{"id":25911,"date":"2020-03-31T07:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2020-03-30T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:25:55","slug":"good-book-hunting-march-30-2020-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/31\/good-book-hunting-march-30-2020-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, March 30, 2020: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle reader, I did not <em>go<\/em> to ABC Books yesterday.  Springfield is on a 30 day timeout, and non-essential businesses are closed.<\/p>\n<p>But the intrepid staff of ABC Books is in-house fulfilling online orders, so last week, I placed an order, and today it arrived.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh163.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The acquisitions are a little different from my normal fare (but not too much) because, instead of browsing their actual shelves, I went to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibris.com\/stores\/abcbookstore\/browse\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alibiris page<\/a> and browsed the categories.  And bought anything that looked interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Tough-Minded Optimist<\/em> by Norman Vincent Peale.  I have started re-reading <em>The Power of Positive Thinking<\/em>, so I wanted to gather the sequels in case I want to read them as well.  I think I already have <em>The Power of the Plus Factor<\/em> here somewhere.  Probably right beside the Agatha Christie collection I have lost.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict<\/em> by John Baxter.  I can&#8217;t imagine what this must be like, but I will have to try.<\/li>\n<li><em>Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Tao Sports for Extraordinary Performance  Athletics, Business, and Life<\/em> by Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch.  I will skip dietary recommendations, though.<\/li>\n<li><em>Boomerangs: How to Make and Throw Them<\/em> by Bernard S. Mason.  In case we go all the way primitive.  Unlike the book on whip making that I bought in December, perhaps I can work on these projects with my children.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Art of Love<\/em> by Ovid \/ Translated by Rolfe Humphries.  A collection of poems that are fitting into my recent film viewing (and reading, albeit slowly).<\/li>\n<li><em>Rocky Mountain Warden<\/em> by Frank Calkins.  An older hardback, probably something along the lines of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/book-report-nature-noir-by-jordan-fisher-smith-2006\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Nature Noir<\/a><\/em> but with less Lyme disease.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Little Capoeira Book<\/em> by Nestor Capoeira himself.  Capoeira is a Brazilian dancing martial art.  I studied it briefly during a unit on it in our martial art&#8217;s school Master&#8217;s Club, which was essentially a survey of weapons and other fighting styles.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Country Roads and Other Poems<\/em> by Hazel Adelman, a collection of grandmother poetry published by Vantage Press.  Which was a vanity press outfit, so it was essentially self-published in a high quality and high cost hardback.<\/li>\n<li><em>Si-Cology 101: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty&#8217;s Favorite Uncle<\/em> by Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach.  You know, I had a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/the-gift-schtick\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gift schtick<\/a> for my aunt who just passed away.  On a call sometime she said something about Duck Dynasty, and not complimentary, so every Christmas I would send her something with a Duck Dynasty theme.  Duck Dynasty sweatshirts, Duck Dynasty beach towels, and so on.  Last year, I had wrapped a set of Duck Dynasty shot glasses for her and had to instead give them to my sister-in-law who collects shot glasses.  So this book kind of makes me think of her.  And will again when I pick it out of the stacks in a decade.<\/li>\n<li><em>Weird Hikes: A Collection of Bizarre, Funny, and Absolutely True Hiking Stories<\/em> by Art Bernstein.  I was clearly on a roll clicking Add to Cart.<\/li>\n<li><em>Memories from a Misty Morning Marsh: A Duck Hunter&#8217;s Collection<\/em> by Larry Dablemont.  <em>The Current Local<\/em>, a news weekly out of Van Buren, Missouri, to which I subscribe has started running a column by Dablemont, and I enjoy it.  So when I saw a book by this author, I jumped on it.  I expect I will like it as I have other books by local columnists <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/book-report-life-is-simple-first-cutting-by-jerry-crownover-1998\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jerry Crownover<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/book-report-the-river-of-used-to-be-by-jim-hamilton-1994\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Hamilton<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Books<\/em> by Larry McMurtry.  The author owned a bookstore.  Did you know that?  I did from an essay I read in some academic writing magazine circa 1994 (the essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Writers-Big-Innings-Literary-ebook\/dp\/B0070ORTQM\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One Writer&#8217;s Big Innings<\/a>&#8220;, is available for the Kindle).<\/li>\n<li><em>Made to Be Broken: The 50 Greatest Records and Streaks in Modern History<\/em> by Allen St. John.  It&#8217;s a coffee table book, and looks a little too wordy for browsing during a sporting event.  Not that we have those any more.  So perhaps I will browse this in lieu of actual sporting events soon.<\/li>\n<li><em>Brett Favre: The Tribute<\/em>, a <em>Sport Illustrated<\/em> coffee table book.<\/li>\n<li><em>Danica Patrick: America&#8217;s Hottest Racer<\/em> by Jonathan Ingram and Paul Webb.  For Trog, who&#8217;s no longer blogging but whose Danica Patrick fascination remains legendary.  The book is from 2005.  She looks so young.  I am pretty sure I was not young in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before shipping them, the staff removed the ABC Books stickers from them, which won&#8217;t be helpful should <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/16\/good-book-hunting-june-15-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the proprietrix see me during the Sunday school hour<\/a> if the government ever lets us go to church again.  Without the sticker, I will likely not know where I got the books, and I might hide books I should flaunt.<\/p>\n<p>This represents only the <em>first<\/em> order I placed.  I placed another order Sunday night as I was looking for a couple of titles for my boys to read whilst we&#8217;re homeschooling them.  And I added a couple other items to the cart because why not.  Hopefully, the owners of ABC Books will be all right through the current unpleasantness.  If not, it won&#8217;t be due to lack of effort on my part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentle reader, I did not go to ABC Books yesterday. Springfield is on a 30 day timeout, and non-essential businesses are closed. But the intrepid staff of ABC Books is in-house fulfilling online orders, so last week, I placed an order, and today it arrived. The acquisitions are a little different from my normal fare [&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-25911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911","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=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25912,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions\/25912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}