Festival of Books

Talbie is an AVID reader!  She ALWAYS has her nose in a book!

She found out about this wonderful "Festival of Books" that was at BYU on 

Saturday.  It hosted a TON of wonderful authors and Talbie wanted to go and meet some of

her favorites and have some books signed.

Here she is as we arrived on BYU campus

 The first author we met was Aprilynne Pike.  She has written a few books that

Talbie has loved!  You must all check out her reading blog in the side bar of my blog

and you will get many good book reviews.

 The thing that was so great about this book festival was that

there were tons of great authors there who write Good Books (meaning clean books!)

Many of them were LDS but not necessarily "LDS writers."

The thing that is so frustrating for Talbie is that she will get a book that she thinks

is going to be great, and then half way through it - there will be something inappropriate.

I think she's so great because she will keep "white out" by her in case she

comes across a bad word, and she will white it out :)

 As we were heading to our next author - we stumbled upon David Archuleta!

Look how close we were to him - he's in the stripped shirt :)

 I immediately got on the phone and called a couple of my young women in my ward

and told them to get down to BYU so they could meet him because it wasn't very busy.

They did and it made their day!

 We aren't huge David Archuleta fans, so we headed to find Lisa Mangum :)

 Talbie writing her favorite book on the book wall.

We had a wonderful time!