{"id":16670,"date":"2017-06-24T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16670"},"modified":"2017-06-24T07:59:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:59:02","slug":"good-book-hunting-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/24\/good-book-hunting-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, June 23, 2017: Lutherans for Life Rummage Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my beautiful wife and I sneaked out to the Lutherans for Life rummage sale and a spot of lunch.  It was hot in the gym, and they had no LPs (well, they had four, but that&#8217;s &#8220;no&#8221; in my enumeration), but they had a couple tables of books and videos.  So amid the swelter of the church gym, I picked out a few:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh115.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got some things I&#8217;m pretty excited about.<\/p>\n<p>The take includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the Dead End Job mysteries by Elaine Viets, <em>Catnapped!<\/em>.  As you know, whenever I review a collection of Elaine Viets&#8217; columns for the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> (like <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=elaine+viets\" target=\"_new\">these<\/a>), I express hope that I&#8217;d find her fiction some day.  And now I have, albeit one of many.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Unexplained Mysteries of World War II<\/em>.  This looks like it could be good writing fodder for when I get back to it.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Happiness Project<\/em> (which my beautiful wife tells me we already own; however, &#8220;we&#8221; don&#8217;t own books in this house, property laws of the state of Missouri notwithstanding; I own books and she owns books, and they must not commingle on the bookshelves) and <em>Lightposts for Living<\/em>, a book on happiness badged by Thomas Kinkade.  Because I am suddenly into self-help and happiness promotion books, I guess.  I blame the Buddhism.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>On the Banks of Plum Creek<\/em> by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  I&#8217;m building up a complete collection of these slowly so that when I get into reading them, I can do them all in order.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>That Should Be A Word<\/em>, a book about ideas that don&#8217;t have words (except they probably do in German).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies<\/em>.  The cover says it&#8217;s a satire of Lovecraft and other writers.  We&#8217;ll see.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Poetry of Events<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Guide to the World&#8217;s Greatest Treasures<\/em>, a Barnes and Noble book.  Another collection of writing fodder, perhaps.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Hemingway Colloquium: The Poet Goes to Cuba<\/em>.  Something with &#8220;Hemingway&#8221; in the title.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Beijing, China<\/em>, a travel\/guide book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, I got some videos I&#8217;m looking very forward to watching, including <em>Young Frankenstein<\/em> (which has <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/18\/the-depth-and-breadth-of-noggleian-humor\/\" target=\"_new\">been on my mind this week<\/a>), <em>Blazing Saddles<\/em>, <em>Under Siege 2: Dark Territory<\/em>, <em>Xanadu<\/em> (which I looked for on Netflix and Amazon a couple months ago but could not find it), <em>Spaceballs<\/em>, <em>The Sons of Katie Elder<\/em>, and a Charles Bronson movie in a thin dollar-pricing sleeve.  So I my trips to the video store might abate here for a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The total, along with the beautiful wife&#8217;s books THAT WILL NOT GO ON MY BOOKSHELVES and a small planter was $19 somehow.  But I pitched in a little extra for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>And now that I&#8217;m done with the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/book-report-selected-tales-and-poems-by-edgar-allan-poe-1927-1943\/\" target=\"_new\">recent Poe<\/a>, I&#8217;m eager to delve into some other books, stat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my beautiful wife and I sneaked out to the Lutherans for Life rummage sale and a spot of lunch. It was hot in the gym, and they had no LPs (well, they had four, but that&#8217;s &#8220;no&#8221; in my enumeration), but they had a couple tables of books and videos. 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