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Books, books, and more books!
Jun. 10th, 2007 10:02 pmWhat a literary weekend! Between the Festival of the Book
(and the accompanying exhibit, Action/Interaction)
at Columbia College, and the Printers Row Book Fair, it's been books and authors all over the place. Friday night was the opening reception at FOB/AI, with Audrey Niffenegger giving a talk. I did a quick browse of the vendors room, and went through the exhibition (though these will be up for a while, so I can go back), but it was mostly drinking, noshing and chatting.
Yesterday, however, I did nothing literary. I had friends over for dinner, so the day was spent straightening up the apartment, cooking, etc. We had a grand time, though there were not as many of us as usual, as a couple of people were out of town and a couple had family obligations. Lilith was a bit of a brat and threw up on Julie's shoes. Fortunately, they were sneakers, thus easily cleaned, and most of it landed on the floor.
More books today, though. I had committed to being at the Chicago Hand Bookbinders table at the Festival from noon until 2:00 p.m., so decided, after much vacillating, that I would take the bus and go to Printers Row first, do my stint, and then, possibly, go back to Printers Row. The Book Fair is set up on Dearborn Street, with booths on either side and down the middle, so the plan was to go down one side, with an occasional browse in the middle, and then visit the booths at the end. I would then go to the Festival and come back and do the other side of Dearborn Street. However, by the time I got done with one side, I was loaded down! Had I done both sides of the street, I would have needed a truck (or at least a cab) to get home! Got some good stuff, including a book for one of my sisters (which she may have already, she wasn't home when I called to ask, but at $2.50, what the heck). Sadly, Congregation Makom Shalom was not having their usual book sale. (They are on the same street as the fair and their sale is generally a great source of books for me.) For some reason, Ghirardelli Chocolates was giving away free samples. I'm not sure of the connection (I think it was a "life's simple pleasures" thing), but who am I to turn down free chocolates?
While at the Fair, I stopped by the Twilight Tales booth. I'm a huge fan of Tina Jens (she's the one on the left),
and told them so (I'm continuallypushing her books onrecommending her books to people. The guy I was talking to told me that they were having a "double debut" party at a local bar tonight, to celebrate the publication of two new anthologies (one of which I bought), in both of which Jens had a story. He also gave me a couple of copies of her book, wrote her email address in it, and told me that the next time I recommended it to someone, I should give them a copy! I had been thinking of going to hear Dee Alexander at the Checkerboard, but since I'd heard her a there a few weeks ago, I ultimately decided to pass on that at go to Villains for the book party. It was great! Not a lot of people, but a lot of fun. They were having a raffle, and I won a bunch of ARCs. I also bought the other anthology, in a deal with Jens. I bought the anthology and she gave me another couple of copies of The Blues Ain't Nothin' to give away. We really hit it off, and the next thing I knew, she invited me to a cocktail party at her house next week.
I had a great time at the Festival, though. Marlene, CHB's current president, and I were at the table, chatting up folks right and left, getting them to join (or re-up). I had the opportunity to do some serious checking out of the vendors (bought some single sheet books from Emily Martin), and again seeing folks I haven't seen for a while and catching up.
Now I'm home, and wanting to catalogue all the books I got tonight, and LibraryThing is down! Bummer.
Talked to my younger sister yesterday (I'd called her Friday night, which was her birthday, but she was out having sushi and beer). She's tolerating the radiation pretty well. She goes in for it after work (which she leaves a bit early), and either walks home, if it's good weather, or takes a shuttle bus from the medical center where she has the treatment to the one right near her house.
(and the accompanying exhibit, Action/Interaction)
at Columbia College, and the Printers Row Book Fair, it's been books and authors all over the place. Friday night was the opening reception at FOB/AI, with Audrey Niffenegger giving a talk. I did a quick browse of the vendors room, and went through the exhibition (though these will be up for a while, so I can go back), but it was mostly drinking, noshing and chatting.
Yesterday, however, I did nothing literary. I had friends over for dinner, so the day was spent straightening up the apartment, cooking, etc. We had a grand time, though there were not as many of us as usual, as a couple of people were out of town and a couple had family obligations. Lilith was a bit of a brat and threw up on Julie's shoes. Fortunately, they were sneakers, thus easily cleaned, and most of it landed on the floor.
More books today, though. I had committed to being at the Chicago Hand Bookbinders table at the Festival from noon until 2:00 p.m., so decided, after much vacillating, that I would take the bus and go to Printers Row first, do my stint, and then, possibly, go back to Printers Row. The Book Fair is set up on Dearborn Street, with booths on either side and down the middle, so the plan was to go down one side, with an occasional browse in the middle, and then visit the booths at the end. I would then go to the Festival and come back and do the other side of Dearborn Street. However, by the time I got done with one side, I was loaded down! Had I done both sides of the street, I would have needed a truck (or at least a cab) to get home! Got some good stuff, including a book for one of my sisters (which she may have already, she wasn't home when I called to ask, but at $2.50, what the heck). Sadly, Congregation Makom Shalom was not having their usual book sale. (They are on the same street as the fair and their sale is generally a great source of books for me.) For some reason, Ghirardelli Chocolates was giving away free samples. I'm not sure of the connection (I think it was a "life's simple pleasures" thing), but who am I to turn down free chocolates?
While at the Fair, I stopped by the Twilight Tales booth. I'm a huge fan of Tina Jens (she's the one on the left),
and told them so (I'm continually
I had a great time at the Festival, though. Marlene, CHB's current president, and I were at the table, chatting up folks right and left, getting them to join (or re-up). I had the opportunity to do some serious checking out of the vendors (bought some single sheet books from Emily Martin), and again seeing folks I haven't seen for a while and catching up.
Now I'm home, and wanting to catalogue all the books I got tonight, and LibraryThing is down! Bummer.
Talked to my younger sister yesterday (I'd called her Friday night, which was her birthday, but she was out having sushi and beer). She's tolerating the radiation pretty well. She goes in for it after work (which she leaves a bit early), and either walks home, if it's good weather, or takes a shuttle bus from the medical center where she has the treatment to the one right near her house.
