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith

Sleep No More by Iris Johansen

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Death of Yesterday by M C Beaton

Sacrifice by S J Bolton

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Portable Henry Rollins by Henry Rollins

Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton

The Snow Child by Edwyn, Ivey

Safe House by chris Evans

The Good House by Ann Leary

HPIR lags in April

Our five participants logged a total of 3088 pages. Jim was first with 1431 pages, then Jane with 1036. We need a renaissance! Here's what we read:

"Getting Closer" in New Yorker magazine / Steven Millhauser

"There was a ripping sound" in African American Review / Quincy Scott Jones

"Signs and Deliverance" in African American Review / Edward Kelsey Moore

A Sunless Sea / Anne Perry

"Paranoia" in New Yorker magazine / Said Sayrafiezadeh

"The Other Place" in New Yorker magazine / Mary Gaitskill

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet / John G. Turner

Private London / James Patterson & Mark Pearson

A Girl Like You / Maria Geraci

Death Angels / Åke Edwardson

Harper's Magazine (April 2013)                                                                                      

World War Z / Max Brooks

Gifts of the crow / John Marzluff and Tony Angell

Forest Unseen / David George Haskill

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatism Won the Heart of America / Thomas Frank

Bones are Forever / Kathy Reichs

The Fire Engine That Disappeared / Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahloo