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

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

Feel free to share your April purchases here, you'll see you are definately not alone with your "addiction." :-)

Michelle wrote: "Ooh! That's great deal Joseph. I'm going to check it out right now. Thanks for the info :)
My pleasure, I always like being able to enable a fellow addict. :-)

Mandie wrote: "Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs comes out tomorrow!!!!"
I just placed my order for it at www.bookdepository.com They're selling a paperback copy of it for only $5.24! That's 50% off and FREE shipping too! Check it out here http://www.bookdepository.com/book/97...

Amy wrote: "No doubt tomorrow I will be getting more...after all there is a shiny new 40% off coupon from Borders sitting on my desk tempting me!! ..."

Tell me about it. Mine is doing the exact same thing to me! lol

Gotcha. :-)

CD, is this list fiction or nonfiction, or both?

Good, I was hoping that would help make clearer what I was trying to get going here. :-)

Yep, that would be just fine CD. Go ahead and create a new topic with that as the subject under this folder.

Feel free to add to this list of art-themed fiction.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett

By Dan Brown:
Angels & Demons
The Da Vinci Code
The Lost Symbol

Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick

The Art Thief by Noah Charney

By Tracy Chevalier:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Virgin Blue
The Lady and the Unicorn

I Am Madame X : A Novel by Gioria Diliberto

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Leonardo's Swans: A Novel by Karen Essex

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

By Kate Mosse:
Sepulchre
Labyrinth

The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

The Secret Supper: A Novel by Javier Sierra

By Susan Vreeland:
Life Studies: Stories
The Passion of Artemisia
Luncheon of the Boating Party
The Forest Lover

I guess I wasn't too clear when I start this. My goal was to create a folder for new threads to be started, lists of different genres. Please don't add suggestions here, make new topics instead.

Bluemoon wrote: "well you already have Urban Fantasy going so that's great ^_^"

Just a thought, maybe we should try narrower lists. Those other three are pretty broad topics. Go ahead and create narrower threads for them if you can think of some. Like maybe Fantasies With Elves instead of just Fantasy.

I thought I'd start a list of Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance series I'd suggest to others as good reading.
I'm aiming to list SERIES here, not stand alone single books.
Feel free to add to the list, but let's try not to duplicate, ok?

Nora Robert’s The Circle Trilogy
Patricia Briggs’s Mercedes Thompson series
Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series
Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires series
Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty Norville series
Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series
Carole Nelson Douglas’s Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator series
Justin Gustainis’s Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation series
C. E. Murphy’s The Negotiator Trilogy
Christine Warren’s The Others series
Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon/Otherworld series
Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series
Mercedes Lackey’s Diana Tregarde Investigation series

I've noticed a lot of us Book Buying Addicts tend to buy quite a bit of the same genres and themes so I thought it might be a good idea to create a folder where we can just list our suggestions of if you like this you might want to check out that sort of things. Feel free to CREATE YOUR OWN THREADS in this folder. DON'T add suggestions under this topic heading, make new ones instead, ok?

I average about 4 new books a month, but my purchasing of used books may range anywhere from 50 to 0 depending on what I come across at the library.

Rosalie wrote: "Have you read THE LADY AND THE UNICORN? It is one of my favorite Chevalier's books." Yep, one of my favs of her works, too. She does great art-themed historical fiction.

Rosalie wrote: "Thanks to HPB my husband is becoming a reader (finally)! We have been turning off the tv in the evenings and reading with soft music in th background. It has been marvelous. He never read books for..."

Rosalie, that is so sweet and wonderful to hear! Lucky you. :-)

I just got Murder Inside the Beltway by Margaret Truman, used from the library. That brings me up to 13.

I must say, looking at some of the other numbers you people are reporting, I feel like I'm not buying as much as I should. lol.

Bluemoon wrote: "I started the Big Four but got hooked on the Hunger Games so the former is in pending

The Big Four is not one of Christie's better Poirot cases, IMO. It was one of her first, though, so she was just warming up. They definately get better, as I'm sure you've seen already.

Got another couple of miscellaneous used finds at the library:
Dictionary of American Slang
Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin
Joy In Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor

This one's not so much as a purchase as an acclimation. My first win from a Goodread's giveaway arrived yesterday: The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees.