Rowan Jacobsen is at University Book Store. The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World is Jacobsen's book about a "little oyster."
Elliott Bay Book Company is hosting two readings tonight. Julie Whitesel Weston reads from The Good Times Are All Gone Now: Life, Death and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town. Weston documents the decline of a Superfund site that used to be a "thriving" town. And then Ross I. Donaldson reads from his book The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases. It's about Donaldson's adventures in the Sierra Leone.
There is yet another reading for the 100th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington's First World's Fair tonight, at Third Place Books this time. Perhaps in a century from now, people will write a book about the never-ending book tour for this book.
But the reading of the night is at the Richard Hugo House. "Zinester"—ugh!—Greg Hofmann debuts his first novel, No Surrender. It is reportedly an illustrated novel. This reading also comes with musical performances by Bagheera and Josh Powell. This looks like a roundly entertaining evening, and it is free.
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.
