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Monday, October 12, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:22 AM

Two authors are reading at Third Place Books tonight. Scott Westerfield reads from Leviathan, his first steampunk novel. The publishers of Sara Rees Brennan's The Demon’s Lexicon claim it is the only book that dares to ask “What if the bad-boy hunk in your class was actually a sword-wielding demon slayer?” It's a genre-palooza up in Lake Forest Park!

Two readings at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. First, Marie Mutsuki Mockett reads from Picking Bones from Ash, a novel set in "a small Japanese mountain town in the 1950s and then a generation later in California." And then Jeannette Walls, the author of The Glass Castle, returns with a half-novel, half-first-person memoir about her long-deceased grandmother. The book is titled Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel.

And at Town Hall, Tracy Kidder reads from Strength in What Remains, a book about a genocide survivor who returns home to his native country. Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains is such a perennial bestseller in Seattle's bookstores that I practically have to label this one 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.

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Tracy Kidder's Mountains beyond Mountains was the UW common book a couple of years ago. All new undergrads had to read it.

Thats like being invited to a talk about calculus with James Stewart.

Posted by Roc on October 12, 2009 at 1:49 PM