{"id":29278,"date":"2021-11-28T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29278"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:10:14","slug":"good-book-hunting-november-27-2021-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/good-book-hunting-november-27-2021-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, November 27, 2021: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/27\/on-voltaire-and-the-triumph-of-the-enlightenment-by-professor-alan-charles-kors-2001\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned<\/a>, I was going to go and went to ABC Books on Saturday for a book signing.<\/p>\n<p>So I picked up a couple of books, but no Leibniz.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh187.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Little Thoughts With Love<\/em> by Anne Geddes.  <em>Brian J., are you getting collections of twee staged baby pictures paired with meme wisdom to pad out your annual book reading total?<\/em>  Of course I am!  Watch for an equally twee book report this week as I review this book during today&#8217;s football game.<\/li>\n<li><em>Terse Verse<\/em>, poems by Roberta Page.  A Carleton Press book, which is an old timey vanity press where you designed, laid out, and printed a couple hundred copies of your book to try to sell.  None of that self-published print-on-demand wussy stuff you have today.  Back then, you really had to believe and pay cash up front.<\/li>\n<li><em>In Praise of East Central Illinois<\/em>, a 1976 chapbook by Alex Sawyer.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Poetry Home Repair Manual<\/em> by Ted Kooser.  The subtitle is <em>Practical Advice for Beginning Poets<\/em>.  I might find some useful tips in here, or I might throw it across the room.  A quick flip indicates poetry with very short lines, so at least I will learn the justification for crap.<\/li>\n<li><em>What Comes Before Dawn<\/em> by Addison Michael, a mystery by a local author.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Science of Takedowns, Throws &#038; Grappling for Self-Defense<\/em> by Martina Sprague.  Apparently, ABC Books got a single new martial arts book, and I bought it.  When Mrs. E. saw that I grabbed it, she smiled, because we&#8217;ve talked about how fast martial arts books move through the store before.<\/li>\n<li><em>Philosophical Problems of Natural Science<\/em> edited, presumably, by Dudley Shapere.  A collection of essays about philosophy and natural science by probably philosophers contemporaneous to the publication date of 1965.  I don&#8217;t recognize any of the names.<\/li>\n<li><em>Change for the Poor<\/em> by Mark F. McKnelly, the signing author.  He works for a local organization helping the homeless.  It&#8217;s been decades since I read <em>Opting for the Poor<\/em>, a Catholic call to action for helping the poor.  I am not sure how soon I will dig into this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier this year, I made a point of trying to read all the books I bought at ABC Books on various trips.  However, as this trip brought some heady material as well as an increasing number of books per trip, I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll get through all of these any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, I still have a faint hope that medical science will keep me alive for the centuries it will take me to read all my books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I was going to go and went to ABC Books on Saturday for a book signing. So I picked up a couple of books, but no Leibniz. I got: Little Thoughts With Love by Anne Geddes. Brian J., are you getting collections of twee staged baby pictures paired with meme wisdom to [&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-29278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278","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=29278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33833,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions\/33833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}