Thursday, December 12, 2013

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

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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
 
 

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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
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A Tale for the Time Being / Ruth Ozeki