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

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

Charles wrote: "i have a large number of books signed most of them are personalized which i like i know people say not to get personalized because you can't get rid of them. I get them to collect not to resell i a..."

Me too. I like it when they are personalized, it adds a bit of history to that book. It's even kind of fun to buy used books that are signed and personalized to someone, it gets you wondering where that book has been and what it's "life" has been like. :-)

At the end of one month, I'm at 30 of 315 (10%), 4 books (1%) ahead of schedule.

Today's the first of February. Share here what books you buy this month.

Shannon wrote: "That's nice of her. Our library has a 75 item limit. If I'm ever up that high I want them to cut me off! LOL..."

At the library I work at it's fun to see the look on a patron's face when they inquire what our limit is and I ask them if they think they can stay under 50 items.

Went to "The Bookstore" in Glen Ellyn, IL and got signed The Aviator's Wife signed by Melanie Benjamin. This was the third book this author has written and it was the third book by her I got signed. IMO, all three titles are 5 star works of historical fiction. The other two titles by her are Alice I Have Been and The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb: A Novel.
This brings my collection up to being 98 signed books! :-)

More arrived! :-)

Another delivery:

Went to a booksigning last night at Anderson's Bookshop. Curtis Jobling signed all four of his current books in the Wereworld series for me: . I learned that he is also an illustrator and animator, too. In fact, he created Bob the Builder!

One more delivery arrived yesterday: . That'll probably be it for this month. Maybe. ;-)

Got a whopper of a delivery yesterday:

Got delivered from Thriftbooks:

Jean wrote: "Do you ever get ebooks autographed? They have than kindlegraph thing you can do now. Does that appeal to you as a reader? Is Kindle trying to find a way to compete with an autographed paper book? I..."
That's another reason I don't like ebooks. Having a real paper book signed adds to it by giving it a history. Finding a signed book on a shelf adds to its quality, it makes you wonder where that book has been and who has read it. You can't do that with an ebook.

Today, I picked up:

My first new books of the year: The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin and Nest of Serpents by Curtis Jobling. The really cool thing about these two is I'm going to a book signing by both of these authors in a couple of weeks. :-)

"Rare books? First editions?" He's already in midair. He moves fast.

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Stacey wrote: "...have a dozen or more that I've bought and haven't touched since putting them on the shelf. I look at it as my retirement plan - when I have time but no money."

lol. I really like that way of looking at it. :-)

Cristina (a book away from an episode of hoarders) wrote: "I had not intended to buy any books this month. That being said I ordered from thriftbooks yesterday and [bookcover:Nice Girls Don't Date Dead M..."

Cristina, if you haven't read them already, you are really going to like Molly Murphy's Jane Jameson series. It is a real riot, a lot of fun to read. One of my favorite series.

Batsap wrote: "So I made a new year's resolution not to buy any more books... but today I bought Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman, so that's going well =]"

Batsap, that's definately a perfect example of a pie crust promise- easily made, easily broken. ;-)

The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers. The series was wonderful until this one. The author Lilian Jackson Braun had been very sick for a long time and the publishers made the bad mistake of having a ghost writer finish the book for her. It was terrible! I wish I had never read it, it was an insult to what had been a very good mystery series until then. And then Mrs. Braun died. It would have been better if they had just left the readers hanging to make up their own minds how things would have ended rather than have a terrible ghost writer try to tie up the loose ends in an absolutely horrible way.

It's a new year and a new challenge, how high are you aiming this year? I was aiming for 300 and made it to 314 in 2012 so I'm aiming to at least hit 315 this year. Best of luck, everyone, and have fun!