#309

Library was having a bag sale to...celebrate? Commemorate? Capitalize on moving their archives to a new location. Pick your favorite "c". My whim dictated that this particular sale spell an end to my not getting that many books, at least not all at once, and I have come up with a haul as in the days of yore. So yes sir, two bags full sir--of books! Not bad at all for ten bucks flat. Bag sales are very thrilling that way.

Let's do a list, like we love to do. We love lists here at Factually Pointless, and believe me, I decide to not show more lists than I post. Always wantin' to list shit up ins, folks. Always.

Anyway. 

The Best American Short Stories 2014, ed. Jennifer Egan

Balkan Ghosts, by Robert D. Kaplan

The Founding Fish, by John McPhee

Glastonbury, by Donna Fletcher Crow

Beauty Is a Wound, by Eka Kurniawan

The Well and the Mine, by Gin Phillips, introduced by Fannie Flagg

García Márquez en Cartagena-Sus Inicios Literarios, by Jorge García Usta

Europe 1880-1945, by J.M. Roberts, Silver Library edition

John Adams, by David McCullough

A Slight Trick of the Mind, by Mitch Cullum

The Realm of Fiction: 61 Short Stories, ed. James B. Hall

The Solace Is Not the Lullaby, by Jill Osier, foreword by Carl Philips

Blood & Iron-From Bismarck to Hitler/the Von Moltke Family's Impact on German History, by Otto Friedrich

Families of the World-Family Life At the Close of the 20th Century/East East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, by Hélène Tremblay

Alarms & Diversions, by James Thurber

Moral Voices/Moral Selves-Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory, by Susan J. Hekman

Three Girls From Bronzeville, by Dawn Turner

The Art of Fiction-Notes on Craft for Young Writers, by John Gardner

All Loves Excelling, by Josiah Bunting III

Words, Thoughts, and Theories, by Alison Gopnick and Andrew N. Meltzoff

Writers Reading At Sweetwaters-An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, ed. by Chris Lord and Esther Hurwitz

Leone Leoni, by George Sand

The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space, by Douglas Trevor

A Little Chatter, by Terry Connell

Middle-Earth, by Henri Cole

In All This Rain, by John Stone

Tell Me a Riddle, by Tillie Olsen

Semantics-A New Outline, by F.R Palmer

Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Pocho, by José Antonio Villarreal

Typee, by Herman Melville, afterword by Harrison Hayford

The King Must Die, by Mary Renault

The Reader's Companion to American History, ed. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty

I also grabbed a spare copy of Tristram Shandy and a Dover thrift edition of Kafka's Metamorphoses (plus those near-ubiquitous Other Stories) just to lend them out when so inspired, or perhaps serve as a pair of the foundation stones for a Little Free Library of our own, on our yard. We'll see.

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Cool! Man, what a complete waste of fucking time. Hope this blog gets good again soon. Got a feeling something might actually happen this week. Just a tingle in the fingers, perhaps--maybe--some sparks in the back of the mind. 

Again, we'll see.

--JL