{"id":30137,"date":"2022-07-23T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30137"},"modified":"2022-07-23T14:42:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T19:42:16","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-july-23-2022-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/23\/good-book-hunting-saturday-july-23-2022-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, July 23, 2022: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, after spending an hour in a parking lot helping my oldest master the basics of parallel parking, I had him drive me a half hour to ABC Books and a half hour back to help fill his log book before his driver&#8217;s license testing.  Also, Mrs. E. had posted about a book signing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh195.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The author signing her books, Shirley Gilmore, is a local to Springfield but who taught in southeast Missouri for 25 years.  Her books are set in a fictional town there called Turn Back and feature a ten-year-old girl, Bucky, who moves there with her father from New York City and things happen as they so often do.  She has five books in the series and a related one-off, and of course I bought them all.  Her books include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Carly Piper and the Mystery of the Ruby Ring<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Walking the Labyrinth<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Songs of Three<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>For Such a Time<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A Turn Back Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Tangled Threads<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main characters are Bucky and a group of Sunday school teachers she befriends.  Boy, howdy, the first book is 680 pages.  I would have some work cut out for me were I to try to get to <em>A Turn Back Christmas<\/em> as my Christmas novel this year.<\/p>\n<p>I also noted that Mrs. E. topped up her martial arts section for me.  I also got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Zen in the Martial Arts<\/em> by Joe Hyams<\/li>\n<li><em>Karate-Do: My Way of Life<\/em> by Gichin Funakoshi<\/li>\n<li><em>Tae Kwon Do Basics<\/em> by Keith D. Yates and H. Bryan Robbins<\/li>\n<li><em>Complete Aikido<\/em> by Roy Suenaka with Christopher Watson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just down the aisle from the martial arts books, I pawed through the music milk crates as I recently discovered I have no books on bass guitar (and I have a bass guitar again).  So I picked up two books, <em>Rock Jams<\/em> and <em>Iron Maiden: Play 8 Songs with Tab and Sound-Alike Audio<\/em>; a closer look now that I&#8217;ve gotten home shows that <em>Rock Jams<\/em> was misfiled with the guitar books.  Ah, well, I guess I will put that upstairs for the trumpet players of Nogglestead.<\/p>\n<p>I did not empty out the martial arts section; I only took about a third.  Because there&#8217;s another book signing next weekend, and I am being kind enough to give the other ABC Books martial arts book buyers a thin chance at picking them up.  Mrs. E. said the others have not been in in a while.  I grant them this one chance.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the number on the photograph is 195.  Hard to imagine that I&#8217;ve posted about bulk book buying 195 times, but the sagging and overstuffed bookshelves of Nogglestead indicate this is so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, after spending an hour in a parking lot helping my oldest master the basics of parallel parking, I had him drive me a half hour to ABC Books and a half hour back to help fill his log book before his driver&#8217;s license testing. Also, Mrs. E. had posted about a book signing. 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