Unbookening X

2 books gotten on Bookmooch
6 books checked out of the library
9 books received for review
Bought 3 books
Received 3 books from my mom.
= 23 books in.

19 books given away on BookMooch (!!)
4 books returned to the library
Gave 6 books away
Left 3 books in transit
= 32 books out.

-9! You have no idea how excited that makes me, long after everyone else has ceased to care about my unpromising project. My last negative month was Month 7; before that, the best I did was zero.

This month I would like to shed 10 books, which in theory shouldn't be that hard... until you get to Christmas and lovely amazing people give you books. (Yes, I asked for a few.) So I should focus on shedding as many as I can before then -- all my library books will probably go back, for instance.

Books Read in November 2008
156. Laura Claridge, EMILY POST
157. Jeff Miller (ed.), THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG
158. Malcolm Gladwell, OUTLIERS
159. Lionel Shriver, THE POST-BIRTHDAY WORLD
160. Robert Lanham, FOOD COURT DRUIDS...
161. Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD
162. Anna Godbersen, RUMORS
163. Danny Wallace, YES MAN [Please ignore that this review somehow got shelved in fiction, I am writing the angry e-mail for you.]
164. Shauna Reid, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF DIETGIRL
165. Pardis Mahdavi, PASSIONATE UPRISINGS
166. Joseph Conrad, THE SECRET AGENT
167. Paula Fox, DESPERATE CHARACTERS
168. Tatiana Boncompagni, GILDING LILY
169. Heather King, REDEEMED
170. Eugenie Olson, LOVE IN THE TIME OF TAFFETA
171. Jeanette Winterson, WRITTEN ON THE BODY
172. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THEIR TANKS
173. Barack Obama, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
174. John Fante, ASK THE DUST
175. Niall Ferguson, THE ASCENT OF MONEY

See an un-italicized book up there you'd like to hear about? Let me know.