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Well, ABC Books had a book signing on Saturday, so of course I went to pick up a copy of a local author’s work. Well, two local authors’ work. And a couple other things. The two fellows signing books were Jordan Bennett and Michael Jay, both fresh out of school and presenting their post-apocalyptic fantasy […]
ABC Books had an author in to sign her book yesterday, so I headed up after a martial arts class. As is my wont, I acknowledged the author, headed to the martial arts section, then the artist monographs, then the philosophy and poetry shelves, all of which are getting more and more sparse as I […]
This week we spent a couple of days at Big Cedar Lodge down in Ridgedale, Missouri. Of course, I hid that fact from you, gentle reader, by queuing up a week’s worth of posts so you wouldn’t know to come ransack the fabled libraries of Nogglestead in my absence. Clearly, you cannot trust me at […]
Last Saturday, I had to run to ABC Books to get gift cards for the thank-yous that my boys reluctantly and almost illegibly write for their teachers and coaches. I bought 17 gift cards and smuggled a couple of purchases among them. As I have pretty much picked over the Martial Arts section, I moved […]
As I mentioned yesterday, I visited the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale yesterday. It was half-priced day, so I hit the dollar (fifty cents!) records. Sometimes, I can put those in the hold area and take all of my purchases out at once, but yesterday, I paid for the records, put them […]
ABC Books has been doing a good job of lining up authors (well, all except one) to come in on Saturday afternoon, so I try to make an excuse to go up there when I can to visit the authors and get their books. Which is why I was up there on Saturday even though […]
Yesterday, we dropped by the annual garage sale at church that benefits the youth group. It always happens on spring break, which always catches us by surprise, as we like to clean out a little and donate some things, and we always end up just dumping random nearby things into a box. But never books. […]
For Christmas, I received a large gift card to Barnes and Noble, which meant that I needed, needed to make a trip to the store to buy some books, as I’ve not bought any in five whole days. I bought four: Titles include: Old School: Life in the Sane Lane by Bill O’Reilly with Bruce […]
So the whole family and I had fifteen minutes to spare before my son’s basketball game last night, so we stopped by Hooked on Books since it’s basically across the street from the school (which explains how I come to kill so much time there before picking up my children). I hit all the dollar […]
This weekend, our youngest son participated in a robotics competition in Camdenton, Missouri, which is about an hour and a half away from Nogglestead. Instead of getting up at a very early hour to have him at the competition at 7:15 am, we took lodging in Osage Beach, Missouri, for the weekend. Osage Beach is […]
As I mentioned, we headed up to ABC Books to stock up on gift cards for Christmas today, and since it was for Christmas gifts, I found myself in the spirit to buy a bunch of random things for myself. I got: Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I’ve been reading them this year (most […]
Small U.S. Bookstores Booming After Nearly Being Wiped Out Although the article does not specifically discuss used book stores, I’ll be doing my part today as I visit ABC Books in our annual trip to purchase Christmas gift cards for our children’s teachers. And perhaps a thing or two for ourselves.
So, once again, I found myself in Springfield with a little time before picking up my kids from school, and Hooked on Books is practically across the street from their school, and so…. I bought a number of books from the back room and the discount carts which were conveniently located in the philosophy aisle […]
Ha! Did I say “ I don’t think we’ll make it to the Friends of the Christian County Library Book Sale which is this weekend, and our weekend is already chocked.“? I meant it only seems chocked because we have not refactored it so that we’ve only got a run and then a trip to […]
I went to LibraryCon at the Springfield-Greene County Library Library Station branch this year as I did last year, and in reviewing that post, I see that I did pretty well in not buying a bunch last year (and reading one of the four books I bought, Obsidian Son, in the intervening year). This time, […]
With the pretext of buying a gift card for a random stranger, I dragged my youngest son to ABC Books yesterday. I got said gift card (actually for the coach of the youngest’s spring basketball team) and bought the young son a couple of cartoon collections (Family Circus and the Far Side). I also got […]
I had the usual time to kill between youth activities last night, and I know where all the Hooked on Books dollar book carts are, so I picked up a couple books. I spent six bucks and got: Twilight at Mac’s Place by Ross Thomas, whose books I’ve enjoyed, but not often. The Buddha Tree […]
Apparently, every time I find myself in Leavenworth, I have some time to kill, so I stop by the one used book store in the area (as I did last October). Whereas I bought four books up there last time I was in town, this time I only bought three (for myself). This time, I […]
Yesterday, my lovely young bride and I had some time to kill between errands, and since we were in the shopping center with the CPO/Redeemed book store in Springfield, I pulled into a parking space outside the shop. We only had roughly thirty minutes to kill, and I thought maybe we’d have to stop by […]
Well, as you might know, gentle reader, when we go on vacation, we tend to find used bookstores in the area to browse. Unfortunately, on our trip last week to Michigan, we found the book stores are few and far between in that corner of the state. We only hit a couple of these: Horizon […]