{"id":29699,"date":"2022-04-03T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29699"},"modified":"2022-04-02T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:51:07","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-april-2-2022-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/03\/good-book-hunting-saturday-april-2-2022-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, April 2, 2022: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I made my way up to ABC Books for a book signing.  It was no ordinary book signing; it was Mike Crocker, director of the Dickinson Park Zoo here in Springfield.  I already knew a little about his book, as the zoo is part of the parks system, and my beautiful wife sits on the park board.  So she already has a copy of it, and she has read excerpts to me that she really likes.<\/p>\n<p>I made my normal loop (martial arts, poetry, philosophy) and also stopped by the contemporary mysteries section, and I got a few things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh190.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>True Tales from the Dickerson Park Zoo<\/em> by Mike Crocker, the signer in residence.<\/li>\n<li><em>Confess, Fletch<\/em> by Gregory Mcdonald.  My oldest and I watched <em>Fletch<\/em> together again a couple weeks back (the first time was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/20\/the-interleaved-movies-of-spring-break\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last Spring<\/a>), and I&#8217;m always trying to get him interested in the source material for movies.  So I picked up this book, which was not on the shelf <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/19\/good-book-hunting-saturday-march-19-2022-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">two weeks ago<\/a>) but not <em>Fletch Won<\/em> which is a later entry in the series but deals with Fletch&#8217;s earliest adventure (because my attempts to get him to read real books are often futile).<\/li>\n<li><em>The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas<\/em> edited by Dino Bigongiari, selections from <em>Summa Teologica<\/em>.  Which <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/27\/nogglestead-christmas-round-up\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I received for Christmas<\/a> and have not started yet.  Heck, I haven&#8217;t even found a good place to shelve it yet.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Poetry of Stephen Crane<\/em>.  I just read <em>The Red Badge of Courage<\/em> (book report forthcoming), so this leapt out at me and was like $6.<\/li>\n<li><em>Boxing: The American Martial Art<\/em> by R. Michael Onello.  This, too, was not present two weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals<\/em> by Robert M. Pirsig, the <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> guy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Were I a betting man, I would bet that I will read the zookeeper&#8217;s book first followed by the boxing book.  But there&#8217;s no telling how soon either will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I made my way up to ABC Books for a book signing. It was no ordinary book signing; it was Mike Crocker, director of the Dickinson Park Zoo here in Springfield. 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