Slog News & Arts

Line Out

Music & Nightlife

« Currently Hanging | Today The Stranger Suggests »

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Reading Today

posted by on July 12 at 10:00 AM

51pqaYdErfL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

A book by a “Seattle plant and tree expert,” a book with the overpunctuated title Day Hike! Olympic Peninsula: The Best Trails You Can Hike in a Day, an open mic, and several other readings today.

Zach Plague is at the Hugo House reading from boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, which is billed as “a typo/graphic novel.” There’ll be a Stranger Suggests box for this one popping up soonish, so I won’t repeat myself here.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Rayo Casablanca reads from his debut novel, Six Sick Hipsters. It’s about someone who’s killing hipsters, and it’s a mystery.

And at Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Yasmine Galenorn reads from her book Dragon Wytch: Sisters of the Moon, Book 4, which is actually a book about vampires, even though you’d think it was about dragons or wytches (sic).

Full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.

RSS icon Comments

1

What do you think the deal is with these vampire adventure/romance novels? There seem to be hundreds of them published every month! Is it all Buffy's fault? Or is Anne Rice to blame?

Posted by ratzkywatzky | July 12, 2008 10:04 AM
2

Who's killing the hipsters? The fixie bicycle salesman, that's who! Shifty eyes, but no shifty gears.

Posted by CP | July 12, 2008 10:25 AM
3

I don't know what's up with mocking scare quotes, but Arthur Lee Jacobson is fucking awesome. His books are great. He's a Seattle treasure.

http://www.arthurleej.com/articles.html

http://www.arthurleej.com/plant-of-month.html

Posted by Chris Mealy | July 12, 2008 10:32 AM
4

Looks like a book about cleavage to me.

Posted by Sirkowski | July 12, 2008 10:41 AM
5

@1 I am weary of witches, werewolves, vampires, dragons, and assorted creatures in romance novels. Others apparently are not because more and more are published each month. They've pretty much driven light contemporary romance novels off the shelf. Frankly, I blame George Bush.

p.s. That said, the author of the cleavage book is a really cool person, so "yay" for her getting mentioned here and her books are great so if you are into the genre, definitely read her.

Posted by PopTart | July 12, 2008 11:24 AM
6

@3: Those aren't "mocking scare quotes," I'm quoting from the press release for the reading, which is something I frequently do in the readings calendar, because I am physically unable to read every book that is on the readings calendar. Sometimes I'll quote something because it's awful, but in this case, I couldn't think of a better way to say "Seattle plant and tree expert" than, well, "Seattle plant and tree expert."

@1: I think it's a perfect storm of Anne Rice and Buffy and the fact that it's finally acceptable for women to geek out as much as men.

Posted by Paul Constant | July 12, 2008 11:35 AM
7

What the fuck is up with misspellings in the fantasy/sci fi genre? Seriously - is 'witch' such a burden? Must we replace i's with y's to seem all olde-timey or something? I could alllllmost take this genre seriously if it wasn't for this obsession with fayriyes and wytches. Just as obnoxious and unnecessary as hip-hop misspellings.

Posted by switzerblog | July 12, 2008 1:37 PM
8

Sub Pop is long over you retarded Douchebags, and Mormons are a rediculous cult. And your reporting sucks DICK! Get jobs or lives or something.

Posted by Jason gregory | July 12, 2008 9:28 PM
9

Good time. And , sexy massage adult games, [url="http://forums.usfirst.org/member.php?u=11861"]sexy massage adult games[/url], http://forums.usfirst.org/member.php?u=11861 sexy massage adult games, cute asian ass, [url="http://www.cleveland.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=ran9d5"]cute asian ass[/url], http://www.cleveland.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=ran9d5 cute asian ass, ebony ass fuck, [url="http://www.al.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=yo9ee6r"]ebony ass fuck[/url], http://www.al.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=yo9ee6r ebony ass fuck, fat ass sex, [url="http://www.syracuse.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=sfd9ui6"]fat ass sex[/url], http://www.syracuse.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=sfd9ui6 fat ass sex, latina lesbian ass, [url="http://www.silive.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=ue9r5"]latina lesbian ass[/url], http://www.silive.com/forums/profile.ssf?nickname=ue9r5 latina lesbian ass,

Posted by VanDenn | July 13, 2008 7:17 AM
10

What ever happened to sexy vampire werecats with a fixation on self-absorbed indecent minotaurs?

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 13, 2008 11:02 PM
11

LrStou hfhgfhfhfhf

Posted by Pol | July 15, 2008 6:16 AM

Comments Closed

Comments are closed on this post.