The BEA and a Give Away

This year I had my photo taken with Clifford, the Big Red Dog.

Two years ago I hugged Olivia.

The BEA is a lot of fun.

Now for the give away.  An ARC of The Devil in Silver by Victor La Valle.  It will be published in August.

From the back of the ARC:

New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?

If you're interested in reading this, leave only one comment on this post.  The rules are simple

• You must be a follower of this blog.  If you're a no reply blogger, you must leave your email address in the comment.
• In your comment you can tell me what your plans are for the rest of the summer, or tell what you've done so far.  Or just tell me what you're reading.
• I'll use a Random Number Generator to choose the winner on Wednesday, June 27th.

What are you reading?

I've been gone...

I just got back from my NYC/Bermuda vacation.  Part of the NYC week, I attended Book Expo America.  You can read about my week here, if you're interested.  Including some of the authors I met that week.

Here's some photos of the books I just unpacked, 80 pounds of books!

Books for my 12 year old grandson Oden, 

some kids gift books and some for Carrie in NC.

Fiction

Fiction

Non-fiction and duplicates. 

Oh, and some smutty stuff from Ellora's Cave.  The cavemen were in attendance.

The calendar and playing cards go to my single daughter Sharon.

The horns are for honk, if you're h*rny, but I can think of some other uses.

Sharon doesn't get any of these new books, 

we read some of the same things and I'll pass them to her as I finish.

Some how I missed the non-fiction!  Believe me I brought some home

Some times I get discouraged about this blog.  Books are my first love and I don't think very many people actually read these post.  I've decided I don't care, I'll keep on posting and I think I'll start doing some give a ways, here, too.

What are you reading?

BEA Book and Author Breakfast

This year, these were really really great, as usual.

TUESDAY, CHILDREN’S BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST
The opening-day breakfast will featured Brian Selznick, author of Wonderstruck (Scholastic); Sarah Dessen, author of What Happened to Goodbye (Viking Children’s Books/Penguin Young Readers Group); and Kevin Henkes, author of Little White Rabbit and Junonia (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins). Julianne Moore, author of Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever (Bloomsbury) was the Master of Ceremonies.

WEDNESDAY, BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST
Wednesday morning will featured Diane Keaton, author of Then Again (Random House); Jefferey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and Charlaine Harris, author of Dead Reckoning (Ace/Penguin Group USA). Mindy Kaling, author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (Crown Archetype) was the Master of Ceremonies.

Since I don't watch TV, I had no idea who Mindy Kaling was, but she was really funny. Dianne Keatons' presentation was very touching, but I was thinking the whole time, "She's an actress, that's what she does." I may be jaded!

THURSDAY, BOOK & AUTHOR BREAKFAST
Thursday morning featured Roger Ebert, author of Life Itself: A Memoir (Grand Central); Anne Enright, author of The Forgotten Waltz (W.W. Norton); and Erik Larson, author of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin (Crown Publishers). Jim Lehrer, author of Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to McCain-Obama (Random House) was the Master of Ceremonies.

In spite of his health problems that leave him unable to speak, Roger Ebert was very funny. He used a computer voice, ala Star Wars, and he pantomimed while his wife read parts of him book. It was very funny and touching. I've finished Larson's and Enright's books, they were outstanding. I'm really looking forward to Lehrer's Tension City, it sounded fantastic.

What are you reading?

 

Here's a collage of the wonderful children's authors who braved the Speed Dating with Children's Authors at BEA, sponsored by the ABC Children's Group at ABA and the Children's Book Council.  This is an event I try to never miss.  The years that Bob attended BEA with me, he always thought it was one of the best events of the many offered; and I agree.

Not all the authors or there agents made the books available, above are the presented books I shipped home. The book that's generating a lot of buzz is I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen.

What are you reading?

Editors Buzz Reports from the 2011 BEA

forgive the poor photo!

These are the books the editors presented, Monday afternoon, for the Adult Editors Buzz. They were so very passionate about their books. I've already read "We The Animals", it was great. I'm waiting for my shipment to arrive to read some of the others. I'm really excited about The Night Circus and The Art of Fielding.

THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach, Little, Brown and Company – Michael Pietsch, VP & Publisher
THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday – Alison Callahan, Executive Editor
THE UNDERSIDE OF JOY by Sere Prince Halverson, Dutton – Denise Roy, Sr. Editor
RUNNING THE RIFT by Naomi Benaron, Algonquin – Kathy Pories, Sr. Editor
BIRDS OF PARADISE by Diana Abu-Jaber, W.W. Norton - Alane Salierno Mason, VP & Sr. Editor
WE THE ANIMALS by Justin Torres, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Jenna Johnson, Sr. Editor

At the Young Adult Editors Buzz, on Tuesday afternoon, four great books were presented.  Only Little Brown gave out an ARC and I'm looking forward to reading it.  Believe me, they all sounded good.

THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER by Michelle Hodkin, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Courtney Bongiolatti, Editor
AU REVOIR CRAZY EUROPEAN CHICK by Joe Schreiber, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Margret Raymo, Sr. Executive Editor
DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE by Laini Turner, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers – Alvina Ling, Executive Editor
DOWN THE MYSTERLY RIVER by Bill Willingham, Tor & Forge Books/ Macmillan – Susan Chang, Sr. Editor


BEA Middle Grade Editors Buzz was on Wednesday afternoon.  It was really insightful and passionate; it's so wonderful to hear the editors speak.

THE UNWANTEDS by Lisa McMann, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing – Lisa Abrams, Editor
WILDWOOD by Colin Meloy, Balzer + Bray - Donna Bray, VP & Co-Publisher
ICEFALL by Matthew Kirby, Scholastic Press - Lisa A. Sandell, Executive Editor
APOTHECARY by Maile Meloy, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers - Jennifer Besser, VP and Publisher
THE ASHTOWN BURIALS #1: THE DRAGONS TOOTH by N.D. Wilson, Random House Children’s Books – Jim Thomas, Editorial Dir.

In total, I shipped 100 pounds of books home.  I'm just waiting for UPS, now, so I can sort them out.

What are you reading?