Margaret Atwood

Last night I was really tired when I came back home. I watched some of The 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians but dozed off on my couch. I woke up at about quarter to seven and went to bed.

I had to be up quite sharp because my Dad was coming over to collect me at half past ten. We went along to the Ocean Terminal shopping centre and had a coffee and muffin at the Costa Coffee there, before splitting up to do our own shopping. I bought a couple of books in the Waterstones there. The books I got were Clockers by Richard Price and The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos. I used to own a copy of Clockers about thirteen years ago, but somewhere along the way it got lost, and I would really like to read it again.

I went back to my parent's house for lunch, which was roast chicken, diced potatoes with garlic butter and peas, followed by strawberries and cream. After lunch my Mum and myself went to St. John's Church to see a special Book Festival event with Margaret Atwood. The event was to launch her latest novel The Year of the Flood. The event was basically dramatised readings from the novel interspersed with music and songs. It was a very good event and pretty unique. After that we went along to the Book festival grounds for a drink. That is pretty much the last event of the Festival for me, at least for this year. It has been really good.