{"id":4564,"date":"2008-08-24T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:36:51","slug":"good-book-hunting-august-16-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/24\/good-book-hunting-august-16-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: August 16, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, we stumbled across a couple of yard sales, reminding ourselves why we’ve stopped going to yard sales. However, I picked up a couple buck’s worth of books:<\/p>\n


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I got:<\/p>\n

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  • A collection of sportscaster Jack Buck’s poems. I mean, they cannot be worse than the complete works of Rod McKuen, can they?\n<\/li>\n
  • A book applying Machiavelli to business. One of many, no doubt.\n<\/li>\n
  • A biography of Vermeer. Because I don’t have any so far, that I know of. But given how many books I’ve got these days, who can tell?\n
  • Crossword Poems Volume One<\/i>. Oddly enough, this weekend, I saw this book and its companion volume and had no interest in them. Fortunately, as I would have bought duplicates only a week apart, and that’s just embarrassing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Yesterday’s haul will be forthcoming, and a haul it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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