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