{"id":2680,"date":"2019-04-26T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2019-04-26T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:27:19","slug":"james-v-brown-library-spring-book-sale-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"James V. Brown Library Spring Book Sale Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening I went to the Spring Book Sale held by the Friends of the James V. Brown Library. I found the following books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Nocturne<\/em> by Adam Rapp &#8211; a play by a playwright I am familiar with<\/li>\n<li><em>Moon-Child<\/em> by Derek Walcott &#8211; a play by a playwright I am familiar with<\/li>\n<li><em>Theories of the Theatre<\/em> by Marvin Carlson &#8211; seems to be more of a historical review of the theater than a book about theater theory<\/li>\n<li><em>Watchers<\/em> by Dean Koontz &#8211; you see lots of books by this author but this one in particular comes highly recommended and I can never seem to find it. This book was on my shopping list so I was pleased to find it at the book sale.<\/li>\n<li><em>Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon<\/em> by Pablo Neruda &#8211; I have not read much poetry by this poet<\/li>\n<li><em>The Origin of Humankind<\/em> by Richard Leakley &#8211; I have been reading more science books with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence, evolutionary psychology, or evolution.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Stuff of Thought<\/em> by Steven Pinker &#8211; one of my favorite science authors. This book is about what language reveals about how the mind works. A good book for an aspiring writer.<\/li>\n<li><em>Science Fiction Handbook, Revised<\/em> by L. Sprangue de Camp &#8211; an old book on writing science fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is only eight books. I only bought books I thought I might want to read. Since I already have stacks and stacks of books to read, I really didn&#8217;t want to commit to reading even more books. My house is already so full of books that it looks like a library. They are piled up everywhere since my bookcases are full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening I went to the Spring Book Sale held by the Friends of the James V. Brown Library. I found the following books: Nocturne by Adam Rapp &#8211; a play by a playwright I am familiar with Moon-Child by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=2680\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,1,745],"tags":[1155,1735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}