
In the beginning of 2017 I made a simple goal for the year: Do more shit. With this in mind, I've been searching for fun & relatively inexpensive things to do in LA this summer. While reading an article about the best festivals in California, one in particular caught me eye; The LA Times Festival of Books. Festival...OF BOOKS. I wasn't entirely sure what exactly this festival of books was, or what it was going to cost (free!), but it didn't matter. I was going.

After doing a bit more reading, I began to fall in love with the idea & what it stands for. According to their official website, "The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with one simple purpose: To bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them." Swoon.
Located on the USC campus, it was a 2 day event filled with poets, writers, artists, musicians vendors, food & book signings (complete list here) After spending only a few hours scouring the booths with one of my fellow bookworms, I understand why it is considered the largest festival of it's kind in the country. Over 150K people attend the festival each year! We definitely got lost a few times & I'm still not 100% certain we made it to all the booths...but overall, I think we did pretty damn good.
Little Free Library! One day I will have one of these in front of my house. |
There was also some really fun book related goodies. These items in particular gave me a good laugh.
Well ain't that the truth. |
Someone should probably correct my grammar on my blog posts. |
Props to Hulu for this one...
Sadly, I had to keep my spending in check, but I am really excited about the books I got. I'm also pretty obsessed with these postcards. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them yet, but they were too awesome to pass up.
I have long loved those book drawings! Looks like you had a great day!
ReplyDeleteWe missed you!! Plan on it for next year!
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