{"id":30191,"date":"2022-08-07T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30191"},"modified":"2022-08-06T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T21:17:13","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-august-6-2022-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/07\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-6-2022-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, August 6, 2022: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third weekend in a row, ABC Books had a book signing.  This time, Marshfield&#8217;s Randy H. Greer came in to sign copies of his new book <em>Buff Lamb: Lion of the Ozarks<\/em> about a lawman in Christian County (which is only a mile and a half south of me; if I take the long route for a walk, run, or bike ride, I nick into Christian County for a little bit of it).  I thought the story sounded familiar&#8211;I remember reading about this sheriff or one like him in one of my local papers&#8211;it turns out, a bit about this book appeared in the <em>Marshfield Mail<\/em>, where I had likely seen it.<\/p>\n<p>I got a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh197.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buff Lamb: Lion of the Ozarks<\/em> and <em>Echoes of Mercy<\/em>, Greer&#8217;s stories from his days working at the Federal Medical Center, a hospital complex for Federal prison inmates located here in Springfield.<\/li>\n<li>Aikido Techniques and Tactices<\/em> by Gary Bennett, the other aikido book I&#8217;d left last week at ABC Books, officially draining the martial arts section again to another book on Tai Chi walking and <em>Raw Combat<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Twice a Week Heroes<\/em> by Danny Miles, stories about fast pitch softball leagues in Springfield.  There were a stack of them on the shelf below the martial arts section.  I&#8217;ll be in a conundrum if Miles shows up at ABC Books soon to sign copies.<\/li>\n<li><em>Poems<\/em> by Mary Baker Eddy, the Christian Science church founder.  A 1918 edition, this would have come out eight years after her death.<\/li>\n<li><em>Milk and Honey<\/em> by Rupi Kaur.  A flat-spined collection of poems, but the cover calls Kaur a <em>New York Times<\/em> Bestseller.  So this ain&#8217;t no chapbook.<\/li>\n<li><em>100 Bill Harvey Poems<\/em> by Bill Harvey.  They look to be theologically flavored.  But I will end each poem hearing <em>Paul<\/em> Harvey say, &#8220;Good day!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At any rate, it should give me a couple of handy collections of poetry to read out back in the evening.  If I can find them again easily once I move them off of my desk and into the stacks of the Nogglestead library, where books just disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third weekend in a row, ABC Books had a book signing. This time, Marshfield&#8217;s Randy H. Greer came in to sign copies of his new book Buff Lamb: Lion of the Ozarks about a lawman in Christian County (which is only a mile and a half south of me; if I take the [&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-30191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191","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=30191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30192,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30191\/revisions\/30192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}