{"id":15531,"date":"2016-08-05T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15531"},"modified":"2016-08-05T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:56:09","slug":"good-book-hunting-florida-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/good-book-hunting-florida-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: Florida 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed it was quiet around here for the last week or so, gentle reader.  If you live in Southwest Florida, you might have noticed it was a little louder.  That&#8217;s because I took a trip down to Sanibel Island and Marco Island for some important sunburn time.  Although we did only found one &#8220;used book store&#8221; (actually a stall in an antique mall in Naples), I managed to pick up some Florida-themed reading at Wickham&#8217;s Books South as well as some of the other retail bookstores in the area.  Most of them, actually, came from the Barnes and Noble discount rack, where I thought if a book looked interesting, it would cost more to buy on the Internet later (where it would not be 75% off), so I bought it.  The thinnest of pretexts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I got:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh105.jpg\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Optimists&#8217; Handbook\/The Pessimists Handbook<\/em>, a bit of humor.<\/li>\n<li><em>Beggars, Cheats and Forgers<\/em>, a compendium of Beggars and Cheats and Forgers, apparently.<\/li>\n<li><em>Insane City<\/em> by Dave Barry.  I enjoyed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/10\/book-report-big-trouble-by-dave-barry-1999\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Trouble<\/a><\/em> at full price because I&#8217;d run though almost my whole stack of brought and bought books by the time we got to Barnes and Noble.  Of course, when I found other discounted books to read, I kept this one.  Because Dave Barry.<\/li>\n<li><em>I Will Fight My Own Damn War<\/em>, a self-published World War II memoir by a pilot.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Brief History of Sanibel Island<\/em>, a book about the history of the first place we stayed in Florida.  I must learn the history of everywhere I go so I can tell my children about it, even if it&#8217;s a couple hours later.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Last Paradise: The Building of Marco Island<\/em>, a history of Marco Island, the other place we stayed on vacation.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sanibel Sunset Detective<\/em> by Ron Base, the first book in a series of mysteries set on Sanibel Island.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sanibel-Cayman Disc<\/em> by Thomas D. Cochrun, the second in a series of international thrillers tied to Sanibel Island.  This Sanibel Island sounds kinda dangerous.  It&#8217;s a good thing I didn&#8217;t get these books before I went.<\/li>\n<li><em>Garage Sale Diamonds<\/em>, a book somewhere in a series about garage sales and mysteries.  It was discounted.<\/li>\n<li><em>Taichi: The Story of a Chinese Master in America<\/em>.  I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s a touch above the Kung Fu tie-in paperbacks, but it&#8217;s self-published.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent more than I normally would, but that&#8217;s par for anything on vacation.  Also, note I have already read three of these books, so you&#8217;ll get them in more detail presently.  Or you already have if you&#8217;re reading multiple posts in reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed it was quiet around here for the last week or so, gentle reader. If you live in Southwest Florida, you might have noticed it was a little louder. That&#8217;s because I took a trip down to Sanibel Island and Marco Island for some important sunburn time. 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