I love annual events that get better and better each year. That's what's been happening with the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA. I did some quick math on the drive down and realized I have been going for five years now. I used to zip down on a Friday night and stay til Sunday morning, but my trip has been getting longer and longer each year. This year I started my weekend on Thursday and drove home Sunday afternoon.
Here's my travelogue on what I did there -- my version of "What I Did on My Bookish Vacation."
Yesterday I drove from my home in New Jersey to Charlottesville, Virginia for the Virginia Festival of the Book. I love road trips. Always have. If a trip is less than 6.5 hours, I drive. I loathe waiting in airports, packing a suitcase to fly and living life on an airline or train schedule. All are real stress inducers.
I love warm weather. Not hot sticky weather, but warm weather. This week I took an extended weekend trip to Florida and got just that! I had an opportunity to attend Sleuthfest in Ft. Lauderdale or the London Book Fair. I rolled the dice on sun or rain and picked Florida. As I wrote in last week's newsletter, the last time I was in Lauderdale in March was back in my college days.
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January's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of CBS's "Watson" and Netflix's "Missing You"; the season premieres of "Will Trent" on ABC, "When Calls the Heart" on Hallmark Channel, "Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches" on AMC, and "C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart" on Max; the season finales of STARZ's "Outlander" and Apple TV+'s "Silo"; the continuation of "Dexter: Original Sin" on Paramount+ and "The Irrational" on NBC; the films Dog Man in theaters and The Jane Mysteries: A Deadly Prescription on Hallmark Mystery; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of The Return, Here and Venom: The Last Dance.