This Thursday one of my newest favorite authors, Chris Bohjalian, is coming to Fairfax to talk about his newest book, Skeletons at the Feast. Some of you might recognize the name Chris Bohjalian, he wrote Midwives, which was an Oprah Book Club book back when the Oprah Book Club had first gotten started. I’d enjoyed that book and even enjoyed the “made for TV” movie on Lifetime (I know shocking…I enjoyed a Lifetime Movie!). Last January I saw Skeletons at the Feast on the new books shelf at the library so picked it up, it was pretty good so I decided to check out the other books that Mr. Bohjalian had written.
I have enjoyed most of his books, including his book of selected newspaper columns (perfect for reading on my kindle app at stoplights!), so when I heard he was coming to the area to do a book talk and possibly a signing I cleared my schedule and am planning to go, even though it’s a school night!
It occurred to me that he might be doing a book signing, while I have read almost of all his books, I don’t own a single one (other than the one in my kindle app, but I don’t want him signing my iPhone). I buy a lot of children’s books so I try to get most my “adult” reading material from the library. Also, after the National Book Festival I’m realizing that what I’m most interested in is hearing the authors speak, standing in a long line just for a signature isn’t as appealing to me. My plan is to listen to him speak and then leave, but I wanted to have something for him to sign “just in case”.
I considered bumming one of his books from Susan, but then I discovered that the library didn’t own a single copy of his novel “Water Witches”. Perfect! I’d buy a copy of Water Witches and take it with me just in case.
I went over to Barnes and Noble’s website and was able to reserve a copy of Water Witches to be picked up at their Springfield store.
After school yesterday I went by to get it. When the cashier handed it to me it had a large sticker on the front that said: “Signed by the Author”
Ironic huh?
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