{"id":34441,"date":"2025-10-10T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34441"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:16:48","slug":"as-so-often-happens-at-nogglestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/as-so-often-happens-at-nogglestead\/","title":{"rendered":"As So Often Happens At Nogglestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, at 9:30, the youngest came down the stairs after work and sought a business self-improvement book for a project <em>due that night<\/em>.  He&#8217;s the one who said, in fourth grade, that whatever book Ms. Cole was going to assign them to read, we already had a copy of it.  So he was pretty confident that we could get him something immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, and gentle reader, if you pay attention to my Good Book Hunting posts, I have been wont in the past to pick up books on how to be a better salesman, how to be a better manager, and so on and so on and Scooby Doobie Doo.  But I have dewonted myself recently from buying more of them because they just don&#8217;t interest me that much&#8211;much like I&#8217;ve moved away from political books which I bought in the early part of the century.<\/p>\n<p>However, no matter how often these books <em>get in the way<\/em> when I am looking for something to read, I could not <em>instantly<\/em> find one or more to suit his needs.<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, find two copies of Bocaccio&#8217;s <em>The Decameron<\/em> (bought first <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/good-book-hunting-may-1-2021-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2021<\/a> and again <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/21\/good-book-hunting-june-20-2024-the-lutherans-for-life-church-rummage-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2024<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I have to determine which to put on the free book cart in church, where my duplicates are going to live forever because I&#8217;m the only one who looks at the free book cart these days.  Maybe I&#8217;ll recall all of my free books and put them in the little free library in either Battlefield or Republic where they can likewise molder whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/0cYRZ\" target=\"_new\">spicy monster, erm, romances<\/a> move along (link via <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/749304\/\" target=\"_new\">Sarah Hoyt @ Instapundit<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and seconds later, I gave him <em>Tools of the Titans<\/em> by Tim Ferriss which was probably a gift from my beautiful wife who also owns a copy.<\/p>\n<p>So the so-often-happenses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Son needs a book for a school project at the last minute.<\/li>\n<li>We can find a book quickly to fit the need.<\/li>\n<li>Brian J. finds a duplicate of a classic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, note that I might yet have <em>another<\/em> copy of it somewhere if it&#8217;s in a Classics Club edition which I might have acquired before the I started with the Good Book Hunting posts (mostly so I can reminisce about buying a book when I finally read it many years later).  Which also it-so-often-happens at Nogglestead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, at 9:30, the youngest came down the stairs after work and sought a business self-improvement book for a project due that night. He&#8217;s the one who said, in fourth grade, that whatever book Ms. Cole was going to assign them to read, we already had a copy of it. So he was pretty confident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441","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=34441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34442,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34441\/revisions\/34442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}