A Day for a Book Dragon

I haven't been to the Twin Cities Book Festival in quite a number of years, but I braved today's weird October snow and I'm glad I did.

For me, any large room full of people tabling to present their creativity has the typical stimululs-overwhelm problem, but in this case, at least it's overwhelming with books. Plus there were about a dozen used booksellers there, so that gave me a break from having to interact with the authors or publishers directly. Oh, and I got a beginning lesson in belly dancing from one of the members of Dans Askina, who were there accompanying author Patricia Cumbie as she talked about her memoir The Shape of a Hundred Hips.

I picked up a couple of interesting graphic novels (Holy Hannah by Will Dinski, published by Uncivilized Books, and Homesick by Jason Walz, published by Tinto Press), a book about Saint Paul's East Side Freedom Library called Reinventing the People's Library by Greg Gault, and two picture books published by Haymarket Books, Rebecca Solnit's Cinderella Liberator and Mariame Kaba's Missing Daddy.

I also saw this shirt:


In case my photo is too hard to read, the text on the shirt, reversed out of a white skinny dragon, says "I'm not a book worm, I'm a book dragon."