There's nothing quite like a brand new hardcover book… 🙂
Photos of Elizabeth Gilbert
I've declared it a holiday. The book is so beautiful already without reading a word. I hope your day has been delightful beyond words!
OPENING NIGHT…a photo from tonight's reading at Barnes & Noble in NYC…a glorious gathering, indeed — loved meeting all of you who came! Thanks for the photo, Yvette!
ALMA IN THE MOSSES…
How do I know I have the best publishing house? Because my friends at Viking went and made me a commemorative terrarium to celebrate the release of "The Signature of All Things"! Here is a detail — tiny Alma Whittaker (what you can't see is her miniature magnifying lens) exploring a cave of mosses.
Magical!
Sweet friends —
Such a happy, busy day — running around talking about novels and moss and travel and life and love…and then I just saw this really generous review of "The Signature of All Things."
There are SPOILERS, so proceed with care, but here is a nice sample:
"A radiant novel…that rare literary achievement, a big, panoramic novel about life and love that captures the idiom and tenor of its age…Like Victor Hugo or Emile Zola, Gilbert captures something important about the wider world in The Signature of All Things: a pivotal moment in history when progress defined us in concrete ways.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/th
e-signature-of-all-things-by-elizabeth-gilbert/2013/09/30/bde1d770-27b1-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story_1.html
Grateful! And now home for a nap, and then my first reading TONIGHT, at Union Square Barnes & Noble, at 7pm…
ONWARD!
LG
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by Elizabeth Gilbert
www.washingtonpost.com
The author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ returns with a radiant novel about a 19th-century botanist.
OK, MAYBE JUST ONE MORE CAKE PHOTO….!
Good morning, my darlings.
Anybody have any interesting plans for today?
Anything going on?
Anybody else wake up a 5am, grinning, with a racing heart?
Tomorrow has arrived, my friends! Alma Whittaker is born and "The Signature of All Things" is here!
And here — for your viewing pleasure — is the cake that my friends at my publishing house, Viking, made for me yesterday, for a celebratory lunch. Apparently, they heard that I like cake. (I can't imagine where they got that notion.) Isn't it GORGEOUS?
Readers, we ate it. Book and all. And it was awesome.
So listen, I have to pull myself together now because I'm off to do THE TODAY SHOW (tune in, if you can!) and then I will do a bunch more interviews all day…and then my first event, tonight, is at 7pm at Barnes & Noble, Union Square, NYC.
Check my website (www.elizabethgilbert.com) for all my upcoming events…You're on deck Philadelphia, Miami and Atlanta!!!
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Yours in moss and discovery,
LG
