{"id":25222,"date":"2019-10-28T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25222"},"modified":"2019-10-28T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:58:29","slug":"good-book-hunting-october-26-2019-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/good-book-hunting-october-26-2019-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, October 26, 2019: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC Books had a book signing this weekend, so I made my way up there. I’ve missed a couple over the last couple of months due to travel and other obligations, so I was eager to visit since the proprietrix appreciates that I do.<\/p>\n

I only got a couple of books, though.<\/p>\n

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The author signing books, Larry Wood, was promoting his latest book, Bigamy and Bloodshed<\/em>, which is a case about a man who becomes involved with a temperance heroine but turns out to have been still married, and he kills his earlier wife.<\/p>\n

I was familiar with the story, as I had read about it somewhere, and I asked him if he’d excerpted it elsewhere. It turns out I read about it in his earlier book Wicked Springfield, Missouri<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

I bought a copy of Bigamy and Bloodshed<\/em> and another collection called Murder and Mayhem in Missouri<\/em> as well as a copy of Wicked Springfield Missouri<\/em> for my boys, one of whom is really into true crime. I also picked up a copy of The Book of Five Rings<\/em>, a treatise on sword fighting from Japan. I picked up a book called The Martial Artist’s Book of Five Rings<\/em>, an American commentary on the original work, at a previous trip to ABC Books and told the store manager I’d like to get my hands on a copy of the original. So I was sure to thank him for laying one up for me.<\/p>\n

So it’s only three books, but I’m mostly ‘reading’ picture books these days with everything else going on. Hopefully, I will get some time to read books books sometime this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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