Good Book Hunting: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Round 2, October 25, 2014

Yesterday, I shamed myself before fellow volunteers at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale. Because I regaled them with tales of how many books I bought at book sales and because I told them I was restraining myself this time. I did neither; I came back for books, and I only bought a couple.

I got:

  • Three books in the Reader’s Digest classics series, Around the World in 80 Days, Lost Horizon, and The Sea Wolf. I’m pretty sure I’ve read two of them before, but now I have them in the editions I collect. Well, one of the editions.
  • Two other classics, Gulliver’s Travels and Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence.
  • An Ozark Lawyer’s Story by John Hulston; I read the first part of his autobiography last year.
  • Up in the Air, the novel that was the source of the Clooney film.
  • A book of critical essays on Rudyard Kipling.
  • A collection of love poems and a collection of limericks.
  • A book about Lord Tennyson’s poetry and philosophy. Six lectures from 1906.
  • F15E Strike Eagle by Microprose software. It’s a book about the plane, not the game.
  • Two fantasy bits, R.A. Salvatore’s Mortalis and the novelization of the film Dragonslayer. I think I have a mass market paperback graphic novel of the latter, too.
  • A couple of localish, self-publishedesque collections of poems and short stories, Dunking Doughnuts and Never Get Mad At Your Sweetgrass.
  • Mark Twain Speaks for Himself.
  • Leif and Thorkel: Two Norse Boys of Long Ago, which looks to be a 1924 children’s novel.
  • Historical Tweets, a humorous browsing book capturing how historical figures might have tweeted.

An interesting smörgåsbord, as Leif and Thorkel might say if they were Swedish boys of long ago instead of ancestors of a-ha fans.

I feel a little justified at only buying 20 books for myself (one of those depicted is a gift) as I’ve read more than 20 books this year. Of course, I’ve bought more books than I’ve read this year, but I’ll never go without having a variety of choices when selecting a new book to read. If only I could capture the interest and excitement I get when buying the book when I go to select the books; sometimes, that excitement and interest fades after time, so I’m not going to be as eager to delve into a tale of old Norway in March 2015 as I am today, but I’ve already got other things to read. Alas. Ay, me.

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