Shanghai Literary Festival

Every year in Shanghai there is a wonderful literary festival that runs for 2 1/2 weeks. This year, we were away for the first weekend of the festival and missed Amy Tan and some other great authors. This weekend, we enjoyed a talk by Carolyne Larrington about medieval history and Games of Thrones. She is an Oxford professor who just published a book about this very subject called Winter is Coming (of course we bought a copy and had her sign it for us). Afterwards, we treated ourselves to a delicious lunch at M on the Bund and enjoyed 3 courses of fabulous food and a walk along the Bund and up Nanjing Road. Yes, we love this city.