Illustrations

A few weeks ago I went to the Melbourne Writers Festival with some friends. We were going to listen to Alexander McCall Smith speak. He is the author of the "Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency" books. These are good books to read when you hace a few moments and you don't want to rad anything too involved. They take place in Botswana and are a about a women who starts up a detective agency. McCall Smith also writes children's stories and I was able to get one of those and have him sign it for Jolene. McCall Smith has several other adult series as well. I think my favorite even above the Detective ones are The Von Igelfeld series. This series is about a German professor and his adventures in life. The characters in this book remind me of some of the people I used to work with in the lab. I chuckle when I think about sections of these books and who I used to work with.

While I was looking around the book table I also found a signed copy of "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan. If you don't know of Mr. Tan then you should at least take a look at this book. "The Arrival" is a illustrations only book. It is about a man that leaves his family to migrate to a new country in hope of a better life. I won't spoil the ending, you will have to check it out form the library or something. Anyway, I really like his illustrations. I think the ones in this book are all charcoal. He has a cool website as well, check it out. I bought the signed copy of the book. I decided it was a good memory of our migration and if we have anyone over that can't speak English there will be at least one book in the house that they can still understand.