{"id":34445,"date":"2025-10-14T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34445"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:22:21","slug":"good-book-hunting-friday-october-10-2025-davenport-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/14\/good-book-hunting-friday-october-10-2025-davenport-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, Friday, October 10, 2025: Davenport, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this weekend I took the tour of state capitals, driving through three but really visiting none, on the way to CornCon in Davenport, Iowa, and then a quick stop in the Milwaukee area to drop in in family too briefly.  <\/p>\n<p>As I did <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/09\/good-book-hunting-friday-october-5-and-saturday-october-6-2024-davenport-iowa\/\" target=\"_new\">last year<\/a>, I stopped by the Source book shop on 3rd Street, and Ben Wolf had a table peddling books.<\/p>\n<p>So I got a couple.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh10112025.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>First, I stopped at the Source, and although I wanted to buy everything in their better poetry section upstairs, I only got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Vigils<\/em> by Aline Kilmer (Mrs. Joyce Kilmer).  I explained to the guy ringing me out who Joyce Kilmer was.  I am not sure he was impressed.<\/li>\n<li><em>Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads<\/em> by Rudyard Kipling, a handsome 1899 omnibus edition.<\/li>\n<li><em>Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression<\/em> by Mildred Armstrong Kalish, which I got in the lower-priced basement local history section.  The guy behind the counter said they had several copies, but this is the first they sold.<\/ul>\n<p>They had a couple illustrated editions of James Whitcomb Riley&#8217;s works a la <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/18\/book-report-old-school-day-romances-by-james-whitcomb-riley-1909\/\" target=\"_new\">Old School Day Romances<\/em><\/a> and other old editions of Kipling.  They&#8217;re not crazy expensive&#8211;under $20 or so or maybe $30 for some titles&#8211;but they&#8217;re not dollar or two dollar books, either, and it wasn&#8217;t half-price day.  So I limited myself.  Perhaps by the time I go back, should I do so, next year, I will have read more about the local history and I can tell conference attendees things they don&#8217;t care about.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Ben Wolf what was new, and he asked me what I&#8217;d read (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/11\/book-report-the-ghost-mine-by-ben-wolf-2018\/\" target=\"_new\">The Ghost Mine<\/a><\/em> is all, although I bought a copy of his western and the start of one of his cyberpunk\/fantasy series.<\/p>\n<p>He convinced me to buy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Ghost Pact<\/em> and <em>The Ghost Plague<\/em> because when I picked up the second one, he assured me I would want both because the second ends on a cliffhanger.  Did I say that I wouldn&#8217;t get the next two in the series?  Well, that was last year, and I didn&#8217;t want to let the kid down.<\/li>\n<li><em>That The Frost?<\/em>, the first in a Santa versus zombies series.<\/li>\n<li><em>Rickshaw Riot<\/em>, which he co-wrote with another guy, about a developer who gets sucked into his video game, but others have, and because he came later, all the good classes were taken, so he has to be a rickshaw driver.  This one actually was thrown in free because I was buying three other books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buying only seven books over a five day weekend is what counts as &#8220;austerity&#8221; for me, although I spent more than I would for a couple of boxes of books at a library book sale.<\/p>\n<p>Which one will I read first?  <em>You know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this weekend I took the tour of state capitals, driving through three but really visiting none, on the way to CornCon in Davenport, Iowa, and then a quick stop in the Milwaukee area to drop in in family too briefly. As I did last year, I stopped by the Source book shop on 3rd [&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-34445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445","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=34445"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34666,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34445\/revisions\/34666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}