It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

Hello, my bookish friends!

It was an exciting Saturday for me, because, although we don't have Book Expo America, we do have
Supanova Pop Culture Expo, where we can meet famous authors and actors! I could have spent thousands of dollars there on photos, signatures and books, of course. Well, in the end, I met these wonderful authors, Juliet Marillier and Marianne de Pierres (in the middle is actor Suzie Plakson from Star Trek):

Bevan McGuiness

and Colin Taber

and I stood near Matthew Reilly and Christopher Paolini, but their lines were too long to wait for an autograph. Cool to see them in the flesh though!

So now I have a new pile of fantasy, dark fantasy, adventure and cyberpunk dystopian books to read!

I'm loving all the gorgeous covers! Have you read any of these authors? They are all Australian, so possibly not, but they are all up there with the heavy weights like Robin Hobb and Suzanne Collins, so definitely worth a read.

We managed to see some of the visiting actors, Christopher Lloyd, Verne Troyer, Eric Roberts and Noah Hathaway from Neverending Story, but it was $40 for a photo and $30 for a signature, so we thought we'd just soak in their awesomeness from a distance! 

In other bookish news, I finished reading Insurgent and was COMPLETELY absorbed in it - 
just couldn't put it down. 

I enjoyed it more than Divergent because there was less violence and teenage romance, and more rebellion and mind control. The ending was BRILLIANT, and now I'm really looking forward to the third book in the series!

I also read Snow White and the Huntsmen this week. I was inspired to do so after seeing the film
Red Riding Hood, because of the whole modern fairytale thing.

And now I want to see the film of this one! Maybe we'll see it at the cinema next week. :)

Well I'm off to visit Book Journey, to see what everyone else is reading, and I might actually have time to comment this week!

See you there!

 xx

Supanova Pop Culture Expo

With report writing over - finally!- weekends will be a bit more free! Today we are off to the Supanova Pop Culture Expo, where I hope to meet some famous authors and movie stars. We have been going to this expo for the last three years, and, while it's always a bit weird to see adults playing dress-ups, as they do, it's kinda cool too!

This year the authors visiting will be:

Love love love her books!

Mega famous!

 Also mega famous!

Writes brilliant dystopian novels

Writes cool fantasy books!

And there are some well known actors I would like to see:

from one of my all time fave movie trilogies, Back to the Future

who played Etreyu in Neverending Story (major hottie!)

Viktor Krum from the Harry Potter films (cute)

and Mini-me from the Austin Power films!

Looking forward to this, and hope to get some good pics to share with you!

If you live in Perth, might see you there!

xx