I was about nine or ten years old and a regular visitor to Penistone
Library. A kindly librarian must have
seen me progress from kids' books to young adult pretty quickly and anticipated
my leap to adult books because I remember her coming up to me and saying, ‘why
don’t you try this author’, handing me a book.
The author was Terry Pratchett and the book was “Guards!
Guards!” I took it home and devoured it. After a couple of days I went back to the
library and started from the very first Discworld novel, quickly progressed
through them all. I made sure I bought
them all, pocket money permitting. A new
Discworld novel from then on became an event.
I would ring the release date in my diary and make sure I purchased the
new book on that day, taking it home and reading almost half of it before I
would tell myself to slow down, enjoy it. Of course it would not last past the next day, but that was OK, because I
could always start again with “The Colour of Magic”.
It is always a wonderful feeling when you connect with an
author, and I would like to thank that librarian - whose name, I am afraid has
been lost to time - for introducing me to Sir Terry, whose passing recently I
mourned like it was a relative.
Mark Crossland
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us share it with all our blog readers.
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