{"id":17014,"date":"2017-10-20T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=17014"},"modified":"2017-10-19T16:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:19:23","slug":"good-bookalbum-hunting-thursday-october-19-2017-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/good-bookalbum-hunting-thursday-october-19-2017-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book\/Album Hunting, Thursday, October 19, 2017: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to make it home safely from Leavenworth, and I had a moment to visit the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale way up north.  And by &#8220;had a moment,&#8221; I meant that I passed the venue in the morning on the way home and I COULD NOT REST until I got a chance to return.  So I suckered my beautiful wife into an afternoon excursion by dangling before her a lunch at her favorite Italian restaurant first.<\/p>\n<p>So we went.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, gentle reader, when it comes to the FSGCL book sale (I&#8217;ve got a government contract, a GC, so know everything is abbreviations, EIA), I like to visit the albums one day and then maybe the more expensive books on half price day.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I visited the albums, and then I went to look for my beautiful wife in the better books section.  Where a couple of books fell upon me and waylaid me and kidnapped me to the register.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh124.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As for books, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Foxfire Book 2<\/em> and <em>The Foxfire Book 3<\/em>&#8211;there were sets of the first three, and I picked the better copies of the last two.  Which will come to bite me here in a couple of minutes when I discover I already own 2 and lack 1.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Te of Piglet<\/em>, which I have been looking for since I read <em>The Tao of Pooh<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/book-report-the-tao-of-pooh-by-benjamin-hoff-1982\/\" target=\"_new\">last year<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among The Amish<\/em> which I expect to be more on that topic than <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/02\/book-report-plain-and-simple-a-womans-journey-to-the-amish-by-sue-bender-1989-1991\/\" target=\"_new\">Plain and Simple: A Woman&#8217;s Journey to the Amish<\/em><\/a>.  I put down another Amish-themed book because it was a small press book called something like <em>The Secrets of the X Amish<\/em> and looked to be simple agitprop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for albums, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Anthology of Renaissance Music<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Renaissance Clavichord II<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Praetorius Christmas Music\/Schein Two Suites from &#8220;Banchetto Musicale&#8221;<\/em>&#8211;I pretty much buy anything in a Nonesuch sleeve.<\/li>\n<li><em>Better Days\/Happy Ending<\/em> by Melissa Manchester.  I&#8217;m not sure if I like her or not or will like her or will not.  I&#8217;ll take a chance for a buck.<\/li>\n<li><em>Born Late<\/em> by Shaun Cassidy.  Because I work with a project manager by that name, and I&#8217;m going to ask him to sign it for me.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sentimental Journey<\/em> by Boots Randolph.<\/li>\n<li>A flute album by Tim Weisberg.  Hey, it has &#8220;Nights in White Satin&#8221; on it.  On the flute, presumably.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Many-Splendored Guitars of Los Indios Tabajaras<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ellington Fantasy<\/em> by the Hugo Montenegro Orchestra.  The guys who did the music for Eastwood&#8217;s The Man With No Name movies and <em>Hang &#8216;Em High<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Incognito<\/em> by Spyro Gyra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Make It Easy On Yourself<\/em> by Burt Bacharach.  Strangely, there were three copies of this album in the thin selection of LPs.<\/li>\n<li><em>All Time Greatest Hits<\/em> by the Commodores.<\/li>\n<li><em>M.F. Horn Two<\/em> by Maynard Ferguson because the cover is cherry, and the platter might be in better shape than the copy we already own.<\/li>\n<li><em>Jackie Gleason Presents Aphrodosia<\/em>.  Which is what you put on after you play <em>Jackie Gleason Presents Music To Changer Her Mind<\/em> and before <em>Jackie Gleason Presents Oooo!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Taking Off<\/em> by David Sanborn<\/li>\n<li><em>Homer Louis Randolph, III<\/em>.  Spoiler alert: It&#8217;s Boots.<\/li>\n<li><em>Kenny G<\/em> by, well, Kenner Louis Grandolph, III, perhaps.<\/li>\n<li><em>Music for Daydreaming<\/em> by The Melachrino Orchestra.  I only buy the Music for series by this orchestra.  So far.<\/li>\n<li><em>Thats What Friends Are For<\/em> by Johnny Mathis &#038; Deniece Williams<\/li>\n<li><em>By Request<\/em> by Perro Como.<\/li>\n<li><em>Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music<\/em>.  I already own a copy with the more common cover (review by yours truly <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/christmas-album-review-perry-como-sings-merry-christmas-music-by-perry-como-1956\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2014<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I mean, I bought a variant cover and a duplicate LP with a better cover, but I&#8217;m still not a collector.  Just an accumulator who likes prettier accumulations.<\/p>\n<p>Also note that my beautiful wife bought a single LP, so when she mentions that we don&#8217;t have a good storage system for our records, IT&#8217;S HER FAULT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to make it home safely from Leavenworth, and I had a moment to visit the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale way up north. 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