{"id":34608,"date":"2025-11-30T08:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34608"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:32:55","slug":"good-book-hunting-november-29-2025-abc-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/good-book-hunting-november-29-2025-abc-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, November 29, 2025: ABC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I had the urge to go to ABC Books yesterday.  I was not on a Christmas shopping trip, <em>per se<\/em>, although I did buy some gift cards for stockings.  No author was present to sign books.  I guess it was because they posted that they were having a sale (50% off) and because I&#8217;ve had a mind to get this year&#8217;s James R. Wilder book.  I mean, I needed to stop by the comic book store to get some poly bags and a short box to accommodate the comic books I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/reclaiming-the-comics-for-another-generation\/\" target=\"_new\">re-patriating<\/a> and the office supply store for printer ink since my printer was having trouble with yellow ink, giving all of the photos in my recent letter to my grandmother a purple cast.<\/p>\n<p>But I got a couple things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh11292025.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 10 volume Collier edition collection of James Whitcomb Riley poetry that I&#8217;ve had my eye on <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/18\/book-report-old-school-day-romances-by-james-whitcomb-riley-1909\/\" target=\"_new\">for years<\/a>.  At half price, it was like $35.<\/li>\n<li>The James R. Wilder book, <em>Killing at Cottage Farm<\/em>.  He&#8217;s scheduled to be up at ABC Books to sign it on December 13.  Will I go to get a signed copy?  Maybe!<\/li>\n<li><em>Secrets of the Samurai<\/em>.  The martial arts section was restocked with books about aikido and hapkido and this book.  I picked it out because it was like the least expensive; one of the volumes was $250, and another was over $100.  I guess during a 50% sale is the time to get them, but I was already looking at $60 when I&#8217;m running on a &#8220;lean mixture&#8221; and am eschewing impulse Amazon purchases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other book, <em>What You Need To Know About Masons<\/em>, I got from church two weeks ago.  One campus of the church closed its library and instead of a free book cart, we had three tables of books from which to choose, and this is all I got&#8211;my beautiful wife got more than I did for once given that she got two or three books.  At that time, I was thinking about how I didn&#8217;t really have space for more books and was just now getting them so none were stacked horizontally in front of my bladed weapons.  Well, so only a couple were.<\/p>\n<p>So where did these purchases go?  I took the books beside the George Bernard Shaw books I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/good-book-hunting-september-8-2007\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2007<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/13\/a-guide-to-the-book-backdrop-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\">spotted here<\/a> five years ago) to make room for the Riley set, and then I stacked those and the remainder horizontally in front of the bladed weapons.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;d better get back to reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I had the urge to go to ABC Books yesterday. I was not on a Christmas shopping trip, per se, although I did buy some gift cards for stockings. No author was present to sign books. I guess it was because they posted that they were having a sale (50% off) [&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-34608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34608","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=34608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34611,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34608\/revisions\/34611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}