Monday, November 29, 2004
Third Place Events
If I still lived in Seattle, here are the Third Place Books events I'd attend in December:
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Christopher Moore (tickets required)
The Stupidest Angel (William Morrow)
Thursday, December 2 at 7 pm
Following his bestsellers Lamb and Fluke, Christopher Moore presents a heartwarming tale of Christmas terror. Our staff loves Moore; Michael says in his staff pick: "Sheer brilliance! Chris Moore has written one of his funniest books to date, a comprehensive of Moore elements that excel at wackiness. Madcap characters like Tucker Case, Roberto the Fruitbat, the angel Raziel, and Kendra, Warrior Babe of the Outland, all converge on Pine Cove, California, to confront a cannibalistic zombie Santa Claus out for revenge. Nothing celebrates the holiday season like sex, death, and lunacy in true Christopher Moore fashion. You have been warned!"
Lowen Clausen
Third and Forever (Silo Press)
Friday, December 3 at 6:30 pm
The third thriller from former Seattle police officer Lowen Clausen features Officer Grace Stevens, whose search for a stalker leads her from her neighborhood beat to the University of Washington campus, where she discovers "special protections" extended to athletic stars. In a story that winds from the Northwest to steamy Baton Rouge, Officer Stevens is drawn towards the stalker she is trying to unmask.
Nancy Pearl (tickets required)
Book Lust Calendar (Sasquatch Books)
Thursday December 9 at 7 pm
The favorite "literary lusty lady" of Seattle's book world solves all your shopping problems with this 2005 calendar highlighting great reads for the entire year. Nancy Pearl is the former director of The Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, the originator of the reading program "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book" (adopted by cities nationwide), author of the bestselling reading guide, Book Lust, and weekly commentator on KUOW. You've seen the librarian action figure -- now come and meet Nancy in person!
Jonathan Raban
Waxwings (Random House)
Tuesday, December 14 at 7 pm
Waxwings is Jonathan Raban's brilliant skewering of Seattle in the 1990's as the dot-com bubble bursts. New in paperback and fresh from an acclaimed run "on the boards" as the opening piece for Book-It Repertory Theatre's fifteenth season, this novel is a perfect choice for holiday giving or your next book club pick. Praise for Waxwings includes The Seattle Post-Intelligencer review: " Stylishly smooth, deceptively compelling and tragically funny.... This is Seattle as Dickens might describe it."
