Found myself in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday – a field trip as part of our continuing family diaspora, but that’s fodder for another entry. My wife, after a couple weeks in the wilds of East Bumblefuck, was having shopping withdrawal, so we decamped the bucolic environs of Lancaster for the capital in search of a proper mall. Once she’d exhausted her desire for scented oils, or whatever the hell it is she and the distaff brigade were stocking up on at Bath and Body Works, and after we’d grabbed some lunch, it was time for book browsing, but, this being a mall, all it offered in the way of bookstores was a Barnes & Noble. However, a quick peak online turned up
Booked for Murder — and Indie Oasis in Madison, WI.
February 15, 2010 by Dan O'Shea
I wish I had a hundred and twenty bucks to spend on bucks.
Yeah, well, if it weren’t for leaching progeny soaking me for tuition money, I’d have way more than that.
Yeah, that sounds like my kind of stop. Thanks for the tip.
My favorite part of travel is finding bookstores like this. Good to know I’ll have a destination next time I’m in Madison.
When you’re in the Twin Cities next, we’ll have to stop by Keillor’s good general interest indie store Common Good or Once Upon A Crime, which I’ve never visited but heard good things about. http://www.onceuponacrimebooks.com/
I look forward to it. I hoping to get up there sometime in the next few weeks
You can never have too many great books, or too many great bookstores.
By the way, Dan, I apologize for this meme thing
http://bloodyknucklescallusedfingertips.blogspot.com/
it’s a time waster, but what the hell?
Next time you’re book shopping I would like to recommend Red Dwarf and Better Than Life by a gestalt entity known as Grant Naylor.
Just saying…