Joseph ’s Comments (group member since Jul 28, 2009)

Joseph ’s comments from the Book Buying Addicts Anonymous group.

Marieru wrote: " I bought these over the weekend.

And now I'll try not to buy anything until december. Wish me luck!"

Until December?!? Yeah, you're definitely going to need luck to pull that off. ;-)

I picked A Deceptive Clarity by Aaron Elkins off the shelf at my local used book store and discovered it was priced like normal, but was signed by the author too!

I went on a bit of book buying binge today. Came home with quite a bundle:

Got a huge delivery today!:

There is a place in reviews where you can enter the number of times you have read a title, but if you change the date you read that title it will affect your Reading Challenge stats and will not show any more the very first date you read that title.

A couple of my Thriftbooks orders arrived: and I picked up two from the library's used book shelf:

Share your October treats here. What books did you get this month?

My last books of September:

Ilean wrote: "Weeee, I got another Goodreads give away book today!
The Songbirds Seduction by Connie Brockway. Thank you Goodreads and Brilliance Publishing, Inc."

Congrats, Ilean. You've had a good month for Giveaway wins, three in one month, wow. I was in shock when I actually won two this month.

A Goodreads giveaway win arrived today:

I did pretty good with some finds on the library's used book shelf:

A few more for me: from Thriftbooks and off the library's used book shelf.

Marieru wrote: "I'm going to buy one more this month and that's it."

Sure, that's what we all say. ;-)

The way I manage to collect all the series I want is I make the compromise that if I discover a series that has been going on for a while I go back and buy used copies of the titles that have already come out, then I budget to buy the next in the series new as they come out. Another way I saved money collecting series is I would check out books from the library so I could read the series as it came out, but I would wait until the books were published in paperback before I bought it.

For the longest time I didn't bother entering and then I just started up again a couple of months ago and won two books books this last August and just got notice I won another one today! I'm in utter shock, but thrilled.

Today I received:
and from a Goodreads Giveaway win I got a signed copy of and I got a used copy of Hoople's Haunted House

Erin, I am so jealous you got a signed copy of "The Witch with No Name"!

Thriftbooks is an amazing enabler of book buying addicts. I sometimes finding myself buying from that site almost every week! lol

I fear I will never get through my TBR stack for even as quickly as I do read, new titles come to my attention to be added to the list! At least I will never be without something to read, that's for sure.

Further evidence to prove I am most definitely a book buying addict. I went to an arts and crafts show today hoping to find some nice things to decorate my house and/or garden and what do I come home with? EIGHT books and ZERO art! lol :-) The local humane society was there with a bunch of miscellaneous used books so the money certainly did go to a good cause.

Thank you all. Got a question for you. Think I should raise my challenge number or just keep adding to it to see how far past it I end up by the end of the year?

Done! Finished book #250 tonight! :-)