{"id":16377,"date":"2017-03-24T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16377"},"modified":"2022-04-11T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T00:32:00","slug":"a-quiz-wherein-brian-j-has-a-failing-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/a-quiz-wherein-brian-j-has-a-failing-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quiz Wherein Brian J. Has A Failing Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The proprietrix of ABC Books<\/a> shared this link because her bookstore is on’t: The 9 Best Bookstores in Missouri!<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How did I do on the quiz? The book stores I’ve visited have their titles in bold:<\/p>\n

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  1. Subterranean Books, St. Louis<\/b> I went once after Sheldon sold A Collector’s Book Shop, but it wasn’t the same without Sheldon telling someone not to pull the book out by the top of the spine<\/i>.<\/li>\n
  2. Prospero’s Book Store, Kansas City My beautiful wife and I went to a number of bookstores in KC a while back, but I’m not sure that we visited this one; I’ve looked at the street view of it, and it looks familiar, but I’m not sure. We drove all over. Somewhere out in the sticks, we went to a bookstore run by one of the aforementioned Sheldon’s former employees.<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. Yellow Dog Bookshop, Columbia I’ve never been to Yellow Dog, but I’ve been to Acorn Books, which I notice isn’t on the list, which is great because I have a twenty-year-long grudge against Ken, the owner.<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. ABC Books<\/b> Of course, I’ve been to ABC Books. The article said it’s a great place to browse on Saturdays; perhaps I would save some money if I only browsed there on Saturdays.<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. The Book Rack, Cape Girardeau I’ve never been to Cape Girardeau, but if I had, I’d probably have visited.<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. Hooked on Books, Springfield<\/b> You, gentle reader, will remember I used to come to Hooked on Books when I visited Springfield before I moved to the area. I still do, but somehow not as often as ABC Books and neither as much as before I started limiting myself mostly to library book sales.<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. River Read Books, Lexington I’ve never been to Lexington, either.<\/i><\/li>\n
  8. Calvin’s Books, Branson<\/b> We visited this book shop within the last year.<\/i><\/li>\n
  9. Rose’s Bookhouse, O’Fallon What? This book shop is a mile or so away from the print shop where I worked for two years, and I never heard of it. But we’ll hit it the next time we’re in St. Louis, I’ll wager.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s only four of the nine, a failing grade.<\/p>\n

    I must try harder!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The proprietrix of ABC Books shared this link because her bookstore is on’t: The 9 Best Bookstores in Missouri!. How did I do on the quiz? The book stores I’ve visited have their titles in bold: Subterranean Books, St. Louis I went once after Sheldon sold A Collector’s Book Shop, but it wasn’t the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377","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=16377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29740,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16377\/revisions\/29740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}