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

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

Erin (Paperback Stash) wrote: "My friend loaned me -Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson, #1) by Molly Harper Nice Girls Don't Live Forever (Jane Jameson, #3) by Molly Harper Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Jane Jameson, #2) by Molly Harper
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You're going to like the Molly Harper's, they are a lot of fun to read.

On another note, my copy of arrived today.

Linda (too many books?!) wrote: "I know the feeling. There was a couple in Mn though that bought the house next to them added a walkway between them. The second house became their library. I always thought that would be a brill..."

Oh wow! Now that would be awesome!

I just got back from another Barnes and Noble signing. At this one I got Blood Games signed by Chloe Neill. This is the 10th book I've gotten signed by her and the fifth time I've met her. And she remembered me! :-) The icing on the cake, I just won only my second Goodreads Giveaway, a copy of The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush by Susan Wittig Albert, and it is a signed copy too!

My first purchase of August: a used copy of

Went to Barnes & Noble today and got The Book of Life and Shadow of Night signed by Deborah Harkness. I got to shake her hand, too.

Thom wrote: "I am recovering from shoulder surgery so it has been awhile since noting my acquisitions. I have the use of only one hand so posting is slow and tedious so I might have to do this in steps. [bookco..."

Thom, take your time, no rush, we're going to need time to get over the awe and shock of seeing your accumulation anyway. ;-) Hope you feel better soon. And at least that means you probably have plenty of time to read. :-)

Share all of your August 2014 book buys here.

A few more orders came in:

Thought you all might be interested in reading this: Are you a book hoarder? There's a word for that. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/...

Hard to believe, but today the B.B.A.A. is now five years old. It was founded on July 28, 2009.
On our 1st anniversary in 2010 we had mere 301 members.
Then on our 2nd anniversary in 2011 we had 2159, an increase of a whopping 1858!
On our 3rd anniversary in 2012 we were up by 177 members to 2336.
On our 4th anniversary we are up by 222 to a new total of 2558.
Today on our 5th anniversary we now number 2987 members and obviously still growing and still going strong!
Looking forward to seeing how many new members we'll have in 2015.
Happy Book Buying all! :-)

They just keep coming! :-)

Some more orders have arrived:

A few more orders arrived yesterday:

Lára wrote: "Never. I have some kind of dislexy when it comes to reading aloud. Can't seem to read the words at all. It's odd and upsetting. Have some problems at University with it, so when I try at home, it's..."

That's a bummer Lara. I've kind of got the opposite problem. Sometimes when I read, the words in my head are close but not quite to what is on the page. For example, I might see the word "board" and it comes out in my head as "beard." For me, sometimes I have to read out loud to make sure the word in my head is really what's on the page, saying the words and hearing them helps.

I'm currently rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and there is one character that is just so mean, so rotten, so evil, I want to throttle this person. Believe it or not, I don't mean Lord Voldemort, I'm talking about Dolores Umbridge. She makes me cringe whenever she comes on the page. This got me thinking, who are the worst of the worst, the meanest of the mean you have come across in your reading? It seems easy to think of great heroes, but what about the great villians? What characters can you name that are so vile and cruel they make your stomach turn?
A couple more that come to my mind are:
Ms. Trunchbull from Matilda
The surgeon/ship's doctor Dr. Hanover from Other Oceans

Ilean wrote: "Not a purchase but a freebie from Goodreads give a ways and Random House, just received a book Away by Amy Bloom. 7/18/2014"

Congrats! Goodreads's giveaways are not easy to win.

Louise wrote: "Yes, especially with poetry :-)"

Me too. Both books of poetry and books that have poems as segments of the story are as much fun to hear as they are to read.

Delivered yesterday:

I know this group is full of quirks ;-) so I thought I would ask, do you ever come across passages in books that you feel are so special that they must be heard so you read them out loud, to yourself? I do. There's just so much more than Shakespeare that must be heard as well as read. Any particular books you've read parts of out loud lately? I'm currently rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, it's just written so well that parts are just meant to be heard. :-)

Tiffany wrote: "You have to be over 6500 now since you have had several recent shipments.

I am so amazed!"

Currently 6505 to be exact. :-)