{"id":30256,"date":"2022-08-28T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30256"},"modified":"2022-08-27T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:10:12","slug":"good-book-hunting-august-27-2022-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/28\/good-book-hunting-august-27-2022-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, August 27, 2022: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books hosted James R. Wilder, whose books are set near where I went to high school.  I bought the first three books <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/28\/good-book-hunting-june-26-2021-abc-books-and-the-library\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last June<\/a> right after our De Soto vacation.  I read the first, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/18\/book-report-terror-near-town-by-james-r-wilder-2017\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Terror Near Town<\/a><\/em>, earlier this year, but I haven&#8217;t gotten to the others yet.  Which comes to a total of three more (and the author mentioned he is 8,000 words into the fifth).  So perhaps I&#8217;d better pick up the pace.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, look at this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh198.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got Wilder&#8217;s latest, <em>Murder at the Morse Mill<\/em>, and two Louis L&#8217;Amour paperbacks&#8211;<em>The Lonesome Gods<\/em> and <em>Last of the Breed<\/em> (ABC Books did not have <em>Bendigo Shafter<\/em>, and I forgot that I predicted <em>Conhager<\/em> would be <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/22\/book-report-a-trail-of-memories-the-quotations-of-louis-lamour-compile-by-angelique-lamour-1988\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the first L&#8217;Amour books I picked up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I brought my youngest son with me, and he had an ABC Books gift card from Christmas, but he was not interested in buying a book for himself.  So he applied it to my purchase, which means <em>I spent less than $10 at ABC Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That has never happened before, and is unlikely to happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Books hosted James R. Wilder, whose books are set near where I went to high school. I bought the first three books last June right after our De Soto vacation. I read the first, Terror Near Town, earlier this year, but I haven&#8217;t gotten to the others yet. Which comes to a total of [&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-30256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30256","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=30256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30258,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30256\/revisions\/30258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}