Bring On the Dogs (Books Part 2)
One of my not-to-be-missed annual events the past couple years has been the Tucson Festival of Books . The festival is held on the University of Arizona main campus the weekend before Spring Break and has been a Tucson mainstay since its debut in March 2009. The two-day festival features hundreds of authors and has drawn crowds of 135,000 the past couple years. I'm so grateful my adopted hometown fosters a love and appreciation for books, authors and reading. It is a fantastic event and has remained a free event thanks to tremendous supporters and sponsors, and an army of volunteers who help make it all happen. The 2017 festival was March 11-12 and I spent both days going from one author event to another. Five events on Saturday and four events on Sunday. Two of my sessions on March 11 led to the dog-palooza of reading that followed. One session was "Rescuing Animals" featuring Andrew Bloomfield and his book Call of the Cats: What I Learned About Life...