Charles de Lint, Reading and Signing

Last night I attended a book reading and signing, which also included singing and guitar playing.

My friend Mike joined me for this. We had no trouble finding parking on the Ave, but we had a minor adventure finding Kane Hall on the UW campus, luckily we had a map, it could have been much worse.

Once inside, we grabbed a couple seats right up front and then went to browse through the table of books for sale in the back.

Things started at about 7:30 pm. Charles de Lint was introduced by a woman from Clarion West, co-host of the event. He brought a guitar along and he began by playing a song he wrote for his most recently published new book, Medicine Road. Then he read a few pages from Medicine Road itself. After that he told us about some of his favorite books, including "Green Angel" by Alice Hoffman, "The Wood Wife" by Terri Windling, "Hannah's Garden" by Midori Snyder, and "Coyote Cowgirl" by Kim Antieau. Then there was a question and answer period. At the end of which someone asked if he would play another song, and he obliged by playing "Sam's Song" which he wrote. A friend told him about seeing a dog by the side of a highway, and apparently it was there everyday for a long time. The song is his imagined story about why the dog was there.
Then he sat down and everybody queued up to get books signed. Mike was nice enough to take a few pictures of me waiting in line and then getting my books signed. Charles de Lint was very friendly and chatty with folks as he was signing books. (Is it just me or does he look highly amused in that 3rd picture?)

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