Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/reading_tonight_170 We have a poetry slam and many other readings tonight. Tess Gerritsen reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop from her new mystery, The Keepsake, in which a supposedly ancient mummy turns out to be a very recent murder victim. (Cue Law & Order ch-chung! sound effect here.) Up at Third Place Books, Emma Donoghue reads from her latest book, The Sealed Letter. Donoghue wrote Slammerkin, which was a pretty fun Victorian novel. I have not read anything by her since, however. And Tony Wagner is at Town Hall with The Global Achievement Gap, which is a book about how our... Copyright 2008 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:24:30 -0800 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:08:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Simac I find these books too insular and ignorant.

Instead, let's read Pär Lagerkvist's "The Dwarf," Sigrid Unset's "Kristin Lavransdatter," followed by some Pippi Longstocking, aquavit, and an early bedtime.

]]> Simac http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/reading_tonight_170#c1155051 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/reading_tonight_170#c1155051 Books Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:08:10 -0800