{"id":29790,"date":"2022-04-29T14:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29790"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:52:44","slug":"good-book-hunting-friday-april-29-2022-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-and-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/29\/good-book-hunting-friday-april-29-2022-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-and-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Friday, April 29, 2022: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library and ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I took a trip to the north side of Springfield for the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County library book sale, ostensibly to look at the dollar records, but I also picked up a few books and videos from the dollar books section.  As I was already up in that area, I also stopped at ABC Books to pick up gift cards for thank-you notes for teachers, but I picked up a couple books there&#8211;and told an employee, the son of friends, that he should go door-to-door looking for books for the martial arts section.<\/p>\n<p>Although I hope to return tomorrow to visit the Better Books section and prowl amidst the art monographs and audio courses, I might not make it back&#8211;consider this a cliffhanger!  And if I do, ABC Books is hosting another book signing with S.V. Farnsworth, so I might swing by there again&#8211;as you might remember, gentle reader, I missed Farnsworth when she was at ABC Books <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/12\/good-book-hunting-saturday-december-11-2021-christmas-shopping-done-wrong-ii\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last December<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh191.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>At any rate, today, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The 4-Hour Body<\/em>, an audiobook from Timothy Ferris, author of several books my beautiful wife has liked.  I think I have <em>The Tools of Titans<\/em> in book form around here somewhere.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Night at the Opera<\/em>, a Marx Brothers movie.  As you might recall, gentle reader, I watched <em>Horse Feathers<\/em> and <em>Duck Soup<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/on-horse-feathers-1932-and-duck-soup-1933\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last November<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Caine Mutiny<\/em> with Bogart, where he is not the protagonist but is Captain Queeg.  I saw this in high school and not since.<\/li>\n<li><em>Swing Shift<\/em> with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.  The film that started it all for them?  I haven&#8217;t seen it.<\/li>\n<li><em>Twelve O&#8217;Clock High<\/em>, a war picture with Gregory Peck.<\/li>\n<li><em>Where Water Comes Together With Other Water<\/em>, poems by Raymond Carver.  I was just telling someone, probably my wife, that Carver, known more for his short stories, taught my university fiction professor and advisor.  Mid-to-late century modern short stories, which explains why she and you have not heard of them.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Loser&#8217;s End<\/em> by William Heyliger, a young adult novel from 1937 about a young man who goes into steel construction and becomes good at it and a successful businessman.  Kind of like <em>The Fountainhead<\/em> without, one would assume, the rough sex.<\/li>\n<li>Two volumes from a Mark Twain set that includes <em>The Gilded Age<\/em>, <em>The American Claimant<\/em>, and <em>Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pens\u00e9es<\/em>, by Blaise Pascal, which I have not read.  This one has a Used sticker on it, marking it as a textbook&#8211;one wonders if it&#8217;s highlighted inside.  <em>Yes.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Lifetime Collection of Poetry<\/em> by Lucille Christiansen, a chapbook.<\/li>\n<li><em>Within This Center: Poems and Images<\/em> by Robert C. Jones, also a chapbook.<\/li>\n<li><em>Thin Ice and Other Poems<\/em> by Marcia Muth, <em>ibid<\/em> chapbook.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pioneer Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom from Early America<\/em>, a saddle-stitched little book.<\/li>\n<li><em>Unspoken: Feelings of a Gentleman<\/em>, poems by Pierre Alex Jeanty.  He has three or four such volumes at ABC Books.  Hopefully, they&#8217;re good.<\/li>\n<li><em>Road Atlas: Prose &#038; Other Poems<\/em> by Campbell McGrath.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Friends book sale did not bundle several chapbooks for a dollar as in years past; I had to pay full price for each.  Still, I only spent a combined $35 on all media at the book sale along with $20-something at ABC Books.  Almost frugal.<\/p>\n<p>Although tomorrow is half-price day.  I might be able to convince my wife to come along to help me carry, and it might be in the Better Book section where I go nuts.<\/p>\n<p>It was strange, too&#8211;so many times, I have dragged my boys up there with the promise of a Five Guys burger after, and I have had to hustle before they went into full boredom revolt.  Today, though, I did not have them, and I was in and out in under an hour.  Part of that, I suspect, is the paucity of records to paw through&#8211;less than a third of what it has been some years&#8211;and that I really only look at the media and the poetry sections in the dollar book section.  Also, I wanted to hurry home as I have other things to do.  Like this blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I took a trip to the north side of Springfield for the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County library book sale, ostensibly to look at the dollar records, but I also picked up a few books and videos from the dollar books section. 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