Stuart Neville and John Connolly with BwoB admin Rachel
As most of you know, we are huge John Connolly fans around these parts. When we heard he was going to be in town with fellow Irish crime writer Stuart Neville, we were excited! We got to spend some time with them during the day and live-tweeted during the event itself. Here are some tweets and pictures for any of you who were not able to attend in person.
@BksellerExpats: What a beautiful day for a book signing in Chicago! We’ll have @jconnollybooks and @stuartneville updates all day – keep checking back.
@BksellerExpats: “What I realized is that, by and large, my readers would prefer it if I died, as opposed to Charlie Parker.” – @jconnollybooks
@BksellerExpats: (We are live-tweeting the @jconnollybooks / @stuartneville event tonight, in case you forgot.)
@BksellerExpats: Ooh, @jconnollybooks is reading the first chapter of the next Parker novel! Nice.
@BksellerExpats: “I’m usually about a third of the way into a book before I find out what kind of shape it’s going to be.” – @stuartneville
@BksellerExpats: “I can’t even read in a car, and I don’t think Rachel wanted a car covered in vomit.” – @jconnollybooks on writing on tour
(NOTE: We have it on good authority that no, she did not.)
@BksellerExpats: “Art comes out of hacking away on all those days when you want to be doing anything else.” – @jconnollybooks on having a writing schedule
@BksellerExpats: “Sometimes you just need an alleyway. And then you think, as far as my books are concerned, I’m God.” – @jconnollybooks on fictional alleys
@BksellerExpats: “After you read a book, you’re never the same person. You just can’t be.” – @jconnollybooks
I have to come clean – when I read the first book in this series, The Magicians, I had very mixed feelings about it. The writing was excellent, no doubt about it, and I read through the book very quickly. But at the end, when I put it down, I couldn’t tell if I had liked it or not.
The liquidation book fairies were very kind to me last week. As I was cleaning up what was left of our Kids’ department for the umpteenth time one morning, I stumbled upon this lovely version of Goldilocks, as told by Lauren Child. When I saw that it was illustrated with photographs of handmade dolls posed in a handcrafted cabin, I knew that I had to buy a copy for fellow bookseller and reviewer 
This book starts with hypotheticals. What if you didn’t have to grow any older, but could freeze your body’s aging process and stay exactly the same age as you are today? (Your current position on the aging spectrum might affect your answer to that one.) Now — what if everybody had access to this cure for aging? What might a society of perpetual 20-somethings look like? How would religion, politics, and social mores change as a result? And how terribly wrong could it go?
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