Who gets excited every time there's a book fair? I do! I remember the book fairs at school and even at college. It is a great way to find beloved books and discover new books as well! For this Bookish Events series, I started last week telling you about when I
met the author of El Finalito, Ricardo Martí Ruiz. This time, I'll be telling you about the book fair I attended in August!
First Book Fair at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico
As I mentioned in my last post, many book events here in Puerto Rico take place like 3 hours away from me. And this was one of them! Fortunately, it was on a weekend day. So I made plans with my parents and my little sister, to attend to the First Book Fair at the
Museum of Art of Puerto Rico (MAPR).
This was my first time visiting the MAPR and I was really excited! My friend
Ana Cristina was the one who told me about this event. And here's little back story for this: we are online friends! We met through our blogs and we've been friends for more than 2 years. This was actually our first time meeting face to face. It was awesome! So yeah, besides enjoying this event, I finally had the chance to meet Ana in person.
When I arrived at the book fair with my family, we already knew what we were going to do, because we studied the schedule of every activity. There were activities for kids and adults. My parents attended a presentation with
Chef Piñero, Ana and I attended a workshop called Editing and Assembly of a Book (which was very cool!) and at the end, we all attended a presentation with
Douglas Candelario; and of course, we got our books signed! We spend most of our time at the exhibition area, where I got the chance to meet two other bloggers I've been following for a while (
Leamos Más PR and
Melanie). I definitely had an amazing time at this event!
By the way, my bookshelf necklace from
Coryographies was a great conversation starter!
Did you saw everything I got at this event? ICYMI, here is my Instagram post about it:
You can also check out my
IG highlighted stories from this day! Have you attended a book fair? (Besides the book fairs at school). Tell me about your experience! Soon I'll be posting about a book store opening near my house :)
