{"id":24123,"date":"2019-01-16T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24123"},"modified":"2019-01-18T05:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:29:17","slug":"good-book-hunting-january-15-2018-hooked-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/good-book-hunting-january-15-2018-hooked-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, January 15, 2018: Hooked on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the whole family and I had fifteen minutes to spare before my son&#8217;s basketball game last night, so we stopped by Hooked on Books since it&#8217;s basically across the street from the school (which explains how I come to kill so much time there before picking up my children).<\/p>\n<p>I hit all the dollar carts and rooms and came away with eight titles:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh148.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ebony Brass<\/em> by Jesse J. Johnson, an autobiography of Negro frustration and aspiration (so the title page says).<\/li>\n<li><em>Yester Yore: Historical Diaries and Journals<\/em> by Ozarks Technical Community College Students.  It looks to be a collection of vignettes from diaries.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dinner with Friends<\/em>, a play by Donald Margulies, the author of one of my favorite modern plays, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/book-report-sight-unseen-by-david-margulies-1992\/\" target=\"_new\">Sight Unseen<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Tales from Michigan State Basketball<\/em> by Gregory Kelser with Steve Grinczel.  It fit the theme for the evening.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Time-Crunched Cyclist<\/em> by Chris Carmichal and Jim Rutberg.  This is more for my beautiful wife, who wants to return to her cycling ways but is often overwhelmed with work.<\/li>\n<li><em>Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand In The Age of Obama<\/em> by Bill O&#8217;Reilly.  I&#8217;ve enjoyed his books (see <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/29\/559\/\" target=\"_new\">Who&#8217;s Looking Out For You?<\/em><\/a> enough to spend a buck on one of the ones that doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;Killing&#8221; in the title.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Happiness Project<\/em> by Gretchen Rubin.  My wife informed me that we each already have a copy of this book, so this one might be a copy for gifting.  Or one of the existing ones, if they&#8217;re new.<\/li>\n<li><em>Funny Ladies<\/em> by Stephen M. Silverman, a picture book\/brief bio of women comediennes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All that for eight bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, where to put them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the whole family and I had fifteen minutes to spare before my son&#8217;s basketball game last night, so we stopped by Hooked on Books since it&#8217;s basically across the street from the school (which explains how I come to kill so much time there before picking up my children). I hit all the dollar [&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-24123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123","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=24123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24124,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123\/revisions\/24124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}