Book festivals
A lot of my friends are spending the day at the National Book Festival today – lucky them! Yes, I’m green with envy and not ashamed to admit it. So I thought I’d check out the book festival(s) in my adopted home state (I was born and raised in WA). I was horrified to find Idaho is the only state in the nation without a book festival. I can’t say I’m really surprised by this as my hometown of Meridian (10 miles west of Boise) continually votes down library bonds. I don’t feel the library system in Boise and surrounding area is well supported as Boise (state capital, pop. 202,832) has only 4 library branches within the Boise city limits.
So I’ve marked my calendar, and warned my hubby, that I will be attending the Book Blogger Convention (interest form for the super serious attendees) and Book Expo America in New York in of May 2010.
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Oh, I wish I could go to the Book Blogger Convention! I bet you’ll have such a great time!!!
I wish you were coming
The book blogger convention sounds like fun. Will this be the first?
I believe it might be the first one of this size. I think several bloggers got together last year in Portland, OR.
I have wanted to go to the national book festival for years. That is so sad that Idaho doesn’t have a book festival and even worse that it’s the only state in the U.S. that doesn’t. Reflects badly on Idaho. Utah’s is not much to get excited about but it’s been going for several years. I’ve attended twice and am planning on going this year in Oct. Shannon Hale is presenting and my daughter wants to go.
I’m so excited to be going next spring that I’ve already marked every calendar in the house so that we don’t make any other plans for that time. I plan to make the very most of the trip. And I gives me something to look forward as winter sets in.
I agree it does reflect badly on Idaho. What’s just a bad is the lack of decent bookstores, new and used, in Boise and surrounding area and the state itself. Barnes and Noble has 4 stores in the state, one of those being a B. Dalton’s. Borders site was down so I couldn’t check there but I’m sure its on par with Barnes and Noble. We do have some Hastings but I consider their book selection adequate at best. And used bookstores are a joke if they even exist at all. What I’d give for a Half Price books. I told my hubby we need to move where the action is – back east.
But what I lack in book world support and such is made up by a very short work commute and quality of life. So the tradeoffs are worth it but still…
It’ll be great to see you in person in NYC for the book blogger convention!
And you! It’s only October and I can’t for May to get here.
I googled up your site after a phone conversation with my son who lives in Boise concerning my presentation at the Southern Book Festival in Nashville yesterday. He said there was no such festival in Idaho, and I thought he must be wrong. I am surprised to hear him confirmed in this, as Boise seems a somewhat cultured place for its size. I would think that literary center down by the greenway in Boise could get something going in this regard. I hope to see Idaho join the rest of us soon!
It really hadn’t dawned on me until I went searching for a book festival in Idaho that the state doesn’t have one. I was thinking if Boise didn’t have one that the Sun Valley area might but none there either. We do have several book readings throughout the year but those are more along the lines of true literature and poetry and I’m not sure what kind of crowds they might draw. We also have community reads and other events organized by the The Cabin, A Literary Center for Idaho but alas no book festival.