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Monday, October 19, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:22 AM

We have a thriller, a book about the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition, a young adult novel about a compulsive liar, and several other readings tonight.

First, the downtown library is hosting a free lunchtime reading of "The Wrong Grave," which is a story by the great Kelly Link. It's a scary story for adults. This sounds like fun.

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger is at Town Hall tonight. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age is another one of those tiresome "this is what's wrong with you kids these days" kind of books about technology. Also at Town Hall, we have Taylor Branch. The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President is an interesting book about a complicated man. The book has already publicly humiliated Boris Yeltsin, so it's earned its praise from me.

And Timothy Egan is at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight.The local author reads from his new work of historical journalism, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America. Either of the presidential readings look good to me for 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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the thing that is interesting about Liar (the reading mentioned in passing) is that the American publisher whitewashed the cover, changing the race of the protagonist - which made even her self-description suspect. after a deal of discussion, they actually replaced the dustjacket for the entire print run.

Posted by ironymaiden on October 19, 2009 at 11:28 AM

That my book Delete is "another one of those tiresome "this is what's wrong with you kids these days" kind of books about technology" is crap. You obviously haven't even take a quick look at it before moving ahead to offer your opinion - I think we all deserve better.

Posted by VMS on October 21, 2009 at 4:07 PM