The first reading for The Candy Bombers was yesterday at Washington DC's world-famous Politics and Prose bookstore. Though some perceptive Tennesseans in tow pointed out that we shouldn't call it a "reading" since I didn't actually read from the book but talked about it instead, I think it went well. The highlights -- aside from Ben Cherny letting everyone in the bookstore know what he thought about his dad going on too long -- came in the question and answer portion. One gentleman had a few perceptive questions based on already having read 100 pages of the book -- it only was released less than 48 hours earlier. But the best part was the man who had been a six year old in Berlin at the time of the blockade and recounted his memories of eating acorns to survive.

Tomorrow is the DC book party with special guest, Senator Harry Reid....