{"id":29990,"date":"2022-06-20T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29990"},"modified":"2024-01-04T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:20:49","slug":"good-book-hunting-thursday-june-16-2022-the-village-booksmith-baraboo-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/20\/good-book-hunting-thursday-june-16-2022-the-village-booksmith-baraboo-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Thursday, June 16, 2022: The Village Booksmith, Baraboo, Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I just completed a week-long trip to Wisconsin, featuring the normal pass through the Milwaukee area to visit my father&#8217;s grave and see my grandmother, and then onto the Dells.  During one of our days at the Dells, we travelled to Baraboo, Wisconsin, and I was pleased to find that the Village Booksmith is still in business (remember, gentle reader, I visited the book store <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/good-book-hunting-monday-june-5-2017-the-villiage-booksmith-in-baraboo-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">five years ago<\/a> on our last trip to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I bought some things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh194.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So, what did I get?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Superkill<\/em>, the third paperback based on the <em>I Spy<\/em> television series.  You know, I am pretty sure that I have not seen a complete episode; I don&#8217;t know why this was not heavily in syndication when I was young, but it was not.<\/li>\n<li><em>We Are Staying<\/em> by a different Jen Rubin than the blogger.  It&#8217;s about an electronics store in New York City over the years.  I&#8217;m not sure why this was selling new at a store in Baraboo.  No, wait, scratch that: the author lives in Madison, prolly at the university.<\/li>\n<li><em>Some Freaks<\/em> by David Mamet, a memoir of sorts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Why We Watch:  Killing the Gilligan Within<\/em> by a teletherapist named Dr. Will Miller.  Purportedly about watching television to improve your mental health.<\/li>\n<li><em>Doc Savage: Red Snow and Death Had Yellow Eyes<\/em> by Kenneth Robeson, two Doc Savage tales reprinted in one large (tall and wide) volume with some end material about Doc Savage and the author.<\/li>\n<li><em>Famous Fantastic Mysteries<\/em> from June 1953 with Ayn Rand&#8217;s <em>Anthem<\/em> as the cover story.  It is listed on Ebay at $165; I paid $35.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, we have one book in dispute: Charlie Berens&#8217; <em>The Midwest Survival Guide<\/em>.  My oldest, who already talked me into buying him <em>Gestures: The Do&#8217;s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World<\/em> spotted this book after I&#8217;d passed by twice.  But when he asked me if I would buy it for him, I said I&#8217;d buy it for me and he could read it.  So where the book ends up remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>I did not delve into any of the books yet, and to be honest, looking back at what I bought five years ago, I really have only read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/14\/book-report-thundering-silence-by-thich-nhat-hanh-1993\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Thundering Silence<\/em> by Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a> from what I bought then.  Well, gentle reader, you know how I operate: Books I buy go in the stacks, exhumed decades later when I&#8217;m suddenly in the mood for a book or I&#8217;m suddenly reading a bunch of books about a topic, and of course I have another book about it that I bought way back in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I just completed a week-long trip to Wisconsin, featuring the normal pass through the Milwaukee area to visit my father&#8217;s grave and see my grandmother, and then onto the Dells. During one of our days at the Dells, we travelled to Baraboo, Wisconsin, and I was pleased to find that the Village [&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-29990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990","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=29990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31752,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29990\/revisions\/31752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}