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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:22 AM

It's a busy Thursday.

At 4 pm today, Jerry Traunfeld, of Poppy fame, will be signing his new book The Herbal Kitchen: Cooking with Fragrance and Flavor and doing a cooking demo at the Queen Anne Farmer's Market.

Scott Sadil reads at Third Place Books tonight. Lost in Wyoming is a skinny collection of essays about living in Wyoming and the American west. Critics compare it to Stegner. I mean, critics who aren't me. I haven't read the book yet. As long as it doesn't resemble Wyoming's other major literary star, Annie Proulx, that's okay with me. One Annie Proulx is enough for the entire world and then some.

Big famous sci-fi author Terry Brooks is at University Book Store tonight. A Princess of Landover is a fantasy novel about a man who is a "Chicago lawyer in one world" and a "monarch in the other." Just like Obama!

And the reading of the night tonight is at Elliott Bay Book Company. What can save public education? Scott Oki says Outrageous Learning can save public education! Do your civic duty and attend this reading and then fix the public education system in Seattle please.

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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Hmm. The Chicago lawyer/monarch plot line sounds awfully familiar, unless I am misremembering Brooks's Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold novel I read when I was 12.

Posted by lily on August 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM

"Lost in Wyoming" is a collection of fiction -- read it if you want enjoy some of the best contemporary outdoor literature available today. Funny, fresh, sophisticated writing.

Posted by fish head on August 29, 2009 at 7:36 PM