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This includes:<\/p>\n
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- Three local history books that I read last year: Webster Park 1896-1996<\/i><\/a>, Webster Groves<\/i><\/a>, North Webster<\/a><\/i>, and the first three editions of the In Retrospect<\/i><\/a> series. Given that they’re expensive if you find them online or in local book stores, I feel very fortunate indeed. I guess I can remove them from my Amazon wish list, you know, the one you ingrates never visit.\n<\/li>\n
- Several pamphlets about Missouri trees and Missouri birds.\n<\/li>\n
- The Happy Gardener<\/i> by Clarissa Start; I think this marks the fourth book of hers I now own.\n<\/li>\n
- Basic Writings<\/i> by Martin Heidegger. This is probably the only time in history Heidegger and Start have appeared together.\n<\/li>\n
- Viets Guide to Sex, Travel & Anything Else that Will Sell this Book<\/i> by Elaine Viets, a former local columnist.\n<\/li>\n
- The Naked Society<\/i>, a book about the forthcoming lack of privacy as government and corporations consolidate data. This book was written in the 1960s.\n<\/li>\n
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples<\/i> by Winston Churchill, in a box set. For $8.\n<\/li>\n
- The Elizabethan World<\/i>, a history summary, I assume.\n<\/li>\n
- The Battle of New Orleans<\/i>, which details that battle from the War of 1812.\n<\/li>\n
- All My Best Friends<\/i> by George Burns, a memoir of life in the entertainment industry. But it’s by George Burns, whom I expect to be very funny.\n<\/li>\n
- Three Essays<\/i> by J.S. Mill.\n<\/li>\n
- Red Zone<\/i> by Mike Lupica. It appears to be a sequel to Bump and Run<\/i><\/a>; regardless, it’s Lupica fiction that’s new to me.\n<\/li>\n
- Lafitte the Pirate<\/i>, a book about a pirate in New Orleans. Nonfiction, I think. It was on the history table, but so was Harry Turtledove.\n<\/li>\n
- The WPA Guide to 1930s Missouri<\/i>. Why not?\n<\/li>\n
- An issue of the Webster Review<\/i>, Webster University’s literay magazine, from 1993. I checked to see if any of the alumni I know were associated with it (apparently not), but it has a poem by Lyn Lifshin.\n<\/li>\n
- Book IV of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I bought 5-7 at the Kirkwood Book Fair in hardback; this is a trade paperback. As a result, I own all of them now, so I guess I can read them sometime. I’ll probably have to reread the first three since it’s been probably a decade since I read them. Probably 15 years by the time I get to them again.\n<\/li>\n
- History of Columbia, Illinois<\/i>, a short treatise on the first hundred years of that town. From the 1950s, I think.\n<\/li>\n
- Around the World in 99 Beds<\/i>. I’d flirted with purchasing this before. This one had the title page intact, but was not signed. Which might make it the only copy in existence not signed, increasing its worth.\n<\/li>\n
- A short treatise on St. Louis.\n<\/li>\n
- Livings II: A Guide to the Other St. Louis<\/i>, a resource guide for people who are newly moving to the revitalizing city of St. Louis. Written in 1972. It would give pause to the current crop of The-city-is-backsters, but they’re too busy humping the legs of the developers and public\/private profiteers to bother gaining any perspective on just how long the city of St. Louis has been on the cusp of revitalization that fails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Yeah, I hit the local interest table pretty hard.<\/p>\n
The beautiful wife gathered a collection in her interest areas, God, food, and UNIX. Not pictured: A Babar board book for the urchin(s); urchin1<\/sub> was looking at it at the time of the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Thursday evening, we got into the Friends of the Old Trees Book Sale on preview night for free because we’re Friends of the Old Trees library. Uncrowded and in a much better space this year (a recently vacated former video store), we had a good time, but unfortunately I suspended shopping a bit early […]<\/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-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","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=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28371,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/28371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}