One Book One Twitter & how cool is one of my favorite authors?!
Earlier this month a whole bunch of geeks on Twitter voted on One Book to read and discuss via Twitter this summer. It's called One Book, One Twitter (many cities already do this). As a fan of Twitter and fan of books I jumped in and voted. Imagine how excited I was when one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors was a nominee! I voted for said book and much to my excitement that book won! That book is American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
This is an incredible book I read a couple of years ago and looked forward to reading again. I am enjoying the re-read and surprised how much I forgot, missed or just didn't understand the first time around. The Twitter discussions have been fun to follow--especially those shared by people reading Gaiman for the first time. Well if you don't know much about Gaiman he pretty much rocks. You can read his own blog @ http://journal.neilgaiman.com/ to get an idea.
In my opinion he is a genius and must be read by all. Stardust (the movie adaptation was so-so) is a great place to start--fun, quick read or even the graphic novels. If that's not your thing his children's books are perfect for all ages. I personally loved the story Crazy Hair from the Neil Gaiman Audio Collection and The Graveyard Book (A Newberry amongst many other awards winner) is one of the best books I've ever read. He's done children's books, screenplays, novels, graphic novels (SANDMAN!) and oh so much more (just wrote a Dr. Who episode too). He's also narrated many of his own works as audiobooks, he blogs, he Tweets and totally engages his fan base. He is incredible. I adore him more and more each day.Perhaps the reason for going on and on about him is because of what he did today on Twitter!
He spent an hour on Twitter this morning answering questions about the book. AN HOUR of his busy genius, writer life replying to tweets! See the transcript:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dck87t53_5gwg83kzt# How cool is that? I think it's awesome and this One Book One Twitter (#1B1T) thing is the best time I've ever had reading, well re-reading and discussing a book with complete strangers. I hope this is the first of many One Book One Twitter programs and hope future authors live up to the precedent set by Mr Gaiman. I have more thoughts on the subject but I am just rambling the highlights before I turn in for the night. I'm about to crawl in to bed with my Nook (e-reader) and a few more pages of American Gods.
