#bookcon2018

[jenabrownwrites]

Thoughts on summer ending??? Yay or 😭😭😭??? 📚 I’m happy the weather is cooling here in the desert. Triple digit heat gets a bit much when you’re trying to live that vampire life 😂 it’s warm during the day but finally getting some cooler temps at night, so that makes me very happy! It’s nice to not get heatstroke at 10pm. Plus, we’ll be in the warmer end of things for all of September and most of October, so I don’t really feel like summer is quite on its last legs here. I’m still undecided how I feel about that. 📚 I have been coveting this towel since I first saw it two years ago! So obviously, one of the first things I did at #bookcon2018 was drag @bookloverscoffee to the @getunderlined booth and showed them my preorder for one of their upcoming books! AND THEN THEY GAVE ME THIS GLORIOUS BEAUTY!!!! Behold, the towel for book lovers everywhere!!! We’re heading to San Diego next weekend and you bet your bookish behind, this is going in my beach bag!!! Along with a few books from this awesome lineup 🙌🏻🖤🙌🏻 at least, the two I haven’t read from these amazing books!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/BnMI1foFjmh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1206l1ctr5pdk

[inopinion]

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[cat-has-books]

Another #bookcon2018 snag!! I think this is the prologue, and it was AWESOME! I can’t wait for whole thing in August 😻 ✨ #catwoman #sjmcatwoman #sarahjmaas #sjm @penguinteen #penguinrandomhouse #thecatwillplay #selinakyle #cat_has_books #cat #meow #bookaholic #bookstagrammer #bookish #lovebooks #booklife #books #ya #youngadult #yalit

[twogirlsandabookobsession]

My amazing blog partner and book bestie sent me these beauties she got for me from #bookcon2018 beyond excited! Yay #Bookmail ❤💜❤💜

[xsimplymi]

My shoulders are still hurting from #TheBookcon 📚 this past weekend! I had such a huge book haul and such a great time - my thoughts on the con -> http://theplottwist.net/?p=754

[theonewhere-shewrites-blog]

I fangirled so much at the @canterburyclassics booth at Book Con that my friend bought it for me when I had no money left. That is what you call a true friend! 😂🤣 I picked it up because it was the last one I saw, and I was utterly determined to not put it down! • For obvious reasons, everyone thinks of the hit BBC show, Sherlock, these days. But I've loved Sherlock for a long time. I even have my godmother's Sherlock collection book from the 60's tucked away in a special place in my library. Sherlock certain holds one of the reasons for my deep Anglophile obsession as a child that led me to England last year. • What's your story that led you to Sherlock? • #canturburyclassics #classics #sherlock #sherlockholmes #bibliophile #bookcon2018 #bookstagram #booklr #bookish #book

[booksbeyondimagining]

BookCon2018 | Sunday Recap

BookCon2018 | Sunday Recap

Alright, onto the Sunday recap then!

Sunday was a little less…great for me.  I mean, I met a lot of authors and still got some great things, but I had my eye on the ARC of For a Muse of Fire so much that it was a little disappointing when I ended up with 0 chance of even playing the game of chance to win it.  (You had to get to the booth an hour early to get tickets for the game an hour later. …

[jenabrownwrites]

If you had three wishes, what would they be??? 📚 I’d first wish for eternal youth specifying that I would like to be in my mid-20’s so I don’t end up seven years old. Genies be tricksy. I also really want a Mary Poppins bag. Can you even imagine how handy that would be!??!? And while I’d like to say I’d wish for world peace or something equally generous, I’d probably go with the ability to turn my loved ones immortal too. What can I say, I feel like I could do a lot of good with forever on earth 😂😂😂 at the very least, I’d be able to read a ton of books, and that’s what’s really important, right?! 📚 I read #thecityofbrass earlier this year in a #buddyread with @trissinalovesbooks and we both FELL IN LOVE!!! This book is so amazing. It has magic, forbidden romance, treachery, royalty, war, secrets.... basically everything I love! And it just swept me away!!! I even got my @bookofthemonth edition SIGNED by @s.a.chakraborty when I went to #bookcon2018 and I cherish this story even more!!! I don’t see this gem often here on the gram so I knew right away I wanted to share it on #underratedthursday 📚 and when I was thinking of what photo to do, I looked at the cover and then @xenatine posted a campfire photo made of books, and I knew I had to try it! I am quite pleased with how it turned out!!! Be sure to check out the original on her account! And stop by @readerinthefog for her recommendation today!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/BmjAHhRFeEn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wqfg9x25vj3q

[betterbooksandthings]

BookCon 2018 free book haul! The New York City Bookcon never disappoints. As always the angels working the booth made the con experience even better this year. Props to their ability to manage lines of hungry readers in an excited convention center. The signings and panels were a ton of fun and I felt like there were a wider array of authors signing books this year. Thank you A.C. Gaughen, Tahereh Mafi, Sarah Beth Durst and Nicola Yoon! Also, somehow Victoria Schwab managed to sign hundreds of her new ARCs at the con (possible magic). As always, the books above are only a small sample of the books that were given away over the two day period. (The romance and mystery novel booths were promoting some fabulous authors this year.) If you want to know more about the books above I would be happy to send you links to the novels. I am excited to make my way through my new TBR!

