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I got:<\/p>\n
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- A CD set called The History of the Medieval World<\/em> by Susane Wise Bauer. Whether she is a new Norman Cantor or not, we shall see.<\/li>\n
- The Ornament Keeper<\/em> by Eva Marie Everson, a Christmas novella to put on top so that I can easily find one to read this year. You know, it was shopping at CPO for Christmas gifts back when it was across the street that I started the Christmas book tradition. So it’s come full circle.<\/li>\n
- How To Read A Book<\/em> by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. My youngest and I have had a running joke about How to Read a Poem<\/a><\/em> and how it ruins poems. So when I spotted this book on the cheap books rack, I got it and left it in the seat where he would sit when we got around to picking him up.<\/li>\n
- A Dickens of a Cat and Other Stories of the Cats We Love<\/em> edited by Callie Smith Grant. It has a cat on the cover, and it has cat stories. Also, it was on the cheapish rack.<\/li>\n
- Trivial Pursuits: Why Your Real Life Is More Than Media, Money, and the Pursuit of Happiness<\/em> by Ian DiOrio. I bought a couple of Christianish self-help books.<\/li>\n
- Home Song<\/em> by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer, but mostly Katherine Spencer, one suspects. It is not a Christmas novel, unlike A Christmas Promise<\/em><\/a> by the same authors or All Is Bright<\/em><\/a> by Katherine Spencer, but it is a Cape Light novel which is the Kinkadeverse.<\/li>\n
- How To Lead When You’re Not In Charge<\/em> by Clay Scroggins. Might be helpful. I’ve often thought of writing a book with my brother about being a good sergeant.<\/li>\n
- Start<\/em> by Jon Acuff, apparently another Christian self-help book. This one was on the $3 shelf; I saw many others on the full price shelf, so undoubtedly I will come to discover non-collectible errata or giant Kool-Aid stains somewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So not a book sale-type stack, but still enough things to keep me busy for a couple of weeks a couple of decades from now, perhaps.<\/p>\n
I expect I will run the CDs through the car speakers after I finish a study of Voltaire, and I am making sure to leave the Christmas novella out so I can read it this year. But as to the others–who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- The Ornament Keeper<\/em> by Eva Marie Everson, a Christmas novella to put on top so that I can easily find one to read this year. You know, it was shopping at CPO for Christmas gifts back when it was across the street that I started the Christmas book tradition. So it’s come full circle.<\/li>\n