{"id":24613,"date":"2019-06-01T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24613"},"modified":"2019-06-01T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T15:44:55","slug":"good-book-hunting-may-29-2019-calvins-books-branson-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/01\/good-book-hunting-may-29-2019-calvins-books-branson-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, May 29, 2019: Calvin&#8217;s Book&#8217;s, Branson, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s worth of posts so you wouldn&#8217;t know to come ransack the fabled libraries of Nogglestead in my absence.  Clearly, you cannot trust me at all.<\/p>\n<p>But since we were near Branson, of course we had to stop at Calvin&#8217;s Books.<\/p>\n<p>As we had packed our SUV to the brim with cooking gear, food, and clothing, I exercised some discipline in my purchases.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh154.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sanibel Shell Shocked<\/em> by Art Stevens, a collection of humor newspaper columns from the 1980s and very early 1990s.  While in Branson, my beautiful wife started talking about booking our vacation next year.  A beach vacation.  She&#8217;s hoping for Sanibel Island.  So this book was the first that I saw, and I picked it up.<\/li>\n<li><em>Herschend Family Values<\/em>, a polemic about the Herschend family, who bought the Marvel Cave attraction, built Silver Dollar City around it, and turned it into a vast business empire.<\/li>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> by Jon Krakauer about a guy who sells everything, hitches to Alaska, and walks into the woods only to be found dead shortly thereafter.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bait and Switch<\/em> by Barbara Ehrenreich.  In hardback.  Which might <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/refuting-ehrenreich\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prove damaging<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Coloring Book<\/em> by Colin Quinn.  A musing on race relations from that guy from the MTV game show <em>Remote Control<\/em> (no, the other guy) and the actor in <em>A Night At The Roxbury<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, Calvin&#8217;s didn&#8217;t offer a good selection for my children, who failed to pack any books for the trip (also, toothbrushes, it was revealed on the last night there).<\/p>\n<p>Since I only bought five books, I could conceivably read them all by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ha!  Just kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s worth of posts so you wouldn&#8217;t know to come ransack the fabled libraries of Nogglestead in my absence. Clearly, you cannot trust me at [&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-24613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613","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=24613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24616,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions\/24616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}