Adventures of a Misfit Librarian: BookExpo America

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July 1, 2012

Month In Review: June 2012...

Adventures Of The Month: Highlights...

"Favorite Page #1" coming back to work for the summer.
Going to BookExpo America for the third year in a row.
Receiving tons of various books from meetings.
Going to tons of movies with various friends.
Celebrating Summer Solstice with Erin & Lenni.
Playing hooky and going to the beach with Erin and others.
Taking Justin's sister and my friend's daughter on a movie date.
My annual trip to Citi Field to watch the Subway Series with my family & Justin.
Receiving my first LOVE♥CLUB box.
Working on my tan and trying to lighten my hair.
Helping my friend pack up her apartment for her big move.
Having a picnic in the park with Justin.
My friend moving away.
Hanging out with my friends at my block party.

Favorites Of The Month...

POSTS

PICTURE

INSTAGRAM

New To Me As Of This Month...

BLOGS
♥ The Paper Gnome
♥ Starry Eyed
♥ The Uniqueness of Being
♥ Sweet Dreams
♥ Hello Miss Kelly

MOVIES/TV SHOWS

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Prometheus (2012)
Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Brave (2012)
Snookie & JWoww (2012-Present)
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

IPHONE APPS

June 6, 2012

Today I had the pleasure of attending BookExpo America for the third time at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. I woke up early, hoped on the LIRR, headed into the City and walked from Penn Station to the convention center.

I'm not going to bore you with the play by play details of my day because I typically spend my time at BookExpo collecting swag and information that I can take back to the library and tell the people that I think might be interesting in know about X, Y or Z. What I will tell you is I got A LOT of stuff, but it feels like less than I've gotten in previous years (I feel like the publishers are getting cheap with their freebies).

Enough with my blabbing... Here's a peak at my swag...

FREE BOOKS (Most are advance reader copies)

3 Below by Patrick Carman
Albert of Adelaide by Howard Anderson
Angelfall by Susan Ee
Bella & Harry Let's Visit Paris! by Lisa Manzione *
The Black House by Peter May
The Blessed by Tonya Hurley
Breed by Chase Novak
The Case of the Rock 'N' Roll Dog by Martha Freeman
The Chocolate Money by Ashley Prentice Norton
Come August, Come Freedom The Bellows, The Gallows & The Black General Gabriel by Gigi Amateau
Dark Lord by Jamie Thomson
Drama by Raina Relgemeier
Discover New York City by Lonely Planet
Eating Aliens: One Man's Adventures Hunting Invasive Animal Species by Jackson Landers
Eckankar: Ancient Wisdom for Today by Todd Cramer
Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn't Work) by Michael Goodwin
Elemental by Emily White *
Entice by Jessica Shirvington
Fate, Love, Tears by Lauren Bishop
Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan *
The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate by Scott Nash
Holy Nomad: The Rugged Road to Joy by Matt Litton
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague
How Many Feet in the Bed? by Heather Spergel
I Love Art by American Girl
In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin
Justice at Cardwell Ranch by B.J. Daniels
Kiss Make Up by Katie D. Anderson
Not-For-Parents New York City Everything You Ever Wanted To Know by Lonely Planet
Old Moore's Horoscope Daily Astral Diary: Pisces
Oopsy, Teacher! by Stephanie Calmenson
Pinned by Sharon G. Flake
Revived Resuscitated Reborn Undead by Clay Morgan
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Starting From Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
S.T.A.T. Double Team by Amar'e Stoudemire
The Strongest Love by Katie McDonnell
The Terror of Black Eagle Tavern by Megan Atwood
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer, MD
Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun by Joshua Glee & Elizabeth Larsen
Undead by Kristy McKay
We Sinners by Hanna Pylvainen
What Time Is It? It's Duffy Time by Audrey & Don Wood
Why Does He Do That? Why Does She Do That? by Dr. Paula Bloom & Dr. Reef Karim *

In addition to the titles above, I got a bunch of book samplers with excerpts from upcoming books.

Overall I had a great time as I always seem to, I just wish that someone would come with me. If anyone wants to come to BookExpo America 2013 with me lemme know.

* = Autographed by the author

April 19, 2012

Going To BEA 2012...

It's official, I got my confirmation e-mail and I'll be attending BookExpo America on Wednesday, June 6th! I can't wait, I love going to BookExpo!

Right now I'm just going for the exhibit hall hours, but I'm thinking about going to the Children's Book & Author Breakfast (Mainly because Chris Colfer is going to be the Master of Ceremonies).

