{"id":26444,"date":"2020-06-29T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26444"},"modified":"2020-12-29T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:54:29","slug":"good-book-hunting-june-27-2020-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/29\/good-book-hunting-june-27-2020-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, June 27, 2020: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/good-book-hunting-june-20-2020-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a whole week<\/a> since I was at ABC Books, but as I announced as I entered, I had read three of the books (out of seven) that I bought last week so I needed more.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I visited because ABC Books hosted Donald D. Shockley for a book signing, and, as you know, I go up to get signed books whenever I can.<\/p>\n<p>I only got four books this trip.  Well, five, sort of.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh172.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shockley&#8217;s <em>Fertile Crescent Religions<\/em>, a history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Shockley, an engineer, spent a lot of time in the Middle East and wanted to write this history from a Christian perspective.  It&#8217;s got full color maps throughout and short, topical chapters, so I&#8217;m looking forward to reading this book soon, or someday if it gets lost in my stacks.  I am primed for whenever I go on a Biblical history kick that is not bogging myself down in Kings\/Kingdoms\/Chronicles.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bass 1<\/em> in case I want to learn to play my newest instrument.<\/li>\n<li>The second of Jeff Patrick&#8217;s Rock Rogers books, <em>Subzero<\/em>.  I read his first book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/27\/book-report-my-name-is-rock-by-jeff-patrick-2012\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Name Is Rock<\/em><\/a> last week, and I wondered if it was supposed to be young adult.  The proprietrix said this was indeed the case: the author wanted to write military thrillers his kids could read without sex and language and a little bit of prayer instead.  So I bought another copy of <em>My Name Is Rock<\/em> and gave it to my boys to see if they&#8217;re interested in it.  I mean, I wasn&#8217;t going to give them <em>my copy<\/em> to sleep with and to store on the floor of the truck beneath their wet feet for months.<\/li>\n<li><em>A Few Flies and I<\/em>, a collection of haiku by Issa.  R.H. Blyth, whose <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/30\/book-report-games-zen-masters-play-writings-of-r-h-blyth-selected-edited-and-with-an-introduction-by-robert-sohl-and-audrey-carr-1976\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Games Zen Masters Play<\/em><\/a> I read last autumn, is one of the translators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will leave it up to you, gentle reader, to speculate as to which of the books I read first.  I think it might be the Jeff Patrick book, as I&#8217;ve got a couple volumes of poetry in the poetry-reading queue already.  I won&#8217;t actually &#8220;read&#8221; the bass book&#8211;books on how to play musical instruments are like technology\/how to program or reference books in that I don&#8217;t go through them from beginning to end in a way that I do with fiction, other non-fiction, or poetry.  I don&#8217;t get around to reviewing them because I never actually &#8220;finish&#8221; the book.  Also, I don&#8217;t have a great track record on learning the skills in the books, either, but that&#8217;s more me than the books themselves.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it was good to go to an author signing again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it&#8217;s been a whole week since I was at ABC Books, but as I announced as I entered, I had read three of the books (out of seven) that I bought last week so I needed more. Actually, I visited because ABC Books hosted Donald D. Shockley for a book signing, and, as [&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-26444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444","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=26444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26447,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26444\/revisions\/26447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}