{"id":18254,"date":"2017-12-07T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2017-12-07T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:26:27","slug":"a-couple-book-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/a-couple-book-links\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Book Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m busy doing nothing, but different than the day before, here are some book links for your reading pleasure.  They have pictures, though, if you don&#8217;t like to read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/cool-library-bro.html\" target=\"_new\">Friar thinks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2017\/11\/tianjin-binhai-public-library-china-by-mvrdv\/\" target=\"_new\">this new library in China<\/a> is cool:\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/chineselibrary.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s <em>interesting<\/em>, but I prefer a more traditional, dark, wood-paneled look to my libraries.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/2017\/December\/41\/12\/magazine\/article\/10842995\/\" target=\"_new\">this is more my speed<\/a>:\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/surroundedbybooks.jpg\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surrounded by books has been a main circumstance of my long life.  So it is now, near the end of my 94th year, when I am in my large library of perhaps 18,000 books in the western wing of my house in Chester County, Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know which part I liked best: <em>large library<\/em>, <em>18,000<\/em>, or <em>western wing of my house<\/em>.  If I had a library in a wing of my house, I doubt it would take me 40 more years to get there.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this gentleman is, in fact, a professor, which is the highest level of book accumulator, and I&#8217;m on my way to being an honorary professor.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve seen a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/1-5-cant-name-author-new-survey-finds\" target=\"_new\">this Intellectual Takeout recap<\/a> of a couple of surveys that indicate that 27% of Americans have not read a book in the last year and another survey that indicated that 20% of British adults could not name an author.\n<p>I&#8217;d be a little more upset if I didn&#8217;t realize how easy it is to stump people with questions like this.  Twenty-five years ago, I stumped fellow English majors by asking them if they could name two morals, and most could not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should hold you until I can think of something witty to say or get around to writing another book report for a piece of throwaway fiction.  Except at Nogglestead, we don&#8217;t throw away any books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m busy doing nothing, but different than the day before, here are some book links for your reading pleasure. They have pictures, though, if you don&#8217;t like to read. Friar thinks this new library in China is cool: Well, that&#8217;s interesting, but I prefer a more traditional, dark, wood-paneled look to my libraries.&nbsp; Now, [&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-18254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254","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=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18255,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions\/18255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}