{"id":29052,"date":"2021-10-09T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29052"},"modified":"2021-10-09T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T13:15:31","slug":"good-book-hunting-october-8-2021-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/09\/good-book-hunting-october-8-2021-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, October 8, 2021: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, I went to ABC Books on a Friday as they had a special lunchtime book signing with Patty E. Thompson, a Phoenix-based writer who comes into town to visit her sister and who has visited ABC Books in the past (I asked how a Phoenix author ended up at ABC Books).  She has two books in print, both personal stories illustrating how God is working through her life.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I made the normal martial arts to philosophy and poetry loop before talking to the author to pretend like I was there for something else instead of just to support the authors that visit Mr. and Mrs. E.&#8217;s establishment.<\/p>\n<p>I got a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh183.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Look What God Did!<\/em> and <em>Whose Job Is It Anyway?<\/em>, Mrs. Thompson&#8217;s books.<\/li>\n<li><em>A First Glance At St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook For Peeping Thomists<\/em> by Ralph McInereny.  Cheaper than the <em>Summa Theologica<\/em> anyway.  I&#8217;m still itching to read some of the primary material after hearing Charlton Heston explain Aquinas <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/21\/on-st-thomas-aquinas-read-by-charlton-heston-1990\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last month<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals<\/em> by Robert M. Pirsig, best known for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/02\/book-report-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-by-robert-r-pirisg-1974-1984\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The martial arts section had two new offerings, both titles by Nick Evangelista.  I got one <em>The Art and Science of Fencing<\/em>; time will tell if I get the other (probably, if I read this any time soon).<\/li>\n<li>The art monographs section is also down to only a couple of titles, but I don&#8217;t generally buy art monographs from ABC Books&#8211;I prefer to get them for a couple dollars each at the library book sale.  But I got <em>The Hirchfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age<\/em> by Al Hirschfeld with David Leopold<\/em>.  As I often mention (and did so when checking out today), I have a signed, limited edition print from his cousin <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/23\/get-it-before-estate-sale-pricing-takes-effect\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">hanging in my office<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it was a fairly expensive trip.  The books by the featured author look to be pretty short.  Perhaps I will read them soon since I read the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/14\/book-report-lake-honor-by-alan-brown-and-brian-brown-2020-and-gone-in-the-night-by-alan-brown-and-brian-brown-2021\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/19\/book-report-shadow-valley-by-alan-brown-and-brian-brown-2021\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">books<\/a> shortly after I bought them.<\/p>\n<p>Although signs might not be good.  I&#8217;m only at 67% of the Julian Lynn books I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/good-book-hunting-may-11-and-19-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, I went to ABC Books on a Friday as they had a special lunchtime book signing with Patty E. Thompson, a Phoenix-based writer who comes into town to visit her sister and who has visited ABC Books in the past (I asked how a Phoenix author ended up at ABC Books). She has [&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-29052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052","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=29052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29056,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052\/revisions\/29056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}