Gayle Forman in Manila!

Event: Gayle Forman Book Signing Event
Event Date: January 18, 2014
Location: National Bookstore, Glorietta 1

What a day!

To be honest, I'm not a fan (yet) of Ms. Gayle Forman. I haven't read any of her books prior to the event, but I have been seeing reviews of my Goodreads friends and I've seen them gush over how much they love her books and how badly they cried over their favorites. And since I saw the stills of If I Stay movie-adaptation, I decided to brave the event. 

(L-R) Me, Karla @ Reads and Thoughts and Eunice @ Book Overdose
*Above photos courtesy of Eunice @ Book Overdose

I've been to two book signings last year and I swore that the next one I'd be attending I'd be really early during registration. So... tada!!! I was number 5, baby! Yes, that's a great achievement for me considering I'm always late and I tend to belong to the number 100+ registrants. Also, since I was early, I scored us sweet seats near the stage. Woohoo! (To much excitement for someone who hasn't read the books yet, huh?)

Kiera Cass in Manila

Pardon the late posting. This happened last Saturday, August 3, 2013.

Kiera Cass's book signing!

I met up with Maria @ Reading is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac at ten in the morning. I was really surprised to be at the mall that early, but since the registration was supposedly to start at that time we thought we'd get a head start so we could come home earlier. Imagine my surprise when Maria sent me a text telling me that there's already a line forming exactly when the mall opened! Damn! Barely an hour has passed since the registration opened and we were already queue numbers 113 and 114. I didn't realize Kiera's had that much of an impact here in the Philippines!

Since it was rather early, we decided to head for lunch and some coffee while waiting for the event to start. And here's what we came back to:

BOOM! The place was crowded!

We were then joined by Eunice @ Book Overdose, and we chatted amongst ourselves while waiting for Kiera to make her appearance.