{"id":19547,"date":"2018-02-16T19:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19547"},"modified":"2021-11-03T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T10:27:18","slug":"amateur-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/amateur-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So ABC Books posted this on their Facebook timeline:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/abcbooks20books.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I think 20 unread books in a home means that nobody lives in the home and it&#8217;s being staged for sale by a realtor.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I have almost 20 unread books that I bought at ABC Books <em>last year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/05\/good-book-hunting-may-5-2017-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Makers of the Modern Theological Mind: H. Richard Niebuhr<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Understanding Zen<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Search for Satori and Creativity<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(In my defense, I did read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/13\/book-report-the-tao-of-elvis-by-david-rosen-2002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tao of Elvis<\/em><\/a> from that trip, and I started but put down <em>The Search for Satori and Creativity<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/good-book-hunting-friday-september-29-2017-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">September 29<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Strength Finder 2.0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to the Bible<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Rights of Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Everyday Zen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Analects of Confucius<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(From that trip, I did read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/book-report-socrates-buddha-confucius-jesus-by-karl-jaspers-1957-1962\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/good-book-hunting-november-25-2017-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">November 28<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Makers of the Modern Theological Minds: Martin Buber<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Makers of the Modern Theological Minds: Teilhard De Chardin<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Makers of the Modern Theological Minds: H. Richard Niebuhr<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t Know Much About the Bible<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Yes, that is the second copy of the book on the other Niebuhr that I bought; once I realized it, I gave one away as a Christmas gift.)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/31\/good-book-hunting-december-30-2017-christmas-gift-card-spending\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">December 31<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Sword of Genghis Khan<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Of Reading Books<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Murder in the Catherdral<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A collections of Aristophanes<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A collection of Euripides<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I did, however, read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/22\/book-report-killer-mine-by-mickey-spillane-1965\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Killer Mine<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;m stunned that I&#8217;ve only been to ABC Books five times in the last year.  And what restraint!<\/p>\n<p>But, yeah, Nogglestead has a couple of unread books, but that does not stop me from buying more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So ABC Books posted this on their Facebook timeline: Of course, I think 20 unread books in a home means that nobody lives in the home and it&#8217;s being staged for sale by a realtor. For the record, I have almost 20 unread books that I bought at ABC Books last year. They include: From [&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-19547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547","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=19547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29165,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions\/29165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}