{"id":28505,"date":"2021-06-28T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28505"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:39:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:39:33","slug":"good-book-hunting-june-26-2021-abc-books-and-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/28\/good-book-hunting-june-26-2021-abc-books-and-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, June 26, 2021: ABC Books and The Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, ABC Books had a book signing from a local author <em>and<\/em> the Library Center, our home library branch, had an author signing books like they used to a long time ago, so we made a circuit to the north end of Springfield and then down south to the library.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh178.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>ABC Books had author James R. Wilder; one of his books is <em>Tough Times in Grubville<\/em>.  Grubville is not too far from where I graduated high school (closer than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/14\/brian-j-underwhelms-himself-on-vacation\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">De Soto<\/a>), so we talked a bit about the area.<\/p>\n<p>I also found a couple things in the Martial Arts section as well.  Overall, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three Executioner novels: <em>Force Down<\/em>, <em>War Hammer<\/em>, and <em>Black Hand<\/em>.  You are right, gentle reader&#8211;I have already read these books (see <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/book-report-black-hand-the-executioner-178-1993\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/book-report-war-hammer-the-executioner-179-1993\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/16\/book-report-force-down-the-executioner-180-1993\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).  These are gifts for my oldest son, who is turning fifteen here soon, and whom I&#8217;m trying to get interested in adult fiction finally.  It&#8217;s also a bit of a twist: When he was four, right after we moved to Nogglestead, my beautiful wife took he and his brother out to go shopping for a birthday present for me.  Although she swore them to secrecy, he announced immediately after getting out of the car, &#8220;We got you books about guns!&#8221;  So it&#8217;s a bit of turnabout.  I looked in the suspense and the thrillers section before asking Ms. E. in a low voice, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to offend you, but do you have any Executioner novels?&#8221;  She did, and I wanted to pick out a couple that I had read and thought was good, and I did not want to get him one I haven&#8217;t read, but I ended up getting him this three pack.  And I know where to go to pick up others when I finish up the ones I have and want to fill in some gaps.<\/li>\n<li><em>Old Acquaintances<\/em>, a signed book by Ursula Gorman, a local author (?) who has a couple books at ABC Books.  More than I do, certainly.<\/li>\n<li><em>Terror Near Town<\/em>, <em>Tough Times in Grubville<\/em>, and <em>Sheriff Without A Badge<\/em>, the three books by James R. Wilder.  I learned from my mistakes with <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/24\/book-report-selected-poems-by-mary-phelan-2004\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Phelan<\/a>: Buy all the books in case you like them.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ultimate Aikido<\/em> by Yoshimitsu Yamada with Steven Pimsler and <em>Deadly Karate Blows: The Medical Implications<\/em> by Brian Adams.  Ms. E. said they had just gotten those into the Martial Arts section, and I said I know.  She said that there are two or three other people who prowl that section regularly, and I admitted it was probably good that two did not show up at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>At the library, I got <em>Tea in the Time of COVID<\/em> by Ann Kynion.  It&#8217;s 100 musings from the first 100 days of the lockdowns last year.  I expect it to be similar to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/23\/book-report-coffee-is-cheaper-than-therapy-by-ann-conklin-unruh-2015\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Coffee Is Cheaper Than Therapy<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I must admit, gentle reader, that since I have finished he <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/mission-accomplished-2\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Reading Challenge<\/a> and broke off of reading movie and television books, I&#8217;ve been kind of wandering aimlessly and fruitlessly.  I have been stacking up incomplete books in my book accumulation points; I have been underwhelmed and not really been excited about what I am reading; and I have been dulling the pain with uneven Executioner novels.  So it&#8217;s good to have in my hands books that look interesting and that I might be excited to read.<\/p>\n<p>Ha!  Just kidding.  While typing this post, I have put them into the nebulous Nogglestead to-read stacks, and they&#8217;re lost for a couple years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, ABC Books had a book signing from a local author and the Library Center, our home library branch, had an author signing books like they used to a long time ago, so we made a circuit to the north end of Springfield and then down south to the library. 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