{"id":33761,"date":"2025-05-05T08:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33761"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:46:38","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/good-book-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, May 3, 2025: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have already enumerated the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/good-album-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">LPs I bought this weekend<\/a> on half price day at the semi-annual book sale at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds.  Now, gentle reader, you get to see what I bought in books and videos.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh05032025.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get a whole lot of videos; they&#8217;d been picked over, and I&#8217;m already <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/01\/movie-report-kung-pow-enter-the-fist-2002\/\" target=\"_new\">trying to clear recent overflow from the top of the video cabinet<\/a>.  Still, I got a couple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thin Ice<\/em>, one of the Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone television movies.<\/li>\n<li><em>Kingdom of Heaven<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself<\/em>, a comedy special most likely to be the first thing I watch from this group.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Big Easy<\/em>.  Not bought: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hard_Easy_(film)\" target=\"_new\">The Hard Easy<\/em><\/a> which was also available.<\/li>\n<li><em>Marked for Death<\/em>, a Steven Seagal film which I might already own.  I do now for sure, anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I kept mostly to the poetry table in the dollar books section, but did cruise into the better books section to look over old books.  I did get several of the chapbook bundles, though, which is like a box of chocolates.  Or three in this case.<\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A copy of <em>Ideals<\/em> magazine, the Liberty issue from January 1976.  Strangely, it looks familiar, but when you can find a copy of <em>Ideals<\/em> in the wild for fifty cents, you buy it.<\/li>\n<li><em>Beyond the High Hills: A Book of Eskimo Poems<\/em> with photographs by Guy Mary-Rousseli\u00e8re.  Eskimos probably have 300 poems for snow.<\/li>\n<li><em>Murder Ink<\/em>, a collection of essays by mystery authors including Robert B. Parker which is why I recognized it.  It&#8217;s from the Better Books Section, so I paid a $1.50 for it.  I might put this on the to-read shelves instead of the Robert B. Parker collection and, you know, think about reading it.<\/li>\n<li><em>Finnish Proverbs<\/em> translated by Inkeri V\u00e4\u00e4n\u00e4nen-Jensen.  Probably similar to the Eskimo poems.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Haw Lantern<\/em> by Seamus Heany.  Hardback and dustjacket.  And no accent marks or umlauts in the Irish poet&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dressed Inside Out<\/em> by Elizabeth Price.  Signed by the author.  And only $1.<\/li>\n<li><em>Brighter Days to Come<\/em> from the Salesian Collection.  Since I&#8217;m apparently now a Salesian collector.  This is a hardback with a dustjacket.  So probably for high dollar contributors.<\/li>\n<li><em>Perfidious Proverbs and Other Poems: A Satirical Look at the Bible<\/em> by Philip Appleman.  With an introduction by Dan Barker.  If someone needs to explain it&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bed Riddance: A Posy for the Indisposed<\/em> by Ogden Nash.  A paperback, unlike the other volumes of Nash I have.  Well, most of them are the red hardcovers.  <em>The Old Dog Barks Backwards<\/em>, which I read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/18\/book-report-the-old-dog-barks-backwards-by-ogden-nash-1972\/\" target=\"_new\">in January<\/a>, is paperback.  How quickly I forget.<\/li>\n<li><em>Treasures of Truth<\/em> by Reta Belle Lyle.  Oh, yeah.  With a name like that, I know what I&#8217;m getting.  This is Number Four according to the title page.<\/li>\n<li><em>So You Think You&#8217;re A Hipster?<\/em> by Kara Simsek.  A humor book of some sort.  Voted most likely to be read first from this stack.<\/li>\n<li><em>Only &#8216;Till Sundown<\/em>, a chapbook by Will H. Havens from 1998.<\/li>\n<li><em>Jes&#8217; Dreamin&#8217;: An Anthology<\/em> by Bud Rainey.  Poems from 1958.  They had vanity presses in 1958?<\/li>\n<li><em>Mother Tried To Tell Me&#8230; And I Just Wouldn&#8217;t Listen<\/em>, a Periwinkle Press gift book from 1982.<\/li>\n<li><em>Kiss without Touching<\/em> by Harriet Talbert.<\/li>\n<li><em>Unsettled: A Tribute to Living Life on the Open Road<\/em> by Rubie Dianne.<\/li>\n<li>A stack of Columbia (University) Essays on Modern Writers from the 1960s.  Individual critical essays on individual authors in paper covers.  I have #1 Albert Camus, #10 E.M. Forster, #11 Alain Robbe-Grillet, #15 William Yeats, #17 Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco, #19 Franz Kafka, #20 Jean Genet, #21 Gerald Manley Hopkins, #34 Iris Murdoch, and #37 Luigi Pirandello.<\/li>\n<li><em>Think Positive Thoughts Every Day<\/em> edited by Patricia Wayant.  Poems.<\/li>\n<li>Two copies of (local) Drury University&#8217;s literary magazine <em>Currents<\/em> from 2022 and 2023.<\/li>\n<li><em>Kenyon Review<\/em> from Sept\/Oct 2018.<\/li>\n<li><em>Every Time I Find The Meaning Of Life, They Change It<\/em>, an audiobook by Daniel Klein.  I&#8217;ve read a couple of his pop philosophy books and liked them.  Including, apparently, this one <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/book-report-every-time-i-find-the-meaning-of-life-they-change-it-by-daniel-klein-2015\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2017<\/a>.  Still, I&#8217;ll enjoy listening to it on the way somewhere this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bundles also included another copy of <em>Journey through Heartsongs<\/em> by Mattie J.T. Stepanek, but as I read it <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/10\/book-report-journey-through-heartsongs-by-mattie-j-t-stepanek-2003\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2021<\/a> (and did not like it!), I&#8217;ve put it in a donation box already.  Not even worthy of the free book cart at church.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve definitely restocked my chapbook and quick read stack and have a couple of other magazines to put on my stack upstairs for when I&#8217;m winding down and want to read a couple of poems before bed.<\/p>\n<p>AND: I want to point out that I spent a total of $32.50 for all of the things I bought, including the records, DVDs, books, and audiobook.  And, I&#8217;m pleased to say that I did not overburden my storage for these things, although my <em>previously viewed<\/em> video library needs some attention.  Sometime this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have already enumerated the LPs I bought this weekend on half price day at the semi-annual book sale at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds. Now, gentle reader, you get to see what I bought in books and videos. I didn&#8217;t get a whole lot of videos; they&#8217;d been picked over, and I&#8217;m already trying to [&hellip;]<\/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-33761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761","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=33761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33764,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761\/revisions\/33764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}