{"id":25478,"date":"2021-05-28T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=25478"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:43","slug":"summer-reading-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2021\/05\/summer-reading-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is almost here (already, in our case) which means it is time again for summertime reading recommendations.\u00a0 Being that I was inspired to write a few books myself during the pandemic lockdown, I thought: why not just recommend those?\u00a0 And so I am.\u00a0 To help you decide which title to read first, I am including the blurbs from my dust jackets.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; max-width:100%;\" \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/lomein.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25483 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom:24px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/lomein-205x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/lomein-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/lomein-436x640.png 436w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/lomein.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;display:inline-block;\">LO MEIN IN HIGH POINTE<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"display:inline-block;\">by Craig H Collins<\/span><br \/>100 Billionth Press (2020), <a style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;display:inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblio.com\/9780553382570\">ISBN 9780553382570<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From the jacket<\/em>:\u00a0 &#8220;Zach Bok is a disgruntled cashier for a Chinese restaurant in a mid-sized city.\u00a0 Most days, Zach stares out the window and wishes that he worked at the Whole Foods grocery across the street.\u00a0 Zach gets to know and like Kayla, a regular customer from High Pointe who always orders one egg roll and a pint of pork lo mein.\u00a0 But when Kayla starts ordering special dishes &#8212; and even has them delivered! &#8212; Zach figures Kayla has become another entitled suburbanite.\u00a0 Danger looms and duck sauce flows as Zach&#8217;s resentment builds to a sweet-and-sour climax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; max-width:100%;\" \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/colon1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25485 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom:24px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/colon1-205x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/colon1-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/colon1-436x640.png 436w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/colon1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"display:inline-block;\">COLON: THE TRUE STORY OF<\/span> HOW A DUO OF STACKED DOTS FORCED ITS WAY INTO EVERY NON&#8209;FICTION BOOK TITLE<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"display:inline-block;\">by Craig H Collins<\/span><br \/>\n100 Billionth Press (2021), <a style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; display:inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblio.com\/9780465026852\">ISBN 0465026850<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From the jacket<\/em>: &#8220;Many punctuation marks have tried but failed to rise from grammatical obscurity.\u00a0 But in <em>Colon: <\/em>the author of the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/category\/asked-and-answered\/\"><em>Asked and Answered <\/em><\/a>articles reveals how a dusty, seldom-used list-of-items signifier found a role of prominence as a separator in non-fiction book titles.\u00a0 This in-depth study features rare interviews with rival commas and dashes; its final chapters explore the murky possibilities of Russian involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; max-width:100%;\" \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/greatness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25482 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-right: 20px;margin-bottom:24px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/greatness-205x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/greatness-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/greatness-436x640.png 436w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/greatness.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; display:inline-block;\">GREATNESS, A MEMOIR<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"display:inline-block;\">by Craig H Collins<\/span><br \/>\n100 Billionth Press (2021), <a style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; display:inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblio.com\/book\/breakfast-champions-kurt-vonnegut\/d\/1303559234\">ISBN 9780099842606<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From the jacket<\/em>: &#8220;The author\/artist\/coder\/musician recounts highlights of his journey to greatness so that others might not only admire him but learn from him.  He&nbsp;came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America; unlike his less-talented peers, he made the most of his choices and chances, charting his own course over rough terrain and responding to changing times using his ever-reliable inner compass.\u00a0 The author&#8217;s outsized presence is felt on every page of this memoir, from its table of contents to its welcome conclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; max-width:100%;\" \/>\n<p>I know&#8230; tough choice, right?\u00a0 Pick any one, then relax, read and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is almost here (already, in our case) which means it is time again for summertime reading recommendations.\u00a0 Being that I was inspired to write a few books myself during the pandemic lockdown, I thought: why not just recommend those?\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2021\/05\/summer-reading-suggestions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25478"}],"version-history":[{"count":101,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25587,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions\/25587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}