Around the World: UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet

[elisa_rolle]

I'm back! Still trying to reorganize my emails, my calendar and my diet LOL. But I want to say this year was even better than last year, the feeling of being part of the group and well, the general comfortable atmosphere. I met a lot of old friends, new friends, and listened to many interesting panels.

Someone asked me to repost the speech I did as

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[tizi17]

i can't wait to hear more about your trip! must have been really wonderful!
nice speech...;-) and very interesting, too!
and the surprise for the italian speaking audience? ;-)

[elisa_rolle]

The very first edition of Gente del Wyoming. It's dated 1989, way before Ang Lee thought about the movie, and only 1 year after it was released in the USA. It's almost a collectible item, the printrun was very limited, and sincerely, when I bought it, I didn't expect for it to become a classic, I was 14 years old and no one knew about the movie.

[elena_62]

Your speech was very good, also because it was so personal.

I also appreciated that when asked about the best book you've read lately you didn't quote a famous author, but a quite unknown one. We had ''Atom Heart, John Beloved'' as Book of the Month in Josh Lanyon's GR group as far as I remember (or we talked intensively about it) and almost everybody loved it.

Ciao

Antonella

[elisa_rolle]

If I remember one, one from the Lanyon's group in the Jury last year (Eve) loved the book, so I'm pretty sure she proposed it.