We got a long way to go and a short time to get there, so let's get into it:

At noon today at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Garry Disher, who is Australian, will sign his new book, Blood Moon, which is about "penalties on land-use violations"...and murder.

Lennard Davis gives a lecture at Kane Hall in the U District about obsession, focusing on obsessive-compulsive disorder and the history of obsession. Immediately after this lecture at Kane Hall, Reza Aslan reads from How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror, a book about "defanging terrorists." Because all terrorists have fangs, like vampires. And then also in Kane Hall at about the same time, Paul Muldoon "will present the 46th Annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading."

Lily Burana was a self-described "punk rock stripper" who fell in love with a soldier and then became an army wife. She tells us all about it in I Love a Man in Uniform, and she'll tell you all about it in person tonight at Third Place Books.

Two tricky titles tonight: At the Mountaineers, Mark Obmascik reads from Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled—and Knuckleheaded—Quest for the Rocky Mountain High, which is perhaps the worst title at a reading this week, especially because it ends with a John Denver reference. But then at Elliott Bay Book Company, Mark Kurlansky reads from The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food—Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food was Seasonal, Regional, and Traditional—from the Lost WPA Files. I think this book has what could possibly be the longest subtitle I have ever seen on a book in my year as books editor for The Stranger.

And then we have two events scheduled for the Hugo House: Rose Alley Press will throw a party with four poets, including the awesome Karen Finneyfrock. There will also be refreshments and prizes. And elsewhere in the Hugo House, Paul Park will discuss his years as a science fiction author.

There are way too many interesting events to just pick one. Follow your heart.

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