{"id":8223,"date":"2010-10-16T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8223"},"modified":"2010-10-16T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T18:09:55","slug":"good-book-hunting-october-16-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/good-book-hunting-october-16-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: October 16, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done one of these (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/good-book-hunting-late-april-may-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">a year and a half<\/a>), and I know you&#8217;re all clamoring for news about how many books I&#8217;m going to try to shoehorn into my library this time.  Well, this part of October means it&#8217;s time for both the Friends of the Christian County Library and the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library to hold their semiannual book fairs.  Today was bag day at the Ozark library for the FOCCL sale.  Here&#8217;s what I got:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh67.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh67.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Friends of Christian County Library book fair results, October 2010\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four bound volumes of old <em>American Heritage<\/em> magazines.  I didn&#8217;t already have them.  W00t!\n<\/li>\n<li>One, count them, one pulp paperback in the Executioner series.  I&#8217;ve seen this particular book fair lousy with those old paperbacks, but I&#8217;m not sure if it was just a one-time dump of a single person&#8217;s collection or that I have been here on bag day the last couple of times.\n<\/li>\n<li>A collection of hour-long documentaries on VHS that chronicles a year.  2 from the 1960s, 3 from the 1970s, and 7 from the 1980s.\n<\/li>\n<li>Two volumes collecting David Drake&#8217;s Hammer&#8217;s Slammers series.\n<\/li>\n<li>A Douglas Coupland novel <em>JPod<\/em>.  I think he peaked with <em>Shampoo Planet<\/em> 15 or so years ago.  I haven&#8217;t read one of his books since before I started blogging.\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Approaching Zero<\/em> and <em>Net Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/em>, books about computer crime.  Both are probably old enough that they tell you to protect your America Online password.  Or Prodigy.  Or in the case of Charles, CompuServe.\n<\/li>\n<li><em>You Look Nice Today<\/em>, a novel by Stanley Bing.  I loved <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/09\/book-report-lloyd-what-happened-by-stanley-bing-1998\/\" target=\"_bing\">Lloyd, What Happened?<\/a><\/em>, so I will probably start this one soon.\n<\/li>\n<li><em>When Men Think Private Thoughts<\/em>, a guide for women, I think.  But I want to see if this book is real intelligence or counter-intelligence.\n<\/li>\n<li>Several self-published books about the Ozarks.\n<\/li>\n<li>A volume of Chaucer that includes <em>Troilus and Criseyde<\/em> and <em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em> in both old English and modern English.\n<\/li>\n<li>Yes, that is a book called <em>Sexual Revolution<\/em>.  It&#8217;s a book of essays about the same by literary writers of the period.\n<\/li>\n<li>A book about how to make sundials.\n<\/li>\n<li>A book about how to trap animals.\n<\/li>\n<li>A book about fireplace design and how it hasn&#8217;t changed in several hundred years.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The swath of books are books my children selected and put into their bag; a two-year-old and a four-year-old are about as eclectic and discriminating as their father.  Mrs. Noggle got a stack of magazines and a single (!) book.<\/p>\n<p>Total cost: $6 for six bags of books.  Three bags of magazines were free.  I gave them a $20 and enrolled in the Friends of the Christian County Library ($5 a year, for cry eye).<\/p>\n<p>And they fit in the collection remarkably well once I started putting books atop the bookshelves themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done one of these (a year and a half), and I know you&#8217;re all clamoring for news about how many books I&#8217;m going to try to shoehorn into my library this time. 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