{"id":33814,"date":"2025-05-15T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33814"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:59:02","slug":"the-new-champion-for-longest-time-between-acquiring-and-reading-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/15\/the-new-champion-for-longest-time-between-acquiring-and-reading-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Champion for Longest Time Between Acquiring and Reading Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Kenney reads a Death Merchant book forty years after acquiring it<\/a>. And trying to read it for the first time.<\/p>\n

You know, I’m not a fan of that series either; I read one in in 2012<\/a> and not another. But I’m not as dedicated to men’s adventures and contemporaneous paperback originals as Kenney is.<\/p>\n

If I want to reclaim the crown, I’ll have to read some of the young adult fiction that my sainted aunt and godmother gave me when she gave me Captains Courageous<\/a><\/em> which I read in 2010 after owning it for only 30 years.<\/p>\n

I still have a number of (or all of) the books that my aunt gave us when I was, what, eight or nine? A couple of Hardy Boys books, maybe some Nancy Drew, a Power Boys mystery, maybe the paperback copy of Henry and the Clubhouse<\/em> that I would have read in elementary school (Team Cleary all the way!<\/a>)–I would have read those books in the late 1970s or early 1980s. But there were also a couple of mid-century kid-and-horse books and kid-and-dog book which I really wasn’t into at the time. And, to be honest, my boys never even got into the young adult mystery adventure stories at all.<\/p>\n

I can probably read to reclaim the crown.<\/p>\n

Sometime after I clear the current stack on the side table. I could reclaim the title and<\/em> leave a book or two in reserve for if I ever have to reclaim it again<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Kenney reads a Death Merchant book forty years after acquiring it. And trying to read it for the first time. You know, I’m not a fan of that series either; I read one in in 2012 and not another. But I’m not as dedicated to men’s adventures and contemporaneous paperback originals as Kenney is. […]<\/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-33814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33814","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=33814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33819,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33814\/revisions\/33819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}