{"id":26148,"date":"2020-05-06T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26148"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:38:11","slug":"good-book-hunting-may-5-and-6-2020-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/good-book-hunting-may-5-and-6-2020-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, May 5 and 6, 2020: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, last week I place my last order from ABC Books as part of the current unpleasantness.  I trolled through the religion and pets sections with the pretext of ordering some books for a friend in Wisconsin who has lately not had satisfactory, that is, <em>any<\/em>, answer when I ask him what he&#8217;s reading.<\/p>\n<p>It did not arrive here until this morning, but yesterday marked the easing of restrictions in Missouri and particularly Springfield and Greene County, so I <em>went to ABC Books<\/em>.  With the pretext of picking up gift cards for teacher appreciation week, but also to pick up a couple books by an author I read about in an ancient (2016) <em>Garden &#038; Gun<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I only got seven books for myself:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh169.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lay Down My Sword<\/em>, <em>Cimarron Rose<\/em>, and <em>Jolie Blon&#8217;s Bounce<\/em> by James Lee Burke, the author I read about in <em>Garden and Gun<\/em> magazine.  I&#8217;d looked for the first in his acclaimed Dave Robicheaux series, <em>Neon Rain<\/em>, but ABC Books didn&#8217;t have it.  I took their complete inventory, though, including two first editions.  Unfortunately, they&#8217;re from three different series.  At least I will get a broad sampling of the author&#8217;s work.  Eventually.<\/li>\n<li><em>History of the North American YMCA<\/em> by Richard C. Morse.  The history through 1922, anyway, which is a lot less history than it has now.  Fun fact: I was once asked if I wanted to be on the <em>board<\/em> of the local Y because apparently I travel in the circles of people who do that sort of thing these days.  But I would need two things at the very least before I agreed: 1) to read up on the history of the organization, and 2) to volunteer at the local Y for a period of time to get the inside view.  I&#8217;ll be able to do one soon, and after I complete the second part, I&#8217;ll learn that the current board member was talking to my beautiful wife at the time.<\/li>\n<li><em>Eat the Cookie, Buy the Shoes<\/em> by Joyce Meyer.  Another book by a popular evangelist.  Ms. Meyer is based in the St. Louis area, and apparently her sprawling organization hires a lot of technical people, but I never worked there.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bad Dog! A Memoir of Love, Beauty, and Dark Places<\/em> by Lin Jensen.  I got cat books for my friend, but this dog book for myself.  It helps that I have been catching up on my ancient <em>Garden &#038; Gun<\/em> magazines which features a column about a Good Dog by varied authors every month.  I&#8217;m primed.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Interpreter&#8217;s One-Volume Commentary on the Bible<\/em> edited by Charles M. Laymon (rimshot!), a 1300+ page bonzer that does not include the text of the Bible, but instead offers commentary on the books and verses of the Bible as well as some Apocrypha.  Includes a large number of essays on the history of the Bible as well as the region and the early church.  Looks like a good thing to read alongside a reading of the Bible, kind of like I did with <em>Asimov\u2019s Guide to the Bible<\/em> back in 2015.  Has it been that long?  What can I say?  The history of Judea after Solomon bogs me down every time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should be the extent of my book buying for the spring and maybe summer aside from a garage sale here or there.  But if my friend doesn&#8217;t like the surprise books arriving on his doorstep, I&#8217;ll ask him to send them my way.  <\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s not going to be a Friends of the Library book sale, either in Christian County or in Springfield, until the fall.  So I should be safe from myself unless I run into a really good church garage sale someday, when such things are allowed again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, last week I place my last order from ABC Books as part of the current unpleasantness. I trolled through the religion and pets sections with the pretext of ordering some books for a friend in Wisconsin who has lately not had satisfactory, that is, any, answer when I ask him what he&#8217;s reading. 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