I have been at the #tucsonfestivalofbooks all day today, and it was wonderful. The #science center!! There are a zillion booths were you can just walk up and talk to a scientist about anything from bees and mushrooms to sun spots and soil. I learned a lot about bee sex and fungal inoculation. I signed some books!! I met Josh Riedel and Hiron Ennis, who are both amazing writers and super nice. I got to see Riley Black dazzle the crowd with dinosaur facts! #book people are the best

You could say I bought a few books today…

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I also got to meet these beautiful snakes at the booth of the Tucson Herpitological Society. They are a rosy boa a kingsnake, and a mountain someone I forget what kind.

#snakes #snakesOfMastodon #slitherers #Tucson #TucsonFestivalofBooks #TFOB #herps

Today I volunteered for a while at #tucsonFestivalofBooks at our Dept of Linguistics booth.

I do have a couple pictures of the booth, but we also got to meet and pat Millie and Gus

#dogs #dogsOfMastodon #TFOB

At second panel with Annalee Newitz. I’d read her non-fiction books. Going to get her new novel The Terraformers.

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First author, Anna Voloshyna. She’s a successful food blogger and cook from #Ukraine. She intersperses talk about dishes and the current sad state of Ukraine. She’s prepping a fried zucchini dish. #TFOB #TucsonFestivalOfBooks #tucson

At the #TucsonFestivalOfBooks. Huge crowd, very few masks though we are outside. #TFOB has been going on since 2009 with two years off because of the pandemic. They did do a virtual festival in 2021.

In 2 weeks, in #Tucson, #Arizona: The #TucsonFestivalOfBooks.

I could probably spend all of Saturday and all of Sunday going from one session to another and have a great weekend doing it.

Will I? Eh, maybe.

#books #Bookstodon

https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org