{"id":24962,"date":"2019-08-24T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24962"},"modified":"2019-08-24T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:30:02","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-august-24-2019-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-24-2019-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, August 24, 2019: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s  been <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/good-book-hunting-saturday-july-13-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a month and a half<\/a> since ABC Books had a book signing, which is okay since I&#8217;ve only just now started one of the books I bought on my last sojourn up there, and I got <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-17-2019-librarycon-2019\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plenty last weekend<\/a> without a trip up north.<\/p>\n<p>But this weekend, they had a book signing with Billy Pearson, a fellow who had only started writing at age 80 and has nine books in print.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up four of them and a little extra.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh158.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Frontier Woman<\/em>, the account of Billy Pearson&#8217;s aunt after she moved to Colorado with her husband in the 1880s.<\/li>\n<li><em>Chronicles of Hickory County<\/em>, historical anecdotes from people that Pearson knew.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Chemistry of Love<\/em>, a novel.  I told the proprietrix that it would go well with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/book-report-the-physics-of-love-by-carla-kirchner-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Physics of Love<\/em><\/a>.  And that I would be looking for the <em>Biology of Love<\/em> and <em>The Geology of Love<\/em> when they get them in stock.<\/li>\n<li><em>Missouri Short Story Adventures<\/em> which might be fiction or anecdotes.<\/li>\n<li><em>Karate!<\/em>, a 1970s paperback by Russell Kozuki.<\/li>\n<li><em>Complete Karate<\/em> by J. Allen Queen, a more textbook-sized book of karate.<\/li>\n<li><em>Flight of the Golden Eagle: Tales of the Empty-Handed Masters<\/em> by Terrence Webster-Doyle which looks to be lessons from martial arts that are not necessarily martial arts strikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should keep me going until next time.  And beyond.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in the karate books as I have toyed with the idea of starting to study another discipline part-time as I&#8217;ve advanced to a level in my satori studies where progress is going to be slow, and I might want another style to keep it fresh.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, my oldest boy picked up a couple of YA scary story titles, and my youngest didn&#8217;t want to stop reading the book he had in the truck to come in and pick new books. So perhaps that&#8217;s a lesson <em>I<\/em> should learn.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a month and a half since ABC Books had a book signing, which is okay since I&#8217;ve only just now started one of the books I bought on my last sojourn up there, and I got plenty last weekend without a trip up north. But this weekend, they had a book signing with [&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-24962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962","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=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24963,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions\/24963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}