Edit: haha! the same book! Maybe you can ask me some questions by email or here. I still have some calculations for exercises/examples from that book, made in freeware Speqmath app.
I learned from these books
Reinhold Ludwig, Gene Bogdanov "RF Circuit Design Theory and Applications, Second Edition"
Stephen A. Maas "The RF and Microwave Circuit Design Cookbook"
and many papers and handouts available for free online. Found a lot just by browsing images from papers on semanticscholar.org. My advice is to learn from images, and n my case it was: 1. found image of some structure that intrigued me, 2. I googled more on the topic, 3. prototyping. I ordered 3d printed aluminum "bulls eye" antenna reflector for less than 50 USD. Most stuff below 20GHz can be tested on cheap 1.0mm FR4 substrate, and sometimes higher if using wideband structure. I deduced dielectric constant by using shorted GCPW line with reflective mixer, there is no solder mask and I pushed small foil on top of GCPW line to make "moving short" and drawed dots along this line in positions where amplitude drops to zero (repeated each 180 degree of phase length). So no equipment either. Only Qucs(freeware) grounded coplanar line calculator to find out length.
There are many good old books, but I think that it is not very optimal to start from the "beginning,". Recent hot topics are metamaterials, EBG, RGW, AFSIW, etc. You can easily get idea of most popular structures and make your own design (simulator and/or prototyping).
Your current book is good on matching, stability circles, Smith chart. Oscillator chapter are not very practical, but nice start to understand basic calculations, and why amplifier can become an oscillator. I tried to make oscillator using ne3210s01 and calculations, but discovered that there is more to learn. Nothing on patch antenna arrays, but they are easy. My favorite book!