Live Video Chat With Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Patrick Brown:
If you've got a question for Vanessa, please ask it below.
Jun 18, 2012 09:15pm
Join us on Tuesday, June 26 at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT for a live video chat with Vanessa Diffenbaugh. We'll be discussing her book The Language of Flowers, now available in paperback! If you've got a question for Vanessa, please ask it below.
Cindi Shake:
Jun 21, 2012 11:11am
q: Do you have a favorite flower or is it too hard to choose? Do you go by color or fragrance or meaning? Mine is the lilac for color, fragrance and because it flowers for such a short time thus making it more precious. precious.
Jean Baxter:
Jun 24, 2012 04:50am
Hello. I loved the book, but I was so uncomfortable reading the section where Victoria initially tries to care for the baby, after struggling through the delivery. I wonder whether others have also commented on this. It's a true depiction of how hard it is to take care of an infant, but also disturbing. Did you have find it difficult to envision this section?
PeiYun Chua:
Jun 25, 2012 04:19am
What if i missed this live one? will there be a recorded one :[
Sarah:
Also, what made you connect the two?
Jun 25, 2012 07:55am
When you started writing the book what came first: the plot (foster child) or the concept (language of flowers)?Also, what made you connect the two?
Patrick Brown:
Jun 25, 2012 12:12pm
PeiYun: Yes, it will be recorded and archived on this page as well as on Vanessa's author profile.
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 09:34am
Q When did you decide to be a author?
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 09:36am
Q Who did you want to be when you were young
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 09:38am
Q How did you feel about your books?
Aurora:
Jun 26, 2012 11:19am
Q Aurora: Hello, and I would like to know what your favorite book is?
Imke Stevens:
Jun 26, 2012 11:20am
Q: Were you inspired by someone or something or was this story one that just had to tell?
Aurora:
Jun 26, 2012 11:23am
I forgot to tell you that I read your book and loved it! It is excellent.
Imke Stevens:
Jun 26, 2012 11:29am
Q: How much time did you spent on investigating and background material and such (like making the language of flowers)?
Camilla 卡米拉:
Jun 26, 2012 12:56pm
Hi! did you have to study hard flowers, meanings and their symbols in order to write your book or do you actually love flowers so much you already know much about them? I love flowers, I made a research project for my high school final exams that was about flowers and their meanings in literature! so I really love your book:)
Jill Cabe:
Jun 26, 2012 01:00pm
Q Hello Vanessa, just finshed LoF and was quite taken with it. I just wanted to inquire about your use of food throughout the book. It was mentioned as much as flowers, but not directly aknowledged. Explain Victoria, Grant and Elizabeths connection with food...
Rachel Coleman:
Jun 26, 2012 01:05pm
What are some tips on how to start a book?
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 01:19pm
Q Who was your favorite author when you were young?
Lynne Brosch:
Jun 26, 2012 01:25pm
q Vanessa, I am a CASA and work with foster children. I wonder if you have had experience with CASAs and can you coment on that. I am also going to be conducting a discussion on your book with my women's book group in Sept. and would like more resources you might suggest on aging out foster children issues. I will be directing them to your Camellia Network of course.
Sandi Gratias:
Jun 26, 2012 01:46pm
q Hello! I am in the process of reading your book for out book club meeting tomorrow night. I was dismayed that you portrayed foster parents as so dismal. I worked with several when I was a home visitor with child abuse famlies and helped to return some children from foster homes to their own homes and I found the foster parents to be competent and caring. Why did you portray the majority in such a bad ligtht?
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 01:49pm
Q What did you to most of the time when you had nothing to do before you became an author?
Less Langley:
Jun 26, 2012 01:54pm
Q How do you think your book changed your life?
Less Langley:
Jun 26, 2012 01:54pm
Q What is the most interesting episod you can link to your book?
Less Langley:
Jun 26, 2012 01:55pm
Q Are you working on a book at the moment?
Peter Verdil:
Jun 26, 2012 01:55pm
What do you think about Ebooks
Bookophilia Staff:
Jun 26, 2012 01:56pm
Q For people who haven't read 'The Language of Flowers', what would you say to encourage them to pick up a copy?
Olivia Cantrell:
Jun 26, 2012 02:00pm
q how much did your sons experience influence your book?
Renee Thomas Thomas:
Jun 26, 2012 02:01pm
Just wanted to drop by and tell you that your book is on my "to read" shelve because I heard someone raving about it at a resturant I was at. Can't wait to read it.
Erica Snow:
Jun 26, 2012 02:01pm
q how was your experiences in college?
Bookophilia Staff:
Jun 26, 2012 02:08pm
Q What are your favourite books that you've read?
Louise:
Jun 26, 2012 02:10pm
Q How do you explain the difficulty in learning to love?
Nancy:
Jun 26, 2012 02:13pm
I enjoyed the book very much, thank you. Are you currently working on your next book and could we have a little insight?
Todd Carlson:
Jun 26, 2012 02:14pm
q Members of my book group wondered why Mother Ruby and other women who supported Victoria just after the birth then seemingly disappeared,, when she was a likely candiidate for post-partum depression and in need of continuing support? Did you know any foster children w/ similar experiences?
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 02:15pm
Go cindi!!!!!!!!
Bette Burkey:
Jun 26, 2012 02:18pm
Q: I, too, loved the book. Do you have another book coming out?
Manni:
Jun 26, 2012 02:18pm
Q: the language of flowers most often refers to garden and cultured flowers, what about wild flowers? In the book, how much was considered the contemporary meaning of flowers, like certain blue flowers mean pain, tese days. There is double meaning to flowers.
Patrick Brown:
Jun 26, 2012 02:20pm
the website is camellianetwork.org.
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 02:21pm
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❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 02:21pm
Thanks Patrick so much!
Jamie White:
Jun 26, 2012 02:24pm
Jamie Dell White author of defense of the heart (on goodreads) q: Loved your book! ou address so many topics in your books. Some have been touched upon already. Have homeless organizations chimed in to the discussion of your book? It really sheds light on the character and plight of homeless people in general.
Edan Lepucki:
Jun 26, 2012 02:27pm
Q I love that you wrote this book while you were a stay-at-home mom. Did you have a writing community as you worked on the novel?
Nathan:
Jun 26, 2012 02:33pm
Q Do you believe a novel must have a message, moral or potential for analysis behind it for it to be of any worth?
Bette Burkey:
Jun 26, 2012 02:34pm
Thank you, goodreads!
Nancy:
Jun 26, 2012 02:35pm
Thank you Vanessa and Patrick!
Eileen Wenckus:
Jun 26, 2012 02:36pm
Thank you Goodreads! Thank you Vanessa Diffenbaugh! That was great
Eileen Wenckus:
Jun 26, 2012 02:36pm
Thank you Patrick!
Patrick Brown:
Jun 26, 2012 02:36pm
Thank you all! I will get a recording posted soon for anyone who missed it. Great questions, as always!
❤Sarina❤ Ghaderi:
Jun 26, 2012 02:40pm
Thanks Patrick for setting up the interview!
Georgelys Guerra:
Jun 26, 2012 02:56pm
Hello! xD
Natasha:
Jun 26, 2012 02:57pm
Q how do you know if a story idea is a good idea to write about it?
About Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Vanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. She and her husband, PK, have three children: Tre’von, eighteen; Chela, four; and Miles, three. Tre’von, a former foster child, is attending New York University on a Gates Millennium Scholarship. Diffenbaugh and her family currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her husband is studying urban school reform at Harvard.
