Do you attend author readings? If so, which author or authors have been the most fun or interesting?

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Do you attend author readings? If so, which author or authors have been the most fun or interesting?

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My hubby, my BFF, and I went to see Amy Tan talk about ‘The Backyard Bird Chronicles’ and she was absolutely wonderful. It was part of the 20th anniversary celebration of BirdNote, which got its start in our home town of Seattle.

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The only one I remember attending was at Powell’s book shop many years ago. I went with an elderly friend who wanted to hear Bill Bryson talk (it was just after his Down Under came out). I remember being vaguely disappointed.

I’m not sure why I don’t attend more author readings/book events, but they’ve never been on my radar for some reason.

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I’m just not very interested in author readings. Here’s an interesting quote that I like about authors and their readers.

“When a book leaves its author’s desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator’s have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.” - Salman Rushdie

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At a local Books Inc I spent a delightful evening listening to Diana Gabaldon. Best known for her Outlander series that blends genres like** **historical fiction, romance, and sci-fi while following Claire Randall, a 20th-century nurse in 18th-century Scotland.

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Oooh, I bet Diana Gabaldon was an interesting speaker. I loved the first two Outlander books (my interest kind of waned after that, as it often does with series).