Bookworm International Literary Festival 2012
It's March in Beijing. These days my preferred way to await the end of heating season and the arrival of spring weather (any time now, okay?) is to attend as many events at the Beijing International Literary Festival as we can manage. Thanks to the generosity of a friend of mine who lives much closer to the Bookworm than we do and could get there the first day of ticket sales, we were able to purchase tickets to every event that we hoped to attend. Thank you Sarah!
Last year I blogged about going to two events at the Beijing Literary Festival, a talk by Leslie Chang, author of my favorite China Book Factory Girls, and another by Chinese children's books author Yang Hongying. I was worried then about the time and the expense of going to too many events. This year I got over that in a hurry after looking at the schedule. So many great children's book authors! Andrei Kurkov! Historical fiction about Anglo-Saxon kings! Seriously, how often will we have these kinds opportunities regardless of where we live?
In anticipation of the events, we assigned ourselves homework, which I committed to one of my first Pinterest Boards. And just like that, Expat Beijing has been turned into a giant book-club, and everyone on my day-time twitter feed has read the same books. There will be adult programs, and kids' programs, and the occasional adult program we to which we bring the kids.
March can be a miserable month, weather wise. But the Bookworm International Literary Festival will certainly help us deal with that.
Last year I blogged about going to two events at the Beijing Literary Festival, a talk by Leslie Chang, author of my favorite China Book Factory Girls, and another by Chinese children's books author Yang Hongying. I was worried then about the time and the expense of going to too many events. This year I got over that in a hurry after looking at the schedule. So many great children's book authors! Andrei Kurkov! Historical fiction about Anglo-Saxon kings! Seriously, how often will we have these kinds opportunities regardless of where we live?
In anticipation of the events, we assigned ourselves homework, which I committed to one of my first Pinterest Boards. And just like that, Expat Beijing has been turned into a giant book-club, and everyone on my day-time twitter feed has read the same books. There will be adult programs, and kids' programs, and the occasional adult program we to which we bring the kids.
March can be a miserable month, weather wise. But the Bookworm International Literary Festival will certainly help us deal with that.
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