{"id":16956,"date":"2017-09-23T07:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T12:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16956"},"modified":"2017-09-23T07:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T12:50:38","slug":"good-book-hunting-friday-september-22-2017-hooked-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/good-book-hunting-friday-september-22-2017-hooked-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Friday, September 22, 2017: Hooked on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a little time to kill between appointments yesterday, so we stopped into Hooked on Books for a couple minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Which is all I needed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh119.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got four from the dollar books section and two from the philosophy section.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cat Fear No Evil<\/em>, one of the Joe Grey mysteries by Shirley Rosseau Murphy, who wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/book-report-the-catswold-portal-by-shirley-rosseau-murphy-1992\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Catswald Portal<\/em><\/a>.  I thought about checking the series out, and here is one for a dollar.  Can&#8217;t miss for that.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Maine Lobster Book<\/em> by Mike Brown.  Looks to be similar to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/book-report-the-lobster-chronicles-by-linda-greenlaw-2002\/\" target=\"_new\">The Lobster Chronicles<\/em><\/a>.  Which reminds me: When I hunger for this sort of literature, I have a couple of Linda Greenlaw&#8217;s other books floating around here somewhere.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Plain and Simple: A Woman&#8217;s Journey to the Amish<\/em> by Sue Bender.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Prince<\/em> which promises or threatens to be an update to Machiavelli&#8217;s treatise.  This volume is by Dick Morris, the political consultant, so who knows its worth&#8211;I will someday, perhaps.  I did allude to the original in a book report <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/book-report-the-living-thoughts-of-confucius-by-alfred-doeblin-1950-1959\/\" target=\"_new\">yesterday<\/a>, so of course I was primed for this book.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Tao of Physics<\/em> by Fritjof Capra.  This is the thirty-fifth anniversary edition, and it was right next to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition, which indicates that this has remained in print for a while.  Probably more relevant than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/13\/book-report-the-tao-of-elvis-by-david-rosen-2002\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Tao of Elvis<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Spirit of Shaolin<\/em> by David Carradine.  The actor from the two <em>Kung Fu<\/em> television series talks about his exploration of Eastern thought and martial arts.  The book was written three years after his turn in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/semibachelorhood-viewing-warlords-1988\/\" target=\"_new\">Warlords<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any rate, a good couple of minutes.  I look forward to reading these books, but unfortunately, I will put them on my to-read bookshelves, where they will be lost for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a little time to kill between appointments yesterday, so we stopped into Hooked on Books for a couple minutes. Which is all I needed. I got four from the dollar books section and two from the philosophy section. Cat Fear No Evil, one of the Joe Grey mysteries by Shirley Rosseau Murphy, who [&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-16956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956","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=16956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16958,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16956\/revisions\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}