Yet another day full of readings, with one open mic—it appears that the winter doldrums are past and we’re in the time of year where there are five to eight options a night. Prepare for long Reading Tonight posts.

Up at Kane Hall, Peter and Rosemary Grant are talking about “long-term research into the biology of populations of Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands.” Maybe you should invite your favorite jackass who talks about “survival of the fittest” as a financial imperative, to straighten him/her out.

Up at Third Place Books, Lawrence Cheek reads from Year of the Boat, about taking a year to build a boat in his garage….just like Noah and his Ark! Only without the animals. Presumably. The publisher didn’t send us a review copy of the book, so I can’t say for sure.

William Dietrich will be reading from The Rosetta Key, which honestly looks like a pretty standard thriller to me, at the University Book Store.

Frances Richey, a poet who lost a soldier son in Afghanistan, will read at Elliott Bay Book Company from her new book The Warrior, about her experiences.

At Town Hall, Jared Bernstein reads from Crunch: Why do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries). It’s about economics as they apply to the personal. Maybe I would stop feeling so squeezed for punctuation if certain authors stopped hoarding all the good punctuation in their book titles. Seriously: A colon, a question mark and parentheses? Trying way too hard.

The most interesting reading of the night is Margot Kahn Case, who is referred to on the Hugo House website as Margot Kahn Case and Margot Kahn, and who Amazon refers to as Margot Kahn, and who is on our readings calendar as Margot Case, will be reading from her book Horses That Buck, which is a biography of an honest-to-God rodeo motherfucking cowboy. It looks fascinating. Also, the local country group The Maldives, who Seattle Weekly apparently once referred to in their own clever way as “Honky-Tonk Heroes,” though you shouldn’t hold that against them, will be on hand to play. And it’s free, no matter what name the author goes by. AND! The Hugo House has booze. How can you resist?

And don’t forget to check out the full readings calendar, including the next week or so of readings.