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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:22 AM

It's a reading-heavy night tonight, including readings by local authors Stephanie Kallos and Mary Lou Sanelli, a seminar on oil addiction at the Barnes & Noble at University Village, an erotic fiction writing workshop ("Hint: It's just like regular fiction, only with many more uses of the word "throbbing"), and a collection of students from Writers in the Schools reading their work at Seattle Art Museum.

Hope Edelman is at Third Place Books tonight. Edelman traveled to Belize to hire a shaman to banish the imaginary friend of her 3-year-old daughter. The Possibility of Everything is about that.

Elliott Bay Book Company is hosting two readings tonight. First, Sheila Himmel, who is a restaurant critic, and her daughter join forces like Batman and Superman in Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia. And then Adam Eisenberg reads from A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work. It is about police women, as seen on the hit television show Police Woman.

Two readings at Town Hall, too. Rachel Simmons reads from her book The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. I am hoping that the use of the word "authentic" there is a typo. Is the alternative a simulacrum girl? And then Robert Spector reads from The Mom and Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving, which is a book about how Wal-Mart failed. I'll call this the reading of the night.

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.