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You might have noticed it was quiet around here for the last week or so, gentle reader. If you live in Southwest Florida, you might have noticed it was a little louder. That’s because I took a trip down to Sanibel Island and Marco Island for some important sunburn time. Although we did only found […]

On Friday, I went to the Lutherans for Life rummage sale at Trinity Lutheran Church. This year, it had a few more books and fewer record albums, but I managed to scrounge some books and CDs for a sawbuck. Amongst the music, I got: Sade’s live album Lovers Live. I don’t normally do live albums, […]

I did not know that Rogersville had its own library; I don’t remember seeing it when I went to town for the old Missouri Insight blog (reposted here). As an old railroad town, it would have had the opportunity to create its own library before the Springfield-Greene County library or Webster County library took root. […]

On Saturday morning, my boys and I went to a couple of book sales, and late Saturday afternoon, a birthday party sugared my children to approximately 62,000 Hz. (My scientific studies have shown that a lot of sugar can make children very high pitched, no amount of sugar can actually render them too high pitched […]

So yesterday morning, I played hooky from the dojo to go to the Friends of the Clever Library Book Sale down in the fire station in Clever. I had a spot of trouble finding it because they put up a new Walmart Neighborhood Market in front of it which hid the fire station from view […]

Well, just in case you were missing the Good Book Hunting posts, I went to the Friends of the Christian County Library book sale yesterday afternoon in Ozark. We picked our children up from school, and the whole family cruised down to check out what they had. As I already own many, many books, I […]

So I went about an hour early before my volunteer shift started at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale. When I went on Wednesday, I thought I’d bought a copy of Olivia Newton-John’s Olivia, but the platter inside the cover is If You Love Me, Let Me Know. So I’d hoped the […]

On Friday night, my beautiful wife forewent the normal extravagant meal at Avanzarre Fine Italian Dining while the children languished at a Kids’ Night Out program at the dojo so that we could go to the Friends night at the book sale in Ozark. Rest assured, we did get something to eat, some fine Italian […]

I received an ABC Books gift card for Christmas, and it took me all of two days to get across town to spend it. Because I’m into delayed gratification. Gift cards are strange creatures; when I have a gift card for anything, it takes me a bit of time to spend it because I’m worrying […]

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 […]

It’s been a bad season for the local book fairs and Brian J. I missed the one in Clever because I didn’t know when it was (although since I’m a Friend of the Clever Library, I probably got a notification that I discarded). I missed the Christian County Library book sale due to car problems. […]

I swear, I did not mean to acquire a couple stacks of books today. We went to Republic’s Pumpkin Daze, a fall harvest festival with crafts, large vegetables, and funnel cakes, for a little while yesterday afternoon. One of the booths featured retired educational professionals raising money for local scholarships. They did this by selling […]

Back when we were young, my beautiful wife and I would always look for a used bookstore in places to which we traveled. At some point, we got away from that. Well, at some point we got away from both traveling and from going to used bookstores when we traveled. That point might be called […]

This morning, we were headed down County Highway FF, and a couple of kids along side the road were holding a sign for a rummage sale in front of their little storefront church. So we stopped. I got a couple books. Most notably, I got: A couple of Conan novels written by people who are […]

This week, I stopped by the aforementioned book sale twice: The first time, I hit the LPs. The second time, I hit the dollar books. I don’t have a picture of the 42 LPs I bought, but rest assured they include a lot of Frank Sinatra, a couple of Herb Alpert titles I did not […]

After a rigorous martial arts class, we hustled to the fire station in Clever, Missouri, for the semi-annual Friends of the Clever Library Book Sale. As we got there within an hour of the two-day sale’s end, the books were a dollar a bag. And bag day means that if I think I might want […]

On Saturday, I dragged my family to the Friends of the Christian County Library book fair in Ozark, Missouri. I say “dragged” because it was their second time there, as they had some free time on Thursday and were in Ozark. So they’d already bought a couple of books, but my beautiful wife found something […]

You might have thought, gentle reader, that I let you down last week when I only bought a few books in Clever. Oh, but see what I’ve done now in Ozark. In my defense, it was a date night where I treated (or was treated to by) my beautiful wife to a fine Italian dinner […]

Subtitle: Wherein Your Book Fair Hero Disappoints You Today we drove through the rain to Clever, Missouri, from downtown Springfield for the Friends of the Clever Library Book Sale. Why were we in downtown Springfield? Because I’d gotten an email from the YMCA about a book fair at the Downtown Springfield YMCA. So my beautiful […]