{"id":20528,"date":"2018-07-15T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2018-07-14T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T20:36:16","slug":"good-book-hunting-july-12-2018-half-price-books-the-book-exchange-in-leavenworth-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/15\/good-book-hunting-july-12-2018-half-price-books-the-book-exchange-in-leavenworth-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, July 12, 2018: Half Price Books\/The Book Exchange in Leavenworth, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, every time I find myself in Leavenworth, I have some time to kill, so I stop by the one used book store in the area (as I did <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/good-book-hunting-wednesday-october-18-2017-half-price-booksthe-book-exchange-leavenworth-kansas\/\" target=\"_new\">last October<\/a>).  Whereas I bought four books up there last time I was in town, this time I only bought three (for myself).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh138.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This time, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0871089068\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0871089068&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=7c22550da6275bb54c0d53495c186d87\" target=\"_new\">A Rocky Mountain Christmas<\/em><\/a>, which is a collection of Christmas stories from the mountains.  Which might be something to read for my annual Christmas book, although I&#8217;m buying so many in anticipation of my one Christmas-themed book per year that I might have to start reading more than one a year.  Perhaps starting in July.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0006WE3B4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0006WE3B4&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=e707a2e05afdc5a41b85ec6e8745e2ed\" target=\"_new\"><em>Next Year Country<\/em><\/a>, a collection of reminisciences about a farm in Montana.  Also in my wheelhouse of books about living on farms in the old days.  And by &#8220;in my wheelhouse,&#8221; I mean <em>books I like to read from time to time, but that I buy a lot more of than I read<\/em>.  Which, basically, describes my book buying completely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002QU9MC4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B002QU9MC4&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=f5ad9224efb380fd36604b3900a5b69f\" target=\"_new\"><em>Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1<\/em><\/a>.  As you might know, I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/say-hello-to-my-little-friend\/\" target=\"_new\">bought myself a <strike>grey<\/strike> black guitar<\/a> earlier this year and took guitar lessons for a couple months (suspending them because the instructor was moving into advanced stuff when I can&#8217;t change chords in time yet).  I&#8217;ve been accumulating guitar books to work from for a while now, and I thought I had the second in this line.  Turns out, I have the second book in the Fast Track Method series.  I hope I don&#8217;t end the universe if I cross the streams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also bought a book on the television show <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00FF1UNJM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00FF1UNJM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=f7ac68b37230eb9c68dc3722712e49b8\" target=\"_new\">Dallas<\/a><\/em>, to give to my aunt who loved the television show.  I&#8217;d put in a link to the book I bought her, but I forgot the exact title, and I&#8217;ve already wrapped it.<\/p>\n<p>You know, if I held myself to a couple books at a time, I could maybe start making headway on reading my collection.  I actually did have that as a New Year&#8217;s Resolution one year in the middle 1990s&#8211;that I would not buy another book until I read all the ones I owned.  I had only a bookshelf or two, single-stacked, to read were I to hold the line.  The resolution lasted about seven months, after which I joined a book club and bought like ten books.<\/p>\n<p>How cute, my older self thinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, every time I find myself in Leavenworth, I have some time to kill, so I stop by the one used book store in the area (as I did last October). Whereas I bought four books up there last time I was in town, this time I only bought three (for myself). 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