{"id":28824,"date":"2021-08-21T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28824"},"modified":"2021-08-21T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T20:46:37","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-august-21-2021-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/21\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-21-2021-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, August 21 2021: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books hosted an author signing today, so I ran up there after a martial arts class.  Mrs. E. says she appreciates the support.  I&#8217;m kind of like that first guy to arrive at a party, a relief to the host.  I was actually there a bit before the author and his wife.  Which gave me plenty of time to browse before the main event.<\/p>\n<p>Which did not lead to too much profligacy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh182.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lake Honor<\/em>, <em>Gone in the Night<\/em>, and <em>Shadow Valley<\/em> by Alan Brown and Brian Brown.  A father and son team, they wrote mysteries based on real cases (<em>Lake Honor<\/em> and <em>Gone in the Night<\/em>) and a completely original one.  Originally from the Ozarks, the Browns live in the St. Louis area now, not far from the house we lived in Lemay for a time.<\/li>\n<li><em>The New Black Mask Quarterly #1<\/em> which features an interview with Robert B. Parker and a piece of <em>The Promised Land<\/em>.  I am pretty sure that I bought the first copy I own of this off of eBay for more than the $4.95 this cost (there&#8217;s a current listing for $15 plus shipping and handling).  Like when I bought a copy of the men&#8217;s magazine <em>Gallery<\/em> with Robert B. Parker&#8217;s &#8220;The Surrogate&#8221; in it for $100 on eBay and found another copy in the dirty magazines room of Downtown Books in Milwaukee for $1 after pawing through stacks to the ceiling for an hour.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Mizzou Fan&#8217;s Guide to the SEC<\/em> as a gift for my mother-in-law (I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/10\/the-failing-gift-fu-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">back<\/a>, baby!).<\/li>\n<li><em>Tom Moore&#8217;s Bermuda Poems<\/em> by William Zuill.  A short chapbook of poems.  It looks to be in a line of books about Bermuda published by Bermuda.<\/li>\n<li><em>Introducing Machiavelli<\/em> by Patrick Curry and Oscar Zarate.  It&#8217;s a comic-booked intro that&#8217;s longer than <em>The Prince<\/em> itself.  Probably akin to the Marxist tracts <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/book-report-sartre-for-beginners-by-donald-d-palmer-1995\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Sartre for Beginners<\/em><\/a> and <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\"><em>Einstein for Beginners<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it&#8217;s only five books to lose in my stacks for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>I am most likely to read <em>Introducing Machiavelli<\/em> or the poetry first, but I&#8217;m working on quite a stack of incomplete books currently, so it might be a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books hosted an author signing today, so I ran up there after a martial arts class. Mrs. E. says she appreciates the support. I&#8217;m kind of like that first guy to arrive at a party, a relief to the host. I was actually there a bit before the author and his wife. Which gave [&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-28824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824","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=28824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28826,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824\/revisions\/28826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}