Last weekend, we hit a couple more garage sales and got a couple more books. Color you shocked, I say (if I can mix metaphors and allusions).
Here, we have:
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- Instant Replay and Distant Replay by Jerry Kramer. I’ve read the first, but the copy I read didn’t have a dust jacket. So one of these books is a replacement. The other: To Read.
- A field guide to Missouri Wildflowers.
- A couple of books by Eric Flint and Harry Turtledove, faves of the cool kids.
- The Better Homes and Gardens New Garden Book, sort of like the red checkered cookbook, I hope.
- Confessions of a Hooker, a book I’d bought the week before in softcover, but this is hardback, you see.
I also got a couple of pictures for a quarter each, as you can see. They’re alkmost like Renoir.
Actually, this was the Concordia Lutheran Church sale, not last week. Sorry, in the immediate post-event period, time gets a little confusing.
I must not be one of the cool kids. 1632 is the only Eric Flint book that I’ve really liked, and Turtledove is pretty hit or miss, having become a lot more miss than hit as the years have gone by.
I haven’t been that impressed with Turtledove myself, but I keep picking them up because some people say they’re good. I keep hoping to see in them what the others do.
I have 1633 by Flint also, but I’ve discovered that’s a sequel, so I haven’t jumped on it in case I come across 1632. Also, I have plenty of other things to read.
Edgar Denison, who wrote Missouri Wildflowers, was a family friend and neighbor. Some of the pictures in the book were taken in our yard.
That and 5 bucks will get you a venti of coffee at Starbucks.