{"id":35253,"date":"2026-05-30T13:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35253"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:19:56","slug":"book-report-mother-tried-to-tell-me-and-i-wouldnt-listen-by-alexandra-cook-and-verva-carter-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/30\/book-report-mother-tried-to-tell-me-and-i-wouldnt-listen-by-alexandra-cook-and-verva-carter-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Mother Tried To Tell Me… And I Wouldn’t Listen<\/i> by Alexandra Cook and Verva Carter (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI got this book last May<\/a> at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale, and it was shelved close to Up Close!<\/a><\/em>, so when looking for something to read in between epistles in Pope’s “An Essay on Man”, I pulled it as well. As I have only read 35 books so far this year, I have to pump my numbers up.<\/p>\n

This is a little gift book, not very long, which is bound at the top. Each page contains a truism or quip, advice that I suppose your mother might have given you. And by “each page,” I mean one per sheet of paper–the “top” page of the book\/back of the “bottom” pages, are blank. The individual quips are things like “Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.” and “You can give without loving… but you can never love without giving.” In cursive, as though someone just wrote them down on a notepad.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, it took me a couple of minutes to read it. But I am counting it as a book<\/em>. Because I make the rules around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got this book last May at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale, and it was shelved close to Up Close!, so when looking for something to read in between epistles in Pope’s “An Essay on Man”, I pulled it as well. As I have only read 35 books so far this […]<\/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-35253","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\/35253","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=35253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35254,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35253\/revisions\/35254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}