{"id":24639,"date":"2019-06-06T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24639"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:27:50","slug":"book-report-sanibel-shell-shocked-by-art-stevens-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/book-report-sanibel-shell-shocked-by-art-stevens-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Sanibel Shell Shocked<\/i> by Art Stevens (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sanibelshellshocked.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/a-beach-vacation-and-more\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beach vacations<\/a>, I dived right into this book after buying it <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/01\/good-book-hunting-may-29-2019-calvins-books-branson-missouri\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week in Branson<\/a>.  I felt a little like I was betraying Branson by reading about another vacation destination while vacationing in Missouri.  But that didn&#8217;t stop me from reading the book.<\/p>\n<p>It collects newspaper columns by Art Stevens who was (is?) a part-time resident of Sanibel Island, splitting time with New Jersey, where he made enough in six months to afford a spot on the island.  Although this book dates from 1992, Stevens&#8217; column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.island-reporter.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/587874\/Shell-Shocked--A-tyrannosaurus-is-loose-in-Sanibel.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues to this day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It takes on topics such as tourists, alligators, and development on the island.  It&#8217;s Florida stuff, the kind of thing you find in Barry or Hiassen (and treated more seriously in John D. MacDonald books).  As I started the book, perhaps I expected too much of the author; perhaps he suffered in comparison to Barry, who is about the only humor columnist that has made me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of the columns amused me.  So the humor is akin to <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/book-report-dr-kookie-youre-right-by-mike-royko-1989\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Royko<\/a> when he was doing his outlandish pieces.<\/p>\n<p>So worth the read if you&#8217;re into Sanibelernalia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of beach vacations, I dived right into this book after buying it last week in Branson. I felt a little like I was betraying Branson by reading about another vacation destination while vacationing in Missouri. But that didn&#8217;t stop me from reading the book. It collects newspaper columns by Art Stevens who was (is?) [&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-24639","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\/24639","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=24639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30289,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24639\/revisions\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}