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<\/p>\nABC Books was supposed to have two book signings this weekend: One on Friday afternoon and one on Saturday. Although I showed for both, only one of the authors did. Still, I managed to get a couple things.<\/p>\n
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Friday afternoon brough Christopher Bloomfield and his family to discuss and sign Tales from a Wandering Fool: Stories of Family, Freedom, and the Road Less Traveled<\/em>. Apparently, he and his family took to some full-time traveling and wandered for years, but I guess I’ll be able to tell you more about it after I read it. I also picked up Young Mariner Melville<\/em> by Jean Gould, whose biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, That Dunbar Boy<\/em>, I read in August<\/a> and The Ayn Rand Companion<\/em> by Mimi Reisel Gladstein. My beautiful wife says I already have it; I’m not sure, but I will take a look since the read stacks are outside the plastic or inside the plastic–whichever side does not require me climbing under it.<\/p>\n On Saturday, Dodge Merrin was supposed to have a book signing, but he was not there at his allotted time–it was scheduled for 11-2, and we were there at 11:15, but he was not, and Ms. E. had not heard from him. Ah, gentle reader: It was I who suggested he come to ABC Books when I saw him in Houston in July<\/a>. I hope he’s all right.<\/p>\n I had identified a couple of books that I was interested in for later on Friday afternoon, so I picked up Judo & Self Defense<\/em> (it says on the spine) For Women and Girls<\/em> it says on the front cover. I bought it anyway. I also picked up On Heidegger<\/em> by Patricia Altenbernd Johnson. Presumably, it will be easier to read than Heidegger.<\/p>\n I will throw them in the stacks, where I can always fit a couple more books, and maybe get to them in a couple of years. Knowing full well that if I go specifically looking for one of them, I will not find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABC Books was supposed to have two book signings this weekend: One on Friday afternoon and one on Saturday. Although I showed for both, only one of the authors did. Still, I managed to get a couple things. Friday afternoon brough Christopher Bloomfield and his family to discuss and sign Tales from a Wandering Fool: […]<\/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-35915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35915","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=35915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35918,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35915\/revisions\/35918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}