{"id":33662,"date":"2025-04-13T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33662"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:51:44","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-april-12-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-ozark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/13\/good-book-hunting-saturday-april-12-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-ozark\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, April 12: Friends of the Christian County Library (Ozark)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gentle reader.  I am reaching a point where I&#8217;m starting to think <em>Do I need to buy any more books?<\/em> or <em>Do I <strong>want<\/strong> to buy any more books?<\/em>.  The stacks of Nogglestead are crammed full with little room for further additions.  And at the rate at which I&#8217;m reading small paperbacks now that the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/it-begins-the-2025-winter-reading-challenge\/\" target=\"_new\">2025 Winter Reading Challenge<\/a> is complete&#8230;.  I mean, I&#8217;m starting to think I might not be able to read the thousands of books I already own in my lifetime.  Do I really want to add more to the backlog?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, though, a twee challenge for myself exists.  Last year, I went to three of the four Friends of the Christian County Library book sales (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/22\/good-book-hunting-saturday-june-22-2024-the-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-clever-branch\/\" target=\"_new\">Clever<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/25\/good-dvd-hunting-august-23-2024-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-nixa\/\" target=\"_new\">Nixa<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/13\/good-book-hunting-saturday-october-12-2024-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-sparta-branch\/\" target=\"_new\">Sparta<\/a>).  But I missed the one in Ozark, the original location when the Friends of the Christian County Library only had two sales a year in Ozark, because it fell in April, before the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library&#8217;s spring sale.  As I often have recently.  <\/p>\n<p>But this year, I was a little more attentive, and when I discovered it was this weekend, I ditched a computer conference in Arkansas to attend (and I ditched for other reasons as well, but as a side effect, I was able to attend).<\/p>\n<p>It was not at the library but instead was at a building in the park right across the street.<\/p>\n<p>It was $3 bag day, but I only got two small bags&#8217; worth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh20250412.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got a couple of books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gunships #4: Sky Fire<\/em> which looks to be part of a men&#8217;s adventure series.<\/li>\n<li><em>Diagnosis Murder: The Silent Partner<\/em> just in case I didn&#8217;t have it.  Turns out I do, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/book-report-the-silent-partner-by-lee-goldberg-2003\/\" target=\"_new\">I&#8217;ve already read it<\/a>.  Something to sneak onto the free book cart at church, I guess.<\/li>\n<li><em>Angles of Attack: An A-6 Intruder Pilot&#8217;s War<\/em> by Peter Hunt about a pilot in Desert Storm.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pindar: The Complete Odes<\/em> in case I don&#8217;t already have them.  If I do, this doubles my chances of finding it.  Not that I&#8217;m likely to go looking for it; more likely, it doubles my chances of just picking it up sometime.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sharpe&#8217;s Enemy<\/em> by Bernard Cornwell.  I didn&#8217;t have this already, I can honestly say didn&#8217;t have this already as I have all the Sharpe&#8217;s books together, and this one was not there.<\/li>\n<li><em>Revolt in the Desert<\/em> by T.E. Lawrence.  I have one or two by or about Lawrence of Arabia; not sure if I have his book or not.  I do now.<\/li>\n<li><em>Love in Ancient Greece<\/em> by Rpbert Flaceli\u00e8re translated by James Cleugh.  Looks to be a scholarly work.<\/li>\n<li><em>What If? 2<\/em> by Robert Crowley (not the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/book-report-what-if-by-randall-munroe-2014\/\" target=\"_new\">Randall Munroe<\/a> version.  I knew I&#8217;d seen and maybe bought a copy of the first one in the distant past.  Apparently, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/24\/1797\/\" target=\"_new\">I have already read this one, too<\/a>.  The people at church are making out pretty well from this haul.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Stingaree<\/em> by Max Brand.  Apparently, I&#8217;m into Westerns now so why not try some of the other big authors?  No Louis L&#8217;Amour books in evidence today.<\/li>\n<li><em>Learn to Play the Guitar<\/em> by Nick Freeth.  It might be a children&#8217;s book which might be just what I need since the other books haven&#8217;t done me any good.<\/li>\n<li><em>Gus Shafer&#8217;s West<\/em> with a forward by Dr. John M. Christlieb.  An artist and sculptor.  To help me envision the scenes in the westerns I read (as though <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/book-report-frederic-remington-by-peter-hassrick-1988\/\" target=\"_new\">Frederic Remington<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/29\/book-report-charles-russell-by-sophia-craze-1989\/\" target=\"_new\">Charles Russell<\/a> could not.  Sooner or later I&#8217;ll read the Time-Life set, too, maybe.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sweden: The Land of Today<\/em> with text by William Mead.  Given that it&#8217;s from 1985, it&#8217;s the Land of Back Then by now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since I had some room, I stuffed a copy of <em>Dating for Dummies<\/em> to put on one of my boys&#8217; bedrooms as a joke.  I put it into the older son&#8217;s (who has no trouble dating) under some papers, but he spotted it immediately, so he&#8217;s putting it into his brother&#8217;s room.  Which might hurt the younger as he is just now getting to the dating age but has not yet gone on a date.<\/p>\n<p>I also picked up some DVDs because they were basically free:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Transporter 3<\/em>; I am pretty sure I have seen the first two (and just bought a copy of the first <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/04\/good-uh-dvd-hunting-saturday-february-25-2023-relics-antique-mall-i-have-this-gift-card\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2023<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><em>The Black Dahlia<\/em>.  Not the <em>Blue Dahlia<\/em>, which is the Raymond Chandler movie.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Replacements<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ocean&#8217;s Twelve<\/em>; I think I&#8217;ve seen it back in the movie-going days.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Bourne Supremacy<\/em>; I might have seen it in the movie-going days.<\/li>\n<li><em>Basic Instinct<\/em>; I think I DVRed it at one point.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Quick and the Dead<\/em>; some Substacker just mentioned the film, so now I have it.  And apparently I&#8217;m set if I want to go onto a Sharon Stone kick, I&#8217;m set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All told, $6.  But I did have a ten spot on me as well, so I re-upped my membership in the Friends of the Christian County Library.  I&#8217;m only in two such groups now.  Well, one, maybe; I think my membership in the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library membership has lapsed until our income stabilizes.<\/p>\n<p>For a brief moment, let me enjoy my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tsundoku\" target=\"_new\">tsundoku<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gentle reader. I am reaching a point where I&#8217;m starting to think Do I need to buy any more books? or Do I want to buy any more books?. The stacks of Nogglestead are crammed full with little room for further additions. 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