So, How Many Books Did I Bring Home from BEA?

So, how many books did I bring home from BEA?

158 books. 

(A pause to allow time to take this in.)

How in the world did I drag all those books home from Chicago to Houston, you ask?

Shipped home 88 pounds of books and crammed the rest into corners of our suitcases.

What are the fiction books from BEA I can't wait to read?

Faithful by Alice Hoffman; El Paso by Winston Groom; The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood; Invincible Summer by Alice Adams; and The Wonder by Emma Donaghue.

What about nonfiction books from BEA?

Pancakes in Paris; Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal; Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year; At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell; and Not My Mother's Kitchen

What graphic novels from BEA look promising?

Ghosts; The Best We Could Do; and Gemina

How about children's picture books? 

Let's Play by Herve Tullet; Duck on a Tractor by David Shannon; Good Morning Yoga; and Nanette's Baguette by Mo Willems (all autographed)

What do you think? Did I do well?

What is the Sunday Salon? Imagine some university library's vast reading room. It's filled with people--students and faculty and strangers who've wandered in. They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all around them,and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes in their leather-bound journals as they go. Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary intake....That's what happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual. Every Sunday the bloggers participating in that week's Salon get together--at their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read. And blog about their reading. And comment on one another's blogs. Think of it as an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon, an excuse to put aside one's earthly responsibilities and fall into a good book. Click here to join the Salon.

The Sunday Post is a meme hosted by Kimba at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news and recap the past week.

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share books that we found in our mailboxes last week. 

 It is now being hosted here.

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews in which you can share the books you've acquired.

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is now being hosted at The Book Date.