{"id":20631,"date":"2018-07-26T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20631"},"modified":"2018-07-25T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T22:15:50","slug":"good-book-hunting-july-25-2018-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/good-book-hunting-july-25-2018-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, July 25, 2018: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the pretext of buying a gift card for a random stranger, I dragged my youngest son to ABC Books yesterday.  I got said gift card (actually for the coach of the youngest&#8217;s spring basketball team) and bought the young son a couple of cartoon collections (Family Circus and the Far Side).  I also got myself a few books.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh140.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143122215\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0143122215&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=7b5b54e37d91a827033fc4f15f52e743\" target=\"_new\">Socrates: A Man For Our Times<\/em><\/a> by Paul Johnson whose books I&#8217;ve accummulated but need to read.  Much like so many authors.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062720066\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0062720066&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=23ee60bb8ba32650285086cab1428b86\" target=\"_new\">What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers<\/em><\/a> by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter because I keep meaning to get back to fiction and hope writing exercises and various writing journals I buy will help me get there.  Instead, though, I keep typing up brief lists of books I&#8217;ve bought for a very selective Internet audience.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000HC0H9K\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000HC0H9K&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=2131d89983f79c70304027eebda5ef64\" target=\"_new\">Einstein&#8217;s Universe<\/em><\/a> by Nigel Calder which looks to be based on a BBC\/WGBH television series from 1979.  After reading <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/book-report-einstein-for-beginners-by-joseph-schwartz-and-michael-mcguinness-1979\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Einstein&#8217;s Universe<\/em><\/a>, I was looking for something slightly meatier and less Communist.  A BBC production probably fits the description (without being entirely Communism-free, perhaps).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent fifteen dollars on myself and about ten on the kid, so we kept it less than we spent on the gift card, so I&#8217;d like to call that <em>restraint<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the pretext of buying a gift card for a random stranger, I dragged my youngest son to ABC Books yesterday. I got said gift card (actually for the coach of the youngest&#8217;s spring basketball team) and bought the young son a couple of cartoon collections (Family Circus and the Far Side). I also got [&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-20631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631","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=20631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20632,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20631\/revisions\/20632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}