Sarah Dessen

Along the same lines as my last post, today we met Sarah Dessen. We bought tickets a few days ago when we heard she'd be speaking at the DMoA, and this afternoon we rode the Dart train (Mike's first time) and took both the books we own (Just Listen and The Truth About Forever) to get them signed. It was mostly what you'd expect--she's fun and normal and pretty much seems like she could be any girl you know, more like 25 years old than 40--and when we got to the table where she was signing, she told Mike it was great to get some testosterone every once in a while. She talked a lot about This Lullaby and said it's one of her favorites, so I'm thinking I'll have to get to that one soon; I've had it on my iPod for about a year and have been meaning to listen to it. 


There's a (free!) festival at the museum in June at which we will be able to meet Rick Riordan, Laurie Halse Anderson, Norton Juster, and others, and Mike is also really excited about seeing Chuck Palahniuk in October. I am very much a fan of this new hobby of ours, and I think we will keep it up.