Justine Larbalestier

reading, writing, eating, drinking, sport

«

»

Los Angeles

I ain’t never going to love Los Angeles. Not going to happen. The car thing makes it so difficult. In the last few days I’ve spent more time in cars than the preceding few months! Aaarggh!

But on this—my longest trip to the city—I’ve been eating fabulous food, walking along the beach, visiting amazing cool places like the Getty Centre, and getting to hang out with my sister and my other fabulous friends here like Doselle and Janine Young, Cecil Castellucci (at last we meet!), Alice Taylor, and Rachel Cohn. If only our insanely jampacked scheduled had allowed us to see all our friends here . . .

And you know what? If LA had footpaths and decent public transport it would be awesome! Just fix the car thing and I’m a total convert.

And tonight I get to go the cast and crew screening of Flags of our Fathers thanks to my fabulous sister, Niki.

Yes, the being-in-Los Angeles thing is why I’m behind on email and responding to comments and all of that. In the next few weeks we’ll be in Seattle, Kentucky, Indiana in the US of A, as well as London and Birmingham in the UK. Normal service is not going to be resumed any time soon. Sorry!

Posted by Justine at 18:37, 11 October 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Travelling | 8 Comments »

Comments

  1. little willow Says:

    california, here you come. or are. it’s a good state. :)

    October 11th, 2006 at 7:16 pm

  2. Sarah Says:

    hey this is sarah form archer, you signed my only book i had witth me Uglies. i will bring my other books tomorrow.

    anyway i totally know what u mean not likeing california. i came here form the east coast 4 years ago and i hate all the traffic. the people are really different too, how they talk, and act

    October 11th, 2006 at 7:45 pm

  3. 3. Justine Says:

    Little Willow: Actually it’s California here we go. We leave tomorrow . . .

    Sarah: I’m not against California. San Francisco is a fine town for walking and public transport. And I’m having fun here in LA, honest! I just wish it was less of a car town is all . . .

    Was lovely meeting everyone at Archer. And I’m looking forward to signing your other books tommorrow! Thanks for commenting.

    October 12th, 2006 at 1:47 am

  4. Rachel Brown Says:

    why did you not call me?! i would have taken you out!

    October 12th, 2006 at 2:27 am

  5. 5. Justine Says:

    Zero time, darling. We’re here to work. The friends we squeezed in between our engagements are all folks we hadn’t seen in an age.

    October 12th, 2006 at 9:44 am

  6. oyceter Says:

    Normally, I would agree with you re: the car thing, except when I visited, Rachel took me straight to Furaibo and fed me tasty Japanese izakaya food, and then I got to see all the really awesome Japanese restaurants around Furaibo, and then I had the best roast chicken ever, along with hamburger with fried eggs and great Chinese food and Clementine’s. I decided after the first meal that I adored LA.

    Mmmmmmm foood……

    October 12th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

  7. Erinn Cawthon Says:

    Hi! It’s Erinn, the one that interviewed you (along with Mr. Denlinger) this morning. Thank you SOOOOOO much for coming to Archer, and thank you for answering my questions during the interview. If I have any further questions for the story, I’ll be sure to email them to you!
    ~Erinn Cawthon~
    (and Mickey and Makenzie are here in spirit ha ha)

    October 12th, 2006 at 10:45 pm

  8. Rebecca Says:

    I will never understand how you non-car people survive. i have lived without a car for a year and a two months and it was a half life. However, i just got one today!! the first one that is actually mine, or rather, it will be once i finish paying it off (about five centuries from now).

    October 14th, 2006 at 3:40 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

    Categories

    Archives

    RSS Feed

    Subscribe

<-- -->