{"id":29833,"date":"2022-05-15T08:11:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29833"},"modified":"2022-05-14T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T21:38:02","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-may-14-2022-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/15\/good-book-hunting-saturday-may-14-2022-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, May 14, 2022: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books had <em>another<\/em> book signing, which certainly must make it <em>the<\/em> destination for authors looking to promote their work in Springfield.  As my beautiful wife convinced me that I need not buy Wendy&#8217;s or Starbucks gift cards for the Republic High School teacher thank-you cards and that ABC Books is not <em>that<\/em> far from Republic (no farther than it is from Nogglestead), so I had gift cards to buy as well as a signed book.<\/p>\n<p>I did not get that much, but I was just there <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/01\/good-book-hunting-saturday-april-30-2022-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale-and-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh193.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Official Targuek Poomse Series<\/em>.  This looks to be a set of forms which are required for becoming a black belt in the U.S. West Coast Taekwondo Association.  Our school did forms for a couple of cycles a couple years ago, but the students did not take to it, so we dropped it.  Which is just as well&#8211;I was one of the students who did not grok it.  To get good at forms, you have to practice them a lot.<\/li>\n<li>Volume III of <em>The Westminster Tanner-McMurrin Lectures on the History and Philosophy of Religion<\/em>.  This has two lectures by Jaroslav Pelikan, &#8220;Jesus, Not Caesar: The Religious World View of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk&#8221; and &#8220;The Spiritual Foundations of Czech and Slovak Culture&#8221;.  As you know, gentle reader, I read some individual lecture books from time to time to feel smart.  They&#8217;re short and they&#8217;re heady, but not generally more than you would find in the <em>New Oxford Review<\/em> or <em>First Things<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Grieving Light: Finding the Light in your Darkness of Grief<\/em> by the signing author Randi Knight.  It&#8217;s a thin volume which I expect I will compare to Stephanie Dalla Rosa&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/23\/book-report-loves-legacy-by-stephanie-dalla-rosa-2015\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Love&#8217;s Legacy<\/em><\/a> when I read it between children&#8217;s books, men&#8217;s adventure books, and science fiction short stories this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I brought my oldest along, bribed with the promise of lunch, he, too, sought some books.  He has become interested in politics and sought copies of <em>Common Sense<\/em> and <em>Second Treatise on Government<\/em> by Locke, but these are hard to come by in used book stores.  So he bought a collection of tales called <em>The Shore Ghosts and Other Stories of New Jersey<\/em> by Larona Homer and <em>Crime and Punishment<\/em> by Dostoyevsky.  A couple of weeks ago, I bought the lad a copy of <em>Confess, Fletch<\/em> because he liked the film enough to re-watch it, but he has not picked up that book.  But he wants to try a Russian novel?  We will see how far he gets.  I mean, I need a real running start at the thick ones.  Given my recent reading discipline, you should not expect to see <em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> reviewed here any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books had another book signing, which certainly must make it the destination for authors looking to promote their work in Springfield. 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