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

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

I finished 2012 with 314 of 300 (105%). How did everyone else do? Ready to start over with 2013? :-)

Happy New Year! Share your January purchases with us here and show how you start the new year.

I got a nice surprise a few days ago. A book I forgot I won arrived in the mail, Killed in Kruger signed by the author Denise M. Hartman.

Got another couple in before the end of the year:

At last count, the total number of books in my library is a mere 5117. :-)

Louise, if it makes you feel any better, of the 500 books I added to my collection this year, I've only read about 200 of those. Being a chronic rereader of what I've owned for years as well as checking out about another 100 books to read from the public library, to be honest, I'm surprised I did read as much of what I bought as I did.

The year is almost over and I'm sure many of you will be getting some great books tomorrow, so let's share, what was the best book you got and read in 2012?

IMO, the best book of 2012 is Amped by Daniel H. Wilson.
This dystopian novel made me angry, and that's a good thing. It made me angry because it was so believable. This book is about a world where a treatment/cure for conditions like epilepsy, ADHD, autism, blindness, missing limbs, etc. has been created. This treatment/cure is a computer chip that is put into the patient's brain. But this chip not only makes the patient better, it makes them BETTER. By this I mean they can now do things normal humans cannot, they are super-human, they are amplified humans, they are amped. They are smarter, faster, and stronger. And this scares the normal humans. And fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. And the normal humans, Regs, start to treat the amplified people, known as Amps, as not just sub-human but non-human. The Amps lose all their rights and privileges as citizens of the United States because they are no longer citizens, they are nothing. They are forced to leave their homes and move into internment camps to keep them contained, just like Japanese-Americans were made to do during World War II. Politics lead to more violence and violence leads to more politics. I don't want to say more for fear of ruining the rest of the story, but this is a must read dystopia, one of the best I have read. Read it to find out how things end up for the Amps. And if you like this one, check out When She Woke by Hillary Jordan and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, two other great dystopians published recently.

Yeah! I reached my goal of 300 and with days still left to read more. :-)

Marieru wrote: "I'm on track! I need to read 5 more books to reach my goal."

Same here! We can do it! :-)

My first new books of December:

Shannon wrote: "Congrats! You have completed your goal of reading 150 books for the 2012 Reading Challenge!

150 of 150 (100%)


Yay finished a whole month early!"

Congrats! I've got 16 books to go, so that pretty much means I've only got to read a book every other day this last month to reach goal. Piece of cake, right? :-)

It's the last month of the year. How will you end it? Share your December purchases here.

One more delivery arrived: and I might even have one or two more show up on my doorstep before the month is over.

Got another whopper of a delivery today:

Finally got my signed limited edition copy of delivered, number 351 of 1000!

Got another delivery, a nice whopper load of good reads:

I'm at 271 of 300 (90%), but I don't know if I will reach my goal this year, even after lowering it from 365.

I just got a delivery of used books yesterday, and discovered one of them happened to be signed! Cool bonus! God Save the Queen by Kate Locke

Got a delivery yesterday: