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<\/p>\nI had a little time between dropping off musically inclined family members at church and the service at which they performed, and I (re?)discovered that Hooked on Books is open on Sundays, and, well, I spent a few minutes there.<\/p>\n
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Most of the minutes were at the dollar book carts out front, from which I picked Functional React<\/em> by Cristian Salcescu about the frontend framework; 3 Nights In August<\/em> by Buzz Bissinger (which I thought I might already own–I picked it up 17 years ago<\/a> and mean to read it one of these decades); and The Ultimate Guide to Tai Chi<\/em> edited by John R. Little and Curtis F. Wong. I then went to the sale area in the back which is even emptier than it was the last time I was there, through the older books section and the classics and onto the philosophy section, where I picked up The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity<\/em> by Daniel P. Reid.<\/p>\n I picked up The Gold of Friendship<\/em> collected by Patricia Drier from the free book cart at church as I thought I might just sit in a pew for the hour preceding the service (but I opted to not). I’d placed two books on the cart this morning (the duplicate copy of The Story of Civilization: The Age of Voltaire<\/em> that I picked up yesterday<\/a> and 33 Days to Eucharistic Glory<\/em>, a book I has received from some Catholic charity at least twice now–this being the duplicate of the first). 3 Nights in August<\/em> will hit that same cart next week, I reckon.<\/p>\n All in all, it was about ten dollars and thirty minutes killed. And four books to linger on my to-read shelves for decades most likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a little time between dropping off musically inclined family members at church and the service at which they performed, and I (re?)discovered that Hooked on Books is open on Sundays, and, well, I spent a few minutes there. Most of the minutes were at the dollar book carts out front, from which I […]<\/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-34236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236","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=34236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34240,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34236\/revisions\/34240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}