The Votes Are In

...and the readers have spoken!

Final tally for the five books by McCain: 78 (up one from October & I can say with great certainty that it checked out Saturday after the pre-election display went up on Friday).

Count for the four Obama books: 128 (an increase of 3 from last month & again, one of those went off the display on Monday).

And I should add this caveat: apparently one of the Obama books was checked out in August & has yet to be returned, something I just discovered this week. Which means that Obama's "win" is even more significant in that he was running at more of a disadvantage than first thought.

Not as historic as the real election, but I wanted to make sure that my "reporting" was truthful, fair, and balanced. And I should also note that Amazon reports that Obama's two books have made it to their top 25 Best Sellers since the election was called overnight. Guess the rest of the nation is following the lead of our readers.

And with less election news on TV, it will be back to the books for me!

Vote!

Another interesting story, courtesy of Shelf Awareness:

An amusing note on election day: Jessica James, author of historical nonfiction, polled visitors of her website about "the literary character they think best exemplifies the qualities of a U.S. president." The landslide winner, with 56% of the vote, was Atticus Finch of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.Second, with 15% of the vote, was Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice--who would not qualify because of his foreign birth, but no matter. Third place was a character from one of James's own novels: Colonel Alexander Hunter from Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia.

Atticus would certainly get my vote!

Stay tuned for the final circulation tally tomorrow!