Please read the Suggests that will be up here soon about the Bilocal event at Town Hall. It should be fun. Here are other potentially fun events:

All day today, the Hugo House is hosting a NaNoWriMo Write-in/Halfway Party. This is an "all day writing celebration" to mark the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month. (Even though the real halfway point is in two days.) There will be prizes and contests. I assume if you're doing Nanographicmo they won't kick you out of the House.

At noon, Gary Alexander reads at Seattle Mystery Bookshop. Disappeared is a novel about a comedian who lives next door to a guy who pretends to be a hit man.

Over at Fantagraphics Book Store this afternoon, Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly will be appearing. The authors of DESTROY ALL MOVIES!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film will discuss punks as they have been portrayed in film.

Central Library hosts the 2010 Jack Straw Writers this afternoon. Amber Flame, Marjorie Manwaring, Tara Roth and Michael Dylan Welch will read.

Sam Howe Verhovek is up at Third Place Books tonight. Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World is about the time back when England and the US actually gave a shit about jets.

At Elliott Bay Book Company this afternoon, Michelle Bates, the author of Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity, will discuss toy cameras, which are not to be confused with those cheesy filters on your camera phone. And then this evening, Elliott Bay is hosting the Best American Poetry Anthologies Group Reading. A local flotilla of America's best poets, including David Wagoner, Cody Walker, and Kary Wayson, will read some of America's best poetry here tonight. This should be a good one.

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 5 expert booksellers from Third Place Books 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!