November 2010 Wrap-Up: Books and Reviews

Ye Grande Olde TBR(e) Challenge Update

I started November with 259 unread books sitting around my house. And I ended with … *drumroll* … 263! Ah, well, my streak of negative numbers couldn’t last forever, I suppose. I’m a little bit ashamed that I only read two previous TBR occupants this month, but reading two fatty-fat Wheel of Time novels in a row kind of curtails the number of shorter books that one is able to get through. And really, a +4 for the month is NOWHERE near as bad as it could have been, considering that the Borders in my town was having a massive store-closing sale. I think, on balance, I was actually pretty restrained.

…anyways, let’s take a look at the breakdown:

Neutral books – Read, but don’t affect the TBR pile

Audiobooks – Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer – The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen – Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
Read but not owned – The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Adventures of Jacky Faber on Her Way to Botany Bay by L. A. Meyer – Zombies Vs. Unicorns ed. by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier – Civil War: Young Avengers and Runaways by Zeb Wells – Runaways, Vol. 8: Dead End Kids by Joss Whedon – Runaways, Vol. 9: Dead Wrong by Terry Moore – Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8, Vol. 7: Twilight by Brad Meltzer – House of Mystery Vol. 3: The Space Between by Matthew Sturges
Re-Reads – The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (huzzah!) – My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me ed. by Kate Bernheimer – Dark Moon of Avalon by Anna Elliott
Acquired and then Read (um… huzzah?) – Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Added to my TBR pile (shame!)
– Entice by Carrie Jones	– Out for Blood by Alyxandra Harvey
– The Virgin Widow by Anne O’Brien	– The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness (remember how I said I was avoiding reading The Knife of Never Letting Go because I knew it would lead to increasing rather than decreasing my TBR pile? Well, I solved that problem by preemptively buying the sequel.)
– Old Magic by Marianne Curley (Katie from Read What You Know’s fault)	– The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
Other Non-TBR Additions
– Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke	– Going Bovine by Libba Bray

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