Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Jen's Vermont Retreat

This past weekend I was in my element at the annual Books on the Nightstand retreat in Vermont! Four days and three nights of books, authors, literary games...basically a book love fest.  It kicked off with a trivia contest.  My team was room mate Dawn (below) and two southern belles who were first time retreaters.  Anita was a hoot and got us points for the best team name:  The Hos of Prose.  (Other than team name, we were actually quite awful)
I was a little disappointed that the weather was snowy since I packed for spring.  But it did give us the chance to pretend to read by the fire.

Yankee bookswap!!  I ended up with a signed first edition of The Orphan Master's Son which won the Pulitzer just a few days later.  
The first year I came I was excited about the authors.  Now by year three I don't even care what authors are there as long as I see all my old friends.   It's not the rowdiest weekend (although I went to bed at 2:15 on Saturday night which must give us some cred?) but it's one of my favorites and one I would not miss for anything!   



1 comment:

Chris K said...

I loved reliving the weekend here, Jen! It makes me want to go back! :-)