After a night spent with two of my favorite friends and beautiful Batman baby (see below) in Stamford, CT, I ended up having a terrible commute home. I narrowly missed two express trains, construction forced me to switch subway lines twice, and after all that, the F train decided not to stop at my stop so I was forced on to a shuttle bus. It took me an additional hour and a half to get home.
The reason I tell you all this is that I was frustrated but happily distracted. I was completely absorbed in a book I have fallen in love with: Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal and all this delay allowed me to finish it in its entirety (more on this book soon.)
I woke up knowing I would see two other favorite friends who were in town from Boston for a quick breakfast. Not wanting to risk public transportation, I biked over the amazing Brooklyn bridge on a day that could only be called amazing too.
In the afternoon, at the Brooklyn Book Festival, more friends, more books. I met a writer I admire very much, the famously funny, insanely smart and talented Libba Bray. Fangirl that I was, I stumbled over words and babbled endlessly about being called Michelle and the spelling of my name (and, really, you guys, there is absolutely nothing interesting about the spelling of my name) but Libba did not seem to mind. She signed my copy of The Diviners. She told me someone once called her Library. See, that's interesting.
Sadly, I don't get to see my faraway friends from Stamford and Boston all that often. So I treasure time spent with them and time spent with books. And Libba Bray!
How was your weekend?
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| Batman Baby |
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| Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Me, happy |
