So, I kind of missed the fact that ALA is, for some people, all about rock star author signings and free ARCs! But I timed my discovery right, and met and got books signed by Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants) and Mo Willems (if you don't know who Mo Willems is you must not know any children at all) and saw Kate di Camillo (and, in non-children's news, Beverly Jackson at Harlequin.) And I got an ARC of the new book by the Hugo Cabret guy. It was a lot of fun, although some of the people who were super-organized and had schedules and charts of where to be at what time to meet who and get what books were a little scary.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
flea - Jun 27, 2011 2:30:09 am PDT #15422 of 28293
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Jessica - Jun 27, 2011 3:05:12 am PDT #15423 of 28293
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Flea, did you ask Mo Willems when he sleeps? I feel like there's a new Elephant & Piggie book being released every week!
flea - Jun 27, 2011 3:22:18 am PDT #15424 of 28293
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He is clearly very high-energy - he seemed to like talking to people (Dav Pilkey was shy.) I told him my favorite was "There is a Bird on Your Head." Also they had two people dressed up in Elephant and Piggie costumes and doing photo ops, but I forgot my camera.
Aims - Jun 27, 2011 4:18:02 am PDT #15425 of 28293
Shit's all sorts of different now.
"There is a Bird on Your Head" is also my favorite!! That and the one where Piggie tries to cheer up Elephant by dressing up as stuff to make Elephant happy but Elephant isn't happy cause Piggie isn't there to be excited, too. I love that one.
Jessica - Jun 27, 2011 4:28:03 am PDT #15426 of 28293
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm partial to "We Are In A Book"
DavidS - Jun 27, 2011 4:54:11 am PDT #15427 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Emmett is super psyched that Dav Pilkey has finally put out Super Diaper Baby 2 which he's been waiting to read since it was promised seven years ago.
beth b - Jun 27, 2011 5:06:17 am PDT #15428 of 28293
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I love "there is a bird on your head" too. It is a really fun book to do for story time
Kathy A - Jun 27, 2011 6:19:55 am PDT #15429 of 28293
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
ALA is, for some people, all about rock star author signings and free ARCs!
That's what BookExpo America is for me! I think I maybe attended one session in three years; the rest of the time, I wandered the vendor booths, chatted with authors of all types (my favorites were actually the unknown ones--they loved to chat), and snagged freebies.
Strix - Jun 27, 2011 7:01:22 am PDT #15430 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
NCTE was that way, too. IN-SANE.
Hil R. - Jun 27, 2011 7:14:38 am PDT #15431 of 28293
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm reading Old Met at Midnight by Chaim Potok. I picked it up because the summary on the back cover made it seem like it was about Ilana Davita Dinn, who is one of my favorite of his characters (from the book Davita's Harp), but she's barely in this book at all. The book has three stories. The first one, she's the main character, but it really could have been almost anybody -- she's just there to set the stage for someone else's story. And in the second story, she's just there for the first few pages -- the rest of the story is, again, someone else telling her his story. And this time, it's not even in a conversation with her, it's in a letter to her. One of the reviews on the back cover includes, "The sheer power that Davita's presence unleashes in this collection is nothing short of spellbinding." I feel like that reviewer must have read a different book than the one that I'm reading.