{"id":25247,"date":"2019-11-03T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25247"},"modified":"2019-11-02T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T00:44:28","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-november-2-2019-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/03\/good-book-hunting-saturday-november-2-2019-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, November 2, 2019: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC Books had another book signing this weekend, so of course we went. Jovanna Schlossenberg, a children’s book author from Kansas City, was signing copies of her first book JoJo Knows RVs<\/em>, and she was glad to tell me and my oldest son all about it. So I bought two copies: One for my boys and one for my niece’s son who is more within the target age.<\/p>\n

I also picked up a couple books. Which is funny: I come up there specifically for the book signings, but I pick up a couple other books before I come back to the table with the author. To cover my true purpose. Also, because I like books.<\/p>\n

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I got a couple volumes of poetry (Naturally Nappy<\/em> by Bonnie Lynn Tolson and Collections of Madness<\/em> by Jane Smith, Asil Nottarts, and Nod Nihin2). I got The Yogi Book<\/em> by Yogi Berra because I was offended by a St. Louis Post-Distpatch<\/em> story saying Max Scherzer replaced Berra as the best baseball player from St. Louis<\/a>. I haven’t read a Yogi Berra book in two years<\/a>. I also got a small survey book on Nietzsche<\/em> from the Modern Thinkers series by Van Riessen.<\/p>\n

I will probably read the poetry first but might bull through the Nietzsche book since it’s pretty small and not likely to be as dense as actual, you know, Nietzsche.<\/p>\n

I also suffered from an awkward, and perhaps even rude, moment. Ms. Schlossenberg was very friendly, effusive, and she shook my hand first thing when I stopped by her table. I shook reflexively, but I remembered that I was coming fresh from a boxing-centric martial arts class, and my hands smelled like the inside of boxing gloves. I.E., nasty<\/em>. So after she signed both books that I was buying, she extended her hand again, and I said that I didn’t want to shake her hand again. I tried to explain I’d just been boxing, but I’m a middle-aged (at least) man, so that might not have been very clear. So I’m afraid she might think I didn’t want to shake her hand because she was black or something.<\/p>\n

Crazy, I know. But it’s the little kind of I didn’t mean it that way<\/em> that will linger in my conscience in a slightly obsessive way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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