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

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

I just read my 200th book toward my goal of 315 books which brings me to 63% done and puts me 21 books (6%) ahead of schedule. I've got 5 months to read 115 more books. Piece of cake. :-)

B.B.A.A. 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.
Today on our 4th anniversary we are up by 222 to a new total of 2558.
Looking forward to seeing how many new members we'll have in 2014.
Happy Book Buying all! :-)

Just got and picked up at the library used book shelf:

Samantha wrote: "Bookfari posted this?"
I'll let them post because they could possibly, maybe, be a good resource for buying books AND so long as they post in the proper folders. I moved this post to the Selling folder. I'll see where things go from here.

Janet wrote: "Tell me that when you've got about 2000 like I do. I've decided the key is having more go out than coming in but I haven't been able to achieve that yet....baby steps...."

Will it make you feel better if I tell you I have a little over 5000 in my library? :-)

Kelli wrote: "My mom made me this really cute bookworm book mark. But I will also use whatever is available at the time. We recently moved in with the inlaws (ugh!) and my mother in law is enjoying my books-- bu..."

Kelli, I don't think it is too much to ask that your books be taken care of properly. To encourage your Mother-in-law to use a bookmark, why don't you make a special one for her? She might be more likely to use it if it came from you and means something special. Just my two cents.

Got another delivery today: and I picked up a couple more used from the library:

Got delivered a new replacement copy of an old favorite from my childhood, used but in really good condition: Sink or Swim by Betty Miles

Just got delivered:

Tiffany wrote: "Just got Brandon Sanderson to sign his Rithmatist book!"

Ooooh! Lucky you! I'm jealous, I just finished that book and it is an awesome read!

My first book of July:

I was in bibliophile seventh heaven this weekend. I got to go to the American Library Association Conference and came home with a whopper of 91 free Advance Reader Copies, some of them signed by the authors! I got the autographs of:
Gary D. Schmidt
Kat Falls
Katherine Paterson
A.G. Howard
Pete Hautman
Laurie Halse Anderson
Tasha Alexander
Jim C. Hines
Patricia MacLachlan
Brandon Mull
Monique Brinson Demery
Kathryn Erskine
Kirby Larson
Tim Federle
Charles Finch
Julia Keller
Theresa Schwegel
Frank Beddor
Matti Friedman
Trish Cook
Eleanor Kuhns
Jonathan Tropper
Sara Paretsky

Share here the purchases you made this July.

Karen M wrote: "Since I haven't checked in since February:

You have read 65 books toward your goal of 125 books.
65 of 125 (52%)
Great work, you're 6 books (4%) ahead of schedule..."

I haven't checked in since May. Here's where I'm at:

You have read 169 books toward your goal of 315 books.
169 of 315 (54%)
Great work, you're 20 books (6%) ahead of schedule.

Another couple I've added to my library:

Got a whopper of a delivery :-)

Another replacement delivery arrived:

Two replacements for some of my flood damaged books arrived today: and

Got some more used at Half Price Books:

Went to Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest over the weekend and got Maus signed by Art Spiegelman and Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume.