If you buy into hetero gender roles, it’s kind of a Mars and Venus day in the readingosphere.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, we have a book about fly fishing. That, of course, would be for all you fellers out there.

And at Third Place Books, which would be Venus, Wendy Walker reads from Four Wives, which is about four suburban moms torn between their home lives and blah blah blah. Here, from Wendy Walker’s Website (for weal!) is an excerpt of Four Wives:

She was standing now between two worlds, her eyes taking in her life, her mind reliving the feel of his hands on her body not an hour before – his face replete with desire as he approached her. In that desire, she had seen the teenager in the back of his father’s Cadillac, the young man whose heart she’d so foolishly broken in high school, then the college lover who’d broken hers. He had been, in that moment, every first kiss, every curious glance from across a room. All the things she’d left behind so many years ago…

She closed her eyes, wanting to remember for one moment more the feel of his weight over her, her legs wrapped around him, pulling him closer - her mouth on his, nearly consuming him in a frantic embrace. And yet her life was waiting, pulling her back in.

Anyway: full readings calendar!