{"id":33156,"date":"2024-10-09T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33156"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:19:23","slug":"good-book-hunting-friday-october-5-and-saturday-october-6-2024-davenport-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/09\/good-book-hunting-friday-october-5-and-saturday-october-6-2024-davenport-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6, 2024: Davenport, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/08\/a-long-weekend\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I mentioned<\/a>, I was in Davenport, Iowa, over the weekend.  As it happened, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sourcebookstore\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Source Book Store<\/a> was only a block and a half from our hotel (and a block from the conference center), so I stopped in there.  It&#8217;s 5000 square feet of books across several floors in an old building.  The proprietor, an older gentleman, said his grandfather started the store 89 years ago in a different location and gestured to a painting of an older man reading a book before some bookshelves.  I only looked in a couple of places: Poetry (looking for more early Edna St. Vincent Millay editions), literature, and local history (so that if we attend this conference again next year I can tell my beautiful wife all about Davenport).<\/p>\n<p>Also, if I thought I was safe from a book signing merely because I was several hundred miles away from ABC Books, I was sorely mistaken.  The conference did not have many vendors present, but one was a table with a large display from an author.<\/p>\n<p>So I got a couple of his books, too, but not one of each&#8211;he had like twenty books scattered among four or five series and one-offs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh102024iowa.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>At the Source Book Store, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 1909 edition of <em>Old School Day Romances<\/em> by James Whitcomb Riley.  I wonder if I should order more mylar for book jackets just to cover this book (and some others).<\/li>\n<li><em>The Dangerous Summer<\/em> by Ernest Hemingway, his account of a summer in Spain watching bull fights.<\/li>\n<li><em>The River and the Prairie<\/em> by William Robu.  &#8220;Do you know Bill?&#8221; the proprietor asked.  Apparently, the author used to call the book store when he was looking for things, but the proprietor is not sure if the author is still alive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From author Ben Wolf, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Unlucky<\/em>, a one-off Western.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Ghost Mine<\/em>, the first book in the Tech Ghost series about an energy mine that has gone silent and the investigation thereof.<\/li>\n<li><em>Winterspell<\/em>, a cyberpunk dystopian thriller and the start of the series which sounds maybe a little like William Devore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/28\/book-report-earthborn-awakening-by-matthew-s-devore-2018\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Earthborn<\/a> series, the second of which I have around here somewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all likelihood, I will pick up the Riley book and the history first.  As to Ben Wolf&#8217;s sci-fi\/fantasy books, I still have to get through five or six <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/23\/good-book-hunting-saturday-july-23-2022-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Bucky and the Lukefahr Ladies<\/a> books to get through sometime soon, which might be in the next decade, first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I was in Davenport, Iowa, over the weekend. As it happened, the Source Book Store was only a block and a half from our hotel (and a block from the conference center), so I stopped in there. It&#8217;s 5000 square feet of books across several floors in an old building. 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