{"id":25980,"date":"2020-04-10T08:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25980"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:38:38","slug":"good-book-hunting-april-9-2020-abc-books-online-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/good-book-hunting-april-9-2020-abc-books-online-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, April 9, 2020: ABC Books Online Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I remind you, gentle reader, you can order books from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theabcbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC Books<\/a>.  Or you will be for a couple weeks yet, before I end up having bought the entire inventory.<\/p>\n<p>So I got the chance to unpack it and play &#8220;What did I click on last weekend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh165.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, I added these things to my cart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Ziggys of the World Unite<\/em>, a collection of Ziggy cartoons. Research indicates it&#8217;s still a thing, but I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve seen it in the local paper when I&#8217;m at the dentist&#8217;s office, which is the only time I see the local paper in its physical manifestation.<\/li>\n<li><em>Whiskey words &#038; a shovel<\/em> by r.h. Sin, a collection of poetry by a poet with a lot of books at ABC Books.<\/li>\n<li>Two plays by Eugene O&#8217;Neill, <em>A Moon for the Misbegotten<\/em> with Gabriel Byrne on the front cover and <em>The Iceman Cometh<\/em> with Kevin Spacey on the front cover.  So you know they&#8217;re older plays but still relevant in New York.<\/li>\n<li><em>Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler&#8217;s Ninth Symphony<\/em> by Lewis Thomas.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sartre for Beginners<\/em> by Donald Palmer by the same Marxists that brought us <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/book-report-einstein-for-beginners-by-joseph-schwartz-and-michael-mcguinness-1979\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Einstein for Beginners<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Catss by Gross<\/em> by S. Gross.  A collection of cartoons about cats, I guess.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science<\/em> by Tom Bethell.  I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m going to read this first or encourage my oldest to read it to counter some of the notions he&#8217;s getting from pop culture and TikTok.  Which he doesn&#8217;t have, but apparently, YouTube contains montages of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the weeks are basically like this: On the weekend, I place my order; on Thursday, I get my order, and it&#8217;s like Christmas because I don&#8217;t know what I ordered; and then I cannot wait until the weekend to place another order for five or ten books whose name and subject matter I will remember by Monday.  <em>Redux<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be happy when the current unpleasantness is over, when we can cruise up to ABC Books on a Saturday afternoon to attend a book signing by a local author and pick up a couple of books plus the in-house author&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I hope you&#8217;ll join me, gentle reader, in placing an order to help make that dream of mine happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I remind you, gentle reader, you can order books from the ABC Books. Or you will be for a couple weeks yet, before I end up having bought the entire inventory. So I got the chance to unpack it and play &#8220;What did I click on last weekend?&#8221; Apparently, I added these things to [&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-25980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980","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=25980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25982,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25980\/revisions\/25982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}