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Lydia McDowell's avatar

You did it! The book fest last weekend was nothing short of electrifying. It was fun playing book Santa Claus at the kids book giveaway, and I got Susan Morrison to answer a question I’ve always been dying to ask. Standing applause for pulling this off. Bravo!

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Thanks for volunteering, Lydia! So glad you had fun!

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Eli's avatar

Congrats, Abra! What a feat! You did it!!

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Jam Canezal's avatar

Congratulations on the success of your event, Abra! Your passion for books! 💕💕

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Marg Moon's avatar

Your book festival sounds wonderful and the book recommendations are intriguing. Thanks for sharing these titles as they are likely to slip under my radar and I hate not knowing about good books.

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Thanks for reading, Marg.

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Cori Feldman's avatar

Congratulations! I hope your heart is overflowing with pride and joy! I am in such awe. Book festivals are the most wonderful places. We have one here, the North Texas Teen Book Fest, and I’ve had the pleasure of helping chaperone it for our school’s 4th and 5th graders for a couple of years - there is such magic in seeing people make connections between the books they read and the people who wrote those stories.

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Love that you have a fest just for teens. The teen programming within our festival is one of my favorite parts!

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Kuleigh Baker's avatar

What an incredible feat!

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Thanks Kuleigh!

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Caroline Tompkins's avatar

Congratulations on new job done extraordinarily well! Enjoyed both days, caught glimpses of you putting mileage on your smart watch!

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Glad you enjoyed it, Caroline. Yes, I got almost 30,000 steps this weekend!

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Sarah McCraw Crow's avatar

Congratulations, and phew! What an undertaking! I'm currently drowning in book festival work, and ours is SO MUCH SMALLER than yours. Someday I hope we can have a conversation about book-festival planning....

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Yes, let’s do that! You’ve got this!

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Angela L Hoy's avatar

Equal joy meeting you “in the flesh” at this year’s festival, Abra. And I appreciated the insights emerging from your session “For the Love of the Book” Evan Friss’ book is now on my TBR list! 😊 📚

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

It is such an interesting book!

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Trisa Schorr's avatar

I can't believe you had the energy to do this. It was such fun this weekend and I look forward to another great year. I'll look into the books you recommended. :)

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Abra McAndrew's avatar

Doing this brings me energy! Love working alongside you, Trisa. Thanks for reading!

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