{"id":23842,"date":"2018-11-09T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23842"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T01:08:57","slug":"good-book-hunting-november-8-2018-hooked-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/09\/good-book-hunting-november-8-2018-hooked-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, November 8, 2018: Hooked on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, once again, I found myself in Springfield with a little time before picking up my kids from school, and Hooked on Books is practically across the street from their school, and so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh144.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I bought a number of books from the back room and the discount carts which were conveniently located in the philosophy aisle because it was raining outside.<\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Adam Bede<\/em> by George Eliot.  I&#8217;ll let you know if he proves to be venerable.<\/li>\n<li><em>SEALs, UDT, Frogmen: Men Under Pressure<\/em> by Darryl Young.  To see how his work tracks with what Marcinko has been telling me.<\/li>\n<li><em>Seal Team Seven: Specter<\/em> by Keith Douglass.  Ditto.  Or Ibid.<\/li>\n<li><em>Embrace the Suck<\/em> by Stephen Madden.  Strangely enough, this is not more of the same; it&#8217;s a guy who tries Cross Fit for a year.<\/li>\n<li><em>Non-Fiction<\/em> by Chuck Palahniuk.  We&#8217;ll see.  It&#8217;s the author of <em>Fight Club<\/em>, so you never know.<\/li>\n<li><em>21st Century: The Age of Sophia<\/em> by Seiyu Kiriyama.  I paid full, well, full <em>used<\/em> price for this book because it&#8217;s the intersection of Buddhism and Greek philosophy written by a Buddhist monk.<\/li>\n<li><em>Special Delivery<\/em> by Danielle Steel.  I&#8217;ve wanted to read one of her best-selling novels since I read her <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/book-report-love-by-danielle-steel-1984\/\" target=\"_new\">collection of love poems<\/a> last year.  If I like it, there are a lot more on the dollar cart at Hooked on Books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a total of nine dollars&#8217; worth of time killing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, once again, I found myself in Springfield with a little time before picking up my kids from school, and Hooked on Books is practically across the street from their school, and so&#8230;. I bought a number of books from the back room and the discount carts which were conveniently located in the philosophy aisle [&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-23842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842","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=23842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23843,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842\/revisions\/23843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}