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<\/a><\/p>\nI got:<\/p>\n
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- Teachers Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes<\/em>, something put together to be a gift to a teacher but something I’ll flip through while watching a football game.
<\/li>\n- The Essential Kabbalah<\/em>, a book on the Jewish mystical tradition.
<\/li>\n- Pets’ Letters to God<\/em>, a Hallmark humor thing, also for flipping through during football games.
<\/li>\n- Assumed Identity<\/em> by David Morrell. I’ve read First Blood<\/a><\/em> and Rambo: First Blood Part II<\/em><\/a> and have since collected a couple more by this author, but I’ve yet to read them. But by adding more to my to-read shelves, I’m adding to the statistical chances that I’ll actually pick one up.
<\/li>\n- A Catholic Guide to the Bible<\/em> by Father Oscar Lukefahr. I’m currently working my way through the Orthodox Study Bible, which is the like the Director’s Cut of the Christian Bible, and this book should give me a traditional Catholic perspective on it. The sale had many books by Father Lukefahr, but I only bought this one.
<\/li>\n- Awkward Family Pet Photos<\/em>, something to flip through during football games probably based on the Internet site.
<\/li>\n- The Life of Greece<\/em> by Will Durant. I’m creeping up on a set of his Story of Civilization books. Someday.<\/em>
<\/li>\n- Mythopoeikon<\/em>, a collection of paintings, etchings, book jacket, and record sleeve covers by artist Patrick Woodroffe. I’ve never heard of him. Perhaps I’ll recognize something as I flip through the book during football games. Some three or four years from now, probably.
<\/li>\n- Making Bead and Wire Jewelry<\/em> by Dawn Cusick. Remember those days long ago when I did stuff like this? My book buying remembers.
<\/li>\n- Wisconsin: A Picture Memory<\/em> with text by Bill Harris. The pictures probably won’t align with my memories, but will kind of rhyme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Not purchased: Any of the John Sandford Prey novels I might lack; the Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/em>; a book on competitive running.<\/p>\n
I also picked up a couple of DVDs: A four pack of WWII movies including Tora! Tora! Tora!<\/em> because I’ve seen it memed a bit lately, but mostly because it includes Von Ryan’s Express<\/em> which I bought during my eBay listing days and sometimes use as test data for this Web site I test. As part of my testing, I learned Frank Sinatra was in the film version, which I now own. I also got Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels<\/em> because, well, in my recent Jason Statham film watching, I was going to quip on Facebook that I’d even watch Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels<\/em> if Jason Statham was in it, and lo! He actually is<\/em>. So I will have to watch it.<\/p>\n
At any rate, with a couple of books for the children and, I presume, something for my beautiful wife (although I’m not sure where they went), we spent several sawbucks, but the Clever Library needs all the friends it can get.<\/p>\n
So I should probably sit down and read some books here soon. It’s been a while since you’ve seen a book report, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friday closed out the semi-annual book sale season here in the Springfield area. The trifecta of the Friends of the Christian County, the Springfield-Greene County, and Clever Library(ies) provide the basic three book sales we hit in the spring and the fall. Things like the Lebanon-Laclede County or Polk County libraries, an hour away, are […]<\/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-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","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=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17042,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- The Essential Kabbalah<\/em>, a book on the Jewish mystical tradition.