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On Friday, I volunteered at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library semi-annual book sale. So you might think I would then go on Saturday to the same book sale. But ah, my foes, and ah, my friends, that’s the way one gets too many books. Instead, I went to the Friends of the Clever […]
You’re right, I don’t get out to do a lot of book sales these days, and the number of books that I pick up from garage sales is generally so low as to not warrant mention. But twice a year, we head out to the Christian County Friends of the Library book fair, and this […]
On Friday, my beautiful wife and I went to the members-only preview night of the Friends of the Library book fair in Ozark, Missouri. We’ve been off-and-on members since we’ve been down here, but this is the first time we’ve deployed our membership to get a look at the books before the general public could. […]
Clever, Missouri, is a small town, population 2100 or so, southwest of us. Although it’s in Christian County, I had read or heard somewhere that it has its own library instead of a branch of the Christian County Library. I’d wanted to join the group to add to my collection of Friends of the Library […]
On Saturday, my beautiful wife and children attended a birthday party just a couple doors down from Hooked on Books. I’M ONLY A MAN! I did most of my visiting to the sale books out in front and in the little room off of the back, coming away with: Top of the Heap by A.A. […]
Last evening, the family and I ventured down to Ozark for the Friends of the Christian County semi-annual book sale. It’s in a single room attached to the Ozark branch of the library, so it’s not overwhelming in size, and the boys can explore the books on their own in sight of the parents. Single […]
Yesterday, as I mentioned, we hit a book fair at a Methodist church just outside the MSU campus. It wasn’t very large, and its selection of fiction was essentially romance novels and a pile of James Patterson books. It did, however, have some old record albums, so I was able to stock up on some […]
Wednesdays can be a dangerous day for me. The younger lad has only a half day of school, so instead of driving into town and then home and then into town and then home in a three hour stretch, I hit the gym for an hour and a half or two hours, but then I […]
On Tuesday night, we had a little time without the children, so my beautiful wife and I ducked into Hooked on Books. I bought a couple books: I got: The Handle, one of Richard Stark’s Parker novels. You might know him as Porter, as he was renamed in the Mel Gibson film Payback. A Dilbert […]
Yesterday, we hit the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library’s semiannual book sale. On a full price day, but we were without children. Since it was not half price day or bag day, I found myself restraining myself and putting down books that I would have picked up in other circumstances. Which is good, because […]
This is the short autumn book fair season in the Ozarks, as the Friends of the Christian County Book Fair, Friends of the Polk County Book Fair, and Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Fair all occur in the same two weekend stretch. Today, we started off by going to the Friends of the […]
Yesterday, instead of doing something productive, I gathered up the family and headed to two garage sales. When we’d gone to Asbury United Methodist Church last year, they had a whole room of books. This year, there was only a table, but it was heavy on the science fiction as you will see below. Additionally, […]
The review copies of John Donnelly’s Gold have arrived: To adjust the quote from Thoreau, I have now a library of nearly six thousand volumes, over seventy of which I wrote myself. I’m sending these out in bunches to people who I think might be influencers and to book reviewers across the country, hoping to […]
No book sales this week, but I must have known I was going to be challenged, because I bought some books anyway. We hit two church garage sales, looking more for wooden things I could pyrographitate on, but I found some old books marked a quarter each, so how could I pass them up? Titles […]
I wasn’t going to go to the book sale at Remington’s. Wait, let me back up: I volunteered at the Friends of the Library book sale on Friday night, collecting the money as other people bought books and offering a running commentary to the customers about books they had. I was pretty adamant to the […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these, but down here in Southwest Missouri, we only get to four or five book fairs a year, which is a good thing, as my bookshelves are collapsing under the weight of the books I own and will never actually read. Instead of the twice-a-year Friends […]
I waited until late on bag day to go to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale, so I only got 31 books. Two bags, two bucks, but I threw in a little extra because I’m a greedy, heartless Republican who compulsively buys books. The haul: Click for full size Among the highlights: […]
I guess it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these (a year and a half), and I know you’re all clamoring for news about how many books I’m going to try to shoehorn into my library this time. Well, this part of October means it’s time for both the Friends of the Christian […]
I’ve fallen down on showing the oozing sores of my sickness, incessant and sometimes indiscriminate book acquisition. Maybe you thought that the state of the world has left me too depressed to go buy cheap books. Au contraire. Here are the results from four book fairs we’ve attended recently. We went to a church in […]
What a difference a couple of years makes. Two years ago, we went to a book fair in Arnold and I thought it was in the middle of nowhere. We approached from one side, from the north. This time, though, we came from the south, and I realized that the church was on the corner […]