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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:26 AM

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Five readings today.

Craig Johnson is at Seattle Mystery Bookshop at noon, reading from Dark Horse, a mystery about a fake insurance investigator..and murder. Later in the day, Phillip Margolin reads at Third Place Books from Fugitive, which is the third Amanda Jaffe mystery.

Also this afternoon, Kane Hall hosts David Montgomery. The author of Dirt says that soil is the most important thing we've got. This is a little depressing.

At the Ballard branch of the Seattle Public Library, Jennifer Hahn, a kayaker who writes about kayaking, reads from her newest book Spirited Waters: Soloing South through the Inside Passage.

And local author Jim Lynch reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. Lynch is the author of The Highest Tide, a novel about a boy and his dead giant squid. Lynch's newest book is Border Songs, which is about a dyslexic border guard. Lynch is one of those writers who can spend entire long passages writing about nature with no human beings in sight, and unless your name is Edward Abbey or John Muir, I just can't get into those as much. Still, he is a fine writer, and this is the reading of the night.

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.