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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM

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Three readings tonight.

University Book Store will be hosting sci-fi/fantasy writer L.E. Modesitt. Here is a synopsis of Modesitt's newest book from UBS's website:

Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L'Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar, he has spent years becoming a journeyman artist and is skilled and diligent enough to be considered for the status of master artisan—in another two years...

That's when I got bored. You can read the rest here.

Up at Third Place Books, Heather Armstrong reads from It Sucked and Then I Cried, a motherhood memoir with a dumb error on its cover. Slog reader Katharine read this book and hated it.

At Elliott Bay Book Company, Phillip Levine's sculpture and other artwork is celebrated in the book Myth Memory, and Image, which is discussed here tonight. Levine will be sharing the stage with UW professor Norman Lundin and "poet and sculptor" Tom Jay. This is the reading of the night, kind of by default.

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

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Rhennthyl sounds like some kind of incontinence drug.

Posted by beelzebufo on March 31, 2009 at 10:48 AM

If I see this book cover jpg again on Slog, I will go insane, and I will take you with me. How many times have we seen it now...6? 7?

Posted by schmacky on March 31, 2009 at 10:56 AM

you really, really, really, really, really need to get over the missing hyphen in this book title.

Posted by spoiler alert on March 31, 2009 at 11:26 AM

I was bored by the time I got to "...journeyman artist."

Posted by Big Sven on March 31, 2009 at 11:52 AM

I agree with #3.
This is the futur, and if u can tell what sumbody meant 2 say then thats good enuff 4 me.
Get over urself and join teh lolcat generation u fossel.

PS - I can has down syndrom :(

Posted by "You Talk Like A Fag, And Your Shit's All Retarded" on March 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM

L.E. Modesitt was very charming!

Posted by Zusality on March 31, 2009 at 9:28 PM