{"id":11690,"date":"2012-07-14T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11690"},"modified":"2012-07-14T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:01:23","slug":"its-only-one-item-on-my-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/its-only-one-item-on-my-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only One Item On My Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303919504577523370919547322.html\" target=\"_blank\">McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Author Larry McMurtry has been gathering books around him for more than five decades. Along the way, he has filled his four-building bookshop with 450,000 titles and turned his hometown of Archer City, Texas, into a destination &#8220;book town.&#8221; Now, at age 76, he&#8217;s finally letting some of his collection go. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s time they enter back into the great river of books,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 10, the novelist and screenwriter will auction off more than 300,000 books at a two-day event he&#8217;s calling &#8220;The Last Book Sale.&#8221; (Mr. McMurtry&#8217;s novel &#8220;The Last Picture Show&#8221; was made into a movie of the same name.) The books will be auctioned off from the shelves of his bookstore, Booked Up, in groups of about 200, each containing several valuable books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>300,000 books can count as one item on my list for Christmas, can&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Also, just to reiterate, McMurtry is has a book store, which explains how he has more books than even a professor (and, perhaps, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0070ORTQM\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0070ORTQM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">one fewer shirt<\/a>).  So 40,000 books is the next level for me to achieve (Professor), with the level beyond that (100,000 &#8211; Bookseller) still in range for the rest of my life.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McMurtry Sets Auction of 300,000 Books: Author Larry McMurtry has been gathering books around him for more than five decades. Along the way, he has filled his four-building bookshop with 450,000 titles and turned his hometown of Archer City, Texas, into a destination &#8220;book town.&#8221; Now, at age 76, he&#8217;s finally letting some of his [&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-11690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690","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=11690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11692,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690\/revisions\/11692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}