Brisbane, BookCrossing, Bookshops

[skyring]

Here I am, half time in the big bookshop crawl of the Brisbane convention. Imagine a bunch of BookCrossers herded into a series of bookshops. Neesy, our guide, had a plan in mind. "We'll go to this shop, then that one, then this and the next," she said, showing us a map.

Hah! We'd disappear into a bookshop and after half an hour there'd still be a few browsing quietly and comfortably in the corners, while Neesy counted heads outside.

After a while, everyone was switching bulging bags from arm to arm, visiting autotellers, ringing spoiuses for more funds, organising rental trucks home. Oh, it was horriffic!

But fun.

Comments

[awaywithfairy1.livejournal.com]

So you've stayed on track, then? The literary trail walk people have been hampered by bad weather that has led to such diversions as a coffee shop (mmm, hot chocolate) and a bus ride to the State Library to see an exhibition (and visit to an OBCZ). Not sure that we ever officially got to the literary trail!

[discoverylover.livejournal.com]

Sounds awesome!!!! Can't wait to hear more :D

[holmesfan.livejournal.com]

Have a wonderful time. Wish I was there. I forgot to send a message of hope and good wishes to Wombles - please pass on my very best wishes if you would.

Feels very wrong to have a BC convention so relatively close and not be there. next time d.v.

as promised

[newkaligula.livejournal.com]

here is a photograph of the journal entry being made

[miketroll.livejournal.com]

Green darts of envy!

Borders in Brissie (perhaps everywhere) has a weird library system. I remember searching in vain for Jared Diamond's Collapse and asking an assistant. Without checking his computer, he said there were FOUR possible places it could be. He showed me all four, spread over two or three floors, and eventually found the book in a fifth! But at least I got it and he made the sale.