{"id":25891,"date":"2019-04-06T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25891"},"modified":"2019-04-06T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T21:50:43","slug":"californias-book-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californias-book-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Book Crowd &#8211; California&#8217;s Book Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bukes.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-book-festivals.html\">Los Angeles Times Festival of Books<\/a> which returns to USC campus April 13-14, 2019. \u00a0Scroll down for a list of upcoming book festivals in California!<\/p>\n<p>SeeCalifornia.com has regularly featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/directory.html\">book reviews<\/a> of California books by historian and author Craig MacDonald. So much of history would be lost without written records to tell us what transpired.<\/p>\n<p>Two Twilight Zone classic episodes featuring actor Burgess Meredith dealt with this topic, delving into literary importance &#8212; and loss:<\/p>\n<p>Time Enough: An avid bookworm, Henry Bemis, just wants to be left alone to read and finally gets his wish when a nuclear war devastates Earth. His being in the bank vault where he works has saved him. No one&#8217;s alive outside, but he finds canned food, books to read and everything is great &#8212; till his eyeglasses break. He&#8217;s blind as a bat!<\/p>\n<p>The Obsolete Man: It&#8217;s a future totalitarian state where Romney Wordsworth is put on trial for being obsolete. His professed occupation as a librarian is punishable by death as the State has eliminated books.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-book-festivals.html\">California Book Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>APRIL 2019<br \/>\nLos Angeles: LA Times Festival of Books<br \/>\nSan Bernardino: Multicultural Book &amp; Family Festival of the Inland Region<\/p>\n<p>MAY-JUNE 2019<br \/>\nBerkeley: Bay Area Book Festival<br \/>\nSonoma: Sonoma Valley Authors Festival<br \/>\nSanta Monica: Yallwest Book Festival<br \/>\nSacramento: Black Book Fair<\/p>\n<p>JULY 2019<br \/>\nSan Francisco: SF Art Book Fair<\/p>\n<p>AUGUST 2019<br \/>\nSalinas: Steinbeck Festival<br \/>\nLos Angeles: Leimert Park Village Book Fair<br \/>\nSan Diego: Festival of Books<\/p>\n<p>SEPTEMBER &#8211; OCTOBER 2019<br \/>\nSacramento: Fall Antiquarian Book Fair<br \/>\nOceanside: North San Diego Latino Book &amp; Family Festival<br \/>\nCosta Mesa: Orange County Children&#8217;s Book Festival<br \/>\nManteca: Great Valley Book Fest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is Los Angeles Times Festival of Books which returns to USC campus April 13-14, 2019. \u00a0Scroll down for a list of upcoming book festivals in California! SeeCalifornia.com has regularly featured book reviews of California books by historian and author Craig MacDonald. So much of history would be lost without written records to tell us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25892,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25891\/revisions\/25892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}