Convention - Part III - Sunday
Apr. 29th, 2006 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mojosmomThese Canadians don't kid around about breakfast. We had a breakfast buffet that could have served to last all day. Gorgeous pastries and back bacon and fruit and potatoes and eggs and other good stuff.
The first presentation was AwesomeAud (who was also my roomie) talking about Book Repair. Despite having lost most of her voice (she regained it a bit into her presentation), she did a great job. She kept things simple, and accompanied her speech with diagrams as well as showing examples of books she had repaired.
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whytraven on "BookCrossing & Your Life" (wait, BookCrossing is our life, isn't it?). Seriously, it was quite an interesting discussion of how to incorporate the two.
Then author Judith Robinson talked about her book on evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson. McPherson was a unique character, a celebrity healer and preacher, about whom the breath of scandal hovered. I thought, though, that Robinson got a bit too enamored of her subject to cast an appropriately skeptical eye.
After a refreshment break (more yummy food - gosh, they did us well in this department!), we had speakers from the Canadian Book and Periodical Council, a sponsor of the Freedom to Read Week (as part of which their Freedom of Expression Committee joined with Bookcrossing in a "Free a Challenged Book" release program). Some of the stories they told were pretty scary!
Then we voted to have the 2008 Convention in England - so start saving your pennies!
It was sad to leave everyone; I had such a good time! But after a bite to eat with Sonora and Voyager at a Tim Horton's, we headed for the airport and home. It was nice to see the cats again. ;-))
The first presentation was AwesomeAud (who was also my roomie) talking about Book Repair. Despite having lost most of her voice (she regained it a bit into her presentation), she did a great job. She kept things simple, and accompanied her speech with diagrams as well as showing examples of books she had repaired.
This was followed by
whytraven on "BookCrossing & Your Life" (wait, BookCrossing is our life, isn't it?). Seriously, it was quite an interesting discussion of how to incorporate the two.Then author Judith Robinson talked about her book on evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson. McPherson was a unique character, a celebrity healer and preacher, about whom the breath of scandal hovered. I thought, though, that Robinson got a bit too enamored of her subject to cast an appropriately skeptical eye.
After a refreshment break (more yummy food - gosh, they did us well in this department!), we had speakers from the Canadian Book and Periodical Council, a sponsor of the Freedom to Read Week (as part of which their Freedom of Expression Committee joined with Bookcrossing in a "Free a Challenged Book" release program). Some of the stories they told were pretty scary!
Then we voted to have the 2008 Convention in England - so start saving your pennies!
It was sad to leave everyone; I had such a good time! But after a bite to eat with Sonora and Voyager at a Tim Horton's, we headed for the airport and home. It was nice to see the cats again. ;-))
