I’m a little late posting this, oops… YALLfest haul Signed books Books I brought These are the books I already owned and brought with me to the festival to get signed! Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young (Owlcrate edition) That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao (ARC) Bought at the festival YALLfest hoodie & shirt (not pictured) YALLfest […]
I’ve posted tips several times over the years, but with YALLfest 2023 coming up in a couple of weeks, I wanted to repost them because I have things to add! This will be my ninth year attending the festival and the tenth anniversary of my very first YALLfest (HOW has it been an entire decade since I started attending?!?!) and I am SO FREAKING EXCITED! It’s always chaotic, but SO. FUN. This festival is non-negotiable in my schedule and I look […]
I’ve met quite a few authors since I started attending events back in 2013, but Pierce Brown has been the one author that eluded me. He was the only one of my faves (still alive, anyway) that I hadn’t met! Funny story: When I first read Red Rising and became obsessed with the series, I discovered that Pierce had been to my fave bookstore ONE. MONTH. before I’d read it. I was sooo salty! I missed him by that much. […]
I was able to block my day off to go down to the Joseph Beth in Lexington (a 2.5 hour drive) for this event on April 28th! My bookstabestie Christy (@cbookaddiction) lives in Kentucky, and she’s about 2 hours away from Lexington, so we planned to meet and attend the event together. I hadn’t seen her since we went to YALLfest together in 2018! I was a little sad that I didn’t know about the event sooner so I could […]
YALLfest haul Signed books Books I brought These are the books I already owned and brought with me to the festival to get signed! Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Belladonna by Adalyn Grace The Scorpio Races (Owlcrate special edition) by Maggie Stiefvater Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater Illuminating the Prophecy (tarot) by Maggie Stiefvater Navigating the Scorpio Sea […]
Read Like Hell-a-thon is hosted by Books Beans and Botany! I’ve been a lurker in the readathon’s Facebook group for some time now and just never got around to participating. I’m so excited to finally dive in! This readathon runs the whole month of April and you can find the prompts for it HERE. What I plan to read I don’t know if I’ll hit them all or be able to reach the bonus level, but I want to try! […]