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Monday, July 20, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM

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Four events tonight.

First, at just after noon, it's time for Thrilling Tales at the Central Library. This is a reading of a great Damon Runyon story. "Butch Minds the Baby" is about a safecracker who takes his baby to work. It's free and you should go if you're free around lunchtime downtown.

Naseem Rakha reads at Third Place Books. A mother wants revenge but slowly learns how to forgive in Rakha's novel The Crying Tree. Um, spoiler alert?

Elliott Bay Book Company hosts Bibi Gaston. The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home is Gaston's biography of her grandmother, who was a beautiful actress who was rarely ever happy.

But the reading of the night is over at University Book Store. Paul Collins reads from The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World. Collins is an entertaining and immensely readable author. He is also is a great lover of books. If you love books or entertaining authors, you simply do not want to miss Paul Collins.

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.