{"id":19786,"date":"2018-04-28T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19786"},"modified":"2018-04-28T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T23:18:20","slug":"good-book-hunting-april-28-2018-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/28\/good-book-hunting-april-28-2018-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, April 28, 2018: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did it again.  I returned to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County semi-annual book sale on Half Price Day and went through the better books section seeking more bargain-like books.<\/p>\n<p>And, honestly, I mostly looked for audio courses like those produced by The Teaching Company.  And boy howdy did I find them.  In the past, they&#8217;ve been priced at twenty or thirty dollars, and I could get them for half that.  But this time, they were originally marked ten bucks, so I got them for five dollars each.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the stacks:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh134.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh134.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Teaching Company courses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Psychology of Human Behavior<\/li>\n<li>The Lives of Great Christians<\/li>\n<li>Algebra I<\/li>\n<li>Luther: Gospel, Law, and Reformation<\/li>\n<li>Geometry (by James Noggle)<\/li>\n<li>A Day&#8217;s Read<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Books include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Milton&#8217;s Minor Poems<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Murder of Lidice<\/em> by Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Brush Up On Your Classics<\/em> by Michael Macrone<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Song of Hiawatha<\/em> by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Frederic Remington<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Literature Lover&#8217;s Book of Lists<\/em> by Judie H. Strouf<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Under the Sunday Tree<\/em> Paintings by Mr. Amos Ferguson\/Poems by Eloise Greenfield<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Guitar 2<\/em>, a book about guitar techniques and whatnot<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Miles Davis: Sketch Orks<\/em>, a music book for trumpet for my youngest or my beautiful wife, both of whom play trumpet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Records include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Black Satin<\/em> by the George Shearing Quintet and Orchestra<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Chick Correa Elektric Band<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Handel Sonatas for Recorder, Op.1<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Time Further Out<\/em> The Dave Brubeck Quartet<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Boots Randolph Plays 12 Monstrous Hits<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The records were cheap, too (a buck or two each after the price was halved).  Overall, the prices were more affordable than I remember.  Which is good.<\/p>\n<p>The pickings were less books than things to listen to, but that&#8217;s alright.  I have plenty to read until the next sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did it again. I returned to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County semi-annual book sale on Half Price Day and went through the better books section seeking more bargain-like books. And, honestly, I mostly looked for audio courses like those produced by The Teaching Company. And boy howdy did I find them. In [&hellip;]<\/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-19786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786","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=19786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19789,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786\/revisions\/19789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}