Decatur Book Fest: Wild Thing

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Greetings from the Decatur Book Festival! We hope you all are having a fantastic Saturday morning (egads! I mean afternoon- already!). I’ve been milling around the Square all morning and Cath has been hard at work at the City Hall events.

For you non-locals/new AsianCajun readers, Cath and I tend to blab about our adopted hometown of Decatur, Georgia. Decatur cozies up to Atlanta on the east (we are 6 miles from downtown ATL), and this weekend we happen to be the host of the largest book festival in the South East. If you need a quick visual of Decatur, imagine Stars Hallow in Gilmore Girls, add a few thousand people and a little more diversity, and you have Decatur.

For you locals that might have stopped by the Blogger Tent, I apologize if I wasn’t there! Being the prepared person that I am, I forgot my card reader and had to run home so that I could upload the likes of these (see below!):

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It’s my first run in with a Wild Thing!!! Definitely a highlight of the morning. He must’ve escaped from the press junket for the movie coming out in October. If you would like to spot him too- head over to Little Shop of Stories- that’s where I found him.
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My bf and I stopped by The Wren’s Nest tent to say hello to our wonderful friends Lain and Amelia. Non-locals, when you come visit us in the ATL, the AsianCajuns are taking you to the Wren’s Nest. Don’t know what it is? Click here.
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If you stop by The Wren’s Nest tent you should also take a look at this literary journal (no, not just because I designed the cover- [fluttering eyelashes]). A group of fantastic high school students wrote, designed, and compiled the journal during the summer. Pretty fantastic work for anyone, let alone 16 year olds- most impressive. 

 

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My Book Festival accoutrements: festival program, leather purse and sunnies, and a stack of books to hull around.

 

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Apart from the Wayfarer’s Journal, I picked up the rest of the books at the Eagle Eye Books tent- the friendliest booksellers- go check ’em out!

I hope to run into some of you guys on the Square!

psst! I’m not blogging from the Blogger tent at the moment. I am actually [glances around furtively] sitting in the quiet and beautiful office where the Mayor usually works!  I brought my Mac up here because the blogger tent is a bit crowded and it’s cool and quiet away from the fray. Ooo the perks of having a twin who works for the beautiful city of Decatur. Thanks, Mr. Mayor!

Hope you all are having a fab Saturday! More hurried posts to come! 

xoxo,

Lar

26 thoughts on “Decatur Book Fest: Wild Thing”

  1. looks like y’all scored big!! Unfortunately I’m not going to make it for I have to entertain guests and go to the Dome later for the Bama vs. VT game :)) ya, football. . .but we need to find another time to try and meet up, this is getting silly that we have not hung out!

    ///jess//

  2. Hey Lar, looks like you’re having a great time! That photo with the Wild Thing is so great- I can’t wait for the movie to come out! Hope you ladies have a great long weekend!!

  3. Oh how fun! That Wild Thing is too cute, pretty sure I would’ve giggled non-stop next to him. Great cover design, Lar! And cute dress, missy!
    Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🙂
    xx

  4. This looks like a great time! I wish Wellington had something similar to this. It’d be great to be surrounded by so much literary creative-ness. Not a word I know. Don’t trash the Mayor’s office now. That’d be naughty. But do open a few drawers.

  5. Hey!
    One of my friend’s sent me a link here because she thinks I deserve to be the third member of your group. I’m one quarter Japanese (grandmother on my mom’s side is from Kyoto and my mother was born in Tokyo). I was born and raised in New Orleans, LA so I grew up with the cajun culture though genetically I’m not really cajun. Oddly enough, I now live in GA. I’m finishing up my bachelors at UGA so I live in Athens. Anyway, I’m totally jealous and wanna be an asian cajun, too. If you ever decide to expand to a trio, then consider this my application.

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