ABC Books was supposed to have two book signings this weekend: One on Friday afternoon and one on Saturday. Although I showed for both, only one of the authors did. Still, I managed to get a couple things.
Friday afternoon brough Christopher Bloomfield and his family to discuss and sign Tales from a Wandering Fool: Stories of Family, Freedom, and the Road Less Traveled. Apparently, he and his family took to some full-time traveling and wandered for years, but I guess I’ll be able to tell you more about it after I read it. I also picked up Young Mariner Melville by Jean Gould, whose biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, That Dunbar Boy, I read in August and The Ayn Rand Companion by Mimi Reisel Gladstein. My beautiful wife says I already have it; I’m not sure, but I will take a look since the read stacks are outside the plastic or inside the plastic–whichever side does not require me climbing under it.
On Saturday, Dodge Merrin was supposed to have a book signing, but he was not there at his allotted time–it was scheduled for 11-2, and we were there at 11:15, but he was not, and Ms. E. had not heard from him. Ah, gentle reader: It was I who suggested he come to ABC Books when I saw him in Houston in July. I hope he’s all right.
I had identified a couple of books that I was interested in for later on Friday afternoon, so I picked up Judo & Self Defense (it says on the spine) For Women and Girls it says on the front cover. I bought it anyway. I also picked up On Heidegger by Patricia Altenbernd Johnson. Presumably, it will be easier to read than Heidegger.
I will throw them in the stacks, where I can always fit a couple more books, and maybe get to them in a couple of years. Knowing full well that if I go specifically looking for one of them, I will not find it.
