Sunday After BEA16
After sharing about my book haul and several book bloggers I was so thrilled to finally meet (alas, I missed many more!), time for a broader picture and for telling you all about the ideas I brought back.
First, a few pictures of the background. We were meeting at McCormick Place, a huge center with 4 major buildings. Here are pictures taken from the West building where BEA was held:
And one more impressive line:
And some awesome huge banners:
It was cool seeing for real, not only bloggers, but famous authors:
It was fun greeting Hervé Tullet in French. I talked about his fun children book Press Here on this blog.
And this lady seems just as nice in reality as in her writing or social media profile:
As I prefer to listen to Louise Penny‘s series, I let others grab her print ARC.
My first stop on the floor was to this most generous press: Other Press. They have been sending me books regularly, so I absolutely wanted to see them and thank them, and they were also so generous at the booth, plus I spoke with Mona in French:
Some other cool signs:
A book tower, almost gone (originally twice higher):
Words And Peace 
I’d never heard of Louise Penny before BEA. I’m excited to read her book.
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OMG, her mysteries are such high quality writing. Though because almost all books (12 so far) take place in the same village in Quebec, and there’s a neat evolution in the characters and the relationships between them, I would highly recommend to read them in order, I think you would get so much more from them. And if you like audiobooks, you HAVE to listen to them, choose with the narrator Ralph Cosham, superb. Alas, he died recently, so the latest books in the series are by another narrator.
Here is the list of the titles in order; https://www.goodreads.com/series/42154-chief-inspector-armand-gamache
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How fun, love to see the pics. Glad you enjoyed BEA! I love conventions and events like this. 🙂
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thanks Greg, it was definitely a nice thing to experience
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The Europa display is so beautiful! Probably because of their tasteful, stylish covers. And I know someone (@IsiOrejas) who will simply love seeing that Underwood typewriter/tablet display. She collects and uses manual typewriters. Thanks for sharing so much delightful news about the BEA. Lovely to see such happy swarming around books, print and otherwise!
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thanks Lucy. It would have been nice to see you there by the way
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Aaaah! Totally jealous of your BEA experience. I ended up staying home this year. 🙂
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I hope you can go next year, but I see you had a great experience at ArmchairBEA, one of my favorite blog events
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