{"id":12011,"date":"2012-10-01T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12011"},"modified":"2012-09-30T06:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T11:13:04","slug":"good-book-hunting-september-29-2012-clever-friends-of-the-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/good-book-hunting-september-29-2012-clever-friends-of-the-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: September 29, 2012 &#8211; Clever Friends of the Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clever, Missouri, is a small town, population 2100 or so, southwest of us.  Although it&#8217;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&#8217;d wanted to join the group to add to my collection of Friends of the Library organizations (down to Christian County and Springfield-Greene County because Webster Groves and Polk County don&#8217;t send renewal notices, at least not to people outside the area).  Fortunately for me, I read last week&#8217;s <em>Republic Monitor<\/em> on Thursday, which means I saw the notice (not repeated this week nor in the <em>Springfield News-Leader<\/em>).  <\/p>\n<p>So we bundled off in the truck, tried to go the back way, turned back at the Finley River when there was a fording point on the gravel road instead of a bridge, wound around another way, and stopped by the community room at the firehouse to see what they offered at the Clever Friends of the Library book sale.<\/p>\n<p>Enough:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh80.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh80.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Clever Friends of the Library Book Sale\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a stunning turn of events, my beautiful wife was the big purchaser and I was the runner-up.  I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A collection of mostly 80s action films of VHS.  I would say I completely doubled my Dolph Lundgren library here, but I don&#8217;t think I had any Dolph Lundgren before, and now I have <em>Universal Soldier<\/em> and <em>Red Scorpion<\/em>.  I also got <em>Fire Birds<\/em>, which is like a <em>Top Gun<\/em> with Apaches instead of F-14s.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be more of an <em>Iron Eagle<\/em>, then, without Louis Gossett, Junior?  I dunno.  I also got another copy of <em>Mr. Baseball<\/em> since the one I bought earlier this year has that can&#8217;t-rewind problem, and it&#8217;s cheaper to outlay another fifty cents than to open the cassette (although I&#8217;ll probably do that before I donate it or mail it off to my hermano).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Two more Able Team paperbacks, which means I&#8217;ve doubled the collection I started <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/good-book-hunting-september-24-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Two F.M. Busby science fiction novels in the Star Rebel series.  I read Busby&#8217;s Demu trilogy a long time ago.  They didn&#8217;t put me off his work forever, just twenty years or so.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A S.O.B.s book, <em>The Barrabas Hit<\/em>.  That series must have sold well out here, since I see them often.  Come to think of it, given that the local grocery still carries four Mack Bolan titles and a couple other Gold Eagle lines, they might still sell down here.  They have to sell somewhere since they&#8217;re still publishing them.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A Richard Stark Parker novel in hardback.  <em>Flashfire<\/em>, which is from 2000, I think.  I wonder if the film <em>Payback<\/em> led to a resurgent interest in the series.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Millionaire Mind<\/em>, a more how-toish title from the author of <em>The Millionaire Next Door<\/em> which I think I read, but if I did, it was before 2003.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>What If?<\/em>, which collects the books <em>What If?<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/24\/1797\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What If? 2<\/em><\/a>.  I might need to reread the second as part of it.  Come to think of it, I should check my shelves to make sure I have not already read them both.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Two Little House on the Prairie books in hardback, <em>Little House in the Big Woods<\/em> and <em>On the Banks of Plum Creek<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Two early Dilbert books, <em>Dogbert&#8217;s Clues for the Clueless<\/em> (#3) and <em>Shave the Whales<\/em> (#4).  These early books are hard to find in the wild (that is, book fairs and garage sales for under a buck).  I know what I&#8217;m reading for football games for a game or two.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A collection of Cathy cartoons.  Somehow, even browsing this book while watching football will still result in a net loss of manpoints.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>An eighties crafting magazine with a pretty girl on the cover so I can get a Rule Five entry from it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Star Wars novels?  My beautiful wife bought those for our six-year-old (he&#8217;ll get older).  She also bought some cookbooks and women&#8217;s magazines and a VHS copy of <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>.  Remember in those days before videocassettes and cable, when the annual television showing was an event?  Actually, I remember when my Uncle David got it on videocassette and he popped it in for us to watch one night while the adults talked.  I hadn&#8217;t thought about that since, probably, it happened.<\/p>\n<p>The boys got a couple of books and I got a Clever Friends of the Library book bag and membership to add to my collections of the same.  Hopefully, we&#8217;ll be on the mailing list if such exists to get notification for next year&#8217;s sales.<\/p>\n<p>And October brings the sales of the Friends of the Christian County Library and Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library.  I&#8217;d better limit myself to thin paperbacks, though, since that&#8217;s about all I&#8217;m reading these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clever, Missouri, is a small town, population 2100 or so, southwest of us. Although it&#8217;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. 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