Musings from Brian J. Noggle: Good Book Hunting: August 25, 2007

Good Book Hunting: August 25, 2007

The Ethical Society of St. Louis had a books, music, and video sale today, and we happened to find it. Hardbacks were $1 each or 3 for $2; paperbacks were $.50 or 5 for $2; cassettes were .50 each or something; CDs were $1 each; and albums were $.25 or 5 for $1. Which explains the carnage that was to occur:

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I got:

The Running Man, the movie tie-in paperback.
How to Take a Trick a Day with Bisquick because I'm interested in learning more about prostitutes and pastries, and Through-the-Years Cookbook because the two were a quarter together.
The Fall by Camus because I have been buying Camus lately, and it has become a compulsion.
St. Louis: A Concise History by William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., and Gateway Guidebook because I live here and might as well learn some trivia about it.
Yo, Millard Fillmore by Will Cleveland and Mark Alvarez because I'd like to bone up on my presidential trivia.
Hoaxes! Dupes, Dodges & Other Dastardly Deceptions by Gordon Stein and Marie J. MacNee because these sorts of compilations serve as good idea sources for essays and the stories I used to tell my officemate when we'd stare out the window.
Be Happy!, a 1972 hardback collection of happy little thoughts simply because the book has pictures like this:

and

Brother, any review of those pictures make me instantly happier. I mean, if my sideburns ever show up in my silhouette, shoot me with a silver bullet.
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker because I think Hemingway's writing is the bomb and I think his biography is riveting; let's see how this guy does with it.
Reagan's America by Garry Willis and Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness by Peggy Noonan because I've suddenly been seized with the urge to read more about those halycon days. I don't think the Noonan book deals with that time period, but.
The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America by Philip K. Howard because Walter Olson shouldn't have all the fun.
100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda because I'll soon need to wash the voice of Sylvia Plath out of my head.
The Braille Woods, a chapbook by Ann Townsend, simply because I could. Chapbooks are good as they give small doses of an individual poet.
Dave Barry Does Japan because I'll need to see if he's still as funny as I remember.
Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People by Thomas Slemen because (see Hoaxes! above).
Digital Darwinism by Evan I. Schwartz because I think I'll have some time for it in 2009.

Hmmm, I seem to have misplaced Poems of Friends, which I picked up and intended to buy.

For audio, I got:

My first Zamfir!
Timeless by local jazz singer Anita Rosemond
Pure by Hayley Westenra because she's hot.
An Adam Sandler comedy cassette.
The Grease Soundtrack, obviously.
A record of T.S. Eliot reading his poetry, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
The Sinatra Christmas album.
And misc big band stuff, including a 10 record set.

Not a bad haul considering my collection and Heather's stack cost a total of $16.50.

- posted by Brian J. @ 8:19 PM