{"id":20602,"date":"2018-07-20T06:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20602"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:02:33","slug":"good-book-hunting-thursday-july-19-2018-hooked-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/good-book-hunting-thursday-july-19-2018-hooked-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Thursday, July 19, 2018: Hooked on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the usual time to kill between youth activities last night, and I know where all the Hooked on Books dollar book carts are, so I picked up a couple books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh139.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I spent six bucks and got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312315848\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0312315848&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=efd330a2d36a9c1a409b434b6cd3a623\" target=\"_new\"><em>Twilight at Mac&#8217;s Place<\/em><\/a> by Ross Thomas, whose books I&#8217;ve enjoyed, but not often.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0804832544\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0804832544&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=e36c3a675b0c59940847e5eecc3bcd76\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Buddha Tree<\/em><\/a> by Fumio Niwa, a classic translated from the Japanese.  To go with my eventual <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/a-perfectly-balanced-few-months\/\" target=\"_new\">Natsumi Kiyoura CD<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307458555\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0307458555&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=13ed686bc85099cefc7c48935a31b669\" target=\"_new\"><em>Every Man&#8217;s Marriage: An Every Man&#8217;s Guide to Winninght the Heart of a Woman<\/em><\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000OVLIR4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000OVLIR4&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=2e53b7774639622995e1250a7b715da9\"><em>Hundred Dollar Baby<\/em><\/a> by Robert B. Parker.  I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/book-report-hundred-dollar-baby-by-robert-b-parker-2006\/\" target=\"_new\">read it<\/a>, but I spent the dollar to make sure I have it in my incomplete collection.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596830158\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1596830158&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=3f4c34e9fa943f8047685b36d6e97a8e\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Shepherd<\/em><\/a>, a rather thin looking novel by the author of <em>The Jackal<\/em>, Frederick Forsyth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B011SJAWH2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B011SJAWH2&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=b849b8ebc5e9145db77a0995bcfd5a1f\" target=\"_new\"><em>National Geographic&#8217;s Guide to the World&#8217;s Secret Places<\/em><\/a> because it looks like a good book to browse if I watch any football this year, and a good source of ideas if not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0764903586\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0764903586&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=109f3433c24472aa32af1a23001e012b\" target=\"_new\"><em>I&#8217;m Ink, Therefore I Am<\/em><\/a>, a collection of Farley cartoons by Phil Frank.  Also for browsing during football and then for my oldest son to absquatulate with and destroy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, that only took twenty minutes, which meant we could go by Nameless City comics and games or the Ozark Treasures antique mall.  I opted for the latter, as I expected I would spend less money there and could ostensibly look for Christmas gifts.  As it stands, I spent two dollars on myself (I got an issue of <em>Ideals<\/em> magazine, &#8220;Liberty&#8221;, from 1984 and an LP, Eydie Gorme&#8217; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000KU5N0W\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000KU5N0W&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=1f80ff1f908ab78081a328cc8940c0bd\" target=\"_new\">On Stage<\/em><\/a>.  And I did ostensibly get a Christmas gift for a cousin.  So I&#8217;ve got that going for me, which is nice.<\/p>\n<p>Total spent: eight dollars plus tax on myself, six dollars on the cousin, and probably that much on regularly priced books at Hooked on Books for my children.  Not bad.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is, which of these books will I read first (aside from <em>Hundred Dollar Baby<\/em>)?  Probably the cartoons.  How many will I have read by this time in 2020?  Probably the cartoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the usual time to kill between youth activities last night, and I know where all the Hooked on Books dollar book carts are, so I picked up a couple books. I spent six bucks and got: Twilight at Mac&#8217;s Place by Ross Thomas, whose books I&#8217;ve enjoyed, but not often. The Buddha Tree [&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-20602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602","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=20602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20605,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions\/20605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}