To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
The 2024 Winter Reading Challenge has a category Outside Your Comfort Zone, and I figured it was finally time to tackle this novel. I bought it sixteen years ago at an estate sale south of Blackburn Park in Old Trees when my oldest was but a toddler. It has languished on the to-read shelves for […]
It did not take me long (relatively) after reading Sheriff Without A Badge to pick up the fourth Harbison Mystery Western, which was the last of them that I owned at the time. In this installment, Sheriff Harbison deals with a variety of side quests as per the usual, but the main storyline is that […]
Patrice Lewis of Rural Revolution has a Good Book Hunting post of her own after she went to a library book sale. Although it looks like she only bought 16 or so books. Because not everyone is a glutton like me.
Gentle reader, you might know I am a sucker for children’s books on celebrities or sports figures. For example: TV Superstars ’81 TV Superstars ’83 TV Superstars ’83 TV Now: Stars and Shows Deion Sanders * Brett Favre So you might have expected that I would have picked this book right up right after I […]
Not exactly a Good Book Hunting or Good Album Hunting post per se, although that’s ultimately what it comes down to. I have started hitting garage sales and estate sales again here and there, gentle reader. I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for–well, a table/entertainment center to replace a printer stand and maybe a […]
I bouught this book last week at the Novel Neighbor in Old Trees, Missouri, when I traveled to St. Louis (the actual city, gentle reader, not The St. Louis Area which is safer and saner). The Novel Neighbor is not my favorite St. Louis area bookstore–it was not there when I lived in Old Trees, […]
Two and a half years ago, I picked up this book ABC Books after having read about the author in Garden and Gun magazine–a 2016 issue, which I was then four years late in reading. When I did my Good Book Hunting post, I said I’d get to the author eventually, and that was only […]
Gentle reader, you might have noticed no Good Album Hunting or Good Book Hunting posts recently, even though the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library held its autumn book sale last week. I did not go. I alluded to this in book reports leading up to the event–that I might not go–but in the end, […]
Well, gentle reader, I asked in my Good Book Hunting post from this weekend if you could guess which of the books I would read first from the stack. It was this play, and maybe I should actually make a point of buying plays to read in hotel rooms when I travel; you might remember […]
Where the heck did I get this book? A quick search of Good Book Hunting posts does not yield a result. It does not have an ABC Books sticker. It does not have a price penciled on the first page which might indicate another used book store. I certainly did not buy it new as […]
Yeah, verily, some might think we worship cats at Nogglestead. We have several (three indoors these days, one outdoors, and another that comes around but has a day home or day job). We have statues of cats. We have paintings with cats in them. When one is at Nogglestead, one sees cats everywhere. Sometimes when […]
At Ace of Spades HQ, Perfesser Squirrel, who has taken over the Sunday Morning Book Thread after OregonMuse, PBUH, posts some recent book acquisitions: I had a major book haul this week. The university library in which I work (but I do not work for) had a book sale. Managed to walk away with 20 […]
I read Kung Fu: The Way of the Dragon; I read Kung Fu #2: Chains; I read Kung Fu #3: Superstition. So it would make sense for me to pick up this book, Kung Fu #4, ainna? Oh, but no: The first were tied into the David Carradine television series, as demonstrated by his picture […]
I bought this book at an undocumented trip to ABC Books (sometimes, as I mentioned, if I only end up with one or two books, I don’t make a special Good Book Hunting post for it since the hunting, in those cases, wasn’t particularly good). I spotted it in the local author sets, and I […]
I picked up this collection of poetry at ABC Books on one of the classified gift card runs this December. I didn’t do Good Book Hunting posts on them because I bought only a couple of books each time and a handful of gift cards. I mainly hang out in the martial arts, poetry, philosophy, […]
In a Good Book Hunting post in July 2018, I predicted: The real question is, which of these books will I read first (aside from Hundred Dollar Baby)? Probably the cartoons. How many will I have read by this time in 2020? Probably the cartoons. Analysis: FALSE. I’ll have to figure out where that collection […]
It’s been almost ten years since I read The Lord of the Rings. At that time, I said: This is not a comic book nor a 20th century American thriller. This, on the other hand, is a graphic novel adaptation of the one book that became three movies in the 21st century. It is a […]
It’s been two years since I read The Tao of Pooh, and I mentioned I had this book around somewhere, maybe. I’m not entirely sure if I found it or if I bought it in the interim, but its absence on the Good Book Hunting post in the interim suggests the former. Like the predecessor, […]
I got this book last week when I went to ABC Books for the Christmas gift cards. I did not do a full Good Book Hunting post on it because, gentle reader, I’m not sure if you even read them (or the blog book reports for that matter). But, if you’re interested, I got Little […]
I got this book at Rublecon last weekend. Rublecon is a small comic/toy convention held in Relics’ event center. I missed it last year because when I pulled into the parking lot, I could not find a parking space, and my family was reluctant participants anyway. This year, though, I wandered through the aisles. You […]