peg’s Comments (group member since Nov 04, 2007)

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

Catchy titles seem to get my attention. Then I page through the book and read random passages. If the writing piques my interest, I usually buy the book.

I guess I am the original cheapskate. I used to frequently buy 3-4 books at a clip in a bookstore and have bought as many as 8 or 9. However,I have become spoiled by Amazon new and used books at ridiculously low prices. If I go to a bookstore now I only buy books on sale and make lists of books to buy on line while I am in the store. Magazines are still a weakness. I buy several at a time and rack my brains attempting to justify my purchases.

Library books sales are another story. I don't count the number of books I buy there, I count the number of bags of books I walk out with:)

Skin Tight - Carl Hiaasen

Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Songs in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris

Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific - J. Maarten Troost

Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code

Kafka Tamura

Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet - Ann Marie MacDonald

Fern Arable - Carlotte's Web (my favorite children's story)


Mrs. Oedipa Maas

Rosemary's Baby



Dr Juvenal Urbino

The Night Before Christmas - Clement Clark Moore

Nick Shay - Is that White Noise?

If so,how about: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

The Long Walk Home - Will North

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams

The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

I just came back from the Paperback Trader but I didn't trade books, I just bought them. (I have a hard time giving my books up).

Anyway, I was in search of some lighter reading than what I have been doing. I bought:

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

Perfume:The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Life Support by Tess Gerritsen

Where I'm Calling From Stories by Raymond Carver


(Then I invited the Paperback Trader guy to join us on Goodreads :D )

I can't stand reading a book that is ruined by someone else's markings and highlighting.

Now, that makes sense!

My "Free Library" charges $2 or $3 to rent,I mean borrow, a best seller. I can just imagine Ben Franklin turning over in his grave on that one.

I guess only option would be to "forget" to return the book until you finish it, in which case you will probably be fined as much as it would cost to buy the book second hand:)