I guess it took an emotional breakdown brought on by reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things to my anxious cat to finally get me to do it.ĭang, when I phrase it like that, my life sounds like a ridiculous hot mess right now. It’s something I’d been meaning to do for years – tell him what his books mean to me. I was very much not in a good headspace when I was writing it.īut you know what? It felt good to get all those thoughts and feelings down on paper. I was crying by the time I got done writing the damn thing. The letter to Pat is a four-page single-spaced hot mess of emotional rambling. The letter I wrote to Anne Bishop was a short, couple-of-paragraph thing that I wrote while I was in a good emotional headspace. Writing to Pat, though? That was an entirely different experience. She actually responded to my email! I was so surprised – and so happy – to see that she’d read my email and made the time to respond. It was just a short thing about how I really enjoyed her books and thanked her for writing them. I sent an email to Anne Bishop, another author whose books I’ve enjoyed, at one point back in 2007 (if I remember right). I’ve only ever written to an author once before. Writing to an author: not something I’ve done much of Reading a book that I already had such an emotional connection to nudged me towards the point where I ended up overwhelmed with emotions, and I felt that I had to tell Pat just how much of an impact his books have had on my life. I’ve been healing from a lot of grief and trauma from just the past six months alone. It’s no surprise that I’ve been in rough shape lately. It really helped her come out of her shell.Īrtwork of Auri from the author’s foreword in The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Then it hit me: I saw a suggestion about reading to cats to help them get acclimated to new owners/homes/other stressful situations, so I pulled out my copy of The Slow Regard of Silent Things and read to Anya. After all, we’ve only got Peggy and Hannah here – and while they’re remarkably energetic for senior cats (Hannah is almost 13 and Peggy turned 15 in February, and they both still act like kittens at times), they’re also a lot calmer than the other cats Anya was living with.Īnya was not thrilled with having to move and hid in her crate here for a few days. Long story short: she had been stressed out due to sharing a house with five other cats, and not eating much due to one of the other cats bullying her away from her food, so we decided to move her here. She ended up moving a little later than the rest of us – there’s been a lot of reconfiguring of living situations among me and my chosen family lately, and J wanted to see how she acclimated to new people and new cats at the house after I moved out. I’ve been reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things to my anxious cat Anya, to help her calm down after moving to the new house. So, what prompted me to write Pat a letter?Īnyhow. Hey, when I get into something, though, I get into it. … okay, seeing all of that written out kind of makes me feel a little ridiculous. And I’ve been lucky enough to run into Pat at Gen Con three times – in 2013, 2015, and 2017. I quoted a line from The Name of the Wind in my wedding vows when Rana and I got married, and quoted The Slow Regard of Silent Things in the eulogy I delivered at her funeral. My car has talent pipe decals in the back windows. I’ve owned three Eolian t-shirts (the first one I wore it so much it started falling apart, the second one just disappeared one day and I still haven’t found it). I’ve backed a bunch of Kingkiller Chronicle-related Kickstarter campaigns. (The one that wasn’t signed by Pat was signed by the artist, Echo Chernik – and I’m ridiculously happy about that too.) I have almost all the jewelry that Badali Jewelry sells that’s based on the books. I have prints of artwork based on The Kingkiller Chronicles – again, most signed by Pat. I have almost every book he’s ever written (aside from the short story anthologies he’s contributed to and Your Annotated, Illustrated College Survival Guide – the former because I am a slacker, the latter because it’s ridiculously rare) – and most of those books are signed. I don’t think I’d necessarily call myself a rabid fan, like how I used to be with Sailor Moon back when I was a teenager, but I am definitely a huge fan. So, if you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I’m a huge fan of Pat Rothfuss.įor folks who are new here: well, I am a huge fan of the author Patrick Rothfuss.
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