There'll be a Suggests box for this one popping up in a moment or two, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but tonight is Cheap Beer and Prose at the Hugo House. The popular reading night continues, with very funny readers—Maria Semple, Matthew Simmons, Midge Raymond, and Rory Douglas—and $1 glasses of PBR.

Jennie Shortridge is at Elliott Bay Book Company. When She Flew is a novel about an injured veteran, an injured veteran's daughter, and a cop who might be in over her head emotionally.

At the Ballard branch of SPL, Professor David Bachman from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington will discuss our shaky hate-marriage with China and our ever-forgiving love-marriage with China's fat wallet.

Kathy Griffin will be appearing at University Book Store tonight. This is a signing for Ms. Griffin's new book Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. The press release reads, "Kathy is happy to sign your book. Kathy will not personalize." So much for the D List, I guess.

And Open Books is hosting what should be a pretty amazing reading. Olena Kalytiak Davis is the Alaskan author of the chapbook "On the Kitchen Table from Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed." I am sorry to say that I have not read Davis's book of poetry, but Davis is reading with Kary Wayson. Wayson is the awesome author of American Husband, which is probably tied with Ed Skoog's Mister Skylight for Best Book of Poetry Produced by a Seattlite Last Year. This reading or Cheap Beer & Prose should be vying for your attention tonight.

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.