{"id":32837,"date":"2024-07-01T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32837"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:19:25","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-june-30-2024-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/01\/good-book-hunting-saturday-june-30-2024-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Saturday, June 30, 2024: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a martial arts class on Saturday morning, I decided I was going to do a throwback leisure activity and go to a book signing at ABC Books since I was going to the gun shop anyway, and it was on the way <em>[Ed note: The gun shop is not, in fact, on the way; it is in the opposite direction, as a matter of fact, as this particular gun shop is in Ozark, which is south of Springfield, whereas ABC Books is so far north in Springfield that it is almost north <\/em>of<em> Springdfield.]<\/em>  Fine, fine.  What really happened is that I planned to go to the book signing then the gun shop, but as it happened, the book signing was from 1-3 and not 11-2, so I flipped the order.  I also dragged my youngest away from his Magical Fantasy Mirror for a couple of hours.  He was more excited than dismissive when I mentioned going to the gun shop and lunch and a book signing&#8211;I will leave it to your imagination whether the gun shop or the lunch offered the enticement <em>[Ed note: Probably the lunch]<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the side quests killed enough time that we arrived at ABC Books a little after 1 when the party was in full swing.  I say &#8220;party,&#8221; because the young author brought some friends, and they were having a great time playing hide and seek or tag in the stacks.  But I managed to dodge them as I hit the usual martial arts and poetry sections.<\/p>\n<p>And only got a couple of things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh06292024.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Teendyth: On Desecrated Faith and New-Found Religion<\/em> by Steven-Mark Maine.  He described it as a horror book about the son of a preacher who goes to the seminary and meets a different deity, presumably a dark one.<\/li>\n<li><em>Finding Libre: My Life in the Martial Arts<\/em> by Scott Babb.<\/li>\n<li><em>Manual of Throws for Sport Judo and Self Defense<\/em> by Fred Neff.  Formerly property of Sigma 3 Survival School.  Jeez, I hope it wasn&#8217;t stolen and some survivalists come to Nogglestead to try to take it back.<\/li>\n<li><em>Houses of Worship<\/em>, a hardback <em>Ideals<\/em> book with a lengthy inscription from a woman who &#8220;crashed&#8221; a party with her husband and had a great time and is giving this as a gift of thanks.  I pointed it out to Ms. E., and we talked a little about <em>Ideals<\/em> magazine.  She said that people came in the shop looking for them.  I&#8217;d hunt them in thrift stores and whatnot to bring them in for profit, but, c&#8217;mon, man: Kittens and books: Two things that never leave Nogglestead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I left two books on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu on the shelves as that is not my bag, baby (perhaps it will be someday).  But, c&#8217;mon, man (he said, repeating himself like the populizer of the saying), if I bought two books on Tai Chi walking to clean the section out, the odds are very, very good that I will someday buy these books.  But not today.<\/p>\n<p>So now they will disappear into the Nogglestead stacks, likely for a number of years, although perhaps the <em>Houses of Worship<\/em> and <em>Manual of Throws<\/em> might emerge sooner rather than later.  I&#8217;ll certainly think of them.  The key is to find them.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, this now officially means I have bought more books this month than I&#8217;ve read all year.  It happens less frequently these days, but still sometimes happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a martial arts class on Saturday morning, I decided I was going to do a throwback leisure activity and go to a book signing at ABC Books since I was going to the gun shop anyway, and it was on the way [Ed note: The gun shop is not, in fact, on the way; [&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-32837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837","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=32837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32838,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32837\/revisions\/32838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}