Thanks to Kelly, I got to experience John and Hank Green on John’s book tour for Turtles All the Way Down. (When you are a successful YouTuber with your brother, you BOTH go on book tour, even if only one of you wrote the book.)
Here’s John reading from the book. When I read the book later, I realized he read from two different sections.
We had a visit from Hank disguised as Dr. Lawrence Turtleman. He taught us about tuataras, which are reptiles from New Zealand which are NOT lizards. Unfortunately, Dr. Turtleman’s PowerPoint wasn’t working, so the good doctor did the PowerPoint from memory. We had partially obstructed seats which gave us a view of the various people working backstage to try and get the PowerPoint to work.
Hank did some singing and we got our own personal Dear Hank and John Podcast (parts of which made it on the Dear Hank & John episode #114 that compiled this segment from several cities). We finished the night with a lusty rendition of the Mountain Goats’ “This Year” as sung by the crowd, John, and played and sung by Hank.
Last time, when Matt and I saw John and Hank on book tour, they had a van. Things have changed.
Here we are, fourth from the end.
It was a fun night. Thanks, Kelly.
So bummed to have missed them in MPLS! I mean, I was in NYC, so it wasn’t the worst reason to miss them, but still. After being at the TFioS tour (with van) it felt like a bummer not to be there.
So glad you got to go.
Looks like they give a great show with a lot of variety. Much better than a traditional book reading IMO.
They do have the power of 10+ years of YouTube content development on their side. Most authors are not so well versed in presenting things.