Up at Seattle Mystery Bookshop at noon, Mary Daheim reads from Loco Motive, a mystery with a title that makes me want to kill myself.

Jennifer Worwick reads at the Greenwood branch of Seattle Public Library. Backcountry Betty Crafting with Style: 50 Nature-Inspired Projects is about crafting and naturing (which is not to be confused with naturalism). Worwick has read all over town for this book, and will probably read elsewhere, too.

Bailey/Coy hosts a reading tonight. Gillian Gaar is the author of Rough Guide to Nirvana. If they could time travel, teenagers from 1994 would show up at this reading and call Gaar a sellout. Over at Elliott Bay Book Company, Margot Berwin reads from her novel Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, a book about plants, love, and laundromats.

John Kessel reads at University Book Store. Kessel is the author of several sci-fi novels and short story collections, including The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories. You can read "Stories for Men," a short story by Kessel, a main character named Tyler Durden, here. It has a main character named Tyler Durden.

The Kessel reading is the reading of the night tonight unless you're not into sci-fi, in which case you should head up to Third Place Books and attend the Jim Lynch reading. Lynch is the local author who wrote The Highest Tide, a book about a boy who finds a dead giant squid and causes a near-riot. He's reading from his new novel about pot and terrorists and the border at Blaine, Washington.

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.