Shannon Hale and Libba Bray in town!
These ladies should have their own comedy hour. Their books are impeccable -- perfect plots, beautiful settings, and wonderful, sympathetic characters that have senses of humor -- but in person these two are some sort of foxy hyper-hilarious Smothers Brothers/Diabolical Geniuses who should be on SNL full time. Or better yet, co-run our country from the White House.
Lordy.
They did three events yesterday EACH with different content (take that, Seinfeld!) and are doing two more today if you want to start your own Grateful Dead-like groupie troupe for them.
Shannon's outfit is the actual outfit used for the BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS cover. Lovely book. I'm only 2/3 of the way through THE SWEET FAR THING -- the action is ramping up and it is killing me. I will be tense until I finish this book and I have lots of work to do! Aargh!
Their events today:
Friday, January 25th
3:15pm
Mountlake Terrace Library
23300 - 58th Ave. W
Mountlake Terrace, WA
6:30 pm
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way
Lake Forest Park, WA
PS
Update -- I finished THE SWEET FAR THING on Saturday and cried all afternoon. Cried at the grocery store. Cried picking up dog doo. Cried making dinner. It was a wonderful book. SPOILER: BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS was also wonderful but its ending was kinder to its main character and domesticated animals.
They'll both speak to your soul in different ways and are worth running out and buying toot sweet.
Comments
Jaime,
I am so sorry I couldn't be at the Hale/Bray events. But I did nominate these uber-writers as co-Hot Women of Children's Literature. . .check out my blog!
Kirby