Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books-updated

[marytini]

Anyone ever been, or going this year?
www.sewibookfest.com/
I've never been, but am considering it since it is by my ILs.

[2curlydogs]

I've never heard of it or been. Sound interesting.

I wish I could go on Friday. There's a session on early WI gardening that sounds really interesting. I've forwarded it to my sister, who's restoring an old farm field to prairie.

[heartmama]

That looks like it could be really fun! And it's free, which I like.

[onwisconsin]

I've never been, but sounds intriguing! If I go, I'll report back!

[marytini]

So I went.

I only went to the 2nd day. Two of the lectures/talks I wanted to see were cancelled b/c the speaker was sick (same speaker for both) so I ended up going to some other talks, but it was ok.

The first one was a panel of horror authors. I don't generally read horror, but it was still interesting.

Next I went to a panel about literary fiction, which I will admit, I had never really heard this term before, especially as a genre, or if I had, never thought about what it meant. I actually enjoyed this, probably because I learned something!

Next up was the author of Eat Smart in France, and Norway. I went b/c we are planning on visiting Paris in the fall. It was alright.

The last one I went to was about YA. Basically, what qualifies as YA. I enjoyed this one too. Basically it boils down to the story being about teenagers, not just being written for them. She also said that Twilight was written for 5th graders. Huh? Never knew that. She also used Pride and Prejudice as an example, and I'd never thought of P&P as YA, but I guess it makes sense. She touched a bit on books that sort of masquerade as YA but aren't, but didn't really give any examples. In terms of writing YA, anything goes in terms of storyline/plot, but she said the deal breakers are too much foul language, and too much sexuality.

The others 2 talks that were canceled were also YA focused.
Overall, I am glad I went to "nerd fest" as my DH calls it.
The WI Book Festival is in Madison in November, so I might catch that one too.

[funkybunny]

Hey! I'm in Wi, wish I had known about this. I'm in the Fox valley though.

[marytini]

I want to say the fox valley has one too, but I think it was in the spring. You should check out the one in Madison too.

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[heartmama]

Jun 18, 2012 12:28:11 GMT -5 funkybunny said:

Hey! I'm in Wi, wish I had known about this. I'm in the Fox valley though.

Hey me too!

I am glad you learned some stuff and had fun, even if the talks you really wanted to go to were cancelled.