{"id":29334,"date":"2021-12-12T08:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29334"},"modified":"2021-12-11T15:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:47:33","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-december-11-2021-christmas-shopping-done-wrong-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/12\/good-book-hunting-saturday-december-11-2021-christmas-shopping-done-wrong-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, December 11, 2021: Christmas Shopping Done Wrong (II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday, I had a couple of hours whilst my son was at an event in Republic, Missouri, so I thought I would do some Christmas shopping.  My <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/11\/good-album-hunting-saturday-december-11-2021-christmas-shopping-done-wrong-edition\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">first stop<\/a> took me to Mike&#8217;s Unique, where I bought some records.  The second stop was at ABC Books, where a local radio personality, Marla Lucas, was signing her book.<\/p>\n<p>I did my circuit, although I stopped by the local authors and science fiction authors books to see if I could find something for my nephew.<\/p>\n<p>I found some things for me, certainly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh188.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hope Always Wins<\/em> by Marla Lucas.  She mentioned that she wrote it in 30 days.  Meanwhile, I&#8217;m up to beyond 30 months on whichever novel I happen to finish next.<\/li>\n<li><em>Hard Start: Mars Intrigue<\/em> by S.V. Farnsworth, a local author.  I usually pick up a copy of something I&#8217;ve read an enjoyed during the course of the year for my nephew, but I haven&#8217;t read much this year in science fiction or fantasy that wasn&#8217;t tied to a movie or television show.  So, instead, I bought a copy of this book for both of us.  Mrs. E. asked if I had been to her book signing last week, and I had not.  To think, I could have gotten a signed copy for <strike>myself<\/strike> my nephew.  And, confession: ABC Books has been having so many book signings these days that I cannot get to all of them.  I feel like I&#8217;m letting the proprietrix down.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Inner Game of Fencing<\/em> by Nick Evangelista.  It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve actually done the outer game of fencing.<\/li>\n<li><em>Perry Rhodan: The Wasp Men Attack<\/em> by W.W. Shols and <em>Atlan #1: Spider Desert<\/em> by Ernst Vlcek.  ABC Books as a lot of old paperbacks in the Perry Rhodan series (which I only know of as a lot of them are at ABC Books).  Since I&#8217;m running low on Executioner books, perhaps I should look for another midcentury series to <strike>waste my time on<\/strike> invest in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also got my nephew a copy of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/book-report-gateway-by-frederik-pohl-1977\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Gateway<\/em><\/a> by Frederik Pohl that I enjoyed&#8230;in 2013?  That&#8217;s can&#8217;t be right.  I <em>just read that<\/em>, and my beautiful wife got me the others in the series, which I have not yet read, that Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the ratio of Christmas gifts at this stop was 2\/4, so I&#8217;m getting better.  Unfortunately, after running all the way to the north side of town after my stop at the antique mall, I really did not have time to stop anywhere else except to pick up a couple of gift cards for the stockings.  So I might have do something like this again next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday, I had a couple of hours whilst my son was at an event in Republic, Missouri, so I thought I would do some Christmas shopping. My first stop took me to Mike&#8217;s Unique, where I bought some records. 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