Toronto Book Festival

Each year Toronto hosts a street festival that is dedicated to reading. This is my first year I will be going and I am excited.

It is held at Queen’s Park in Toronto and it allows people to go to this fair for no charge. I love the fact that this promotes reading and local authors.

Having never been to this festival I wasn’t sure what to expect and was pleased to see authors were also there amidst the book stores and the publishers tables.

I was able to meet and talk with some wonderful authors and am excited to read their books. I also picked up some grab bags that were genre specific books that were wrapped in brown paper packaging. The books were a surprise.

This three book surprise was a cheaper one and I had to buy it. The books that I received may never be read but I loved the ideas

The next one is one of the first two I picked up which was Young Adult Fiction

I am a huge ya fan and was pleasantly surprised with the books and am looking forward to reading them.

The final one is Mystery which is one of my go to genres

Very happy with these selections and am looking forward to getting into these books

I was also able to buy individual books and meet those authors and get them signed. The books that I got signed were all from authors I spoke to and interacted with at the festival.

The first of these books is a journalist and he wrote a non-fiction book about living in the pandemic and with a terminally ill parent. I am really looking forward to reading this and getting a glimpse of what this author is capable of. Mitchell Consky is his name.

The second author I met was E.M. Williams who has spent 10 years perfecting her debut novel and this is a great idea for the book and is based in Toronto

The next book is a horror by Elizabeth Hirst and she describes this as the scariest book. While not always my style this just seems cool especially the cover.