{"id":34323,"date":"2025-09-10T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34323"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:07:35","slug":"book-report-be-kind-by-charles-m-schultz-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/10\/book-report-be-kind-by-charles-m-schultz-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Be Kind<\/i> by Charles M. Schultz (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI just picked this book up last weekend<\/a>, and after finishing I’ve Seen It All In The Library<\/em><\/a>, I had a bit of time before retiring for the evening, so I took the opportunity to browse this little gifter.<\/p>\n

It’s basically a panel from Peanuts cartoons with the opposite page exhorting you to Be<\/em> something good. Be dependible. Be endearing. Be polite. Be helpful. And so on.<\/p>\n

So I browsed it. I don’t think it helped me to be any more of any of the adjectives depicted than I was already. But I was not the target audience for the book, which I presume was Peanuts fans who got the book as a gift from someone who couldn’t think of anything else to give. I have to wonder if both of those target audiences are dwindling: Both Peanuts fans and people who give or receive books for Christmas.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I counted it in my annual total, of course. Which was the goal. Normally, I’d fill the gap with poetry, but I’ve got a book of fairly tedious grandma poetry by the chair and two books for right-before-bed reading upstairs, and I did not want to stack another book on the chairside table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just picked this book up last weekend, and after finishing I’ve Seen It All In The Library, I had a bit of time before retiring for the evening, so I took the opportunity to browse this little gifter. It’s basically a panel from Peanuts cartoons with the opposite page exhorting you to Be something […]<\/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-34323","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\/34323","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=34323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34324,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34323\/revisions\/34324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}