{"id":24049,"date":"2018-12-28T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24049"},"modified":"2018-12-26T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:15:40","slug":"book-report-cold-dark-night-by-mike-daniels-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/book-report-cold-dark-night-by-mike-daniels-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Cold Dark Night<\/i> by Mike Daniels (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/colddarknight.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I bought this book at ABC Books <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/good-book-album-hunting-december-15-2018-christmas-shopping\/\" target=\"_new\">earlier this month<\/a>; the author was in the store with a book signing, so I stopped by and picked up a copy of his book.  ABC Books has signings on a lot of Saturday afternoons, but I haven&#8217;t had much luck slipping up there when an author was actually in house until then.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the book is more of a chapbook (for $6.50) that contains a single short story.  It&#8217;s a a spooky sort of story, kind of a speculative bit of fiction dealing with life after death.  Something handled better by <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/book-report-the-twilight-zone-encyclopedia-by-steven-jay-rubin-2018\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Twilight Zone<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back when I was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/26\/when-brian-j-was-a-publishing-mogul\/\" target=\"_new\">a publishing mogul<\/a>, I would have run a story like this&#8211;as a matter of fact, <em>I did<\/em>, but I was desparate for prose.  This story kind of falls into that category.  It&#8217;s okay, but proably not worth $6.50 unless you particularly want to support local book stores and local authors.  Which I do.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book at ABC Books earlier this month; the author was in the store with a book signing, so I stopped by and picked up a copy of his book. ABC Books has signings on a lot of Saturday afternoons, but I haven&#8217;t had much luck slipping up there when an author was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049","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=24049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24050,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24049\/revisions\/24050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}