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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Reading Tonight

posted by on September 11 at 10:12 AM

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There’s an open mic and many readings tonight.

Erin Hunter reads at Adams Elementary School, in Ballard. She’s written something called Eclipse: Warriors: Power of 3: Book 4 , which my intern, Ashley Wearly, says “seems to be a kid’s fantasy series revolving around mystical cats.” It’s bad news when a title confuses the fuck out of you. But I must admit that I’m charmed by the cover. I kind of want that airbrushed on a van.

At the Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library, Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer discuss civil liberties. You will note that today is September 11th. Coincidence? I think not.

Up at Third Place Books, Cheryl Jarvis reads from The Necklace, which is about a bunch of women buying an expensive necklace and trying to share it. (Valuable life lesson about sharing alert!) And at Town Hall, David Servan-Schreiber reads from Anti-Cancer, which is a memoir that studies the causes of cancer.

Finally, at Elliott Bay Book Company, there is a reading involving Michael Meade and a book called The World Behind the World. Here is what Elliott Bay’s calendar has to say about it:

From his Vashon Island home, and from Seattle-based non-profit organization Mosaic, (Meade) has long worked a rarely-worked line, that of working with the intimate and immediate (as simple as a room with a few people and a story), and, at the same time, with mythological or cosmological material that would seem to transcend time and place, at least in measure we are used to reckoning in the day-to-day.

If you can figure out what that means, maybe you should go to the reading.

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

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1

Why would you need a fantasy book about mystical cats? IMO, should be non-fiction.

Posted by crazycatguy | September 11, 2008 10:33 AM
2

Are titles allowed to have that many colons? Holy crap.

Posted by Gloria | September 11, 2008 10:36 AM
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Reminds me of the Cordwainer Smith stories about warrior cats. I'm probably misquoting, but there were these cats, and they had to be evolved quickly in order to rescue a spaceship from attack, so they're sent to this planet and an evolving ray or something is trained on them, and in the blink of an eye they've developed the technology to make space weaponry and they jump in their spaceships and attack the bad guys with the battle cry: "And now come cats!"
My cat once protected me from an attacking squirrel.

Posted by ratzkywatzky | September 11, 2008 10:41 AM
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Which Erin Hunter? "Erin" is the brand for a group of 3 or 4 writers who crank out the Warriors series. One women is the braintrust (I forget her real name) and most likely the reader. She is a good reader, a Brit with a great accent and sense of drama. The books are sappy but somehow compelling tales of cat clans caught in the kind of issues that mirror the lives of the adolescent girls that are the target audience. There are broken allegiances, evil cliques, community-minded leaders and those who are Machievellian, apprentices both fur-brained and credits to the path. Kind of Jedi light with more licking (sharing tongues!) behind the ears. My 13-year-old is a devotee and when she finally convinced me to read a few (there are 3 serieses, maybe 18 books total, including some cool Manga titles) I got totally hooked, could do nothing but read the damn things, to the exclusion of all other human contact, and found myself fixing on certain cats, weeping with their pain and howling in celebration of their successes. Addicting crack candy fantasy, that's what I would call it.

Posted by ubutunes | September 11, 2008 10:45 AM
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behold the power of pussy

Posted by dog catcher | September 11, 2008 11:43 AM
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@2 : It reminds me of a rejected Coheed & Cambria album title.

Posted by laterite | September 11, 2008 1:22 PM

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