On Wednesday, after my reading at the Toronto Public Library’s Author series, The Eh List, two different audience members told me that The Best Place on Earth had been their book club pick. “You should have invited me,” I told one and she seemed surprised. “You would have come?” “Of course!” I said. There’s nothing more exciting for a writer than to have a conversation about their work with intelligent readers. I also found a mention of a book club in Winnipeg that read The Best Place on Earth over the summer (I am trying to manifest a trip to Winnipeg for a reading…
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The Best Place on Earth is Going Places: Fall Events
I love summer. It is my favourite season. In my early twenties I chased sunshine and managed to live in perpetual summer for four years. I spent much of that time on beaches, dressed in sarongs and bikini tops, shells braided into my hair, swinging on hammocks and sleeping in huts on the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Med. I arrived in Vancouver at the end of this four-year stretch, on the first day of summer of all days. I brought with me a suitcase overflowing with tie-dye tank tops, flimsy halter tops, and summer dresses…