Busy Thursday!

Elizabeth Sims reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop at noon. The Extras is about moviemaking magic...and murder. Sims also reads at Third Place Books tonight.

Over at Inner Chapters Bookstore, which I wrote about a year ago when they opened, is hosting a rare reading. Joyce Major volunteered her way around the globe and wrote about it in Smiling at the World: A Woman's Passionate Yearlong Quest for Adventure and Love.

Up at University Book Store, Chris Mooney reads from Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. Mooney is probably one of those eggheads who alleges that The Flintstones is fiction.

At the library in Columbia City, Bree Loewen reads from Pickets and Dead Men. Loewen is a climbing ranger on Mount Rainier, where apparently "on-the-job performance can be the difference between life and death." Not to be dramatic or anything. At the Central Library, Douglas Brinkley reads from The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America is about the man who was our most environmental-minded president (and an avid killer of bears.)

And Elliott Bay hosts Jane Adams. The main character in Sugar Time is named Charlotte "Sugar" Kane, which is so fucking precious that it makes me want to smash my head against a wall until I die. I would recommend the Brinkley reading if you're into history, or the Mooney reading if you're into science and current affairs.

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.