{"id":16896,"date":"2017-09-17T05:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T10:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2017-09-18T06:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:57:35","slug":"good-book-hunting-saturday-september-16-2017-branson-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/17\/good-book-hunting-saturday-september-16-2017-branson-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting Saturday, September 16, 2017: Branson, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we found ourselves in Branson, Missouri, with a little time on our hands, so we visited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calvin&#8217;s Used Books (one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/a-quiz-wherein-brian-j-has-a-failing-grade\/\" target=\"_new\">best used book stores in Missouri<\/a> last I heard), where I bought a number of books because at $2 each, that&#8217;s almost as good as $1 each.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The Shepherd of the Hills Humane Society Thrift Store, where the books were significantly cheaper.  I walked out with a box full of books for a buck fifty.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The State of the Ozarks festival in Hollister, which had a couple of booths with comic book and regular book authors, and I always like to pick up some of their work, although I don&#8217;t tend to get to the books quickly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh118.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh118.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five comic books from Anthony Hunter: Two issues of Lame Brains and the first three issues of Silent Sillies.  Which proves my thoughts of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/personal-goal-reached-revisited\/\" target=\"_new\">Are these the last comic books I ever read?<\/a>&#8221; were indeed premature.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Proof of God<\/em> by Larry Witham.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Three by the lately departed Jerry Pournelle: <em>Janissaries<\/em> (which I bought even though its front cover is almost completely detached), <em>Exiles to Glory<\/em>, and <em>King David&#8217;s Spaceship<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt<\/em><br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Six Easy Pieces<\/em> by Richard P. Feynman<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Wards of Iasos<\/em> by local author J. Cristopher Wilson.  I saw him at <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/19\/good-book-hunting-librarycon-2017-august-18-2017\/\" target=\"_new\">LibraryCon 2017<\/a>, but he was speaking in a panel when I passed by his table on the way out, so I didn&#8217;t buy his book.  I saw him and caught a little of a talk he gave at the Ozark Mini Maker Faire the next week.  When I saw him yesterday at a table in Hollister, his old home town, I told him if he was going to keep following me to fairs and festivals, I&#8217;d buy his book.  Now, when I see him around, I&#8217;ll remind him of that.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;A&#8221; is for Alibi<\/em> by Sue Grafton.  It&#8217;s an early edition, but I think it&#8217;s book club.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Face<\/em> by David St. John, a novella in verse.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Voodoo, Ltd.<\/em> by Ross Thomas.  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/28\/book-report-voodoo-ltd-by-ross-thomas-1992\/\" target=\"_new\">already read it<\/a>, but the copy I read is paperback, and this is a first printing.  Note to self: Do not put this on the to-read shelves, or I will have to read it again before I move it to the read shelves.  THERE ARE RULES.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Finding my Father<\/em> by Rod McKuen.  It&#8217;s prose and looks to be a memoir of some sort with a title Roger Waters and I can appreciate.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Mycenean World<\/em> by John Chadwick.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>Your Best Life Now<\/em> by Joel Osteen.  He takes a lot of hits from non-believers and otherly denominated Christians, but what is his theology?  I aim to find out.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A companion to the television\/video series <em>Charlton Heston Presents The Bible<\/em>.  Without the video.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Two books of photography, both called simply <em>San  Francisco<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The World of Herb Caen<\/em> by Barnaby Conrad about the legendary San Francisco columnist, and by &#8220;legendary,&#8221; I mean &#8220;mostly forgotten by the illiterate generations following ours.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><em>The Cotswolds<\/em>, a picture and guide book to that region of England, because I haven&#8217;t read a Cotswold or similarly named book in weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Someone from San Francisco (or a Friscophile) donated a bunch of books to the thrift store, as there were volumes of Rod McKuen poems along with the picture books and memoir I snagged above.<\/p>\n<p>My wife got a couple of Daniel Silva books she read as library books and wants to re-read and a copy of an inspirational book, <em>Joni<\/em>, to replace a copy she recently gave away.  The boys got three or four books themselves, but these are not pictured because they&#8217;ve already taken them away and probably have read most of them by now.<\/p>\n<p>This should keep me in browsing and reading for a bit.  Now, to get to finishing the books I have half-completed so I can get to them, maybe.  Except for the Ross Thomas book.  I really, really have to remember to put that on the read shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we found ourselves in Branson, Missouri, with a little time on our hands, so we visited: Calvin&#8217;s Used Books (one of the best used book stores in Missouri last I heard), where I bought a number of books because at $2 each, that&#8217;s almost as good as $1 each.&nbsp; The Shepherd of the Hills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16901,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}