{"id":35693,"date":"2026-09-20T07:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35693"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:56:39","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-september-19-2026-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/20\/good-book-hunting-saturday-september-19-2026-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, September 19, 2026: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/19\/good-album-hunting-september-19-2026-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">I mentioned<\/a>, we went to the book sale this weekend.  And although I do not generally target the book sections widely, I did come away with some purchases.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh09192026.jpg\" width=\"1000\"><\/p>\n<p>My beautiful wife also got a stack of books and the oldest got a history of Wales (perhaps because <em>Noggle<\/em> has Welsh origins).<\/p>\n<p>As far as books go, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Misselhorn&#8217;s Pencil Sketches of St. Louis<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Electricity for All: The Story of Ozark Electic Cooperative, 1937-2012<\/em>.  This is my electric coop from the time it began to after I moved into Nogglestead.  Incredible to think that someone had corporate historian work into the 21st century.  I myself have thought a history of one of my martial arts schools, which has been around for over thirty years, would be a cool book with stories about some of the students (the other school has been around for six or seven years, so its history much more brief).<\/li>\n<li><em>The Artwork of Emily McGee<\/em> which is not only a monograph but shows how different works develop&#8211;that is, step-by-step (not quite) illustrations\/images of the works&#8217; progress.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pleasures of the Porch: Ideas for Gracious Outdoor Living<\/em> by Daria Price Bowman and Maureen Lamarca.  I actually got this at BookMarx, the downtown bookstore, on Friday afternoon.  The theatre and the place where we stayed was a block from BookMarx and across the street from Stick It In Your Ear record store.  We went to BookMarx so my wife could pet the cat.  I was not eager to browse\/buy on Friday night when books were going to be fifty cents on Saturday, but the prices at BookMarx were reasonable, and I got this on the dollar cart.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sheer Poetry: Words &#038; Photographs<\/em> by Rosalie Toler and Gerry Toler.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Spoken Word Revolution<\/em> edited by Mark Eleveld.  A collection of open mic \/ poetry slam type poetry that originally came with a CD, but that is absent.  Still, I can read them myself.<\/li>\n<li><em>Peter Abelard<\/em> by Helen Waddell.  As I mentioned, Abelard came up not only in the collection <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/book-report-the-rape-of-the-lock-2-by-alexander-pope-1907\/\" target=\"_new\">The Rape of the Lock<\/em><\/a> but also the audio course I&#8217;m currently listening to, so of course I had to pick up his biography.<\/li>\n<li><em>Selected Poems<\/em> by Edna St. Vincent Millay.  Of course, I have probably already read them.  My first thought was that I could give the book to someone as a gift, and I even asked my wife to whom I might be able to give it.  But she cautioned me that it might be taken a certain way.  After all, I gave <em>her<\/em> a copy back in the day.  So I&#8217;ll just put this in my stacks as an excuse to read these poems again.  After all, I pick up old Harper editions of her books when I find them just for that reason.  And in this case, I spare it from becoming cat litter.<\/li>\n<li>Two literary magazine issues, <em>Frost Meadow Review<\/em> Volume 9 from 2022 and <em>River Styx<\/em>, the St. Louis literary magazine, from 2021.  I prefer to find physical magazines to submit to rather than just scrolling Submittable.<\/li>\n<li><em>Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce<\/em> by Robert Penn Warren.  A single poem former textbook probably.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Messenger<\/em> by Stephanie Pippin, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize in 2013 which is why it has cycled out of the library&#8217;s collection&#8211;that&#8217;s fourteen years ago!<\/li>\n<li><em>Joe DiMaggio Moves Like Liquid Light<\/em>, poems by Loren Broaddus.<\/li>\n<li><em>Circle of Ecstasy: A Haiku Neophyte at 76<\/em> by Antonio S. Dimalanta, MD.<\/li>\n<li><em>Gentle Harvest: Poetic Moods and Memories of a Woman&#8217;s Life<\/em> by Florence Burrill Jacobs.  Strangely, the title page has been removed, but the dust jacket has her name.  No idea the year, though.<\/li>\n<li><em>How Reading Changed My Life<\/em> by Anna Quindlen.  A short book suitable for college students, but maybe not any more.<\/li>\n<li><em>Rocky Comfort<\/em> by Wayne Holmes, an autobiography or memoir.  Is the difference how important you are or the completeness?  At any rate, likely one of the regional reminiscences that I love.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Story of Old Ste. Genevieve<\/em> by Gregory M. Franzwa.  It might come in handy if I read it before I go to the town so I can tell anyone I&#8217;m with bits about it.  Usually, I find these books when I&#8217;m visiting the town and can only tell about it later.<\/li>\n<li><em>Parenting Advice to Ignor in Art and Life<\/em> by Nicole Tersigni.  A modern looking collection of memeish quips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be honest, given the various different payments and the other books included for other people, I am not sure how much I spent.  $20?  I know when I came through the bargain side, the book counter did not bother to count the poetry books because he said they weren&#8217;t anything.  I disagreed, but I guess I got a bit of a discount.<\/p>\n<p>And, again, I was not jonesing to buy more audio courses, as I&#8217;ve gotten them down to a mere two boxes in my closet, but they&#8217;re marked less than ten dollars each, down from forty bucks a couple of years ago, so I was getting complete audio courses for $2 or $5.  So I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Famous Greeks<\/em> which would have fit in with my reading of <em>The Life of Greece<\/em>.  Given how many years it&#8217;s taken me to work through <em>The Life of Greece<\/em>, I still might listen to this years from now in the middle of the book.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries<\/em> which I will have on tap for when I get to the equivalent volume of <em>The Story of Civilization<\/em> if I get there.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Resolute Determination: Napoleon and the French Empire<\/em>.  Ibid about the maybe I&#8217;ll listen to it when reading about that part of history.  Or maybe sooner.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Russian Revolution: From Tsarism to Bolshevism<\/em>.  Likely no mention of <em>Doctor Zhivago<\/em>.   Well&#8230;.  Never say never.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any rate, I&#8217;m looking forward to reading these books, actually.  Unfortunately, after completing the bulleted lists above, I moved them from my desk to my stacks, and I likely won&#8217;t see any of them again for a long time.  Unless the bookshelves collapse under the weight again or the cats knock them down because I&#8217;ve put most of them stacked horizontally atop the bookshelves, and the cats like to prowl behind them when choosing a bladed weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, we went to the book sale this weekend. And although I do not generally target the book sections widely, I did come away with some purchases. My beautiful wife also got a stack of books and the oldest got a history of Wales (perhaps because Noggle has Welsh origins). 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