Last night (well Tuesday night now) I was very happy to take a night off Guides and go to a book reading for Rebecca Woolf’s book Rockabye. I had been looking forward to this night for a few weeks, and not only because it meant I had another opportunity to meet some bloggers I had been reading for a while. Yes, I was looking forward to another night out by myself.
I knew where Sophia Books was because in my ESL teacher days I taught right across the street and would treat myself once a week to browsing either Sophia Books or Ward Music. Now oddly enough this part of town makes a lot of people nervous because of its proximity to the downtown eastside, but for me I was much more comfortable there than leaving the Wet Coast Women dinner a few weeks ago. When I was taking the bus home I needed to walk about 10 blocks to get to the stop and no one bothered me.
The first person I spotted when I was walking toward the bookstore was Kristin Darguzas of Parent Dish, with her son. I knew that she was in Vancouver, but this was the first time I had a chance to meet her in person. I decided not to be shy and introduced myself. She actually recognized me from comments I had made on posts of hers. She even remembered the blog name. I am glad she did because it made feel a little less stalkerish.
Rebecca was very gracious and cute. She spoke well and was lovely to all the people who made it out to see her. I met up with Maryann (please let me know if I spelled you name correctly) of Mother-Woman, and Kerry of Crunchy Carpets both Wet Coast Women with me. ( As an aside when Rebecca asked me if I knew Maryann of Mo-Wo and I didn’t realized she was talking about Mother Woman, can you say dumb? Oh well, it was obvious afterwards that I did know her. ) The reading went very well and was engaging. In fact it was kind of like talking frankly with your girlfriends (well with a few men in attendance trying not to cringe while we talked about some of the realities of childbirth) and by the end we were, friends that is.
I am having a little trouble with the rest of the pictures so I will try to post them later if we can get the bugs worked out. I have cross-posted this with all the pictures at Left Coast Mama.
Sophia Books always means for me French books or Italian books, for that what we always buy there. My daughter is a French teacher in the States and when she comes here we always go there and she stocks up, while I usually fall for some Italian books. I guess I have never noticed they sell English books too!
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