March is my birthday month, so I’m using that, and the fact that you are all basically my captive audience for an hour or so [at story time for grown-ups] to subject you to my new favorite book. I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking is a collection of short stories by local(ish) author Leyna …
Yesterday was World Read Aloud Day, but at Ravenna Third Place Books in Seattle every third Monday of the month, grown-ups get their own read-aloud time! (Ravenna Third Place also offers a more traditional kids’ storytime today and every Friday at 11:00.) We were delighted to read all about the adults-only read-aloud recurring event, Grown-Up Storytime, …
Tonight at 7:00 at University Bookstore, one of our favorite Christmas traditions takes place: the annual reading by Brad Craft of “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote. Craft (above, reading some Ogden Nash holiday poetry), a bookseller, poetry-lover, author, artist, and modern Renaissance man, will warm your heart. The free cookie and cider will help …
