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<\/a><\/p>\nI got 23 LPs, including:<\/p>\n
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- Portrait<\/i> by Lynda Carter because… Lynda Carter.<\/li>\n
- Playing to an Audience of One<\/i> by David Soul to counter the notion that I buy albums based solely on attractive women on the cover. Also, if I was going to have Wonder Woman, I was going to have Hutch.<\/li>\n
- Look Around<\/i> by Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66.<\/li>\n
- A Christmas album by Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence.<\/li>\n
- Big Bad John<\/i> by Jimmy Dean because my mother had this song on a record (and I probably still do somewhere) and I wanted to play it for my children. The older one loves it already.<\/li>\n
- Two jazz clarinet albums by Pete Fountains, French Quarter<\/em> and Pete’s Place<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- My first Pat Boone album, Moonglow<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- Alley Cat<\/em> by Guy Lombardo. Not because it has a cat on the cover, I swear. Although I did not buy any albums with dogs on the cover to balance it out.<\/li>\n
- Inseperable<\/i> by Natalie Cole.<\/li>\n
- Music for Lovers<\/i> by Sammy Davis, Jr.<\/li>\n
- Music of Erin<\/i> by Mary O’Hara.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And I got a boxed set of Bach’s Mass in D Minor<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I don’t mind throwing a dollar for an album by someone I don’t know; many of these, I’ll only listen to once and then only sporadically. However, I might find something I like and will not only listen to over and over again, but I’ll keep an eye out for other records (and other music formats) in the future. It explains why I have a pile of Eydie Gorme and Herb Alpert CDs and records.<\/p>\n
At any rate, I didn’t let you down: I did buy some books, including:<\/p>\n
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- The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/i> because I didn’t want that uncomfortable silence if one of my children were to ask me if we had it.<\/li>\n
- A Red Cell novel, Vengeance<\/em>, from this century that someone helpfully incorrectly classified as a classic.<\/li>\n
- Collections of poetry by Rod McKuen and Gunter Grass.<\/li>\n
- A couple of bundles of what I thought were chapbooks; however, these bundles look to be instructor’s guides to different authors and a writing workshop card set. I’m a little disappointed.<\/li>\n
- A book about the writing of Ross McDonald, the creator of the Lew Archer series of books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I don’t know if I’ll make it back tomorrow (Saturday, half price day). It’s not like I need more books, and this particular sale is more important to me for the LPs these days anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been a bad season for the local book fairs and Brian J. I missed the one in Clever because I didn’t know when it was (although since I’m a Friend of the Clever Library, I probably got a notification that I discarded). I missed the Christian County Library book sale due to car problems. […]<\/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-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","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=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27261,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/27261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- A Red Cell novel, Vengeance<\/em>, from this century that someone helpfully incorrectly classified as a classic.<\/li>\n
- Playing to an Audience of One<\/i> by David Soul to counter the notion that I buy albums based solely on attractive women on the cover. Also, if I was going to have Wonder Woman, I was going to have Hutch.<\/li>\n