{"id":27917,"date":"2021-03-21T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27917"},"modified":"2021-03-20T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:32:33","slug":"good-book-hunting-march-18-19-2021-abc-books-hooked-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/21\/good-book-hunting-march-18-19-2021-abc-books-hooked-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, March 18-19, 2021: ABC Books \/ Hooked on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/the-interleaved-movies-of-spring-break\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">watching <em>Fletch<\/em> on Monday<\/a>, I thought I would see if I could find a copy of the book or others in the series for my oldest son, whom I&#8217;m always encouraging to read a book with words in it instead of cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Fletch series seems to have aged out of the used books&#8211;most of them would have been sold in the 1980s, remember&#8211;so I did not find books at either book store.  Perhaps I will get lucky at the upcoming book sales this year.<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, pick up a couple things:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh175.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>At ABC Books, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Semper Fidelis<\/em> by M. L. Brummett, a local author.  I had just been at the Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/spring-break-wrapping-up\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">as you might recall<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Earth Games<\/em>, a short collection of poetry by Ruth Loring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Hooked on Books, I got a couple of $1 books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Design of Everyday Things<\/em> by Don Norman.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/em> by Orson Scott Card.<\/li>\n<li><em>Blood and Thunder<\/em> by Max Allan Collins.<\/li>\n<li><em>Neon Prey<\/em> by John Sandford.  I know, I know, I swore these off, but it was only a buck.  And note that this went from a new book at the library in April 2019 to the dollar cart outside a used book store in under two years.  I wonder if his popularity is widely suffering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sale room in the back was pretty bare, but I still saw some books with red dots on the spines.  Gentle reader, Hooked on Books used to mark their discount books with the red dot (which, two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/good-book-hunting-january-18-2019-hooked-on-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a cashier there didn&#8217;t know<\/a> because it had been so long ago).  So those books had been in the building for quite some time indeed.  I expect that young man no longer works there, so they outlasted him by quite a margin.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, now that Spring Break is over, I hope I can get back to my normal reading schedule.  I realize you have not had a book report in quite some time, gentle reader (eleven days since <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/10\/book-report-mission-impossible-by-peter-barsocchini-1996\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission: Impossible<\/em><\/a>), and I know I am your primary source for book reports on twee books of decades past.  Soon.  Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after watching Fletch on Monday, I thought I would see if I could find a copy of the book or others in the series for my oldest son, whom I&#8217;m always encouraging to read a book with words in it instead of cartoons. 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