National Book Festival
Sep. 27th, 2008 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreI was up plenty early, but didn't manage to get out of the house as early as I'd planned to. So I didn't make it to hear either Alexander McCall Smith or Paul Theroux. I did make it for Neil Gaiman, who read a chapter of his latest book (coming out in 3 days) and answered a few questions. He was reasonably entertaining and clearly pleased with the large crowd he drew.
I meandered through the Library of Congress exhibit and was disappointed that they didn't have a schedule of upcoming events on hand. They did have a nice little display on book preservation, including miniature pamphlets they were binding right there and giving away.
Other giveaways included tote bags from C-Span and from Read Across America. I'm not sure why I bother to take these since I have a huge number of tote bags already, but the C-Span one is particularly large and has a flat bottom, so would actually be good for grocery shopping. The Pavilion of States mostly served to add to my collection of bookmarks, though there were a few other gimmes, e.g. a little box of crayons, a small magnifying glass, and candy.
I never made it over to the sales tent as I wanted to grab lunch before going to a film at the Freer Gallery. I'll write about that separately, however.
I meandered through the Library of Congress exhibit and was disappointed that they didn't have a schedule of upcoming events on hand. They did have a nice little display on book preservation, including miniature pamphlets they were binding right there and giving away.
Other giveaways included tote bags from C-Span and from Read Across America. I'm not sure why I bother to take these since I have a huge number of tote bags already, but the C-Span one is particularly large and has a flat bottom, so would actually be good for grocery shopping. The Pavilion of States mostly served to add to my collection of bookmarks, though there were a few other gimmes, e.g. a little box of crayons, a small magnifying glass, and candy.
I never made it over to the sales tent as I wanted to grab lunch before going to a film at the Freer Gallery. I'll write about that separately, however.
