{"id":12063,"date":"2012-10-14T05:58:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T10:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2012-10-14T05:58:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T10:58:53","slug":"good-book-hunting-october-12-2012-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-fair-preview-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/good-book-hunting-october-12-2012-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-fair-preview-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, October 12, 2012: Friends of the Christian County Library Book Fair Preview Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve been off-and-on members since we&#8217;ve been down here, but this is the first time we&#8217;ve deployed our membership to get a look at the books before the general public could.  Well, the general public could pick through the books and pay a $5 premium at the end to join if they needed to, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>It was a little crowded at a little after 8pm when we got there.  The main library was closed, and the book sale was a little bit of light in a sea of darkness.  It was just crowded enough and we were on short enough time before picking our children up that I didn&#8217;t tip into the buying frenzy I sometimes get into, but I got a few books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh81.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh81.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"Friends of the Christian County Library book fair, October 12, 2012\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several films on both DVD and VHS.  Given that I watch six new movies a year, these should hold me a while, especially coupled with the others I&#8217;ve stocked up over the last couple of years.  And yet sometimes when I want to watch something, I don&#8217;t have anything that jumps out right at that moment.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Science, Numbers, and I<\/em> by Isaac Asimov.  One of his short nonfiction books.  I like them, although I haven&#8217;t read one in a while.  So how much can I say I actually like them, then?  I dunno.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Spectrum II<\/em>, a collection of sci-fi short stories.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Monster from Out of Time<\/em>, a book whose title sounds an awful lot like a Lovecraft story.  I haven&#8217;t checked up yet, but I think Long was in that milieiu.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Knight of the Scimitar<\/em>, a novel about the Crusades.  Given its age, it probably has a clear-cut moral idea.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Broken Snare<\/em>, an ex-Library book about someone building a ranch in the Canadian Rockies.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>One of William Shatner&#8217;s many autobiographies.  Internet, how come no one has done a parody of the theme from <em>Shaft<\/em> called &#8220;Shat&#8221;?<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Richard Marcinko&#8217;s guide to success.  As you might remember, I read his autobiography <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/book-report-rogue-warrior-by-richard-marcinko-with-john-weisman-1992\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rogue Warrior<\/em> in March<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was a little disappointed that the sale didn&#8217;t have any Gold Eagle pulp paperbacks; I have found my first Executioner and SOBs titles at this sale in previous years.  Also, one of other attendees was a twit scanning all the books with his smartphone to find what he could sell for more than a buck on Ebay, and I have a whole post&#8217;s worth of disdain for that behavior that I&#8217;ll have to get into later.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I ended up with fewer books than I got at the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/01\/good-book-hunting-september-29-2012-clever-friends-of-the-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friends of the Clever Library<\/a> book sale, but I did get a new FoL t-shirt in black.  I&#8217;m also just about ready for the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book fair coming up the penultimate week of the month.  Since I&#8217;ll hit that one on half price day or bag day, I might end up straining my bookshelves again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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