After the book festival moved indoors, I took a couple years off. I just couldn't believe that it would be as good as when it was held on the National Mall. What can I say...I was wrong! There is definitely something to be said for air conditioning, indoor bathrooms, tables and chairs, real food, and no weather worries.
Getting to the book festival, I felt like such a grown-up. I took the train from my town to Union Station, got on the connector bus from there to the Convention Center, and took an Uber (my first!) from the Festival to a friend's house where we were having bookclub that night.
First of all, that convention center is HUGE! Somewhere there is an auditorium that holds 2,500, because that's where Stephen King spoke. I didn't have a ticket to that event, so I didn't even look for it. But it's there somewhere, as are lots of other rooms where authors spoke.
As usual, my focus was the author signing area, which was in the basement of the convention center. Have I said yet how huge that place is?! There were 20+ lines for authors, and there was still plenty of room everywhere.
Here were some of my favorite moments:
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| My nephew poses with two books with similar titles. I met both authors! |
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| Edwidge Danticat, author of Untwine. |
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| Ali Benjamin, author of The Thing about Jellyfish |
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| My nephew with Kwame Alexander. |
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| My new favorite, Jason Reynolds. |
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| Extreme close-up of Jason Reynolds. |
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| me with Shannon Hale. |
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| Raina Telgemeier, graphic novelist, signed over 1,800 books in 70 minutes! |
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| Pam Munoz Ryan, author of Echo. |
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