Reading something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue
Last week I wrote about 12 year old Daniela meeting author Lauren Kate.
After Daniela had her quality time with Lauren, we all sat down for a nice chat (okay, so technically the title should be two on one!), talking about books, angels, and the paranormal genre.
Here’s the transcript of the interview:
Sorry it’s taking a while for the next post. The holiday rush is setting in and I’ve been out almost everyday for the past week!
In the meantime, here are some snapshots of the past week, which I’ll blog about later on…
When I found out I was interviewing Lauren Kate (author of Fallen and Torment), I had one person in my mind — my friend Gege‘s 12 year old niece, Daniela. Earlier that week, I had seen Gege post the link to the announcement of Lauren Kate’s arrival in Manila (for the National Book Store Fallen event) on Daniela’s mom’s Facebook wall, and I deduced Daniela must be a Lauren Kate fan.
A few phone calls later, it was final — I was taking Daniela to meet Lauren Kate.
Gege later told me Daniela screamed when she found out she was going to meet one of her favorite authors!
I couldn’t help it; I had to go back!
I already made off with a pretty hefty loot from the last couple of times I visited the National Book Store Christmas Book Bazaar, but I wanted to catch the last day of the bargain sale so I wouldn’t have any regrets (yes, you can see how seriously I take book sales) afterwards, and I am so glad I went.
I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time in the bookstores in the past couple of weeks, and I’ve seen (read: drooled) enough to make up my Christmas wishlist for this year.
I posted my Christmas wishlist last year and was able to cross out around 75% of them, but the list is shorter this year so if I’m just half as lucky, I’ll be very happy.
No pressure on friends and family; the biggest pressure is actually on me and on my willpower to hold out on Christmas splurging!
