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

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

As a birthday present for myself I ordered a whopper of used from Thriftbooks.com and I'm going to stop in at Half Price Books and Barnes and Noble later today.

Picked up a few used mysteries from the library:

I'm currently at 266 of 300 (89%). I think I should be able to reach my goal by the end of the year if I get through 20 books each in the next two months. Piece of cake, right?

My favorite month! (My birthday is in November. ;-) ) Share your purchases with us here.

My last purchases of October:

To be honest, I didn't think I had ever read a single book that was that long, but looking at my records, it turns out I have, just barely. My copy of David Copperfield has 1001 pages and having been written by the great Charles Dickens was quite an enjoyable read.

Teawench wrote: "Susan wrote: "The last time I moved I had 2500 books to pack up. I decided to weed them out and donated all but about 500."

We'll be moving in a couple weeks and I have over 3000 books to move. Th..."

I just moved myself into my first house and ended up boxing up 5200 books. The primary thing my new home had to have was plenty of wall space for bookcases. :-)

One that caught my attention at a used book sale was Pope's Rhinoceros, The: A Novel. The cover caught my eye, too: . For the cheap price it was, I thought "Why not?"

I'm a chronic rereader and for the most part, I don't buy a book unless I know I want to keep it. If I'm not sure I'll like a book, I check it out of the library first. If I do like it, then I'll buy it to add to my personal library to be reread when the time and mood is right. I very rarely, if ever, remove a book. If I do, it most likely is because it is in just such bad shape it really isn't usuable anymore, and if that's the case, I'll often buy a new copy of it.

To be honest, I don't think you want a list of the series I collect since it would probably take too long to read. Looking at my library, I have about 150 series that I like to read and collect from every genre you can think of, both fiction and nonfiction.

Michele wrote: "I met Neal Shusterman this afternoon--got two of my own (very favorite books) signed, Unwind and UnWholly and bought Everlost and had it signed for my school library. happpy happy"

I know what you mean. I often take books from the public library where I work to get signed along with my own personal copies. It's fun to see patrons when they discover a library copy is autographed.

Michele wrote: "Joseph, have you read The Last Dragonslayer? The teasers reminded me quite a bit of a children's book: The Magic Thief. Just wondered."

Not yet, at the moment it's at the end of my 15 book TBR line.

Went to a book signing last night and got , , and signed by Jasper Fforde.

Went to a book signing last night and got , , and signed by Jasper Fforde.
Also got delivered.

I would never buy them in different formats from each other. When I collect a series I want all the books in it and all of them in paper format. Paperback and hardcover I might mix if I am backtracking and buying an older series and just trying to get each book and each book cheap, a new series I try to get all in the same, either PB or HC.

Nicole D. wrote: "I just bought"

Great book with some amazing quotable lines in it. I gave it 4 stars.

I lowered my goal from 365 to 250. Since buying a house, my reading time has really dropped. If I had known that was going to happen, I would have stuck with the apartment. ;-)

Anyway, I'm currently at: 250 of 300 (83%), 22 books (7%) ahead.

Just bought:

October has arrived. Share your purchases for this month here.

I added to my library today: