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<\/a><\/p>\nI did most of my visiting to the sale books out in front and in the little room off of the back, coming away with:<\/p>\n
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- Top of the Heap<\/em> by A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner). On top, get it? Unfortunately, I already own it in another format<\/a>, but I might keep the paperback, too, for its cover art and because I am a hoarder.
<\/li>\n- Three more M*A*S*H Goes To….<\/em> books. I have a number of them, and I pick them up when I see them. I hope I like them or I run into the last millionaire M*A*S*H fan in the world who must own these books. Because I have like six in the series.
<\/li>\n- Two ABLE Team books by Gold Eagle, my first in this pulp series.
<\/li>\n- Heathcliff at Home<\/a><\/em>.
<\/li>\n- Reno Rendezvous<\/em> by Leslie Ford. Hooked on Books had two books by this author, but I was reluctant to spend the extra quarter on an untested series. Unlike my profligacy in spending seventy-five cents on M*A*S*H novels.
<\/li>\n- HUD<\/em>, a novel by Larry McMurty. This is the movie tie-in version with Paul Newman on the front.
<\/li>\n- Heroes and Outlaws of the Old West<\/em>, a short collection of pieces about characters in the old West. An idea book if I ever get back into that writing thing.
<\/li>\n- The Hundred Years War<\/em>, a history of that conflict. I spent $5 on this one, as it was not a sale item.
<\/li>\n- Aux Arcs: Black and White Photography of the Ozarks Region<\/em>, a collection of photographs to browse during a football game. I paid $5 for this one, too, and frankly was just bowing to the inevitable. It is available at all the local bookstores and book fairs. I was destined to own it, and now I do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It’s like $13, which is less than I would have spent at a grocery store in the same amount of time.<\/p>\n
The big book fairs are next month, so I had to warm up my book-buying muscles.<\/p>\n
The best part of the trip was the exchange at the cash register:<\/p>\n
Me:<\/b> Does the history book redeem me for purchasing all that pulp?
\nClerk:<\/b> I don’t care what you buy.
\nMe:<\/b> You’re saying, “No.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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. […]<\/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-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948","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=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11957,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions\/11957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Three more M*A*S*H Goes To….<\/em> books. I have a number of them, and I pick them up when I see them. I hope I like them or I run into the last millionaire M*A*S*H fan in the world who must own these books. Because I have like six in the series.