My next stop in Iowa was Oskaloosa, where I attended a lovely book luncheon organized by lovely bookshop The Book Vault.

It was my very first book luncheon, but as you can imagine, it was great: nice people and a nice lunch and talking about books. When I think of it, I can’t see why we don’t have more of those. It’s an interesting idea with daytime events.

After the luncheon, naturally I visited the bookshop, and it turned out that there used to be a bank there, so the book vaults were litterally vaults. You see me here in front of the Crime Vault. They could have locked me up there forever and I wouldn’t have minded.