Sunday, April 19, 2009
Books Reading Today
Posted by Paul Constant on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Two events today.
Cristina Henríquez reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. Her novel The World in Half is about a woman going to Panama to meet her father. The New York Times Book Review said Henríquez's "prose reads as if she grew up drinking water that had been fluoridated with traces of John Updike and Ann Beattie." That is a weird statement, but also kind of compelling.
But at Town Hall, Wangari Maathai, who is the "first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize," reads from her newest book, The Challenge for Africa. Readings of the night almost always go to Nobel Peace Prize winners when they're in town, and this is no exception.
Also, there's the Friends of the Library book sale, which is going on this weekend. You can, in theory, buy enough to read for the rest of the year for less than 40 bucks, assuming you read a book a week. You can find more information about the sale here.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.
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