This year for OBOC (that's nerdy reading people lingo for One Book One Calgary) chose The Book of Negroes for their book. Tonight they had a lecture by the author and I got to go! Even better, I went with a friend! It was so interesting to listen to him. I'm always fascinated by authors. I find them to be curiously smart and great with language.
"I wrote the book to remind us of our own history...and to celebrate the resilience of the human spirit." ~Lawrence Hill
"Blood fills our imagination just as surely as it fills our veins" ~Lawrence Hill
They even had a cool band start off the night:
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