Luly’s Adventures in the Buenos Aires Book Fair

As some of you may know, I’m a publishing student in the University of Buenos Aires. Since the career was celebrating its 20th Anniversary, they organized a series of Conferences (Jornada Académica de Edición) yesterday in the Buenos Aires International Book Fair (that takes place between April and May every year). 

Since we were invited to attend before the Fair actually started, I sneaked through the stands to take some pictures of Hunger Games’ publisher in Argentina: Del Nuevo Extremo, before they opened. They had gigantographies of the movie around the structure:

One was hanging close to the cealing, it was pretty impressive

The books had its own structure, with the new edition of the movie poster cover as a sign

There’s a plastic above because the fair hadn’t started yet and what I was doing of sneaking around wasn’t allowed.

All the shop assistants were wearing a Mockingjay pin and since I had mine, they asked me about it. Since I’m working on a YA project this semester, me and my classmate had to ask some stuff to companies that work with YA and I asked the assistants about the pins. It seems the publisher gave each one of them the pin for free to use in the fair and they can take it home afterwards. Nice job, isn’t it?

The assistant also told me that he had seen Tributes with their pins around since the fair started, and when I moved to another stand I corroborated it myself. I was stopped by a mom and her daughter, who had a mockingjay necklace, and they asked me about my pin. 

In other news, “The Death Cure”, the third book from the Maze Runner trilogy was out THIS WEEK, so I wasn’t expecting to find it in the fair. Because of our project, we had to go to that stand (we made an interview with the publisher that brings Maze Runner to Argentina) and there it was! So, I got it. My sister, my brother and my dad all read the Maze Runner books too, so they were really happy when I go back with it xD

Our covers for Maze Runner are made by an argentinean illustrator (and awesome guy) called Marcelo Orsi Blanco who has a DeviantART account you can check out [x]

I also bought Cecelia Ahern’s “Girl in the Mirror”

And a couple of Ouran mangas. 

The best book I saw (but I couldn’t buy…yet) was “The Art of Walt Disney” by Christopher Finch in the stand of Paragrafica. I was there checking Mark Ryden books and looking for a Tara McPherson one and the assistand showed me a compillation book with Candy Bird drawings (among others) called “The Garden of Eye Candy” when I saw this huge book with Mickey Mouse on the cover. She brought it down for me to see. It’s perfect. But I didn’t have enough money to buy it. I may go back to the fair though, I’m not sure yet.

The Conferences were interesting, there was some mention of fanfiction which is always a good thing xD I didn’t know how aware these “important” publishing professionals were of fanfiction, but since my teacher liked the idea to include the subject in our YA project, it was good to hear them talking about it. Even if they haven’t got the slightest idea of how serious it is for the fandoms

Anyway, more or less that was my experience yesterday =)

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ellecsirhc:

Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck consists of two different stories interlaced into one novel— one story told entirely through 460 pages of illustrations set in 1927, and another story told within 148 pages of text set in 1977. thuper cool.

samhainpress:

3-dimensional book sculpture of Rapunzel in her window, braid hanging from the edge. Crafted from a new (not rare) copy of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” this piece measures approx 11.25” wide, 7.75” tall not including the braid, which adds an additional 9.5” - the US quarter in the final photo is not part of the sculpture, but included in that image to show scale.

This piece is cut and assembled by hand with an x-acto blade, scissors, glue, and the original book pages that were cut to make the recessed ‘window’ space. No additional materials were used, so this is a somewhat fragile piece that you will want to keep away from moisture or potential damage.

Available at my Etsy shop.  Custom book sculptures available upon request; contact me for details.

(via teachingliteracy)

I finished my book. And now ensues the sadness that comes with the ending of the last sentence.

thescienceofrealities:

I always feel such an incomprehensible loss during these times. 

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When the Harry Potter books became movies, I’ve aleady read the first four. When people started becoming fans of the movies and not reading the books, I didn’t even consider spoiling their fun anyway. Whenever they asked me what would happen next, I’d go like

“I won’t tell you!”

When the Twilight books became movies, I’ve already read them all. When girls started arguing about Team Edward & Team Jacob without having read the books at all, I had to fight the urge to go and say

“Bella & Edward have a baby girl and Jacob imprints her”

Now that the Hunger Games movies are starting to be released, I’ve already read the 3 books. I don’t know if I can manage anymore. I think that the first moment I hear a person saying something stupid about it without having read the books, I’ll go and say 

“Hi, how are you? btw Prim dies”

The older I get, the less tolerant I seem to be. I’m an awful person. 

These eye make ups were inspired in different female characters from books: Lyra Silvertongue (His Dark Materials), Darcy Flotsam (Vampirates), Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter), Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Sally Lockhart (The Sally Lockhart Quartet), Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia),  Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior (Divergent), Alice Cullen (Twilight), Meggie Folchart (Inkheart) & Tally Youngblood (Uglies). For more details, check >HERE<

These eye make ups were inspired in different female characters from books: Lyra Silvertongue (His Dark Materials), Darcy Flotsam (Vampirates), Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter), Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games), Sally Lockhart (The Sally Lockhart Quartet), Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia),  Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior (Divergent), Alice Cullen (Twilight), Meggie Folchart (Inkheart) & Tally Youngblood (Uglies).

For more details, check >HERE<

One of the things I love the most when I buy books is the different sizes, colors, material, illustrations (or lack of) of the covers. Even the smell of the books can be different. It’s like each one of them have a distinctive personality.

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During my hiatus I read:
  • “Divergent” by Veronica Roth
  • “The Scorch Trials” by James Dashner
  • “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick

I feel like I’m gonna annoy your dash right now if I review them all, but if someone who follows me wants to know about them, I’ll gladly do it =) 

hanuueshe: His dark Materials Themepaper by ~artflower

hanuueshe:

His dark Materials Themepaper by ~artflower

fuckyeahbookarts:

Paper sculptures by Cara Barer

“I’m afraid the printed word will become a rarity, and the next generation will rely on the ephemeral word—the digital kind that only exists through a computer monitor, or a sort of virtual book that can hold thousands of titles. I’m not saying that’s a bad idea—I only hope that the paper version continues to be exist for the people that want the real tactile sensation of turning a page and holding the real thing.”

(Source: dotsonme, via teachingliteracy)

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