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<\/a><\/p>\nI bought:<\/p>\n
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- Four volumes of Ogden Nash’s poetry, volumes that I already own, because these have the original dust jackets as designed by Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>. That’s right: I spent $12 for the dustjackets.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Several Classics Club books, some of which I might not have, as well as a Dickens club volume (Sketches by Boz<\/em>) that I am sure I did not have.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Le Morte d’Artur<\/em> by Mallory. Maybe next year, my thing will be Arthurian legend, and I can read this along with the paperback copy of Idylls of the King<\/em> that I bought when I was in college.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Great Quotes, Great Comedians<\/em>, a little collection of one liners from comedians. I’ve already read it, it’s that little.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Far from the Madding Crowd<\/em> by Thomas Hardy.
<\/br><\/li>\n- A daily reading guide, which is a collection of 365 or 366 paragraphs from literature with the schtick that you read one a day. I bought this as a gift for my mother-in-law, who really enjoyed a Tennyson daily reader I bought her years back.
<\/br><\/li>\n- A pile of sci fi, including a collection of Del Rey short stories, a Foundation book, something by John Varley, something by Robert Silverberg, something by Clifford Simak, and something by Terry Brooks.
<\/br><\/li>\n- A very brief history of Springfield’s first 100 years.
<\/br><\/li>\n- The History of Africa<\/em> which is just what it says.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Heroes and History<\/em>, a British book that talks about individual heroes like Robin Hood and their place in history.
<\/br><\/li>\n- An Empire Wilderness<\/em> by Robert Kaplan which talks about the fragmentation and Balkanization of the United States. Or something.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay and J.R.R. Tolkien, who strangely enough were at their peaks at about the same time.
<\/br><\/li>\n- Two books in a series by the National Geographic Society.
<\/br><\/li>\n- A book of cartoons about business that looks like it’s trying to piggyback on Dilbert’s success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
All told, that’s 30 gross books for me, with 25 net at best (depending upon how many of the Classics Clubs are duplicates–I have yet to determine).<\/p>\n
I don’t know if I’ll make it up to Bolivar tomorrow, so I might have to stand pat with buying this week only 50% of the number of books I’ve read this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Several Classics Club books, some of which I might not have, as well as a Dickens club volume (Sketches by Boz<\/em>) that I am sure I did not have.