{"id":4354,"date":"2008-04-06T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2017-11-12T06:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T12:12:02","slug":"good-book-hunting-april-5-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/good-book-hunting-april-5-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: April 5, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this weekend marked the first really dangerous book fair of the season: The St. John&#8217;s United Church of Christ book fair.  We went to this one <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/25\/good-book-hunting-march-24-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>, so I knew what to expect: I picked up a box right when I went through the door instead of pretending I was only going to buy one or two things and then picking up a box after I accumulated a dozen books.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I needed two boxes for my books, not including the books for the other residents here.  The stacks:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh26.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh26.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"St. John's 2008 offerings to the Noggle Library\" title=\"St. John's 2008 offerings to the Noggle Library\"><br \/><i><font size=\"1\">Click for full size<\/font><\/i><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To sum up my acquisitions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>19 volumes of the Time-Life Books series <i>The Great Ages of Man<\/i>.  Okay, it&#8217;s apparently 18 volumes (1 duplicate) from the (I know see) 21 volume set.  Still, a nice primer on some history stuff.  Good idea books, I hope.  As I get older, I&#8217;m acquiring more and more of these sets so that I or my children will have them to kind of page through in a way you really can&#8217;t with Wikipedia.\n<\/li>\n<li>A couple Dell Shannon mysteries.  He wrote mysteries in the 1960s where the crimes are all fairly minor.  They&#8217;re police procedurals, and sort of pastoral police procedurals now.\n<\/li>\n<li>A couple of Mike Shayne paperbacks.  Good, short pulp bits that I cut my teeth on when I was a lad.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The April Robin Murders<\/i>, a paperback co-written by Ed McBain?\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Take the Money and Die<\/i>, a paperback mystery I bought simply because it was that close to the others I picked up.  Seriously.  Collateral collectage.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>No Witnesses<\/i> by Ridley Pearson, a writer from the next suburb whose work I have yet to read.  I own one of his books in Swedish, so it&#8217;s nice to have something by him that I can read.\n<\/li>\n<li>A stack of gardening books because I&#8217;ve planted some things.  Most of them are small, brochurish things from the 1940s and 1950s.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Coping in the 80s<\/i> because I want to see how I managed.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries<\/i>.\n<li>A biography of Robert Burns <i>because I don&#8217;t already have one.<\/i>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dickens&#8217;s <i>Hard Times<\/i> and Steinbeck&#8217;s <i>Cannery Row<\/i> to pile onto my classical material.\n<\/li>\n<li>A couple of Rod McKuen books, <i>Lonesome Cities<\/i> and <i>And to Each Season<\/i>, so I can <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/book-report-in-someones-shadow-by-rod.html\" target=\"_blank\">screw up the next child<\/a>right from birth, too.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>On Flirtation<\/i>, a psych book about flirting.\n<\/li>\n<li>A book by Bob Hope from the 1960s.  You know, I&#8217;ve not read any book by him.  He can&#8217;t be worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/book-report-sinbads-guide-to-life-because-i-know-everything-by-sinbad-with-david-ritz-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sinbad<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/book-report-the-power-of-judyism-by-judy-tenuta-1991\/\" target=\"_blank\">Judy Tenuta<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The Giant Book of Insults<\/i> because I have a long list of people to insult.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Literary St. Louis: A Guide<\/i>.  Ironic, isn&#8217;t it, that I&#8217;m actively catching up to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/the-man-to-beat\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Gass<\/a> (I hope) with one of his books?\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Godless<\/i> by Ann Coulter.  It&#8217;s worth a buck, and she&#8217;s not getting any portion of it.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Gravity<\/i> by Tess Gerritsen.  At the checkout, my wife said she already owned a copy.  However, she is not me.  Now <b>I<\/b> own a copy and will read it, eventually.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>The World of George Orwell<\/i>, a picture and sort of bio of Eric Blair.  Because (say it with me), I didn&#8217;t own one already.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also got two videocassettes, <i>National Lampoon&#8217;s Class Reunion<\/i> and <i>Pink Floyd at Pompeii<\/i>.  They were $2.00 each; had I known that, I would not have gotten the first.  Had I seen it before I bought it, I wouldn&#8217;t have spent another dollar on it.<\/p>\n<p>Total spent: $61.75.  Total books for me:  48.  Total for household: 61.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;m going to have to forgo some heavy reading for a bit to clear some of the backlog.<\/p>\n<p>And the Old Trees and Kirkwood library friends, not to mention the Carondolet Y book fair, are still to come this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this weekend marked the first really dangerous book fair of the season: The St. John&#8217;s United Church of Christ book fair. 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