book talk on the bund

so on a hazy/cloudy sunday morning the varkenkidlets headed out to M on the Bund for a book talk from a "faaaaamous author" we all love faaaaaaamous authors, right? and this one was RIGHT up varkenson's alley. PHILIP ARDAGH. he wrote such funny stuffed stoat stuff as the eddie dickens trilogy. full of death and dearth and well, let's just say it is EXACTICALLY the kind of stuff the varkenboy enjoys.

quite an intimate setting. in the "crystal room" at M on the bund. which is a whole building of "M" restaurants, nightclubs, and coffee houses??? and the annual literary festival.

they even had a little play acting - just so we could be a part of ongoing plot development. jack was a window in which other child was being thrown out of after being bitten by a pony...

and then we had to go outside to the balcony w/ the best view on the bund (it looks fabulous at night. and great in the sunshine). i don't know why we managed the only 20 minutes of the day to be out there when it was completely clouded over.