Saturday was a day of openings. I was torn between the three fairs I wanted to visit and the opening of the City Square. I decided to go to the fair. After all, I reasoned, the Square would be there for much longer.
What I liked:
Visiting the fairs was for free!
You can actually buy books at the book fair. Last year I realised a dream and visited the world's biggest book fair in Frankfurt. I was very excited about it but then I found out that you couldn't actually buy any books at many stands. I bought several books and spent more than I had "planned". One book is about Bursa. It has pictures of Bursa taken around 1900. Very interesting. If you want to have a look inside the book, go to this link and click on the icon below the book cover and leaf through the book: http://tinyurl.com/2wb3nw.
I also liked the fact that the fair wasn't too big and I actually had the opportunity to talk at length with several authors and had two books signed for my nephews (I hope they wont't read this before I give them their books).
What I didn't like:
When I went into the exhibition halls where the book fair was, I thought I smelled cigarette smoke but I quickly discarded that thought. Couldn't be possible I thought. It was possible! Visitors as well as attendants were smoking between all those books!!! How dare they?! I mean, besides me not liking cigarette smoke, what about safety?
