{"id":9345,"date":"2011-05-02T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:47:36","slug":"good-book-hunting-april-30-2011-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/good-book-hunting-april-30-2011-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, April 30, 2011: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to go to the book sale at Remington&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, let me back up: I volunteered at the Friends of the Library book sale on Friday night, collecting the money as other people bought books and offering a running commentary to the customers about books they had.  I was pretty adamant to the volunteer at the table with me that I was not going to go to the sale to buy anything because I already own enough books and I don&#8217;t have any room.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as with any of these things, I always find someone has bought something that I want specifically.  In this case, a young man came through the line with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/051734582X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=051734582X\" target=\"_blank\">Asimov&#8217;s Guide to the Bible<\/a><\/em>, which I have not seen in the wild, but in retrospect that&#8217;s because I tend to skip over the religious section.<\/p>\n<p>I told the guy about it, and he said these fateful words: &#8220;There&#8217;s another one, but it&#8217;s an older edition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So despite all of my assurances to my partner volunteer, since my beautiful wife and I had a &#8216;date night&#8217; on half price day, I fell off the wagon.  Loudly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh70.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh70.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"The Spring Friends of the Library book sale\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Asimov&#8217;s Guide to the Bible<\/em>, fortunately.<\/li>\n<li>A ten volume set called the Great Ideas program.  It was $10.  But it meant I needed a box to carry them, and away we went.<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace Kills<\/em> by P.J. O&#8217;Rourke.<\/li>\n<li>A book called <em>Chariot<\/em> which is a history of that particular military equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Two courses on CD from The Teaching Company that were quarter of the list price since they were half price of half price.  I thought that I&#8217;d picked up a third, and either I did and it was left at the counting table, or I put it back demonstrating some restraint.<\/li>\n<li>David Barry&#8217;s <em>History of the Millennium<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Eric Flint&#8217;s <em>1632<\/em>.  I already own the sequel <em>1633<\/em>, so I can read them in order now.<\/li>\n<li>An English translation of <em>Pepita Jimenez<\/em>, a book I have already read in Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>A collection of writings from Spinoza.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Hobbes&#8217; <em>Leviathan<\/em> in paperback.  I was supposed to read this in college.  Of that particular class, the only book I read of the required reading was Plato&#8217;s <em>Republic<\/em>.  I read a lot in college, but only a small percentage of what I was supposed to have read.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Letters of Ayn Rand<\/em>.  We chose to go to the sale instead of going to see <em>Atlas Shrugged Part I<\/em>.  I bought this in recompense.<\/li>\n<li>A couple of localish history of small town kinds of books.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Souls of Black Folk<\/em> by W.E.B. DuBois.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Fantasy Role-Playing Gamer&#8217;s Bible<\/em>, which is earnest, and <em>The Tough Guide to Fantasyland<\/em>, which is not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n<p>My wife bought a couple books, mostly cookbooks that she picked up while waiting me to finish, along with a record, some sheet music, and a CD.  The Smooth Jazz CD is mine, but please note it&#8217;s not smooth jazz in format; it&#8217;s a collection of standards by Sinatra, Count Basie, and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>The total, <em>after half-off<\/em>, was $98.50.  I got 42 books in total along with the CDs.  I have already read the Dilbert book depicted within, which means I need to read 41 by October&#8217;s sale to keep pace.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is how I almost blackout regarding what I buy.  When my wife and I had dinner, I could barely recount what I bought.  Some books I thought I&#8217;d picked up, I must have put back.  I am such a glutton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to go to the book sale at Remington&#8217;s. Wait, let me back up: I volunteered at the Friends of the Library book sale on Friday night, collecting the money as other people bought books and offering a running commentary to the customers about books they had. 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