“NO WAY!” @ BEA part 1

Welcome friends, fellow bloggers and newbies to my blog. After fully  recovering from Book Expo America, I’m back all this week to tell you about it!

I love the saying “No Way” and I find myself blurting it out often. Sometimes I say it when my daughter comes home with a funny story from school, or when my girlfriend gives me the latest gossip about her in-laws. While at BEA, I had plenty of “No Way” moments and thought I would share them all with you. Each day I’ll post a little snippet of information about my two days in New York City. It was filled with hours of browsing through books, cocktail parties, blogger meet ups, interesting panels and endless bookish fun. My camera was on the fritz, so I didn’t get tons of photos, but enough to post a couple over the next few days.

My first “NO WAY” moment is when I snagged an ARC copy of the Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins!

Due in bookstores this September, Catching Fire is the second book in a trilogy which started with The Hunger Games (my review to be posted soon) which I just finished last week.

Along with Catching Fire, I was able to get a copy of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane  signed by author Katherine Howe (Katherine was super gracious! I showed up a bit late for her signing and even though she had packed her bags and was on the way out, she still signed a copy for me)! 

 

There were also previews of a few books that will be coming out later this year/early next year. Unfortunately there weren’t any ARC’s of these titles up for grabs, but I am excited to tell all of you about them anyway!

First up is The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian (which I read and reviewed here). I really enjoyed The Historian and cannot wait for her newest book to come out in January!! Plus, isn’t that book cover gorgeous?

And speaking of book covers, Audrey Niffeneger’s newest novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, doesn’t even have one yet – it’s completely under wraps until they get closer to the release date. Author of one of my favorite books, The Time Traveler’s Wife, I can’t wait to find out more about her newest title which is due in stores this September.

I did get to see the wonderfully colorful drawings on the cover of The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma, book three in Trenton Lee Stewart’s series for kids due out in October of this year. I read the first in the series (read my review here) and it will probably go down as one of my favorite reads this year.

Stop by tomorrow for another “NO WAY” moment when I tell you about how exciting it was to meet one of my favorite authors (hint: she writes YA and adult fiction – this lady is multi-talented)!

And stick around all week as I will be finishing up my series of BEA posts with a wonderful book giveaway!

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