One of the highlights of my literary year here in Brussels is the coming of the Boekenfestijn, a travelling book festival. A few weeks ago it was in Zwolle, and Iris from Iris of Books also posted about her own shopping spree.
This year I missed it here in Brussels, so on Sunday I traveled about 25km to the city of Mechelen, to carry on the tradition (in 2010 I also posted about my loot).
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I was especially lucky this time because I found four books that were already on my wishlist:
- Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
- The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
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December 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Sandy
Don’t you love literary festivals? It is almost overwhelming in the best possible way.
December 6, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Joanna
What about the unknown book you always purchase? It looks like half your post is missing, so maybe it’s just not downloading correctly?
December 6, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Falaise
I see you also got The Sun over Breda, which is great fun (and I love Perez-Reverte generally).
December 6, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Iris
The book festival I visited was in Zwolle 😉
It seems you found some books that I never even saw. The festival really is too big 🙂 Nice loot.
December 6, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Melissa (Avid Reader)
I adore literary festivals, but we get very few of those in the Midwest. I just got copy of The Mysterious Benedict Society and it’s on my TBR list for next year.
December 6, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Kailana
Wow, what a great haul!
January 4, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Alex
@Sandy: I’m thorn between wishing to have one every week and loving the build-up to a single one every year 🙂
@Joanna: Not missing, it’s a wordpress thing. This year I took a chance with The Prince of Dreams… but have to get the 1st in the series 😛
@Falaise: also love him, generally. Was a bit disappointed with The Skin of the Drum (is that the English translation?)
@Iris: Changed it, thanks 😛
@Melissa: So looking forward to that one! Let me know when you plan to pick it up!
@Kailana: I’m very proud of it: not to big, not too small.
October 15, 2012 at 11:56 am
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