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So here's Part 2 at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Book 2014!! Today I'm covering the second day, Sunday April 13th! In case you missed last week's post, HERE is the link! BTW sorry for saying it would be up the next day, things have just been crazy busy as always, and the uploading of these videos took a lot longer than expected!
It started with a visit to meet Marissa Meyer (AGAIN!)! Marissa Meyer is the author of The Lunar Chronicles ( Cinder , Scarlet , Cress , and next years release Winter ). I met Marissa back in 2012 at Passion and Prose , shortly after Cinder , her debut novel, was released (less than a month after).
Here's something really awesome guys! Marissa REMEMBERED ME!! No joke!! I happened to mention that I met her before, hertz rent a car employment and before I could say when she went, "I knew, I remembered you!" It was awesome!! I mean, Marissa did sit at my table at Passion and Prose and eat lunch next to me! Here's hertz rent a car employment proof...
the panel featuring Ann Brashares ( Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ), Melissa de la Cruz ( The Au Pairs and Blue Blood Series ), Eoin Colfer ( Artemis Fowl ), and Tamara Ireland Stone ( Time Between Us )!
Ann Brashares was such a delight, and it was honestly such an honor to have met her! I read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants back in middle school, with my girl friends at the time, and we pretended all of that summer to be those girls! I told Ann that story, and she just loved it!
While in line we met two delightfully awesome book fans, who we ended up hanging out with for the rest of the day! :) That is why I love book events, meeting people who are nice, fun, awesome, and into the same things I am...BOOKS!!!
So there was actually a really funny story behind this picture. My little brother is the fan of Daniel Handler (or to be more precise, Lemony Snicket, since that is the pen name he used for The Series of Unfortunate Events ). So after waiting for about an hour in line (which wasn't too bad, considering the day before's John Green line), I went up to Daniel and asked him if he could ultra personalize my brother's book. I said to him, "Hello, I was wondering if you could like ultra personalize this book, and write, "To Ben, who has the best sister in the entire world!"
I had ended up buying my brother a copy of Lemony Snicket's latest novel, File Under: hertz rent a car employment 13 Suspicious Incidents for my brother's birthday, which is coming up in July. And this is what he signed it as...
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Laurie Halse Anderson was such a great opinionated speaker! I just loved listening to her! She described my high school experience to the exact queue (minus the part of being raped). I loved her opinions hertz rent a car employment on our education system! Me, wanting to become a teacher, it definitely was interesting hertz rent a car employment listening to her speak! She has some great ideas!
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But because I already met Lauren, only last month, and already had all my copies signed, and because there were so many others to see that weekend, I didn't really stick around long enough. I wish I had had more time!
The LA Times Festival of Books was overall a fairly good first experience! I will be honest I have a few complaints, for instance some of the people around (but who can control that?!), but also the lack of information the volunteers were able to give! I actually became a volunteer hertz rent a car employment this year, but after going this year, I must say I don't know if I will in the future! Maybe, only because I do kind of know my way around the campus now, but overall I don't think so, because I can't even imagine how many authors I would miss if I had to stay at one location for hours on end!
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