monoceros blogsMy friend Boon informed me early last week that the entertaining fantasy author Terry Pratchett was coming to town. I had a ton of things to do on Wednesday but had to make time to see Mr. Pratchett speak at the downtown Borders.
Boon and I arrived early, or what we thought to be early. All the seats were taken and most of the standing area as well. I grabbed an unclaimed footstool and stood on it to gain some precious inches. Terry Pratchett arrived with his hat and immediately began a wonderful monologue that was funny, informative and well worth the walk in the cold, cold wind that Wednesday evening. Boon and I got into the signing queue too late and decided not to wait an hour and a half to get Terry's autograph. It was already a privilege to hear him speak. We went out into the cold, dark night and proceeded to Peiming's house for a warm, delicious dinner and white wine.
Posted by Monoceros at October 8, 2003 12:28 AMHi Vanessa ! How wonderful it is to see/hear (even be with) Terry Pratchett in person !
I'm a huge fan of his, and did an Edinburgh 'library crawl' just to obtain his autographs !
Anyhows, I'm a friend of Van Tan, and chanced upon your website. I recently bumped into my sailing senior, YunShing, who was your hubby's flatmate at Uni ! What a small world !
All the best with your studies !
Cool! Didn't really complete any Discworld books myself :-P but I'm happy for you. I hear he's coming to Bristol UK too, as one of my juniors blogged about meeting him soon. Mr. Pratchett's a busy man!
Posted by: Van Tan at October 13, 2003 11:52 PM