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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM

The Seattle Mystery Bookshop is hosting two authors today at noon. The awesomely named Andrew Giant reads from Even, which is about undercover intelligence...and murder. And Lee Child reads from Gone Tomorrow is about a subway suicide that leads to Al Qaeda. Child has a busy day and will also read at the Central Library this evening.

Julie Reinhardt reads at Third Place Books from She Smoke, a book about grilling for women, because apparently women can't understand any of the thousands of grilling books out there that are not intended specifically for them. There is a chapter of this book called "birds for birds." This is the sort of thing that makes feminists want to die.

University Book Store hosts Midge Raymond, who reads from Forgetting English, a collection of short stories about home and identity and biology. The Barnes & Noble at U Village hosts Laleh Khadivi, who reads from The Age of Orphans, a book about a Kurd who lives with Iranians.

Amy Stewart reads at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. Her book, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities is about all the evil plants in the world, including the cucumber, which is history's greatest monster. There is a video above about the book that will totally fuel your neuroses.

And as always, there's the Salon of Shame at Theater Off Jackson, in which normal people read from their most embarrassing adolescent writing. This is much more entertaining than you'd originally think.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here. And if you're planning on staying in and you're looking for personalized book recommendations, feel free to tell me the books you like and ask me what to read next over at Questionland.

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She Smoke? That reminds me of an act I saw in Bangkok.

Posted by kitschnsync on June 9, 2009 at 10:29 AM

That plant book has the best subtitle ever. Awesome.

Posted by leek on June 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM

umm, JIMMY CARTER is history's greatest monster.

Posted by Max Solomon on June 9, 2009 at 10:42 AM

I heard Amy Stewart give a talk in St. Paul last month. If I could hop on a plane to hear her in Seattle, I'd do it.

Posted by midwaypete on June 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Paul:

Do you use or recommend any book websites? A friend got me to join GoodReads and I like using it to remember what I've read and what I would like to read and finding similar books. I don't use it for the social networking aspect, just for the organizational sort of aspect.
Do you know of a better website? Or do you just have lots of bookshelves and write good notes to yourself?

I didn't feel like creating a questionland account to ask you over there. thanks, Book Master.

Posted by hairyson on June 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM