We have four events tonight. One event is the Bushwick Book Club performing music based on The Princess Bride, down at the Can Can. I have Suggested that one, so I'll let the Suggest speak for itself. Here is everything else happening today.

It's the last day of SteamCon II in SeaTac. This year's SteamCon is western-themed. From the website:

This year’s steamposium will highlight the Weird Weird West or American steampunk, if you will. Imagine the age of steam on the wild frontier. You are invited to explore with us the world of roughriders on mechanical horses, mad inventors, mystical Indian shamans, and mighty steam locomotives. Picture airships instead of stagecoaches, and the precision of robotic sharp shooters. If western steampunk doesn’t appeal, there will still be lots of classic steampunk to partake of as well.

If that's not your thing, Nora Titone reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy is yet another book about how Abraham Lincoln really didn't enjoy that play.

And at Seattle Asian Art Museum, journalist and art critic Barbara Pollack will discuss China's burgeoning art scene in The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China.

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 something to read, you can get personalized book recommendations from myself and a team of five expert booksellers from Third Place Books and three Seattle librarians over at Questionland. Tell us what books you've loved, what subject you'd like to learn about, or what kind of person you're looking to give a book to and we'll have a few great recommendations for you in no time flat. Ask away!