{"id":19330,"date":"2018-01-19T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19330"},"modified":"2018-01-18T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T02:24:06","slug":"good-book-hunting-january-18-2019-hooked-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/good-book-hunting-january-18-2019-hooked-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, January 18, 2019: Hooked on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had fifteen minutes to kill yesterday afternoon before picking up my children from school, so I stopped in at Hooked on Books.  Partly because it has a restroom.  But, as you know, I always find something on their sale book racks.  Today, they were indoors because of the weather.  But I found a couple.<\/p>\n<p>I might have mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/06\/book-report-the-brass-cupcake-by-john-d-macdonald-1950\/\" target=\"_new\">before<\/a> that Hooked on Books has the best selection of John D. MacDonald paperbacks in the Midwest.  But that was eleven years ago.  Now, they have two paper copies of <em>Barrier Island<\/em>, and I have a lifetime of regret that I did not pick them up when I could.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I got a couple sale books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh128.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hardball: Aryan Legion<\/em>, the second volume in a paperback series I&#8217;d never heard of.  I am pretty sure the Aryan Legion are the bad guys here, and this is not further evidence that this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/id-like-a-word-with-your-product-designer-please\/\" target=\"_new\">Nazi-sympathizing blog<\/a>.  Although linking to it with the hyperlink text &#8220;Nazi-sympathizing blog&#8221; is probably not helping my case with the search algorithms.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Wheland<\/em> and <em>Carwin the Biloquist<\/em> by Charles Brockden Brown.  I recognized the Penguin Classics spine but never heard of the book.  I wonder if it&#8217;s really a classic, or just something that modern English professors want to include on their syllabi.  I guess I&#8217;ll find out someday.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>A Question of Accuracy<\/em>, something in a series called <em>Exploring Mathematics<\/em>.  It might be a children&#8217;s book, but if it&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book from sixty or seventy years ago, it will be something to challenge modern adults.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Proud to be Right<\/em>, a collection of conservative voices of the next generation.  Which might be two generations ago by the speed of Internet intellectual fads.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Backward Shadow<\/em> by Lynne Reid Banks, which is a sequel to the novel <em>The L Shaped Room<\/em>.  Which I had seen recently, so I thought I had it on my shelves.  Further reflection indicates that this book was one I bought in my eBay selling days, and that I still have a picture of it from the same that I use as test data from time to time on one of my contracts.  So I&#8217;ve seen the book cover, but I no longer own the book.  But I just bought the sequel.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>From Mind to Market<\/em> by Roger D. Blackwell.  It&#8217;s a book about rethinking logistics.  I like to buy industry-specific books sometimes, but apparently I like to read them less.  The guy behind the counter couldn&#8217;t find the discounted price on it, so he asked me to verify that it was a sale book.  I pointed out that it had a red dot on the spine, and he said they&#8217;d never done that.  But the young man has only been there three years.  I&#8217;ve been coming to Hooked on Books for over 20 years (!) since my beautiful wife and I were but dating.  The kid behind the counter was <em>probably<\/em> even born then.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They were sale books, so I spent about $7.50.  It&#8217;s almost worth it for the story about the last book alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had fifteen minutes to kill yesterday afternoon before picking up my children from school, so I stopped in at Hooked on Books. Partly because it has a restroom. But, as you know, I always find something on their sale book racks. Today, they were indoors because of the weather. 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