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Monday, August 31, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM

I'm still getting my head around this Disney buying Marvel Comics thing.

Thinking more locally, there is one reading tonight.

Randy Sue Coburn reads at the Third Place Books mothership, up in Lake Forest Park. A Better View of Paradise is a novel about a woman who was born on a tropical island returning to that tropical island after the real world doesn't pan out for her.

I do not know anything about this book, but I know that Coburn is the author of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, which is a very good movie about Dorothy Parker, who is sometimes my imaginary girlfriend.

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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Obviously we need to picket PAX this weekend in protest of the buyout by Disney of Marvel.

I suggest we dress up in JLA uniforms.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 31, 2009 at 10:42 AM

Paul, curious to read your thoughts or response to Saturday's Wall Street Journal editorial by a book critic on why young adult fiction like "Twilight" or "The Hunger Games" is far outselling more "literary" novels:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424…

Posted by Peter F on August 31, 2009 at 1:30 PM