Went to a really excellent reading this afternoon by Crystal Wilkinson. I liked her immediately as she stepped up to the microphone. She asked how we were, said she wanted to look at all of our faces. The story excerpt she read was about black farmers in Kentucky. It was really sad, but I still left the reading feeling good. She was just so friendly and her voice sounded so nice. I wanted to tell her how much I liked her reading, but I was scared. After we finished asking question she said, "Even if you don't buy a book, go look at them, touch them, move them around." I appreciated that a lot.