{"id":4031,"date":"2007-09-22T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T19:19:11","slug":"good-book-hunting-september-22-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/good-book-hunting-september-22-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: September 22, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Book Hunting: September 22, 2007<br \/>\nThis week, we went exclusively to yard sales and the local elementary school PTO rummage sale.  Here&#8217;s what we got:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh15.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh15.jpg\" alt=\"Old Trees Garage Sale books\" width=\"450\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A box of 94 comic books, including a number of Marvel mutant titles and GI Joe issues from the middle 1980s.  They were marked a dime each or fifteen for a buck; how could I choose?  I didn&#8217;t; I took the whole box, including the duplicates.  I blame it on the fact that I watched <i>Mallrats<\/i> last night.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Zobmondo!<\/i>, a collection of those silly question things to share with your partner.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Mayor of Casterbridge<\/i> by Thomas Hardy, because I am on a sudden 19th century British lit kick.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Barnaby Rudge<\/i> by Charles Dickens, because I am on a sudden 19th century British lit kick.  Honestly, I&#8217;d rather have handsome hardbound editions of both of these books, but if I need to read them first in paperback, so be it.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Test Your Lateral Thinking IQ<\/i>; a quiz book for a quarter.  Maybe it will feed my ego, maybe it will teach me something, but at worst it will only have cost a quarter.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>A Guide to the Star Wars Universe<\/i>; sure, it&#8217;s not the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal:Star_Wars\" target=\"_new\">Star Wars portal<\/a> on Wikipedia, but it&#8217;s a book, so I&#8217;ll be able to geek out after the apocalypse.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Babylon 5: The Coming of Shadows<\/i>; I have seen like five minutes of <i>Babylon 5<\/i> in my life, and I&#8217;m buying a book tie-in?  I blame it on book-acquisition-drunkeness.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Stealing From The Rich<\/i>; apparently, a true story of some financial skullduggery in the oil industry.  I&#8217;ll learn something, surely.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Fabricated Man<\/i>, a textbook on the ethics in creating life\/genetic engineering and whatnot.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Most of George Burns<\/i>, a collection of several of George Burns&#8217;s books.  I&#8217;ve not read any of his work, oddly, but I found his television show to be riotously funny half a century after it appeared on television.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Manhunt<\/i>, the story of the twelve day hunt for Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s killers.  I think I read an article, excerpt, or review of this book in a history magazine this year.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Winston &#038; Clementine<\/i>, Winston Churchill&#8217;s letters to his wife.  Given his life, these must be very interesting.  Still, I should probably read some of his formal writing that I have lying around here first.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally I picked up a VHS copy of <i>Disney&#8217;s The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/i> to satisfy my own <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/book-report-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by.html\" target=\"_new\">morbid curiosity<\/a>, DVD copies of <i>Independence Day<\/i> and <i>Stargate<\/i> (at $2 each, but for charity), and a CD collection of Sarah Vaughan.  Heather got some CDs (at a quarter each, we probably should have bought them all and just tried the other stuff out) and some cassettes.  The boy got, through our agency, a number of Choose Your Own Adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that should hold me for a couple weeks scattered across the next couple of decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Book Hunting: September 22, 2007 This week, we went exclusively to yard sales and the local elementary school PTO rummage sale. Here&#8217;s what we got: Click for full size A box of 94 comic books, including a number of Marvel mutant titles and GI Joe issues from the middle 1980s. 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