[damianrules]

Got to hang out with this asshole today @cafegrim It was a good con, and I'm so going again but on a Saturday because it's the better day. More authors, and booths are there. #bookcon2018 #theravencycle #bluesargent #sixofcrows #wylanvaneck #cosplay

[ipgbook]

Thank you to all of you #BookCon goers who made some really cool #blackoutpoetry this weekend @thebookcon We 🖤’d watching it take shape and morph and build into new art with each swipe of #washitape - you made so much loveliness and made out #bookcon2018 ! Don’t forget to share your poems if you made one with the hashtag #blackoutpoetrybookcon to win a collection of #poetry! Until next year! . . #bookcon #bookstagram #bookish #poet #poetsofinstagram #instapoetry #instapoet #iwrotethisforyou #poetry #booksarelife #poems #poemsofinstagram #bookexpo #thebookcon (at Javits Center)

[mermaidsandcats29]

My haul from BookCon this year!!! Look at all those books...😻 I can’t believe a lot of them are ARCs! #bookconhaul #bookhaul #bookcon #bookcon2018 #thebookcon #bibliophile #booknerd #ilovetoread

[bookscastleignite]

So many people wanted this ARC and I was so lucky to win one!!! Coming soon What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera #thebookcon #bookcon2018

[cassiebones]

My #bookhaul from #bookcon2018

[mundiemoms]

Check out the exclusive QUEEN OF AIR & DARKNESS #bookcon2018 poster @cassieclare1 shared http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com/post/174543396034/bluefootedb-i-can-share-this-now-since-its-out Erin Kelso is the artist & WOW!! It looks like hell has broken loose... can’t wait to find out more! #shadowhunters #cassandraclare #qoaad #queenofairanddarkness @thebookcon

[booksbeyondimagining]

  Hey, everybody!  Sorry I have been a little MIA lately.  I know I don’t regularly post on here as it is other than book reviews (which I now have about 3 to catch up on?), but this past May was a little crazy with 2 shows opening at the beginning and end of it and then straight into BookCon.  Which is what I am going to talk about today!

If you feel at all jealous of my going, I am very sorry and hope that you do get to go someday.  It can be both a great and aggravating experience, because while you get to meet favorite authors and get cool swag and listen to some awesome panels, you don’t always get exactly what you want, and while most people there are extremely nice and fun to talk to while waiting in line, some people can be a bit testy.  Last year I came home with nearly every ARC I coveted that year, but this year was harder to do so.  Part of this was because the publishers were purposefully giving out less at BookCon than they did at BookExpo/BEA, which is for professionals (booksellers and librarians).  ARCs like The Wicked King, Muse of Nightmares, A Curse So Dark and Lonely, The Priory of the Orange Tree – I don’t think any of those were available at BookCon.  And I get it – the publishers and authors are tired of seeing people coming in, getting these ARCs, and then reselling them on ebay or something.  It’s illegal, it’s not right, and it’s harmful to the industry as a whole.  And it sucks because I understand why they do it, but it would have been nice to get one of those ARCs I so coveted. (Well, actually, there was one that I had lumped into the great sum of “ARCs to be seen at BEA only” but I ended up getting when Simon & Schuster started putting out their extra ARCs at the close of Sunday and oh my god I was so happy.  More on that later).

Anyway, as I was saying, BookCon.

Saturday started off with lots of nerves and anxiety because the first thing my friend and I wanted to do was the Alexandra Bracken signing at 10:30 at the Disney booth.  I was so nervous that we wouldn’t get there in time and that we wouldn’t get to meet her at all (because the next day we had something planned at the exact same time as her 1:30 signing).  But I knew the map, I led the charge, and we ended up being like 5th and 6th in line.  I was a little shook.  Not only did I get to meet Alexandra Bracken and talk to her (totally gushed about her dog), but I didn’t have to worry about being late to the panel I wanted to go to at 11:30 (lol but it was a real fear).  In fact, I had enough time to get in line for another ARC signing I had initially been interested in, for Caitlin Seal’s Twice Dead which comes out in September.  It was literally right around the corner from the Disney booth so talk about a win.

(Seriously, I am over the moon about meeting her).

So, like I said, the next thing on my list was the panel, Time Traveling Fantasies, which had Naomi Novik, Deborah Harkness, and V. E. Schwab on it.

It was definitely a fun and interesting panel, and although I haven’t read any of Deborah’s books I own all three of her All Soul’s Trilogy and after hearing her speak I definitely want to read them soon.  And I was really impressed by the audience questions – all I could think to ask was what other favorite time traveling books they loved and would recommend, but of course was too nervous to actually ask that and oh man compared to those other questions I am so glad I didn’t.

After that panel I went back to the floor, played Plinko at LitJoy Crate and got a cute Arthur Weasley bookmark.

