Musings from Brian J. Noggle: Good Book Hunting: July 19, 2008

Good Book Hunting: July 19, 2008

Well, the one church that ran its classified ad last week actually had its rummage sale (not the northern terminology) this week, and that was the centerpiece of our trip this week. This will probably be our last weekend excursion, friends, as the pickings are so slim and the stage management so onerous as to render the weekly scheduled trips less than pleasant. Worry not, though; from time to time, I'll sneak into an estate sale and come up with some books, so I won't starve. Also, my to-read shelves are several thousand volumes, and there's always the library for historical nonfiction.

Regardless, here's what we got:

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I got:

The Middle Ages Volume III, a Books, Inc., publication about the Middle Ages, which in a couple thousand years will no longer be the middle. Hopefully.
The Renaissance Volume IV, a Books, Inc., publication about the Renaissance. In Art, maybe. Perhaps I bought two parts of a series here. I don't know.
Aristotle's Selections, a Books, Inc., publication. Selections of Aristotle, or a volume entitled Selections by Aristotle? Hey, they were a quarter each and matched, so I bought them without knowing.
The Travels of Marco Polo, a Books, Inc., publication about the Marco Polo, I hope.
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin. Comedy or a novella? I don't yet have it, so I bought it.
The Practical Handbook of Electrical Repairs and The Practical Handbook of Plumbing and Heating. A series of books detailing easy repairs from the 1960s. I haven't actually finished the one about television repair in a time where you could replace the tubes yourself and run down to the drug store to test them if you didn't know. So I won't jump right into reading them probably.
How Things Work In Your Home (and what to do when they don't). I have the How Electronic Things Work book, which looks like a distant relation. I think I'll run through this book for some basics so I can continue to impress my wife with my mad repair skillz. Actually, impress isn't the word; she just assumes that I know or can do it. That assumption is more gratifying than her being impressed every time. Also, it's more pressure. But I have these books!

Also, I got some cassettes of some easy listening stuff and a couple of, get this, design your garden computer program CDs. BECAUSE THEY WERE CHEAP! But you know what would be the killer app? Combining these design your level programs with a first person shooter where you can go in and execute, with a variety of weapons, those damn squirrels who have completely picked your tomato plants clean. Like a 21st century Centipede. I'd pay more than a quarter for that.

Oh, yeah, the wife got some books and cassettes and the Js got some books, but this is my blog, so no loving detail for those acquisitions.

- posted by Brian J. @ 9:28 PM