Charlotte's Library

Hi everyone! I'm back! Sooo , spring semester kicked my butt, needless to say. It's finally done as of yesterday, and I'm really glad to be [hopefully] back to blogging on a regular schedule. No guarantees, as I'm taking a " Maymester " at my school, where I have classes running through the 21st of May, but...oh, I really hope it lasts, I miss blogging soooo much! So to kick off this rebirth of my blog, I'd actually like to go through an author event I attended last night! I went to my local library and got to see Lisa McMann , author of Wake, Fade, and Gone . I haven't read the third, but I did read the first two and LOVED them. So let's see, I got to the library around 45 minutes before the event started. I returned a few books and checked some more out (including one by David Levithan !). I killed some time until the event, and then spent a good deal of time trying to find the location of this classroom where the event was going to be he...

SO. Lauren Myracle visited the Squirrel Hill library in Pittsburgh tonight, and I got to go to my very first author visit! She was a fantastic storyteller :) She started off talking about how she first started writing. She'd been writing since the 2nd grade, and loved it all through elementary school. In middle and high school, she got fed up with research papers and the like and the writing stopped, because the fun of it all went away. She started up again in college when she found out that Creative Writing was a major offered at UNC-Chapel Hill (where she went to school the same time as Sarah Dessen, and didn't even know it!). She joined a creative writing class, with a total of 14 students and Daphne the teacher. It wasn't until near the end of the class that Daphne let her students know that creative writing was a limited major and only a few people could take it. 12 students from the class could go on. 2 would not. Lauren and a girl affectionately termed Ap...