{"id":33986,"date":"2025-06-29T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33986"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:31:05","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-june-28-2025-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/good-book-hunting-saturday-june-28-2025-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-clever\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, June 28, 2025: Friends of the Christian County Library Book Sale (Clever)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made light of Ace of Spades HQ&#8217;s Perfesser Squirrel, the new sysop of the Sunday morning book thread, for going to a library book sale and buying only 12 books.<\/p>\n<p>And this weekend, I went to the Clever book sale and bought&#8230; 13.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh06282025.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Black Coffee Blues<\/em> by Henry Rollins, a collection of writings from 1989-1991 by the Black Flag guy.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Overton Window<\/em> by Glenn Beck.  Fiction.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Big Black Book of Income Secrets<\/em>.  Heaven knows I could use some.<\/li>\n<li><em>Colorblind<\/em>, a Jesse Stone novel by Reed Farrel Coleman.<\/li>\n<li><em>Old Black Magic<\/em>, a Spenser novel by Ace Atkins.  I didn&#8217;t have either of these because I&#8217;ve pretty much given up on the series, but hey, they were almost free.<\/li>\n<li><em>You Can Date Boys When You&#8217;re Forty<\/em> by Dave Barry who had a brief resurgence on his Substack, but I haven&#8217;t seen anyone link to him recently.  But <a href=\"https:\/\/davebarry.substack.com\/\" target=\"_new\">it&#8217;s still there<\/a>.  Maybe I should add it to my blogroll.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Four-Hour Work Week<\/em> by Tim Ferris.  I listened to <em>The Four-Hour Body<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/20\/on-the-4-hour-body-by-timothy-ferriss-2010\/\" target=\"_new\">a couple years ago<\/a>.  Apparently, my beautiful wife already has a copy, but her relatively few books are over there, not over here.<\/li>\n<li><em>Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline<\/em> by Chuck Carlson and <em>Green Bay Packers Stadium Stories<\/em> by Gary D&#8217;Amato to prep myself for football season should I even care any more.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sh\u014dgun : A Novel of Japan<\/em> by James Clavell.  Enjoying a resurgence because of a fairly well regarded streaming series; I&#8217;m likely to pick it up because I just watched <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/movie-report-the-last-samurai-2003\/\" target=\"_new\">The Last Samurai<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Fallout<\/em> by Harry Turtledove.  Because once I get through all of the historically accurate novels I have, including <em>Sh\u014dgun <\/em> (as well as the Sharpe&#8217;s series and the O&#8217;Brian novels and, I think, another Horatio Hornblower book somewhere), I might want to delve again into alt-history.<\/li>\n<li><em>199 Useful Things To Do With A Politician<\/em>, a collection of cartoons probably akin to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/dual-book-report-all-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-my-cat-by-suzy-becker-1990-101-uses-for-a-dead-cat-by-simon-bond-1981\/\" target=\"_new\">101 Uses for a Dead Cat<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my defense, the room looked to be a table or two shorter than <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\">last year<\/a>.  And as it was bag day, I paid $3 total for this collection, not a dollar each.<\/p>\n<p>So we know I will read <em>199 Useful Things To Do With A Politician<\/em> first.  What do you think I will read second?  Probably one of the Green Bay Packers books or the Henry Rollins book, most likely.  But time and the decades (I hope) in the future will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made light of Ace of Spades HQ&#8217;s Perfesser Squirrel, the new sysop of the Sunday morning book thread, for going to a library book sale and buying only 12 books. And this weekend, I went to the Clever book sale and bought&#8230; 13. 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