{"id":15378,"date":"2016-06-06T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15378"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:17:43","slug":"good-book-hunting-june-3-2016-friends-of-the-rogersville-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/good-book-hunting-june-3-2016-friends-of-the-rogersville-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, June 3, 2016: Friends of the Rogersville Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not know that Rogersville had its own library; I don&#8217;t remember seeing it when I went to town for the old Missouri Insight blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/vistas-of-the-recently-urban-rogersville\/\" target=\"_blank\">reposted here<\/a>).  As an old railroad town, it would have had the opportunity to create its own library before the Springfield-Greene County library or Webster County library took root.<\/p>\n<p>So I discovered it had a Friends of the Library organization and a small book sale fund raiser, I was all on it.  I stopped by early Friday morning.  It was held in a small conference room off the side of the small town library.  How small?  It might have been the smallest I&#8217;ve ever been to.  Smaller than Clever, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I only bought three things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh103.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Halo: The Fall of Reach<\/em>, another Halo novel by Eric Nyland.  I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/book-report-halo-first-strike-by-eric-nylund-2003\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>First Strike<\/em><\/a>.  And I also saw a high school kid at the dojo carrying one of these novels.  So it probably won&#8217;t be long until I read this one.  It is, after all, a paperback that won&#8217;t clear much from my to-read shelf space.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Spider Man: The Octopus Agenda<\/em>, a novel by Diane Duane.  I most recently read Duane&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/book-report-so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard-by-diane-duane-1983-1996\/\" target=\"_blank\">So You Want To Be A Wizard<\/em><\/a>, but this one will probably be more in my wheelhouse.  It probably won&#8217;t be one I carry around with me to read as I only like to be seen in public with SMAHT books these days.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A single volume of Henry David Thoreau including <em>Walden<\/em>, <em>The Maine Woods<\/em>, and <em>Cape Cod<\/em>.  I&#8217;ve recently pulled my paperback copy of <em>Walden<\/em> from the read shelves for a re-reading, so I can put it back and substitute this book, which I can take out in public because it&#8217;s a SMAHT book.  Except I might not because it&#8217;s big and heavy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not much, but it wasn&#8217;t a big selection.  No t-shirts or applications to join the Friends of the Rogersville Library, sadly, or I would have added those to my collections.<\/p>\n<p>And since I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/reflections-on-a-cleaner-library\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently cleaned part of my library<\/a>, I had room for them easily.  So I should be in pretty good shape until the autumn book sales unless I hit a mother lode at a church sale or something.  You don&#8217;t see many books at contemporary single family home garage sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not know that Rogersville had its own library; I don&#8217;t remember seeing it when I went to town for the old Missouri Insight blog (reposted here). As an old railroad town, it would have had the opportunity to create its own library before the Springfield-Greene County library or Webster County library took root. 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