Comments on Reading Tonight

Will pie be served?

That was kind of annoying. I would prefer 2 side-by-side images but I think you were trying to make a point about so many books.

More people will come if we tell 'em there'll be punch and pie!!

So how does this compare to the books about Serge Storm?

I read one of those goddamn recipe mysteries once and I'm still mad about it. I hate them SO MUCH. And now I hate myself for reading one. And talking about it...

I think I just gained 5 pounds just reading the titles.

God, those are the ugliest covers ever.

Die, Lithos, die!

Fudge cupcake murder sounds delicious.

Wait. Are those real books?

Okay, I feel vindicated in my refusal to read mysteries now. Good job, Joanne Fluke, you just ruined it for everybody.

So, we're an up-and-coming "book city," but these are the kind of readings we attract? That doesn't look promising...

Oh, come on, the advantage of being a book city is that we get everything, Aislinn.

Not just one choice, but many.

Not everyone exists on a diet of poetry and graphic novels or manga ...

@11: Taking Lisa's comment to heart?

These look awful. It's great to have choices, sure, but there should also be some good choices.

And if you're implying that I exist "on a diet of poetry and graphic novels or manga," you are sorely mistaken. I read way more short stories than poetry, more trade paperbacks than graphic novels, and no manga at all. I'm currently reading How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, whom I went to see at Town Hall last Fall, because he's, you know, good. Sometimes we luck out.

We're never going to be New York, obviously; we're little more than a small town in big city pants. I just think it refutes our second-to-New-York status (http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/new_york_acknowledges_seattles_existence) when this is what we have going on. Granted, it's a random Tuesday. We don't have enough readers to sustain a seven-days-a-week readings smorgasbord of quality. I guess that's my point.

Just a heads up, the book by Laura Flynn is very good. She read in Minneapolis (where she lives) a few weeks ago. The book is excellent and she's a good reader.

While it may sound a little, um... dramatic that it is about growing up with a mother with schizophrenia, there is much more to be gleaned.

Really, anyone interested in novelistic nonfiction should check it out.

Does Kathleen Smith have any pointers on fireproofing your new, greener home? In case it is just not green enough?