The Fourth Month of the Great Unbookening
2 books mooched (well, technically one was mooched in April, but I admitted to the other)
12 books checked out of the library
23 books received for review
Bought 1 book
Was given 1 book (from my mom -- she had just read it)
Got 10 books at a giveaway party
Got 11 books from the free table at work
= 60 books in.
6 books given away on BookMooch
9 books returned to the library
Sold 1 book on Amazon
Gave away 1 review book (to someone else at a magazine who wanted to read it)
Left 5 books in the lobby of my building.
= 22 books out.
Total: 38 more books in than out. Year to date: 72 more books in than out.
Good grief. Well, that didn't work. In addition to Bookmooching, I think I will have to forgo book giveaway parties in the future (not that I go to that many, but STILL). I did get a stack of review books for future months, but that doesn't explain that. But okay, goals for this month:
1. Continue to not mooch any books.
2. Go through the stack under my desk and apply the two-chapter rule (if it doesn't grab you in two chapters, it's out). Be ruthless!
3. Don't buy any books.
4. Ideally I would like to have 3 books out of the library at a time. I have 13 now. Read 'em or return 'em.
Books I Read This Month
Peter Benjaminson, THE LOST SUPREME
Candace Bushnell, SEX AND THE CITY
Benjamin Nugent, AMERICAN NERD
David J. Schwartz, SUPERPOWERS
Karyn Bosnak, SAVE KARYN (reread)
Sherwood Anderson, WINESBURG, OHIO (LNVSML)
Suze Rotolo, A FREEWHEELIN' TIME
Junot Diaz, THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
Candace Bushnell, 4 BLONDES
Mary Ruefle, THE MOST OF IT
Lewis DeSimone, CHEMISTRY
Candace Bushnell, TRADING UP
Candace Bushnell, LIPSTICK JUNGLE
Suzanne Kopoulous, LITTLE MISS SMARTY PANTS
Rick Perlstein, NIXONLAND
14 hours ago
2 comments:
So were the five books left in the lobby a last-second attempt to bring down the Rebookening count?
Not really -- they were books I had had on Bookmooch for almost a year and had never been mooched. Other people have left books in our lobby and I thought maybe someone in-building would like to read them, and sure enough, they were gone by the next day.
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