Extra! Extra! The BEA Edition

Extra! Extra! is my weekend post featuring brand new additions to my TBR pile as well as a summary of what's new on the blog.

This weekend I'm linking to Stacking the Shelves @ Tynga's Reviews and/or to Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. 

For the fourth year in a row, I was lucky enough to attend BEA (Book Expo America.) It's a huge, multi-day event attended by publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, teachers, press, and bloggers.

Publishers set up booths to show off all the great new books they'll have coming out in the next year. It's a HUGE event that includes book signings and book giveaways.

This year, BEA coincided with a bunch of family events I needed to attend, and as a result, I was only there for a day and a half rather than three full days. (This turned out to be a very good thing for my feet!) Yes, I did miss out on a book or two (I Crawl Through It....) but I'm okay with that.

Here's my four year history of number of books obtained at BEA:

This year I'm at an all time low! And yet, I still think I got just about every book I wanted. There seemed to be fewer books featured at this year's event, but still a lot of amazing titles. And best of all, the 24 books I got fit nicely into my book cupboard. Here's a peek:

The full list is on Goodreads here.  And, as all good things often come to an end, this may be my last BEA. Because:

That's a way for me to travel. Then again, the dates are earlier -- hard to read, but they are mid-May instead of late May, and that may conflict less with the end of the school year stuff that often gets in the way of BEA for me.

In any case, I had a great time, met old friends and made new ones, and found out about a lot of amazing new books -- which I will be telling you about in the months to come!