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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, May 14, 2022: ABC Books

May 15, 2022May 14, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

ABC Books had another book signing, which certainly must make it the destination for authors looking to promote their work in Springfield. As my beautiful wife convinced me that I need not buy Wendy’s or Starbucks gift cards for the Republic High School teacher thank-you cards and that ABC Books is not that far from […]

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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, April 30, 2022: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale and ABC Books

May 1, 2022April 30, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

As I mentioned Friday, I stopped at the Friends of the Springfield Greene-County Library book sale to pick through records and dollar poetry books and at ABC Books for gift cards for teachers. I held you in suspense as to whether I would return on Saturday to go through the Better Books section when the […]

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Good Book Hunting, Friday, April 29, 2022: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library and ABC Books

April 29, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

Today, I took a trip to the north side of Springfield for the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County library book sale, ostensibly to look at the dollar records, but I also picked up a few books and videos from the dollar books section. As I was already up in that area, I also stopped at […]

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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, April 2, 2022: ABC Books

April 3, 2022April 2, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

Yesterday, I made my way up to ABC Books for a book signing. It was no ordinary book signing; it was Mike Crocker, director of the Dickinson Park Zoo here in Springfield. I already knew a little about his book, as the zoo is part of the parks system, and my beautiful wife sits on […]

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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, March 19, 2022: ABC Books

March 19, 2022 Brian J. Noggle

It has been a really long time since I’ve been to ABC Books for a book signing (last November?) Our late winter Saturdays, at least when ABC Books has had book signings, were given over to archery meets in nearby towns, and the school tends to play other schools that are south and southwest of […]

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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, December 11, 2021: Christmas Shopping Done Wrong (II)

December 12, 2021December 11, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

So yesterday, I had a couple of hours whilst my son was at an event in Republic, Missouri, so I thought I would do some Christmas shopping. My first stop took me to Mike’s Unique, where I bought some records. The second stop was at ABC Books, where a local radio personality, Marla Lucas, was […]

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Good Book Hunting, November 27, 2021: ABC Books

November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

As I mentioned, I was going to go and went to ABC Books on Saturday for a book signing. So I picked up a couple of books, but no Leibniz. I got: Little Thoughts With Love by Anne Geddes. Brian J., are you getting collections of twee staged baby pictures paired with meme wisdom to […]

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Good Book Hunting, November 19, 2021: Hooked on Books

November 19, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

It’s been a while since I’ve had a little time to kill by my youngest son’s school, but his archery practice let off an hour and a half before the basketball games, so we scarfed some McDonalds. Which did not kill an hour and a half. Fortunately, Hooked on Books, almost across the street, is […]

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Good Book Hunting, November 4, 2021: Redeemed Books

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

It has been a very long time since I’ve been to Christian Publisher’s Outlet/Redeemed Books, the Christian new and used books store here on the south side of Springfield. I used to go there all the time for the teacher thank-you gift cards, before I learned that Mr. and Mrs. E. of ABC Books were […]

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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, October 23, 2021: ABC Books

October 24, 2021October 23, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

Yesterday, we stopped at ABC Books for a book signing since we were in the area (well, an hour away in Wheatland, Missouri, for a cross country meet). I was pleased the meet was not delayed so long that I could not make the afternoon book signing. We actually got there, still cold and wet […]

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Good Book Hunting, October 8, 2021: ABC Books

October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

That’s right, I went to ABC Books on a Friday as they had a special lunchtime book signing with Patty E. Thompson, a Phoenix-based writer who comes into town to visit her sister and who has visited ABC Books in the past (I asked how a Phoenix author ended up at ABC Books). She has […]

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Good Book Hunting, Saturday, August 21 2021: ABC Books

August 21, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

ABC Books hosted an author signing today, so I ran up there after a martial arts class. Mrs. E. says she appreciates the support. I’m kind of like that first guy to arrive at a party, a relief to the host. I was actually there a bit before the author and his wife. Which gave […]

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Good Book Hunting, July 31, 2021: ABC Books

August 2, 2021August 1, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

On Saturday, the boys and I made the trek to north Springfield to ABC Books to kill some time. The Martial Arts section is down to three books, one of which is the other Tai Chi Walking book that I did not buy. I have also scoured through the boxing/wrestling section for how-to books but […]

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Good Book Hunting, July 8, 2021: It’s a Mystery BookStore, Berryville, Arkansas

July 9, 2021July 8, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

I mentioned that I learned about the It’s a Mystery BookStore in Berryville, Arkansas, in April when I was looking for a road trip destination and almost almost made the big mistake of going which would have triggered a Wuhan flu celebratory quarantine for my youngest since going thirty minutes into Arkansas was more dangerous […]

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Good Book Hunting, June 29, 2021: The Thrift Stores of Branson

June 30, 2021July 25, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

Gentle reader, I sneaked out again for a couple of days on you. My sons are at camp this week, so my beautiful wife and I drifted away to a Branson resort for a couple of days on our own. It was not the first time we’ve gotten away since we had kids–we went to […]

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Good Book Hunting, June 26, 2021: ABC Books and The Library

June 28, 2021June 26, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

On Saturday, ABC Books had a book signing from a local author and the Library Center, our home library branch, had an author signing books like they used to a long time ago, so we made a circuit to the north end of Springfield and then down south to the library. ABC Books had author […]

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Good Book Hunting, Thursday, June 10, 2021: Webster Groves, Missouri, Book Stores

June 15, 2021June 14, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

Gentle reader, it has been over a decade since we left Old Trees, Missouri. Back when we left or shortly thereafter, one could buy books at The Webster Groves Book Shop or Pudd’nhead Books in Old Orchard. My, times have changed. Now you can buy books at The Novel Neighbor and the (new) Webster Groves […]

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Good Book Hunting, May 1, 2021: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

May 3, 2021December 17, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

I know, I know; you saw my post about albums I bought this weekend, and you said, Who cares about the cheap, obscure easy listening records you buy in an attempt to find something of yours on Lileks’ Thrift Store Vinyl feature on Fridays?. Well, my bibliophile friend, it’s your turn to feast your eyes […]

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Good Book Hunting, March 18-19, 2021: ABC Books / Hooked on Books

March 21, 2021March 20, 2021 Brian J. Noggle

So after watching Fletch on Monday, I thought I would see if I could find a copy of the book or others in the series for my oldest son, whom I’m always encouraging to read a book with words in it instead of cartoons. However, the Fletch series seems to have aged out of the […]

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Good Book Hunting, December 28, 2020: Gift Card Redemptions

December 29, 2020 Brian J. Noggle

In addition to gift certificates for a record shop and antique mall, I also received, along with the each in the family, an ABC Books gift card. So we headed out yesterday to spend them along with a Barnes and Noble gift card the youngest had and a Visa Gift card for $25 of some […]

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