Every year my work puts on a big book fair to raise funds for all of our programs. It's the biggest fundraising event of the year. One of the things involved is a gala where all of the bigwigs from the publishing community come and eat food. This year the honoree was the CEO of Simon & Schuster. Mary Higgins Clark gave a speech. I've never read one of her books, but she seemed like a funny lady, so I may just give her a go.
The food was pretty good. Three hundred dollars a plate good, I'm not so sure of.... but free food good (for me at least!) it was, indeed! Salad, short ribs (which were not ribs, but a roast, phew!), some veggies and a gross dessert.
At first I was under the impression that a gala was going to be more like a ball. But it was just regular dress up attire, which was a little disappointing because who doesn't want to wear a ball gown??? But also a relief because I don't own any ball gowns...
- Megan Leigh
6 comments:
What did you end up wearing? That would have been hard not knowing what to expect. I'm sure you looked darling.
Mary Higgins Clark's books are kind of dopey - but quick non-thinking reads. They are all the same story - just plug in different names of characters and places. I guess they are "cute". You can figure out the killer in the first couple chapters it seems. I haven't read her in years though, so maybe she got better.
I'm really sad that dessert was yucky. That is typically the one thing they do great at those big events because the rest of the food has potential to be cold and dried out.
What did you wear? It would have been really great if you'd worn a ball gown and been the only one and just pretended you wore one every day.
I just wore this dress of Kristin's from anthropologie. It had a bit of shiny gold in it.
They alternated desserts. I ended up with a gross one. The people next to me got what looked like a big bowl of chocolate. I was jealous. So jealous.
Was it the cute dress she wore to the wedding?
Cynthia's wedding?
That's the one!
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