{"id":13454,"date":"2014-05-04T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2014-05-04T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T11:18:09","slug":"good-book-hunting-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-spring-2014-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/04\/good-book-hunting-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-spring-2014-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Spring 2014 Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I stopped by the aforementioned book sale twice: The first time, I hit the LPs. The second time, I hit the dollar books.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a picture of the 42 LPs I bought, but rest assured they include a lot of Frank Sinatra, a couple of Herb Alpert titles I did not have (and one, Rise<\/em>, which I own on CD), a new Eydie Gorme (Don’t Go To Strangers<\/em>), a collection of Shakespeare plays, a collection of poetry, and a lot of new things to try.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, I hit the better books and I got these:<\/p>\n

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Three ex-library science fiction novels (James P. Hogan’s Moon Flower<\/em>, John Varley’s Rolling Thunder<\/em>, and Alan Dean Foster’s The Candle of Distant Earth<\/em>) and two bundles of chapbooks and whatnot that were a buck each.<\/p>\n

Unwrapping the bundles to see what they included was a little like Christmas. I got a number of poetry chapbooks and a couple little one story or essay booklets given away with other purchases.<\/p>\n

I’ve often been pleasantly surprised when buying bundled remainders like this, whether it’s the ten-packs of old 45 records from jukeboxes or three-packs of old comic books at the drug store. Maybe I’ll discover something cool in these collections.<\/p>\n

Note, gentle reader, the restraint evident in these trips. The restraint stems partially from the fact that I was sneaking out on a work day and didn’t want to spend too much time at the sale and partially from the ongoing collapse of my book shelves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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