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<\/a><\/p>\nI got:<\/p>\n
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- The Man Who Used The Universe<\/em><\/a> by Alan Dean Foster. I haven’t read much Foster lately. Perhaps I should pick one up. This one will no doubt be at the top of the stack.<\/li>\n
- Wyrms<\/em> by Orson Scott Card. This book is from the 1980s? Why did I think Card was from later? Because I didn’t know of him in the 1980s, undoubtedly.<\/li>\n
- The Paradox Planet<\/em> by Steven Spruill, another 80s-era science fiction paperback. Someone was culling his collection. I know I should say “his or her,” but, come on, man.<\/em> We know the odds here.<\/li>\n
- Sixth Column<\/em> by Robert Heinlein. A Heinlein juvie for a quarter? This made the trip worthwhile on its own.<\/li>\n
- The 15:17 to Paris<\/em>, the story of the three American servicemen who stopped a terrorist attack on a train. This is the movie tie-in version.<\/li>\n
- A New Owners Guide to Beagles<\/em> because we’ve been thinking about diversifying the livestock at Nogglestead.<\/li>\n
- Conquistador<\/em> by S.M. Stirling, an alt history novel of some sort.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I also got Natalie Cole’s Christmas album Holly & Ivy<\/em> along with DVDs on learning American Sign Language, a Groucho Marx compilation from You Bet Your Life<\/em>, and a collection of The Three Stooges films, and Adventures in Babysitting<\/em> on VHS.<\/p>\n
Total cost was less than $20. The total time to enjoy them all is, what, three or four weeks? The total time until I do so: Decades, if ever.<\/p>\n
But we got a couple of kids a couple miles closer to the national youth gathering in Minneapolis this summer if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, we dropped by the annual garage sale at church that benefits the youth group. It always happens on spring break, which always catches us by surprise, as we like to clean out a little and donate some things, and we always end up just dumping random nearby things into a box. But never books. […]<\/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-24356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356","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=24356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24358,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356\/revisions\/24358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Wyrms<\/em> by Orson Scott Card. This book is from the 1980s? Why did I think Card was from later? Because I didn’t know of him in the 1980s, undoubtedly.<\/li>\n