I could have not started my summer vacation in a better way. My saturday morning was one packed with great people, awesome company, amazing surprises, in other words, very full filling. Today I met for the first time other Columbus bloggers to kick off the 48 Hour Book Challenge hosted by MotherReader. I feel like I have new friends in Columbus, I met Franki and 
Mary Lee of A Year of Reading; Katie of Creative Literacy; Abby of Authentic Reader; Karen of Talkworthy; and Karen and Bill of Literate Lives. I honestly was very thrilled to put a face to the blogs I am constantly reading and learning from. I believe I've just met a very strong reading community in Columbus. I will be writing all about this event in my Summer Journal (see earlier posts) so I can share this with my ESL students in August.
Mary Lee of A Year of Reading; Katie of Creative Literacy; Abby of Authentic Reader; Karen of Talkworthy; and Karen and Bill of Literate Lives. I honestly was very thrilled to put a face to the blogs I am constantly reading and learning from. I believe I've just met a very strong reading community in Columbus. I will be writing all about this event in my Summer Journal (see earlier posts) so I can share this with my ESL students in August. Our saturday morning started the way any event should start: with food, of course. We met at NorthStar Cafe for breakfast, and then we moved on to Cover to Cover, our cozy local children's bookstore in Columbus, OH. And my friends, let me tell you, I felt like Christmas in June because Sally, the bookstore owner, has kindly let us look through gallies of soon to be released books! Oh mine oh mine!! Sally just made my summer. Close friends of mine know that the best present you can give me are BOOKS! I am looking forward to reading those books in my box (yes, I said box!).
I might be the last one to get to read Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor but there's where I am starting so let the fun begins!
7 comments:
It was a BLAST, wasn't it! And I agree -- the best start to summer vacation EVER!!! It was great to meet you in person!
What a great morning! So good to meet you today and you are not the last one to read Greetings From Nowhere...I just finished it as my first read for the 48 hour challenge. I loved it!!
It was great to meet face-to-face! Food and books--what more could you want on to kick off summer! We need to do this again soon! Happy Reading!
What a fabulous 48-hour read-a-thon kick-off!! Wish I had people locally I could do that with ;>). Even my book group looks at me a little strange when I mention all the challenges I'm in! Good luck to everyone in the group!!
Stella, I'm so embarrassed. Your email address has disappeared into thin air. Please resend to ayearofreading at earthlink dot net. Thanks!
I had a fabulous time yesterday morning! What a great group of people, and how generous Sally was in letting us review all those ARCs!! I'm really glad I got to meet you! Looking forward to many more meetings!
Ditto to all of the comments above. I can't wait to do it again because although blogging is fun, nothing beats talking about good books. July anyone?
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