As part of the Neev Literature Festival's reading challenge, I've been attending as many author interactions as I can. I love them! One session I attended last month was with Holly Goldberg Sloan, who spoke about her book The Elephant in the Room. I haven't read that one, but I have read To Night Owl From Dogfish, one of my favourite books of all time. (During the session, I also asked her about how the experience of co-authoring an epistolary book was. The response was lovely, but that's a story for another time!)I read up a bit about Sloan before attending the session, and of course, I came across the award-winning Counting by 7s. The list of books I want to read is endless, though, so I just tucked this one away for later, well aware that the "later" might never come.But then, less than a week after the interaction, I asked the children at my creative writing programme to … [Read more...]