It's Here! BEA Schwag has Arrived!

Not that I’m excited or anything, but damn, opening that box was like my Nerd Christmas.  So here’s what we got:

These are all my autographed books and the fun swag I got.  I’ll run down the list:

•  The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce – This was featured at the Editor’s Buzz, and I found Rachel at the Random House booth the next morning for a signature.
• Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Robuck – I got this in the BBC swag bag and she was attending the lunch, so I got it signed.
• Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy - He was so swoonworthy at the Harper Collins event and both times I ran into him at the Expo.
• Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner – She was they Keynote Speaker at the BBC.  I’ve never read her before (not into chick lit) but I’ll give this one a try.
• The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman – This was the one non-fiction that grabbed my attention and Matti and his publicist were so nice!
• The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley – While walking by this booth, the editor pitched this book and I told her she had me at “England and Archaeology.”
• Heaven Should Fall by Rebecca Coleman – I had this bookmarked on my BEA app, so I swung by the autograph booth to say hi.
• The Lost Prince by Selden Edwards – Another booth I had bookmarked and was able to drop by (my last author before leaving).
• I love my Penguin bag and I also got a magnetic bookmark, a chalkboard cup, a flexible book light and a Downton Abbey pen.

Here’s a variety of other stuff I acquired:

• A Night Like This by Julie Quinn – This was in my Harper Collins bag, and I’m not interested, so I”ll probably mooch it.
• Darker Still by Leanna Renee Keiber – Not a typical read for me, but it sounds Dorian Gray-ish.
• Matched by Ally Condie – Everyone at my table said this was a good one, so I’ll take their word for it.
• The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman – In my Harper Collins swag bag.
• A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller – Picked this one up at the Amazon booth.
• The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey – In my Harper Collins Swag Bag, this one’s been on my radar for a while.
• The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu – A Editor’s Buzz pick, the one I was most excited about.
• Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan – Another Editor’s Buzz and the editor completely freaked everyone out with the germs.
• In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – The fourth Editor’s Buzz book I found intriguing.
• BEA Buzz Books – Excerpts of the hottest books this season.
• WordPress for Dummies – In my BBC swag bag, I figured it might come in useful.
• Agorafabulous by Sara Benincasa - I memoir I heard positive things about, I scrounged from leftover swag bags at BBC.
• Porch Lights by Dorthea Benton Frank – In my BBC swag bag.
• The Beautiful Mystery by Louis Penny – I actually can’t remember where I got this one.  Looks cool…

That’s everything, kids. In addition to blogging all this, I was also cataloguing and Goodreads-ing.  2 hours later, can I be done now?