{"id":11178,"date":"2012-04-01T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11178"},"modified":"2012-03-31T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T20:45:31","slug":"good-book-hunting-march-31-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/good-book-hunting-march-31-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: March 31, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/its-like-an-80s-mystery-click-pic\/\" target=\"_blank\">as I mentioned<\/a>, we hit a book fair at a Methodist church just outside the MSU campus.  It wasn&#8217;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 easy listening for my hi-fi.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh77.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh77.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"The Methodist church book sale results\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A copy of Sandford&#8217;s <em>Rough Country<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/09\/book-report-rough-country-by-john-sandford-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">already read it<\/a>, but it was a library book.  I own it now.  Someday, I&#8217;ll explain how G.P. Putnam hates libraries.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A joke book.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A collection of Peanuts cartoons entitled <em>We Love You, Snoopy<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Romances of Hezekiah Mitchell<\/em>, a local author&#8217;s book.  I might already own it, as I&#8217;ve seen it often enough, but in case I don&#8217;t, I bought one for fifty cents.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Tales from the Bark Side<\/em>, a collection of dog things.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Several books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Profiles in Courage<\/em>, which I haven&#8217;t read since the sixth grade when Mrs. Pickering had a rack of paperbacks she&#8217;d let us borrow.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Cosa Nostra<\/em>, something in a suspense series from 1971 from a lesser known publishing house.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A short story in a pamphlet that was a promotional giveaway of some sort or another.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My beautiful wife got a couple books and cookbooks.  The children got four books, not depicted because they couldn&#8217;t wait until we got home to have them out and paged through.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the gearing up phase: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library and the Friends of the Christian County Library will hold their book fairs later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, we will need to move or put an addition onto our house to house the continuing (!) growth of the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I mentioned, we hit a book fair at a Methodist church just outside the MSU campus. It wasn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/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-11178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178","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=11178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11181,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11178\/revisions\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}