I decided to go to the ABC Books because Mr. C. had a book signing up there–that’s what I told my family because the owner of one of our martial arts schools calls himself Mr. C. because his last name is hard for kids who were not born in Wisconsin to say. But it was not the kyoshi; it was some younger (but not young-young) guy whose books only say Mr. C..
The four books come in two series: The Downfall and The Revelation are zombie apocalypse books set in rural Missouri, and Never Trust Home and Drowning Angels are crime books about human trafficking and a non-profit whose undercover operatives help to gather information for law enforcement. They’re pretty barebone products, so I’d better keep them together and to remember which is which book in each series as the covers do not give that information.
I also picked up The Bible of Karate by Bubishi (?). Well, and on Thursday, June 4, 2026, I also visited ABC Books to buy a gift for my oldest son’s upcoming birthday and picked up a copy of Enoch’s Saga which I thought might be something about the biblical figure by its title, but it’s subtitled Horsepower to Satellite In a Single Lifetime by Enoch Thorsgard of Northwood, North Dakota. So instead of something apocryphal, I got a common man biography of the type I like (but I haven’t read one in a long time for some reason).
So maybe I’ll pick one of these up after I plow through the library book I checked out, the myriad cartoon books I liberated from my youngest son’s bookshelves, and the stacks of incomplete books at book accumulation points that I’m working to actually complete.
