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

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

LooLoo wrote: "Jamie - thanks for the info. Didn't even think of looking for her website. LOL, no I don't have the receipt cause I picked them up months ago at a ubs and ebay so I'm not out much thank goodness."

Looloo, you could always try and sell your duplicate copy yourself and use the money for more books, or just trade it for that matter.

I went to Anderson's Bookshop today for a book signing. Kim Harrison signed For a Few Demons More for me and Kelley Armstrong signed Frostbitten. I also bought the great The Body Finder and got Kimberly Derting's autograph. I bought a previously signed Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper and also bought Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine and Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson. In addition, I got my Thriftsbook delivery of Strip Search by William Bernhardt and Still Waters: A Mystery by Nigel McCrery. Not a bad day at all, book-wise.

Summer is here, let's hear about your book buying this month.

Got these deliveries from Amazon and Thriftbooks yesterday:
which finishes me at 40 books for May. On to June, we'll see what I end up with with the Printer's Row Lit Fest in Chicago next month. :-)

Half Price got me with their 20% off Memorial Day sale. I found: Aliens Don't Carve Jack-O'-Lanterns, Zombies Don't Play Soccer, and Genies Don't Ride Bicycles. And Borders got me with a 40% coupon that I used for Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey.

Tiffany wrote: "Bluemoon wrote: "just read . It was a good book!

Tiffany I love that book!"
It was as you said a book to love!!!!"

I loved it too. I'm going to hear the author speak and get her autograph a week from Saturday. :-)

Candiss wrote: "Half-Price Books is having a 20% off everything sale for Memorial Day (US) weekend. It goes from Thursday, May 27-Monday, May 31. I'm going to try to get to my local HPB Friday or Sunday."

Candiss! Stop tempting me like that! I don't know if my bank account can take it! lol

Melanie, you definately belong here! lol. Welcome to the club. :-)

Ok, I need help getting back on the wagon. I just found out about a great sale BN.com is having for Sci-fi and Fantasy books (Thanks a lot Valorie ;-) )and ordered 8 more books this morning.


Oh well, who really needs to eat anyway? :-)

Valorie wrote: "Huge Sci-Fi sale gong on at B&N.com!!..."

Thanks a lot Valorie, you enabler you. ;-) Your news just "forced" me to buy another 8 books! I have to admit, that's one hot sale, selling new books at practically used prices.

Well fellow addicts, I kind of had a long week, so I just went on a book buying binge.

From Amazon I ordered:
From Thriftbooks.com I ordered:
From Borders I picked up:
And I went back and had more fun at Half Price Books:

That brings me up to 32 books now. <:-)

LooLoo wrote: "Justine wrote: "I only shop at Half Price Books for my treats. I can get twice as much as the full price stores!!"

I got to go to a Half Price Books while in Dallas this spring and loved it. You..."

A Half Price Books store just opened in my area and I love it! I went to the grand opening this weekend and came home with 19 books. Not only are the prices great, but this has to be the best organized used book store I have ever seen. If you have one in your area, this is a store you definately want to visit.

Valerie, yeah, I did get some great finds. I now am up to date with all of Sue Grafton's mysteries and I also now have every Capital Crimes mystery that Margaret Truman wrote. I got a great price for The Swan Thieves, too. Not only was it originally priced for 50% off, but I had a 50% off coupon, too!

My friends, I must say I've felt like I was going through withdrawal reading about the great amounts that you've bought so far this month and I haven't. Well, I got a great "dose" of books this weekend. A new used-book store just opened in my area, the closest one to me, only 20 minutes away, and it's both a blessing and a curse. At Half Price Books I bought 19 books, but I can honestly say I did not spend a single cent of my paycheck. I spent my tax return instead. ;-)

The books I got to add to my library are:
Nevada Barr's Winter Study, Endangered Species, Track of the Cat, and Blood Lure

Margaret Truman's Murder in Foggy Bottom and Murder at the Opera

Elizabeth Peters's Lord of the Silent, Guardian of the Horizon, The Curse of the Pharaohs, and Children of the Storm

Patricia Briggs's Moon Called

Sue Grafton's B is for Burglar and J is for Judgment

James D. Doss's White Shell Woman and The Night Visitor

Nancy Farmer's A Girl Named Disaster

Clive Cussler's Night Probe!

Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael's Penance: The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael and The Sanctuary Sparrow: The Seventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves

Half Price Books is a dangerous place for a bibliophile to go, it's practically an enabler for our addiction. lol

Gallifreyan, you're going to like Nine Gates and Thirteen Orphans. FYI, the third in the series Five Odd Honors is coming out end of May or beginning of June, I believe.

Alexandra wrote: "I read less than a book a month."

I'm not that bad, I love to read, but I think I love to collect a smidge more. Out of my collection, one third is nonfiction/reference, one third is fiction I have read, and one third is fiction I have collected mainly because I like to have complete sets/series and/or just have certain books of certain themes/subjects. I tend to read on average 20 books a month, but the number I buy on average is probably just a little more, maybe around 25.

My first May purchase was an arrival from Borders. Hook and Jill is an awesome retelling of the story of Peter Pan. I first checked it out of the library and after reading it I knew I had to own it so I could reread it whenever I wanted. This is such a deep book I just know that there is more to get from it than just one reading could get.

Well, April is pretty much over and it looks like I've ended up with 22 new books for my library. How did your totals end up?

As of Beltaine/May Day (May 1) start sharing your May purchases here.

Got [image error] delivered from Amazon today.