Event: John Green and the Cast of The Fault In Our Stars

I can't tell you how much of a lucky duck I am! Last Friday my youngest (pictured below) and I made the three hour trip up to Dallas to be one of a thousand people to see the cast of The Fault In Our Stars (Ansel Elgot, Nat Wolff, and Shailene Woodley) and the author John Green. I was fortunate enough to score VIP tickets that meant I did not have to wait in line. #thankdog THE LINE WAS INSANE and I can't tell you how happy I was not to wait in the Texas sun! The crowd cheered every time a news crew came by and they had the most amazing posters and signs. It was such a site!

#yalove Lit Chat - Books to Movies, Thursday, April 3rd, 7pm CST

Update: here are the archived tweets from our chat in case you couldn't join us!

This Thursday I am co-hosting the #yalove twitter chat with Dayna Mellberg and our topic is Book to Movies, something we all have an opinion about! Participating is super easy and we're okay if you just eavesdrop too. Search for us using #yalove on Twitter and jump in anytime just be sure to use the hashtag so we can respond or RT. Find us at @jenbigheart and @dayreads. Here's what we hope to cover in just 30 minutes:

Best overall book to movie
Book you'd love to see a movie
The book is optioned, where is the darn movie?
Best character brought to real life
The character missed the most (cut out or cut short from movie)
Best movie ending that is notably different from the book
Upcoming movies in production we hope they pull off