I have already enumerated the LPs I bought this weekend on half price day at the semi-annual book sale at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds. Now, gentle reader, you get to see what I bought in books and videos.
I didn’t get a whole lot of videos; they’d been picked over, and I’m already trying to clear recent overflow from the top of the video cabinet. Still, I got a couple:
- Thin Ice, one of the Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone television movies.
- Kingdom of Heaven.
- Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself, a comedy special most likely to be the first thing I watch from this group.
- The Big Easy. Not bought: The Hard Easy which was also available.
- Marked for Death, a Steven Seagal film which I might already own. I do now for sure, anyway.
I kept mostly to the poetry table in the dollar books section, but did cruise into the better books section to look over old books. I did get several of the chapbook bundles, though, which is like a box of chocolates. Or three in this case.
I got:
- A copy of Ideals magazine, the Liberty issue from January 1976. Strangely, it looks familiar, but when you can find a copy of Ideals in the wild for fifty cents, you buy it.
- Beyond the High Hills: A Book of Eskimo Poems with photographs by Guy Mary-Rousselière. Eskimos probably have 300 poems for snow.
- Murder Ink, a collection of essays by mystery authors including Robert B. Parker which is why I recognized it. It’s from the Better Books Section, so I paid a $1.50 for it. I might put this on the to-read shelves instead of the Robert B. Parker collection and, you know, think about reading it.
- Finnish Proverbs translated by Inkeri Väänänen-Jensen. Probably similar to the Eskimo poems.
- The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heany. Hardback and dustjacket. And no accent marks or umlauts in the Irish poet’s name.
- Dressed Inside Out by Elizabeth Price. Signed by the author. And only $1.
- Brighter Days to Come from the Salesian Collection. Since I’m apparently now a Salesian collector. This is a hardback with a dustjacket. So probably for high dollar contributors.
- Perfidious Proverbs and Other Poems: A Satirical Look at the Bible by Philip Appleman. With an introduction by Dan Barker. If someone needs to explain it….
- Bed Riddance: A Posy for the Indisposed by Ogden Nash. A paperback, unlike the other volumes of Nash I have. Well, most of them are the red hardcovers. The Old Dog Barks Backwards, which I read in January, is paperback. How quickly I forget.
- Treasures of Truth by Reta Belle Lyle. Oh, yeah. With a name like that, I know what I’m getting. This is Number Four according to the title page.
- So You Think You’re A Hipster? by Kara Simsek. A humor book of some sort. Voted most likely to be read first from this stack.
- Only ‘Till Sundown, a chapbook by Will H. Havens from 1998.
- Jes’ Dreamin’: An Anthology by Bud Rainey. Poems from 1958. They had vanity presses in 1958?
- Mother Tried To Tell Me… And I Just Wouldn’t Listen, a Periwinkle Press gift book from 1982.
- Kiss without Touching by Harriet Talbert.
- Unsettled: A Tribute to Living Life on the Open Road by Rubie Dianne.
- A stack of Columbia (University) Essays on Modern Writers from the 1960s. Individual critical essays on individual authors in paper covers. I have #1 Albert Camus, #10 E.M. Forster, #11 Alain Robbe-Grillet, #15 William Yeats, #17 Eugène Ionesco, #19 Franz Kafka, #20 Jean Genet, #21 Gerald Manley Hopkins, #34 Iris Murdoch, and #37 Luigi Pirandello.
- Think Positive Thoughts Every Day edited by Patricia Wayant. Poems.
- Two copies of (local) Drury University’s literary magazine Currents from 2022 and 2023.
- Kenyon Review from Sept/Oct 2018.
- Every Time I Find The Meaning Of Life, They Change It, an audiobook by Daniel Klein. I’ve read a couple of his pop philosophy books and liked them. Including, apparently, this one in 2017. Still, I’ll enjoy listening to it on the way somewhere this year.
The bundles also included another copy of Journey through Heartsongs by Mattie J.T. Stepanek, but as I read it in 2021 (and did not like it!), I’ve put it in a donation box already. Not even worthy of the free book cart at church.
I’ve definitely restocked my chapbook and quick read stack and have a couple of other magazines to put on my stack upstairs for when I’m winding down and want to read a couple of poems before bed.
AND: I want to point out that I spent a total of $32.50 for all of the things I bought, including the records, DVDs, books, and audiobook. And, I’m pleased to say that I did not overburden my storage for these things, although my previously viewed video library needs some attention. Sometime this summer.
