Sunday, October 20, 2024

First thing in the morning my sister went to the Penguin Booth to get book signing tickets for The Monstrous Kind by Lydia Gregovic and for The Rivals by Jen Pek. After she got the tickets and The Monstrous Kind she came to meet me on the queue. I was second on the queue and was able to get front row, and therefore able ( Read more... )

Friday, October 18, 2024

First my sister and I went to the Penguin Booth shortly after 10AM so I could say, "Mon Mothma requests your aid" to get Star Wars: The Mask of Fear by Alexander Freed. They said they were out of books by 9:55AM. Which was super annoying. Either don't give them out before 10AM or don't let the crowds in before 10AM ( Read more... )

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Slow start to this day but luckily the panel I wanted to see was at the end of the day. There was traffic, and I had to return a library book and then go to the bank. So I got to the Javits around 11:30.

First I went to the Del Rey/Penguin booth to see if they had any copies left of Star Wars: The Mask of Fear by ( Read more... )

On February 13, 2024 my sister and I had tickets for Katherine Arden + Naomi Novik: The Warm Hands of Ghosts at the Strand in NYC ( Read more... )

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November 30: Bookish Memories (Share stories of your reading life as a child, events you’ve gone to, books that made an impression on you, noteworthy experiences with books, authors you’ve met, etc. Reminisce with me ( Read more... )

I got to Barnes and Noble Union Sq at 9 am to get my bracelet. I arrived just as the store opened and I saw the queue of people waiting outside filing in. So I followed the line inside and it was very swift. People went in, picked up Dark Age at the front table and went straight back to the check out. I already had my book purchased from b&n ( Read more... )

The first panel of the day was Family-Friendly Fantasy: Keeping it PG in the Age of Grimdark & Game of Thrones.

Most of the fantasy works we discovered as readers new to the genre were books the whole family could read together, without worrying about graphic descriptions of rape, torture, or violence. But many of the popular fantasy works being ( Read more... )

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My sister and I got to Barnes and Noble pretty early and we got some good seats.
She had not read Iron Gold yet, but I finished it the day before.

Pierce spoke about the different POVs in Iron Gold and how his writing had to change. He usually does not outline, but he had to for IG and the next book Dark Age, not just because there is more going ( Read more... )