14 April 2007

Maeve Binchy

Link: Take Off Your Running Shoes: Maeve Binchy.

I love Maeve Binchy's books. And now I love her, too. Just read the link above. Binchy is one of the very top bestselling international authors. She doesn't need to do things like this. But she does. What a marvellous woman: this is, to me, what "the sisterhood" is all about.

14 Apr 2007 20:09:00 | Weblogs

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kimbofo

I love Maeve Binchy too. I remember she did a book signing at the bookshop I worked in back in the early 1990s and she was incredibly unpretentious, unlike a lot of the writers we had come in to do book signings. She was very down to earth and did not want to put the staff to any sort of trouble. "Kind" is the word that comes to mind.

Posted by: kimbofo | 14 April 2007 at 20:53

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