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Meeting Penguin Teen On Tour!

Hello Everyone,

It's been awhile since we last posted, it just so happened that we got super caught up with life and took an unplanned vacation from blogging. However, today's post is sort of like an update on what bookish activities we've been up to. 

Not that long ago, the TwoGirlsThatRead Team went to our local bookstore eagerly anticipating a rare significance: an author event!

A lot of the time decent author events either never happen or are just a long drive away. However, that was not the case with this one and we were able to meet Penguin Teen On Tour!



That's a wondrous picture of the posters they handed out and my (Ashvini's) shelf-in-progress! Anyways, Penguin Teen is a very famous publisher of many New York Times Bestselling books including "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir (more on that to come). Recently, they announced tour dates where a few of their authors would come in, answer questions, and do some book signing. 

This year, on tour were: Alison Goodman (Dark Days Club), Sabaa Tahir (An Ember In The Ashes), Rachel Hawkins (Rebel Belle), April Genevieve Tucholke (Wink, Poppy, Midnight), and Alwyn Hamilton (Rebel of the Sands).  



5 THINGS WE LEARNED!

1. Sabaa Tahir's brother orders very fancy things at Starbucks
2. V. E. Schwab doesn't like Earl Gray Tea. 
3. Rachel Hawkins is from Southern-ish America.
4. Helene from An Ember In The Ashes would be pretty good friends with Amani from Rebel of the Sands if their worlds collided.
5. When a mic starts squeaking like crazy, put it down and use your teacher voice.




Waiting is a timely process... Sometimes it's so timely that it makes you start giving your Chocolate Chip Frappuccinos a photo shoot...


FAVOURITE!!

Anyways once we got to the front of the line we met the authors, who were all very kind. (Poor Sabaa Tahir had an awful cold though!) Unfortunately we're not vloggers and do not have a way of combining all our video footage to share with you (we didn't take anymore pictures). 
Sooo... that's all we have at this point. We honestly made this post to just let you guys know that we're alive!

Oh and by the way, I (Emma) got Rebel Belle, An Ember In The Ashes, and Rebel of the Sands signed while Ashvini just got An Ember In The Ashes signed because she's a little more controlled with her book buying.

Emma has a birthday soon and the Book Fair's at our school so I'm sure we'll be able to pull together a Spring Book Haul post, and DEFINITELY create a review soon.

                          

More reviews coming to a computer near you soon (no joke)!

Yours Truly,
Emma and Ashvini 
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