{"id":17982,"date":"2020-07-19T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2020-08-15T19:09:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:09:46","slug":"day-128-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=17982","title":{"rendered":"Day 128: Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the pandemic first started, I found websites of a lot of independent bookstores that offered surprise books and\/or book subscriptions. I was temped by every single one. But I wasn’t ready to commit, especially because some of them were a mite pricey, even given my pandemic spending madness, even knowing how expensive books are at real (read: not Amazon) bookstores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across yet another, Honest Dog Books of Bayfield, WI. I liked the store name and the story behind how the owner bought the place (you can read about it here<\/a>). For $9 the owner offers to pick out a used book for you based on the last three books you loved. I felt like a surprise book might be just the thing to perk me up, so I ordered one plus a book of poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today my books arrived. Here you can see my surprise book in its packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surprise Book<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And here is a picture of my two new books, unwrapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overture <\/em>by Yael Goldstein and American Journal Fifty Poems for Our Time<\/em> selected and introduced by Tracy K. Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Overture<\/em> sounds interesting, and it’s something I probably wouldn’t have found on my own, so I’m thinking it was a good choice. And Fifty Poems for Our Time<\/em>, which I chose for myself but which I had only heard of through Honest Dog Books, seems like a solid choice. That is, I trust Tracy K. Smith not to steer me wrong, or at least not to steer me wrong 50 times \ud83d\ude09 . I am looking forward to reading both books, though it may be a while before I get to them, because I currently have my nose sandwiched between the pages of a Barbara Michaels novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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