Awesome reading at the Brattleboro Lit Fest yesterday! I kept the audience on the seat of their pants! Wait . . . that's not what I mean. Try again: I kept the audience on the edge of their seats! That's it. And that's what I did. I read, they listened, and magic happened. You know that feeling when you're telling a story, and it's a really, really good story, and the people are really listening? It was so cool! But I can't take total credit - David Tennant was my muse!
Seriously. I just finished listening to him read the fantastic YA audiobook My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher. I love Dr. Who, and to listen to the tenth doctor read this powerful book was so inspiring! Although he wasn't the tenth doctor when he was reading because he didn't have a British accent - he read it in his native Scottish brogue and it was dreamy. He reads the book through the voice of a ten year-old-boy who is bravely struggling with huge challenges and obstacles. No spoilers here but you absolutely have to listen to this book. David Tennant pulls you this way and that way and upside down and at one point I was sobbing in my car, driving really slow so I could keep listening and crying and not have to stop, and when I got to my destination - my bestie's house - she looked at me and was all, "Why are you crying," and I'm all, "I'm not really crying, I mean, not about me," and she's all, "What's wrong," and I'm all, "Nothing is wrong, my life is great," and she's all, "If your life was so great you wouldn't be crying," and I'm all, "Shut up, I'm really upset, okay!" And she left me alone because that's what besties do. (I just asked my 15 year old son how to spell bestie and he said, "Don't put that word in your blog.") (Maybe don't tell him that I did.)
The Lit Fest reading was awesome. I read the train bridge scene, you know, when Berrie and . . . wait . . . what do you mean not everyone has read Don't Tell? Okay, no spoilers. I won't tell. Ha! Get it! (This is what happens when I write my blog posts late at night.) But really, it was so sweet to read it like Tennant and get that magic thing going on. It was a good reading. Really good. I totally nailed it. I loved it and I want to do it more! And I will. Stay tuned for a reading near you!
Kisses.
Lava
