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Diane and Diana
Oct. 14th, 2009 10:01 amThis is my favourite author, Diana Gabaldon. She's written 7 (so far) books in a series that i've devoured. The latest one, Echo in the Bone, came out about a month ago and i finished it over the weekend, just in time for her visit to Halifax on the first stop of her Canadian book signing tour. We count ourselves lucky, it's the only date in Eastern Canada and she flies to Ottawa today and is hopping across the country every day this week and over the weekend. The woman is getting over the flu yet is standing there talking for over a half hour and then sitting for nearly 2 hours signing books. She's quite a trooper! I thought her voice was going to give out a few times and it wasn't always easy to hear her either.
We got there just about 7 when she was about to start so the line was already very long, snaking in and out all the aisles and bookshelves on one side of the store. There were seated people directly in front of the podium, apparently a VIP section though i don't know how you got to be a VIP. As a result, while she was speaking and answering a few questions, we were way over the side of the store but heard most of it. When she started signing, the line did move, at first slowish but then fairly well. There had to be a couple hundred or more there and it took about an hour and a half by the time she started signing to when we got to the desk. That was a bit sooner than i expected, actually. We were out of there by 9:30 and home by 10.
She's just lovely, she's got a great sense of humour, and is quite pretty. I saw![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blueberrymoon there and she got some really good photos. She wasn't standing in line but was there waiting for her daughter to go through. Her daughter has just discovered Diana's books! All this makes me want to go back and reread the entire series again. It's the first book that really hooks you and is still the best of the lot but there are a few others that are really good too. Well, all of them are but some better than others.
The crowd was mostly women with only a few men scattered through, one standing right behind us. He was older than me but he has been reading the books. I think he's only about to get into the fourth one so far. He says people always seem surprised a man likes the books but i know Dad had read the first few that i can recall and he liked them. Good story, he would say. And it is a good story, and there's lots in there that many men would enjoy. It's a romance but that's not the overwhelming focus of the book. It's always there, that bond between Jamie and Claire and secondarily, Roger and Briana (she's Jamie and Claire's daughter) but the story is excellent. There's war and battles and history, there are pirates and soldiers, there's the relationships between parents and children, loyalties within clans, struggles among prisoners and pioneers, religion, Native Americans, rebellion, nobles and other strange and wonderful characters that bring danger, conflict and joy.
Yes, i know i can get carried away lol Diana also has a blog that she updates and an official website. There are a few more pics from the signing here.
We got there just about 7 when she was about to start so the line was already very long, snaking in and out all the aisles and bookshelves on one side of the store. There were seated people directly in front of the podium, apparently a VIP section though i don't know how you got to be a VIP. As a result, while she was speaking and answering a few questions, we were way over the side of the store but heard most of it. When she started signing, the line did move, at first slowish but then fairly well. There had to be a couple hundred or more there and it took about an hour and a half by the time she started signing to when we got to the desk. That was a bit sooner than i expected, actually. We were out of there by 9:30 and home by 10.
She's just lovely, she's got a great sense of humour, and is quite pretty. I saw
blueberrymoon there and she got some really good photos. She wasn't standing in line but was there waiting for her daughter to go through. Her daughter has just discovered Diana's books! All this makes me want to go back and reread the entire series again. It's the first book that really hooks you and is still the best of the lot but there are a few others that are really good too. Well, all of them are but some better than others. The crowd was mostly women with only a few men scattered through, one standing right behind us. He was older than me but he has been reading the books. I think he's only about to get into the fourth one so far. He says people always seem surprised a man likes the books but i know Dad had read the first few that i can recall and he liked them. Good story, he would say. And it is a good story, and there's lots in there that many men would enjoy. It's a romance but that's not the overwhelming focus of the book. It's always there, that bond between Jamie and Claire and secondarily, Roger and Briana (she's Jamie and Claire's daughter) but the story is excellent. There's war and battles and history, there are pirates and soldiers, there's the relationships between parents and children, loyalties within clans, struggles among prisoners and pioneers, religion, Native Americans, rebellion, nobles and other strange and wonderful characters that bring danger, conflict and joy.
Yes, i know i can get carried away lol Diana also has a blog that she updates and an official website. There are a few more pics from the signing here.
