Not quite as much as yesterday going on tonight, but still quite a bit.

Christi Phillips reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop from Devlin Diary, which is about a diary from 1672...and murder. At the Ballard Public Library, Bree Loewen reads from Pickets and Dead Men, which is a memoir about working as a "climbing ranger."

Third Place Books is hosting Jen Lancaster, who is the author of Pretty in Plaid. Apparently, Third Place Books is celebrating "80s night" here tonight too. That's not good news; the 80s were a bad time to be a book nerd, fashion-wise.

Shirin Ebadi, who has fought for human rights around the world, discusses her thirty years in that line of work at Benaroya Hall.

Miranda Weiss and Margot Kahn read from their non-fiction work at Ravenna Third Place Books tonight. Weiss wrote Tide, Feather, Snow, which is about coastal Alaska. Kahn wrote Horses That Buck, which is all about a champion bronc rider named Bill Smith. There will also be hors d'ouevres and music by the Maldives after the reading. And it's free, which places this perilously close to the reading of the night.

But Geoffrey Miller at Town Hall is another contender for reading of the night. Miller wrote Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, which is one of those pop-science books that takes a seemingly mundane topic—-in this case, our primate ancestors—-and transforms it into something interesting—-in this case by equating our desires to buy shit with our mating impulse. It's a good book.

And there's also Glen David Gold at Elliott Bay Book Company. Gold wrote the amazing Carter Beats the Devil, which is a thrilling book from 2001 that's a lot of fun to read. Today he's in town with his follow-up book, Sunnyside, which is a scientific thriller starring Charlie Chaplin. Gold is also reading at Third Place Books tomorrow, so if you're in a reading mood this week, you should go to either the Miller or the Weiss/Kahn reading tonight and hit up Gold tomorrow.

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