{"id":23893,"date":"2018-11-24T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23893"},"modified":"2018-11-24T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:21:48","slug":"good-book-hunting-november-24-2018-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/good-book-hunting-november-24-2018-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, November 24, 2018: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/24\/doing-my-part-prelude-to-a-good-book-hunting-post\/\" target=\"_new\">I mentioned<\/a>, we headed up to ABC Books to stock up on gift cards for Christmas today, and since it was for Christmas gifts, I found myself in the spirit to buy a bunch of random things for myself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh145.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Farmer Boy<\/em> by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  I&#8217;ve been reading them this year (most recently <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/13\/book-report-little-house-on-the-prairie-by-laura-ingalls-wilder-1935-1971\/\" target=\"_new\">Little House on the Prairie<\/em><\/a>, but I&#8217;m missing some in the series.  Unfortunately, although I made a list of the missing volumes for my boys to look for at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/good-book-and-album-hunting-october-20-2018-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">this fall<\/a>, I don&#8217;t know which ones I&#8217;m missing, so I only bought this one even though ABC Books has a bunch of the other titles available.  I did not buy a complete series box set for $63 <em>because I was being frugal<\/em>, which in my mind is just not being as profligate as I possibly can.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Quest of Kadji<\/em> by Lin Carter because I recognize the name from the old time pulp authors, but I don&#8217;t remember reading anything by him.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Foundation for Exploration<\/em> by Sean Goonan.  It looks like a self-published primer on philosophy.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Dark Side<\/em> by William Schilcter, the second book in the series that started with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/22\/book-report-rise-of-the-sandmen-by-william-schlichter-2016-2017\/\" target=\"_new\">Enter the Sandmen<\/em><\/a>.  I said in the review of the book that I&#8217;d probably pick it up sometime but wouldn&#8217;t order it online.  Promise: KEPT!<\/li>\n<li><em>Bitter Harvest<\/em>, a poetry chapbook from 1984 by Hazel Hirst.<\/li>\n<li><em>How to Play Guitar<\/em> by Roger Evans.  Perhaps buying books about playing guitar will help rekindle my drive to learn to play guitar.  But the strategy has not worked so far.<\/li>\n<li><em>Henri Matisse<\/em>, a monograph on his works that features the artist and a nude model on the back cover.  So not only did I feel lascivious when I bought it, but I cannot read it at church and have to be very, very careful with it should I try to browse it during football games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Total spent: A bunch, but most of it was on gift cards.  So this hardly counts as me buying books for myself at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, we headed up to ABC Books to stock up on gift cards for Christmas today, and since it was for Christmas gifts, I found myself in the spirit to buy a bunch of random things for myself. I got: Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I&#8217;ve been reading them this year (most [&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-23893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893","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=23893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}