{"id":31457,"date":"2023-10-01T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31457"},"modified":"2023-09-30T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T01:01:22","slug":"book-report-hierarchy-by-jeremy-daryl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/01\/book-report-hierarchy-by-jeremy-daryl\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Hierarchy<\/i> by Jeremy Daryl (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/heirarchy.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I thought I might have just picked this up at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/17\/good-book-album-media-hunting-saturday-september-16-2023-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in September<\/a>, but apparently it was part of my haul <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/good-erm-hunting-saturday-april-29-2023-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in April<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess that makes sense, as I picked up a number of chapbooks to plant on my chairside book accumulation point when the football season started so I could browse them whilst holding an iPad to watch football games on those rare occasions where my NFL+ subscription would yield a football game I wanted to watch but could only do so on the iPad due to NFL+&#8217;s limited streaming rights.  That was a week before the book sale this autumn.  I discovered one cannot really browse a book whilst holding an iPad, so I have not been able to browse the chapbooks during the couple of football games that I have caught on a mobile device.  I still have them on the table, though, as I have invented a new reading habit this summer which finds me reading on the sofa upstairs to finish the evening.  I have some <em>First Things<\/em> and <em>New Oxford Review<\/em> magazines that I&#8217;ve read up there&#8211;mostly reading The Story of Civilization in the chair downstairs&#8211;but I&#8217;ve also read some of other books such as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/28\/book-report-samurai-cat-goes-to-the-movies-by-mark-e-rogers-1994\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/book-report-vengeance-is-mine-by-sage-hunter-2022\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Vengeance Is Mine!<\/a><\/em> up there.  So I brought this book up to read there.  You know, I might have written a navel-gazing post on my new book reading habits (mostly, I finish the evening stretched out on the couch upstairs reading a book or magazine because that tracks with how I spend evenings on vacations), but, c&#8217;mon, man&#8211;you&#8217;re not here for my navel-gazing.  You&#8217;re here for pictures of movie starlets in films I watch.  Odds are you&#8217;re not even reading this, and Jeremy Daryl is going to wonder what the hell I&#8217;m talking about in this book report.  If he can even find it when searching the Internet on &#8220;Jeremy Daryl&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s a lot of verbiage in a book report that&#8217;s not about the book, but I suppose that&#8217;s okay since I really don&#8217;t have a lot to say about the book.  To be honest, it looks like it might have been the results of a high school or college introduction to poetry class that the fellow decided to dump onto print-on-demand.  The layout is rudimentary&#8211;a series of poems with titles and lines in double-spacing with no breaks at the pages, no headers or footers, and no pagination.  As you might recall, gentle reader, I have been lauded, well, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/27\/the-review-is-in\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> for my bok design ability more than my actual poetry.<\/p>\n<p>The poems themselves are, well, rudimentary.  You don&#8217;t get the whole m\u00e9lange of different types of poems&#8211;an acrostic, a limerick, a haiku, a tanka, a sonnet, and a free verse&#8211;all the poems look to be free verse with little to no rhyming on a variety of topics.  A couple nice moments amongst the pieces<\/p>\n<p>However, if the fellow chooses to continue writing poetry and reads a bit more of the stuff, I&#8217;m a little more optimistic for his development than your average <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/29\/book-report-milk-and-honey-by-rupi-kaur-2015\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram poet<\/a> because the poems are longer and have a little more room for thematic expansion and explanation than brain droppings not done by George Carlin.  So maybe there&#8217;s hope, but probably the publication of this book was more of a lark than a serious endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I might have just picked this up at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale in September, but apparently it was part of my haul in April. I guess that makes sense, as I picked up a number of chapbooks to plant on my chairside book accumulation point when the football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457","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=31457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31459,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31457\/revisions\/31459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}