Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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 AlexieThe 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 ToobinThe 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 StrandHopper
L is for Lollygag
John UpdikeThe Afterlife and Other Stories

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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

Friday, December 14, 2012

Totals from the Valley, and that Campus in the Boonies. ;-)


Can you believe that Christmas is just around the corner?  I sure can't.  The good thing is we have this nice Holiday break to try to get up to speed with our reading totals again.  We just don't seem to be able to post the numbers that our wonderful colleagues at the other sites do. Not that we're complete slackers.  After all, we did have 7 readers, reading 27 titles for a total of 6905 pages.  Not bad, but there is room for improvement.  I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to do some major reading for the month of December, so look out!

In case you're interested in what we read:

A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Achroyd
Pride and Pyramids by Amanda Grange and Jacqueline Webb
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow by John Mortimer
Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer
The Odyssey of KP2: by Terri M Williams
Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with The Grateful Dead by Steve Parish
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson-Walker
Haunting Rachel by Kay Hooper
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Never Mind & Bad News by Edward St Aubyn




Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Meramec November

The Meramec Team's nine November participants read 39 titles and 11,089 pages!
Betty led the pack in number of books (10), while Donna took top honors in page count at 2,239 pages.
 
AuthorTitle
Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Kyung-Sook Shin Please Look After Mom
E.R. Eddison The Worm Ouroboros
Janet Evanovich Wicked Business
M.C. Beaton Hiss and Hers
Dustin Thomason12.21
Daheim The Wurst is Yet to Come
Sloan Mr. Penumbra’s 24hour Bookstore
Balogh Famous Heroine
Balogh Plumed Bonnet
Falconer Olivia and the Fairy Princesses
Pace Vampirina Ballerina
Laurens Lady Risks All
Norman I Know a Wee Piggy
McElmurry Mario Makes a Move
Stockdale Bring on the Birds
Wolff Baby Bear Sees  Blue
Castle Frozen Heat
Child Without Fail
Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Choi Happy Birthday or Whatever
Martel  Life of Pi: a novel
Hill The various haunts of men
Hill The Betrayal of Trust
Erdich Round House
Gruley Starvation Lake
Gruley Hanging Tree
Kingsolver Poisonwood Bible 
Wienek Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Hoffman Illumination Night
Joyce Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Donaghue Astray
John Banville Ancient Light
Joanne Harris Peaches for Father Francis
Barbara Kingsolver Flight Behavior
John Summers (ed.) The Baffler No. 20
Alice Munro Dear Life
Margaret Mazzantini Twice Born

Monday, December 10, 2012

HPIR's November Totals


Our seven readers read a total of 8515 pages in November. Marian was the champion with 3090 pages, Sheila second with 2038, and Jim brought up third with 1136. Bring it, campuses! Here's what we read:

The Time in Between / Maria Duenas
The Sun (September 2012)                                                              
What's the Matter With Kansas? / Thomas Frank
Frozen heat / Richard Castle
Please Look After Mom / Kyung-sook Shin
In the garden of beasts / Erik Larson
Nightwoods / Charles Frazier (two readers read this)
Red Mist / Patricia Cornwell
World Without End / Ken Follett
Lost ark / J.R.Rain
Red Wolf / Liza Marklund
Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire: A Novel / Poe Ballantine
The Forgotten / David Baldacci
True Blue / David Baldacci
Harper's (July 2012)                                                                             
The Cat's Table / Michael Ondaatje
Nothing With Strings: Short Stories / Bailey White
Pawprints In The Moonlight / Denis O'Connor
Wishbone: Poems / Don Share
The Scarlet Letters: A Novel / Louis Auchincloss
How to Build an Android: the true story of Philip K. Dick's Resurrection / David F. Dufty
A Southern Exposure: A Novel / Alice Adams
Manhattan Monologues: Short Stories / Louis Auchincloss
The Fifth Child: A Novel / Doris Lessing
Ben In The World: A Novel / Doris Lessing
The Book of Madness and Cures: A Novel / Regina O'Melveny
Sailing Lake Mareotis: poems / Eamonn Wall
A Dog's Life: fiction / Peter Mayle
Lantern Slides: short stories / Edna O'Brien
Couriers of the Sky: the story of pigeons / Mary Graham Bonner
Collected Sonnets / Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Black Box / Michael Connelly
Kiss the Dead / Laurell K. Hamilton
The Sisters Crusade / Binell, Mark. Rolling Stone. 11/22/2012, Issue 1170, p70-75. 6p
Neoliberalism in the Academic Borderlands: An On-going Struggle for Equality and Human Rights / Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association
Meditation: an indepth guide / Ian Gawler and Paul Bedson