I always looked forward to the yearly book fair when I was a kid. My school hosted it in our library every fall and I could never go without buying a book or two and a bunch of bookmarks.
Of course, when I grew up, there were no more school book fairs, but a few years [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Events’
November 14, 2009
Book Fair Day
October 26, 2009
What a [Steam]punk
Scott Westerfeld came to Books & Books on Sunday afternoon to promote the first book in his new steampunk trilogy, Leviathan.
I have yet to read the Uglies series, though it has been on my “I will get around to it one day” list for a while, but after reading a blurb for Leviathan and seeing [...]
February 9, 2009
A Royal Evening
This past Saturday, Books and Books hosted the final Princess Diaries event ever, sending the series out with a royal (and chocolatey) farewell. The girls from YAthenaeum precided over the ceremony and introduced Meg Cabot, who spoke for about an hour, sharing very funny personal stories about her days as a manager for one of [...]
November 16, 2008
It’s book fair time!
The Miami International Book Fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and seems to have drawn quite a lot of book lovers if the “Sold Out” bookstalls that I saw yesterday are any indication.
I started going to the fair four years ago, so I knew that I had to set a budget for myself [...]
April 8, 2008
a fresh bengali meal
Attended Jhumpa Lahiri’s book-signing event at Books and Books last night. Lahiri read “Heaven-Hell” from her new collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth. Like her other works, this series focuses on the immigrant experience, specifically that of ‘transplanted’ Bengalis. However, what makes Lahiri’s writing so captivating is her examination of the so-called human condition, an [...]
