{"id":10358,"date":"2011-11-03T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2011-11-03T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:02:55","slug":"good-book-hunting-november-1-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/good-book-hunting-november-1-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: November 1, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, we had a little time without the children, so my beautiful wife and I ducked into Hooked on Books.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a couple books:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh75.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Some books from Hooked on Books\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Handle<\/em>, one of Richard Stark&#8217;s Parker novels.  You might know him as Porter, as he was renamed in the Mel Gibson film <em>Payback<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A Dilbert book.<\/li>\n<li>A collection called <em>Unsolved Mysteries<\/em> which looks to be just a shade paranormal but might provide me with some ideas.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cat-a-Lyst<\/em>.  One: It&#8217;s an Alan Dean Foster book.  Two: It&#8217;s got a cat on the front cover.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Trap<\/em> by Mrs. Stephen King, published under her married name and not her maiden name.  I have a couple by her and one by Stephen King, Jr., so I hope I like them.<\/li>\n<li>One of the Odd Thomas graphic novels.  I don&#8217;t remember <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/book-report-odd-hours-by-dean-koontz-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">explicitly saying<\/a> I wouldn&#8217;t buy one, and I have.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can tell the nature of my shopping excursion: the book racks in the front with the $1 books, the small alcove in the back with the $1 books (and penned graffiti), and then the classics\/literature section where I bought nothing but where it was next to the comics.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t even read all the books I bought at the book fairs this year yet and I&#8217;m hitting the used book stores for fun.  What is wrong with me?  Is the fact that I like to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelves.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">bookshelf tumblr sites<\/a> also a symptom?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, we had a little time without the children, so my beautiful wife and I ducked into Hooked on Books. I bought a couple books: I got: The Handle, one of Richard Stark&#8217;s Parker novels. You might know him as Porter, as he was renamed in the Mel Gibson film Payback. A Dilbert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10360,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}