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Book Haul from the Book Crawl

The idea is simple and delightful: you carry a Wyoming Book Crawl passport, a bingo-style card with a square for every participating shop, and collect a stamp or sticker at each one you visit. Every stop is a chance to meet a local bookseller, browse shelves you would never find at a chain store, and see a different corner of the state.

The wrapping paper at the bottom of the book stack contains the leavings from my “Blind Date with a Book” purchase from Bookin’ It in Casper. The stacks: some planned, most impulse buys:

  • A healthy dose of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series (you know some people think this series is prophetic).
  • The Lost Library and The Heir Apparent.
  • Gene Wolfe, Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth, and a Stephen King pair: The Shining and Storm of the Century.
  • Lisa Jewell’s It Could Have Been Her and T. Kingfisher’s A House with Good Bones.
  • The new Lucy Foley,  Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for good measure.
  • Kathleen Rooney’s new release,  Man Overboard!
  • Anna James’s Alice with a Why.

Why You Should Do It

A book crawl turns shopping into a treasure hunt. You support independent businesses, meet people who genuinely love books, and see parts of Wyoming you might otherwise drive right past. Plus, a stamped passport makes a better souvenir than anything off a gift shop rack!

Locations participating in the crawl:

  1. Dog-Eared Books – Afton
  2. Bookin’ It – Casper
  3. The Dreadful Bookshop – Casper
  4. Wind City Books – Casper
  5. Legends Bookstore – Cody
  6. Jen’s Books – Douglas
  7. Waterwheel Books – Dubois
  8. Jackson Hole Book Trader – Jackson
  9. Indie Darling Bookstore – Lander
  10. The Annex – Laramie
  11. Night Hearon Books – Laramie
  12. Second Story – Laramie
  13. Woodland Book Nook – Pinedale
  14. Forrest & Fawn – Riverton
  15. Lioness Lane Bookery – Riverton
  16. Sheridan Stationery & Books – Sheridan
  17. Storyteller & Jackrabbit Java – Thermopolis
  18. The Wanderer on Gilchrist – Wheatland

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On My Bookshelf: Ink and Bone, by Rachel Caine

I finished Ink and Bone earlier this week. This is book one of Rachel Caine’s The Great Library series. This was a thought provoking read about what could have happened if the Great Library of Alexandria had survived; had kept Gutenberg’s printing press from existence; and had kept control of the dissemination of books and knowledge (making personal ownership of books illegal).

A truly terrifying and captivating read! The post-it notes mark all of the passages that reference the personal journals that the characters kept. Oh yes, the Great Library issued  electronic journals to its citizens. Parents were diligent about their children “writing” in their journals every night, and when citizens died, the journals would be seized for The Great Library to archive them.

Page 34: “..the Library provided them free on the birth of a child, and encouraged every citizen of the world to write their thoughts and memories from the earliest age possible. Everyone kept a record of the days and hours of their lives to be archived in the Library upon their deaths. The Library was a kind of memorial, in that way. It was one reason the people loved it so, for the fact that it lent them a kind of immortality.” 

Meanwhile, the Library also used the electronic journals to spy upon its own citizens. Really, really scary. And timely. These people should have kept handwritten journals, not electronic diaries! Perhaps a secret diary journal?

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Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

Thankfully, we still mostly have the right to be secure in our own papers. Can you imagine what the world would be like if we didn’t have that anymore? Chilling!

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