{"id":24562,"date":"2019-05-20T08:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24562"},"modified":"2019-05-19T17:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T22:23:16","slug":"good-book-hunting-may-11-and-19-2019-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/good-book-hunting-may-11-and-19-2019-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, May 11 and 19 2019: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, I had to run to ABC Books to get gift cards for the thank-yous that my boys reluctantly and almost illegibly write for their teachers and coaches.  I bought 17 gift cards and smuggled a couple of purchases among them.  As I have pretty much picked over the Martial Arts section, I moved into the Football section beside them and got a couple of Packers books to read when the hockey season is over.<\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday (which for purposes of this post is not &#8220;last&#8221; Saturday), I went back because an author was in the house signing her books, and I like to support local authors.  <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I got these:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh153.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Physics of Love<\/em> by Carla Kirchner, a chapbook by a local author.<\/li>\n<li><em>I Remember Lombardi<\/em> by Mike Towle.<\/li>\n<li><em>Life After Favre<\/em> by Phil Hanrahan, which is timely because some of us are thinking about life after Favre&#8217;s successor.<\/li>\n<li><em>High Fidelity<\/em> by Nick Hornby because suddenly everybody&#8217;s talking about mixed tapes as a 90s phenomenon, which I attribute to the film version of this book.<\/li>\n<li><em>Yoga&#8217;s Devotional Light<\/em>, <em>Four Gates to Health: Eastern Ideas and Techniques for Vital Living<\/em>, and <em>Divine Fruit: Ecstatic Verse<\/em> by Julian Lynn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I joked on Saturday that I didn&#8217;t need any gift cards today because I had one left.  However, on Sunday, I gave that one away.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, curse the luck!  I&#8217;ll have to go back to ABC Books again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, I had to run to ABC Books to get gift cards for the thank-yous that my boys reluctantly and almost illegibly write for their teachers and coaches. I bought 17 gift cards and smuggled a couple of purchases among them. As I have pretty much picked over the Martial Arts section, I moved [&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-24562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562","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=24562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24564,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions\/24564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}