Thanks to the organizing efforts of Lory (She’d be great at herding cats!) of The Emerald City Book Review, we had tri-state representation at the New England Book Blogger Meet-Up last Sunday in Boston. Lory came down from New Hampshire and Charlotte of Charlotte’s Library drove up from Rhode Island, and I (like Lory) got to Boston by car and subway.
After brunch, we walked up the block to the Boston Atheneum. The Art & Architecture tour we had hoped to take at 1:00 was filled up weeks in advance, so we just paid $5 each to take a look around the public spots (photography allowed) and the current art exhibit (no photos allowed in there.) I think I’ll do a separate post with my photos from the Atheneum, because I took so many, but here are a few, for now:
After the Atheneum visit, walked through the Granary Burying Ground nearby, where Paul Revere and several other famous Revolutionary figures are buried.
Next, we walked over to Caffè Nero, in case Katie of Bookish Illuminations had been able to meet us there, but no such luck! There were books there, too, though, and would be a nice place to have coffee sometime.
Of course, no book blogger meet-up is complete without a visit to a bookstore! Commonwealth Books was the only store in the area open on Sunday. It was a great place to browse in, but not if you’ve got mobility issues, that’s for sure, due to the massive number of bookcases, packed in higgledy-piggledy!
After the visit to Commonwealth Books where (shh, don’t tell my husband) I bought two used books – Mistress Masham’s Repose by T.H. White and The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksander Hemon.
My main contribution to the day was to lug an umbrella with me, thus guaranteeing that the sun would come out and stay out! I had hoped to get more Boston-area book bloggers to join us, including Audra of Unabridged Chick and Amanda of Opinions of a Wolf, but it didn’t work out to meet them in person this time. 🙁
Others who had hoped to come, but couldn’t make it, were:
Melissa of The Bookbinder’s Daughter,
Chris of Wildmoo Books, and
Brian of Babbling Books
We are hoping to have another New England Book Blogger Meet-Up at the Boston Book Festival on Saturday, October 15, and will share details when we have them, in case anyone wants to join us for that!
Thank you, Lory, for a fun day!
Read Lory’s New England Book Bloggers Meet-Up recap here!
Ooh, nice pictures, and you put them together so well! I do hope some other bloggers will be inspired to join us next time. I’ll try to make October 15th work, but if I can’t I know it will be a great day for all who can make it.
It was a lovely day, and so nice to meet you and Lory!
Looks like I missed a fun day! Hope to make the next gathering.
We missed you!
It was nice to meet you, too!
Oh, I hope you will be able to make it! If you want to plan another one in between, I’ll try to make that one too!
Katie and I are thinking of maybe a Sunday in September (turns out it’s our mutual birth month). I will definitely keep everyone posted.
It sounds, and looks, like you had a fabulous time! I have not been to the Atheneum since the renovations. I am not sure how many of them were in publc areas though. It would be nice to see if anything is visibly different. As soon as my son gets his butt in graduate school, and is no longer depending on me for part of his living expenses, I plan to start doing some traveling. I would love to start visiting Boston again. I certainly will keep my eyes peeled for bookish meet ups there. 🙂
That’s good! Please do!