And they had the cutest line signs ever.

Then I got in line for the Seafire ARC signing by Natalie Parker at the Penguin Booth.  I was only slightly intrigued by the book initially, but then the first review I read happened to be a 3 star review that did nothing but praise the book, and I think the only reason the reader gave it 3 stars was because they don’t like pirate stories in general so I was like “well gee if the 3 star review is all positive, then I gotta read this book”.  And Natalie was extremely nice, very sweet, I totally made her laugh with a corny joke “I love anything that takes place on the sea, except me because I get seasick,” and I came away with the ARC, a cute decal, and a super cute bandana that says “Sisterhood is Survival.”  Gotta hang that in my room somewhere.

After that I wandered a bit then waited in line for the Swoon Reads giveaway and by the time I got to the front all that was left were ARCs of To Be Honest which, to be honest (lol), I’m not all that interested in.  I might try it, or I might give it to a coworker who I think might like it.

At some point I waled by the Hachette booth and saw Laini Taylor there.  I thought about saying hi, but other people kept talking to her first, and I thought that since I actually haven’t read any of her books yet (I so want to though) that I wouldn’t be rude and take time away from her actual fans.  I did get a cute picture of her mid-laugh though.

After that I made my way over to the signing line for Naomi Novik at 2:30.  I got there 15 minutes early and the line was already super long.  And when I got up there with the group of people I was talking to in line, we found out that they ran out of Spinning Silver ARCs and were absolutely devastated.  But then the amazing person in line behind me asked the Strand worker to talk to the publisher and she did and they got us more and it was an absolute joy.  The line was taking a while, though, and I realized I wasn’t going to make the Alexandra Bracken and Amandla Sternberg Darkest Minds panel but honestly wasn’t all that bothered by it.  (My friend went and plus it was livestreamed so…I also just don’t think I’m big on panels?).  Anyway, the line went so long they ended up having to move us to an extra table all the way at the end of the autographing area.  But when I got up to her I told her how much I appreciated that she was spending quality time with everyone because seriously how often do you get to meet your favorite author/your fans and she was like “Yes, that!  It’s so much better when it’s personal and not through a computer screen or something like that!”  And I told her I went to the panel and how awesome it was and she was all “Oh yeah, the Time Traveling Fantasies panel.  What a strange name.  I didn’t feel like I belonged there because I don’t write time travel.  In fact Deborah was kind of the only one who really did.  They should have called it something else.”  And I just went “Like Out of Time Fantasy?” and she said “Yes, something like that!  You should’ve been naming the panels!”  Anyway, it was just such a pleasure to talk to her, she was so sweet and nice and personalized all my books and I can honestly say meeting her was definitely one of the major highlights of my weekend.

Also, this is probably one of the best pictures I’ve had taken of me.  That lighting is perfect and the angle is just right.  And to have it with Naomi?  Score!

Since I missed the panel I then wandered the floor for a while, and ended up waiting in the extra long line for OwlCrate.  I got the funniest pin ever (I Survived the OwlCrate Line), and when I spun I of course landed on the one book I already own – The Upside of Unrequited – so I gave it to my friend who wanted to try Becky Albertalli’s books anyway.  I also gave her the tote because my sub-goal for the BookCon was to get as few tote bags as possible (I got way too many last year and I don’t use tote bags at all.  Maybe once in a while.  I think I used one to haul my snow boots/sneakers around with me in the winter.)

After that my final thing was the Morgan Matson signing.  We hit another snag when they told us that they ran out of copies of Save the Date – which, in way the ticket had been worded, we thought was the only book for sale there, and all of the people who hadn’t brought a book frantically ran to the Strand booth to buy one.  When I got up there, it turned out they had brought more copies, plus they had copies of her other books, but I watched one girl not buy anything even though the ticket had said purchase required and when I asked the Strand woman just shook her head no so I was very happy that I didn’t have to spend money on a hardcover book (I have all of Morgan’s books in paperback and I would really love to keep it that way.  If not for aesthetic, then for $$).  Anyway she was super sweet and nice as well, and I can’t for the life of me remember what I said to her.

And since that was close to the end of the day, I wandered the floor a bit more, but everything was starting to close down, and so I met up with my friend and we left.  Outside we sat down on the steps to look up a place for my friend to get a bite to eat (I had packed my lunch, she hadn’t and forgot to eat all day) and while we were sitting there we saw Laini Taylor again and waved hi and she looked behind her like she thought we were waving at someone else like how cute is that?  I really need to read her books so I have a legit reason to meet her someday.

Anyway, that’s it for day one of BookCon.  And just as I was absolutely tired that night, I am tuckered now and need to go to sleep so I can get up for my 7am shift at work (ugh).

Day Two/Sunday recap will be posted tomorrow.

BookCon 2018 | Saturday Recap Hey, everybody!  Sorry I have been a little MIA lately.  I know I don't regularly post on here as it is other than book reviews (which I now have about 3 to catch up on?), but this past May was a little crazy with 2 shows opening at the beginning and end of it and then straight into BookCon.