Who snips the whips?

Went to the nearby university's annual five-day secondhand book sale. Waited until Saturday (Day 2) to get free parking. As I arrived, people were walking away from the huge hall in which the event is held lugging armloads of tomes. It wasn't a case of "All the best stuff is already gone", though, as once inside you soon realised that the numerous volunteers were constantly unpacking stock and adding it to the long wooden tables. I heard one senior staffer tell a junior, "We need to put out more cricket books! We can never have enough. There are five more boxes under here." 

The tabletops were signposted as "Science Fiction", "True Crime", "Poetry", etc. The only sections that looked a bit sparse were Sex and Philosophy. Had they been raided or were there less volumes available on those topics to begin with? It's a saucy conundrum. By the Literature section, a family(?) was conversing in Russian. At Ancient History, a young woman was seated on the floor - despite the heavy foot traffic - studiously searching through the boxes under the table that were yet to be unloaded. A trio of 20-something dudes argued the merits of computer manuals.

While my fellow patrons represented every age, ethnicity and style of clothing, it'd be pretty easy to categorise some by what they were carrying - bespectacled guy with old jazz records, alternatively dressed lass stacking up hardcovers about the theatre, mother with teetering pile of maths and science texts trailing small, pale child. Pretty easy for you, I mean. Personally, I don't categorise people like that. Haha, gotcha. Below is what I bought. The seven items cost a total of $26. I'm sure I missed real treasures, but there was too much to take in and it was BUSY.

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Pod rec. Been hearing this post-postmodern analysis praised for yonks. Not sure why it took me so long to investigate. It's a blast. The gist:

“A podcast where two non-believers read through The Bible but try not to be jerks about it. Join comics writers Benito Cereno and Chris Sims as they journey through the ‘good book’ from Acts to Zephaniah, with stops in the Apocrypha along the way.”

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Rosamund Pike as Hedda Gabler from around 2010 <cartoon hearts>: