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

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

I have to be honest, I have a slight advantage since reading is part of my job. I'm a Youth Services Librarian. BTW, since I posted yesterday I've read three more books so now I'm only one away from my goal. What can I say, all my free time is usually spent reading. It's the way I cool down at the end of the day, I pretty much go through a book an evening.

I feel pretty lucky, I'm only 4 books away from hitting my goal of 250 and still 4 months left in the year to read more.

A couple more orders in:

Some more goodies arrived:

A couple more came in:

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When I was about 9 or 10, I had the following conversation with my cousin:

Him: What do you want for Christmas?
Me: The Babysitter’s Club Super Special #5.
Him: You want a book for Christmas?
Me: Yeah!
Him: That’s weird.

And I guess it was… for kids who didn’t like to read. For the rest of us, what was better than a stack of paperbacks under the tree? (… Probably a new video game console, but my point stands.)

As I’ve grown older, there are conversations that have happened or experiences I’ve had where my love of books has actively caused me to react in a way that could maybe, possibly be construed as, well, weird.

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So here are things that happen when you like books more than …

… Going to a party:

Hey, do you want to go to this party?
I only have like 15 chapters left in this book, so, I’m… going to stay home.



… Fashionable Accessories:

Why don’t you get that awesome clutch to go with your new dress?
It’s too small. I can’t even fit a mass market in that. No thanks.



… TV Must-sees:

Have you read the book that that new hot show is based on?
Yeah, eight years ago, when it came out. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED TO TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS THEN?



… Commuting:

Was that your stop?
What? ::Closes book and looks around in confusion:: Where am I? Crap.



… Books:

Hey, you should read this book that I just finished; it’s awesome!
Really? Ok! I’m going to add it to my list. I will probably get to it in… about eight months. Maybe ten.



… Sleeping:

Man, you look rough. Party a little too hard last night?
I just wanted to read a few chapters, but ended up staying up till the crack of dawn to finish.



… Chatting Normally:

Do you want to calm down on the caps lock? I get it. The book was good. I get it.
NO THE BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE YOU DON’T GET IT.

… Space:

Hey, I’m going to IKEA, do you want to come?
I do need more bookshelves. But I also need a bigger apartment. My roommate says I can’t buy any more books until I figure this out.

… Conversation:

So… I can’t talk about books anymore.
::Silence::



And this is what our world is like. Share your books-trump-all experiences!

My first buys of September:

Kate wrote: "Buying books would be a tax deduction."

Now that one I really like!

Share your September book shopping here.

My morning did not start out so great, so this afternoon I went on a book binge at my local Half Price Books and came home with:

Some more used book deliveries today: , , and one I have been looking for forever !

I've had plenty of books that have had parts that brought me to tears.

More orders arrived:

Tammy wrote: "congrats on the win Joseph and isn't it nice to be remembered :)"

Thanks, and you're not going to believe this because I don't think I do, but I just won another signed Goodreads giveaway! That's two in one month! This one is a copy of Tortured Souls by Kimber Leigh Wheaton.

I'm up to 230 out of 250. At this rate, I just might have change my target number.

Tiffany wrote: "OddModicum Rachel wrote: "Someone in another group of mine just mentioned amazon prime lending library. I'm a Prime member, and didn't know they had a kindle lending library, so I went to check it ..."

The thing that bugs me about what Amazon is doing here is that so many public libraries have been doing the exact same thing for much longer now, but with one difference, it's FREE from the public library! I suggest checking out what your local library has to offer before giving more money to Amazon.

Sometimes I do like getting the mail:

An order arrived: and I received a gift of and

John wrote: "I do not understand what number 3 is??? I like number 5."
John, you need to have somewhere to put your books when you go traveling so you always have something to read, right? :-)

Then:
1. Release dates would be national holidays
2. Books would be waterproof
3. Book trailers would come with all cars
4. 24-hour bookstores would be mandatory
5. "Reading Days" would be the new sick days.

What would you add to the list?