Thursday, March 13, 2014

THE WINTER MONTHS HAVE BEEN GOOD READING WEATHER FOR SOME BUT, NOT ALL

What else is there to do when the wind is howling and the snow is blowing?  Unless of course you're a snow bunny, which I am NOT.  Evidently some of my colleagues prefer to stay in where it's warm and dry and curl up with a good book as well.  I'm more than happy to trek through feet of snow as long as it's between the pages of a good book.

Now, let's get to what we're all looking for:  the numbers!

STLCC had a total of :
18 people reading
71 books for a total of
20,250 pages

Now for the breakdown...
FV:  4 people, 23 books, 6801 pages
HP:  3 people, 18 books, 4618 pages
MC:  10 people, 29 books, 8508 pages
W:   1 person, 1 book, 323 pages

What was read:
The Bloodletter's Daughter by Linda Lafferty
Dust by Patricia Cornwell
Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
What's So Funny: My Hilarious Life by Tim Conway
White Fire by Preston & Child
The Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield
The Walking Dead vol. 19 by Robert Kirkman
Heat Wave by Richard Castle
I Could Pee on This and other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliani
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Haunted York by Vince Danks
The Mask of Athena by Richard Riordan
The House of Hades by Richard Riordan
Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C Wrede
Searching for Dragons by Patricia C Wrede
Calling on Dragons by Patricia C Wrede
Talking to Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Science: A Discovery in Comics by Margareet de Heer
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
Harper's Magazine Jan. 2014
Conspiracy of Faith by Jussi Adler Olsen
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Christmas Hope by Anne Perry
The Sun (Oct. 2012, Sept. 2012, Dec. 2012, Jan. 2013)
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
Alan Lomax: the Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler Olsen
Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz
The Starday Story by Nathan Gibson with Don Pierce
12th of Never by James Patterson
Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart


Half Past Nun by Monica Quill,
Wicked As Sin by Jillian Hunter
Bedknob and Broomsticks by Mary Norton 
The Sound and the Furry by Spencer Quinn
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Apocalypse Watch by Robert Ludlum
If Wishes were Earls by Elizabeth Boyle
Assorted children’s books
Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros
When the Rogue Returns by Sabrina Jeffries
The Color Master by Aimee Bender
The Vanishing of Katherina Linden by Helen Grant
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide, (editors not cited)
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe
Countrymen by Bo Lidegaard
No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by Sir John Eliot
The Lost German East by Andrew Demshuk
Promissio and Death: Luther and God’s Word at the End of Life by Ken Jones

Some titles were read by multiple people