Category: Music

122725 • Thrift Store Finds

To Crown The Waves and Soldiers of Destruction are books that are not common at thrifts, so I was fortunate to get them. The Napoleon book was under a dollar, and the Lions of the West is a great topic, the heroes and villains of westward expansion.

The DVD In Enemy Hands is a submariner war movie I’ve never even heard of, it is amazing that I even pulled it off the shelf as the name is so generic.

The Brahms Symphony by Claudio Abbado is the the second I have by this conductor. It is difficult to pick this kind of title out of all the common ones that look just like it.

Händel: Medley aus “Apollo e Dafne” HWV122

Classical music has a seemingly infinite volume of pieces to discover; I ran across this video on Facebook today and as it turns out, I have an album with the entire composition that was buried in my large library (although it is digitally in my iTunes/Music, ripped from the cd and ready to go). This video brought it out to the front, a wonderful piece to hear.

It is one of those many albums I bought years ago in volume at the thrift store, library sale, or something like that and never really listened to. That is the beauty of a library, there are treasures within just waiting to be discovered.

Winston Churchill’s Take On The World Wars

I’ve come across many books by Winston Churchill, who wrote a lot of volumes, but up to now I haven’t purchased many of them. Considering his involvement in both World Wars, I should have been reading his works long ago.

These aren’t the super-expensive, leather-bound Easton Press reprints (that I would prefer), but rather are the Folio Society versions that are still of a higher quality than the average new book. I’m very glad to have these, although at some point I’d like to get the leather-bound Easton Press versions.

092725 • Thrift Store Finds

Picked these up today, a dollar apiece. What a deal! I actually picked them out on Tuesday, but they weren’t half-off, but they were exactly where I left them, and today were now half-off. The two Mozart CDs by BIZ sound great. It is difficult for me to find classical I don’t have already at a thrift store, but it can still happen.

The Dr. Seuss book is substantial and is very detailed into his life and work. The World War II book appeared pretty standard, but the illustrations are terrific. Vikings and the Patton book are great additions to the library as well.