{"id":4640,"date":"2024-05-28T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2024-05-28T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T17:23:15","slug":"two-bookshop-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/28\/two-bookshop-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Bookshop Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134028-1024x821.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4641\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I wrote about our trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/a-day-out-mohican-state-park\/\">Mohican State Park<\/a> and I mentioned that it rained one of the days we were there which obviously made bookstore visits absolutely necessary. We started at Holly&#8217;s Book Rack in Ontario, OH. Frequently, I find that some of the secondhand bookshops I visit don&#8217;t stock older books. Since those are the books I am usually looking for that can lead to disappointment. Thankfully, Holly&#8217;s Book Rack had a good selection of classics and older books. I spent a long time browsing and finally bought the books in the photo above. When I was paying for them the owner looked through my selection and said &#8220;Wow, you are really all over the place with your reading, aren&#8217;t you?&#8221; She isn&#8217;t wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240527_134156-1140x855.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On our way home we stopped at Books in Stock in Wooster, OH. I visited previously and wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/bookshop-visit-books-in-stock\/\">here<\/a>. It is one of my favorite bookshops I have discovered since we moved to Ohio and I was happy to get the chance to revisit it. The selection is always amazing and I had to whittle down the books I bought from the huge stack I accumulated as I wandered around the shop. They had a lot of books I really coveted that were out of my price range as well. I was pleased to find the book by Norman Longmate since I have read some of his books before and found them to be informative and very readable non-fiction. My husband found <em>Literary London<\/em> and immediately brought it to me. He does a good job at hunting out things that might interest me. I buy Mignon Eberharts whenever I encounter them so those were good finds as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hadn&#8217;t bought any books in quite a while and now I have stacks of them waiting to be put on shelves. I have two more posts to come about other purchases. I am still laid up recovering from bunion surgery and I am restraining myself from buying books online. I really shouldn&#8217;t but a package or two arriving would certainly brighten my days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I wrote about our trip to Mohican State Park and I mentioned that it rained one of the days we were there which obviously made bookstore visits absolutely necessary. We started at Holly&#8217;s Book Rack in Ontario, OH. Frequently, I find that some of the secondhand bookshops I visit don&#8217;t stock older books. Since those are the books I am usually looking for that can lead to disappointment. Thankfully, Holly&#8217;s Book Rack had a good selection of classics and older books. I spent a long time browsing and finally bought the books in the photo above. When I was paying for them the owner looked through my selection and said &#8220;Wow, you are really all over the place with your reading, aren&#8217;t you?&#8221; She isn&#8217;t wrong. On our way home we stopped at Books in Stock in Wooster, OH. I visited previously and wrote about it here. It is one of my favorite bookshops I have discovered since we moved to Ohio and I was happy to get the chance to revisit it. The selection is always amazing and I had to whittle down the books I bought from the huge stack I accumulated as I wandered around the shop. They had a lot of books I really coveted that were out of my price range as well. I was pleased to find the book by Norman Longmate since I have read some of his books before and found them to be informative and very readable non-fiction. My husband found Literary London and immediately brought it to me. He does a good job at hunting out things that might interest me. I buy Mignon Eberharts whenever I encounter them so those were good finds as well. I hadn&#8217;t bought any books in quite a while and now I have stacks of them waiting to be put on shelves. I have two more posts to come about other purchases. I am still laid up recovering from bunion surgery and I am restraining myself from buying books online. I really shouldn&#8217;t but a package or two arriving would certainly brighten my days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookshops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4643,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}