Just returned from a wonderful event being held at Waterstones in Manchester where Ben Aaronovitch came to talk this evening.

Wow, this guy is very easy to like.  He’s just incredibly easy going, laid back and amusing.  It’s easy to see why his books are so good.  He had no particular format to his evening.  He talked a little and then simply asked if we had any questions.  He was quite unashamed about his lack of pre-planning and I don’t blame him really as this way the event was very spontaneous.  There was no shortage of questions and the answers were informative, rambling, funny and sometimes unexpected.  We learnt a little ranging from architecture to jazz.  I’ve only read the first in the series so far and it was very good – I will be tucking into the second very soon.  Check out the covers – I think they’re rather excellent!

In other news!

I came home tonight to two rather lovely looking and totally different books which I’m really excited to read:

The Walled City (courtesy of Orion)

The Ice Twins by S K Tremayne (courtesy of Harper Collins)

And, I’m currently reading The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

And, I’m currently reading The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

What you all up to??