{"id":24162,"date":"2019-01-21T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24162"},"modified":"2019-01-20T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:01:58","slug":"good-book-hunting-january-18-2019-barnes-and-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/21\/good-book-hunting-january-18-2019-barnes-and-noble\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, January 18, 2019: Barnes and Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, I received a large gift card to Barnes and Noble, which meant that I needed, needed to make a trip to the store to buy some books, as I&#8217;ve not bought any in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/good-book-hunting-january-15-2018-hooked-on-books\/\" target=\"_new\">five whole days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I bought four:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh149.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Titles include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Old School: Life in the Sane Lane<\/em> by Bill O&#8217;Reilly with Bruce Feirstein.  I just bought a Bill O&#8217;Reilly book almost five days ago; note his co-author is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/book-report-real-men-dont-eat-quiche-by-bruce-feirstein-1982\/\" target=\"_new\">Real Men Don&#8217;t Eat Quiche<\/a><\/em> and a long-time friend of O&#8217;Reilly.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies<\/em> by Herb Reich, a de-bunking of received and school-taught wisdom.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane<\/em> by Robert E. Howard.  I used a gift card some five years ago on the three volumes comprising the complete Conan collection (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/book-report-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian-by-robert-e-howard-2003\/\" target=\"_new\">The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian<\/em><\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/book-report-the-bloody-crown-of-conan-by-robert-e-howard-2004\/\" target=\"_new\">The Bloody Crown of Conan<\/em><\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/19\/book-report-the-conquering-sword-of-conan-by-robert-e-howard-2004\/\" target=\"_new\">The Conquering Sword of Conan<\/a><\/em>).  I&#8217;m not familiar with Solomon Kane, so I&#8217;ll get a whole new experience here.  The funny thing is when I bought the Conan books, the Howard section of science fiction and fantasy was chock full of books.  This time, there were only four Howard titles available.<\/li>\n<li><em>30-Second Quantum Theory<\/em> by Brian Clegg which is one pager overviews of concepts in quantum physics.  Given that I&#8217;m ever hopeful that one of these books will help me get over the hump in understanding advanced physics, this book might help.  When I find it again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve bought a total of 12 books in the last week.  I&#8217;ve read eleven, and that&#8217;s only through my usual accounting trickery.  It&#8217;s clear why I continue to fall behind: I have more books already than I can ever read, but not more than I can ever want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, I received a large gift card to Barnes and Noble, which meant that I needed, needed to make a trip to the store to buy some books, as I&#8217;ve not bought any in five whole days. I bought four: Titles include: Old School: Life in the Sane Lane by Bill O&#8217;Reilly with Bruce [&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-24162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162","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=24162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24163,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}