{"id":24684,"date":"2019-06-16T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2019-06-15T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T22:42:00","slug":"good-book-hunting-june-15-2019-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/16\/good-book-hunting-june-15-2019-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, June 15, 2019: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books had an author in to sign her book yesterday, so I headed up after a martial arts class.  As is my wont, I acknowledged the author, headed to the martial arts section, then the artist monographs, then the philosophy and poetry shelves, all of which are getting more and more sparse as I pick them over.  Only then do I go to the author&#8217;s table to see what the author has to offer.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I got:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh155.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>You cannot see them, but they include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Selected Poems from <\/em>Midnight Galleries by Jennifer Silvey, a free giveaway promoting a collection of poems.<\/li>\n<li><em>Zen and the Art of Stickfighting<\/em> by Stephen F. Kaufman.  We&#8217;ve been working with sticks at my martial arts school for six or eight months now; certainly this book will be more useful to me than <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/book-report-zen-and-the-art-of-knitting-by-bernadette-murphy-2002\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zen and the Art of Knitting<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Book of Goodbyes<\/em>, a collection of poems by Jillian Weise.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Meaning of Human Existence<\/em> by Edward O. Wilson.<\/li>\n<li><em>Retraining Your Mind<\/em> by D. Dyneska, the author who was in shop.  It&#8217;s a little more practically minded, so to speak, than the Buddhist and Stoic thought that I read to try to get my mind right.  It&#8217;s more in line with what my beautiful wife reads.  Perhaps I should have had it inscribed to her and gave it to her for her birthday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not depicted: A monograph on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Antoine_Watteau\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antoine Watteau<\/a> and a five hundred page biography of Vince Lombardi.  I had to save something for the next time there&#8217;s an author signing.<\/p>\n<p>The proprietrix also related a story: The author <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/good-book-hunting-may-11-and-19-2019-abc-books\/ target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who appeared on May 19<\/a> was a little saddened to learn that I attend the same church as the owner of ABC Books; she thought it meant I would not like her work.  The owner of ABC Books reassured her that I read a lot of different things, that I&#8217;m well educated, and that I&#8217;m a poet myself, which seemed to make the author feel better.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the owner does know that I not only <em>buy<\/em> a vast variety of books, many from her, but she also catches me from time to time sitting on a bench at church with a book in my hands.  I&#8217;ve explained to her the code&#8211;if I&#8217;m holding the book so its cover is visible, it probably has an ABC Books sticker on the back.  If I have the book in my lap, it&#8217;s from <em>some other book store<\/em>.  Or, more likely, a garage sale or a book sale.<\/p>\n<p>But enough about that&#8211;I have to get back to reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books had an author in to sign her book yesterday, so I headed up after a martial arts class. 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