Third Place Books hosts Jerry Brewer, the author of Gloria's Miracle: A Young Girl, a Deadly Disease and an Enduring Lesson about the Power of Faith. Brewer will talk about a 7 year-old with terminal cancer, and about how her family was told by God that she would survive. If you like your stories of faith and family to involve animals, you should head to Elliott Bay Book Company, where Steven Winn will read from Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog. Awww.

If you like your feeling-good to take place offstage, you could head to University Book Store, where three of the Seattle7Writers—Carol Cassella, author of Oxygen: A Novel; Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew; and Garth Stein, the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain—will read as a benefit for Writers in the Schools. And! If you'd prefer your charitable reading to also include self-betterment, Stephen Elliott teaches a class called On Creating The Adderall Diaries at 826 Seattle up in Greenwood. The class is about memoir writing, using Elliott's recent, great book The Adderall Diaries as an object lesson. Ticket price includes a copy of the book.

Then there are other readings, too. Also at University Book Store, we have C.E. Murphy. "When the ancient Cauldron of Matholwch is stolen from a Seattle museum and a dark pall spreads over the city," a ghost whisperer is forced to fix things in Walking Dead (The Walker Papers, Book 4).

Michael Meade, a "leading figure in the in the Mythopoetic branch of the Men's Movement," reads at Broadway Performance Hall. The World Behind the World: Living at the Ends of Time is his book. And at Town Hall, Elizabeth Grossman reads. Grossman writes about "a chemical revolution" in Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry. You'll have to pry that bottle of Diet Coke from my cold, dead hands.

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.