Next year I will be bettered prepared. I had such a great time.
I went with my sister who is also a very big book reader like myself. I have been asking her to come on with me to do reviews on this blog but she is a time travel romance chick and will not change her genre. I have tried to explain she doesn’t know what she is missing. 🙂
I had decided to do Power Reader day since it was open to the public, this is my first time and I wasn’t sure what to expect. We had left at 6:30 in the morning since we live in NJ it only took us 1/2 hour to get there. Parking and the short walk to the Javits center we were in to register at 7:00. I was so excited. We sat in line and waited till the event opened at 9:00. We meet some really nice people and chatted about what to expect when we walked in. They gave us the tip to just walk in and grab books because if the event starts at 9 all the books are gone by 9:20. I thought it was funny that you really had to do that. I felt bad just taking them with out asking if it was ok but everyone else was doing it so I did too.
Now my mistake was not planning out who we wanted to see and I felt bad we missed a few authors. Especially one my sister wanted to see. I can’t say we didn’t see anyone we did but there was a group of people at the Penguin Booth I missed and I was rather bummed but next year I HAVE A PLAN!!! lol and I will map it all out like I do when I go to Disney.
Honestly I did grab a couple of really great books and I made sure to grab a few for my kids. Getting each of them one book that is signed by the author.
For My Son ~ Big Nate Game on By Lincoln Peirce
These are his favorite books. He was so happy and told everyone
he could that he got a book that was signed by Lincoln Peirce 😉
For My Daughter ~ American Girl Saige by Jessie Haas
My daughter was just as happy. we are just starting to discover American girl dolls so this is a great starter book for her when she is ready to read
I did get yelled at while we were there and that was a totally miss understanding on the persons part. They were putting out books for a signing I just wanted to see what book it was, I went to take it and was about to ask if they were signing soon. The lady snapped at me and pretty much ripping the book out of my hand
“You can’t take that” ‘It’s not for taking”.
I smiled and said “I just was looking at it. I don’t take things unless I ask first”. I picked it up again then just put it down and walked away. Even if I wanted it signed I wasn’t going to, thought the lady was rather rude to assume I was taking it and snapping at me like that. Oh well =^/
But regardless of that one incident Really had a great time.
I was so excited to meet Michelle Pickett and turning into a total spaz.
I walked over and she said do you want me to sign it to you,
I said yes my name is Michelle as she signed the only thing i was able to get out of my mouth was “can’t wait to read this” total dork moment lol
at least she didn’t write To Michelle, You’re a Dork!
So now with my new loot and a couple more books that I just discovered looks like I will have to redo my Summer reading list again.
Hope I can finish it before summer is over 🙂
Hoping to be able to finish both book before the weekend but I’m so behind on Game of Thrones I really need to catch up since I am now not going on my personal facebook because people keep posting spoilers I don’t want to see 🙁
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