Is anyone else out there going to attend? If so, would you like to meet up and wander around the Javits Center with me? Lemme know!

May 26, 2011

365 Days Of Pictures: Day 84...

May 2, 2011

BookExpo Booth Worker...

Today I got a phone call from my cousin that does public relations asking me if I wanted to work a children's book author's booth at BookExpo America. I was driving so I didn't get all of the information, she said she is going to send me an e-mail with all of the information and I have to let her know if I wanna skip out on work at the library for three days (Well two because I'm supposed to go on Thursday May 26th) or if I'll pass on the offer. I'll let you know what I decide tomorrow.

June 30, 2010

30 Day Challenge: Day Twenty-Eight...

Day 28 — This year, in great detail
Here is my 2010 as thus far a la bullets...

I turned 25 this year & had an awesome party
This year is the 7th year I've been dating Justin
I booked a trip to Europe with Erin
I went the Empire State Building for the 2nd time in my life
I joined Weight Watchers™
I got to go to Fire Island again
I got Justin to promise me he'd buy me an iPhone 4™
I went to BookExpo America
I finished my last actual class for my masters degree, all I have left is my internship
I got to see the Mets win a game in the first time in over a year -- They lost every game I went to last year
I bought Utley & he is still alive
I went to a bunch of meetings for work
I joined a gym
I ate a lobster roll for the first time ever
I saw West Side Story on Broadway
I went to two beer related events

May 28, 2010

Books & Video Games...

So, on Wednesday Lenora and I went to BookExpo America. It was interesting, we got to see a lot of cool things that normal people don't care about and got information on various companies and products that the library might be interested in. We also got madd swag -- I currently have twenty-five reusable bags from various vendors as a result of attending.

Here are some pictures of my haul. [FYI -- I am in no way promoting any of these items, I just thought people might want to see what I got throughout the day.]

Here are the bags I spoke about before.

The one in the middle is my favorite of all of them. It brings of the dorky Youth Services librarian in me.

So, that was Wednesday work-wise. Wednesday night I spent hanging out with a few of my friends (Erin, Phil and Pat) by the beach.

Thursday, I worked from 1:00pm - 9:00pm. I spent the day discussing the BookExpo with my coworkers, ordering tons of books from the catalogs I got, I did a session of story time and I held a video gaming program -- I got my director to purchase almost $2,000 worth of video gaming equipment two months ago. After work I went to have coffee and pie with Erin and Phil. Pretty uneventful day.

Today starts my five day mini vacation. Tonight I'm heading into NYC for my friends Mike and Paul's housewarming party and tomorrow I'm going to Fire Island (Cherry Grove) for "Gays of Our Lives" -- Which is just an excuse for all of my gay friends to get drunk on the beach, which is cool with me seeing as my boyfriend and I are invited. So, I probably won't post again until Tuesday or Wednesday.

May 25, 2010

What You Call Insanity, I Call Inspiration...

We had to have a mini evacuation today. The power went out, thus causing our Director to fly into a tizzy. I found the whole situation to be humorous, I kept telling my coworkers that the alien-terrorist-zombies were attacking and it was all part of their master plan to take over the world -- Most of them enjoy my off beat humor, others can’t stand it or me. I at least kept my department head amused…

After our twenty minute crisis life at the library when back to being boring -- I’ve had a particularly boring week. We had a summer reading club/craft/book discussion pow wow, I did a story time, then I went to my best friend Erin’s apartment to continue our recycling mission.

What is this recycling mission you ask?!?! Well, she and I have booked a fabulous trip to Europe for the end of August, and we decided that in order to go on all of the excursions we would love to go on while we are country hopping that we need madd cash money. We both obviously won’t get extra jobs, so we decided to do the next best thing. Collect cans and bottles the night before recycling day and cash them in. It’s like getting free money for minimal effort. It has been quite lucrative for us -- we started this venture last week.

Our trip to Europe brings me to the latest book I have checked out, "No Regrets: 101 Fabulous Things to Do Before You're Too Old, Married or Pregnant" by Sarah Ivens.

Before I even knew about this book, our trip to Europe was about going to do things before we get married, buy homes and have kids, so I thought it was the perfect book to check out. I'm happy to be able to say I've had the pleasure of doing a handful of things on the list already (i.e. - #53: Stay up all night in Las Vegas) and I look forward to trying to do the rest, or at least a nice chunk of them.

Oh! Tomorrow Lenni and I are going to BookExpo America at the Javits Center in NYC. It should be awesome. I'll keep you posted.

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