The Lace Makers of Glenmara is one of those novels that you can bet on becoming a big film in the future. We can see it already, and are practically putting money on who would star. Let's see, we need a starring actress who is pretty but not beautiful; petite, not tall; with a lively wit to make up for anything lacking...and a leading man who is tall dark and handsome with an Irish accent. The movie just seems like a no-brainer.
The Lace Makers of Glenmara Is Ready for Its Close-Up
Summer Reading: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Janelle Brown will be reading from All We Ever Wanted Was Everything at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park (17171 Bothell Way NE), tonight at 7 p.m. This event is free.
A Haunting Little Stranger from Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters will be reading from and talking about The Little Stranger at the University Bookstore on Tuesday, May 5, at 7 p.m.
Miles From Nowhere Author Nami Mun at Elliott Bay Tuesday
Korean-born, American-"raised" novelist Nami Mun visits Elliott Bay Book Company next Tuesday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m. We put the "raised" in quotes like that because she actually lived on the street for a bit. But this is a novel, not a memoir--or not over 1 percent memoir--so the appeal has to have more to do with her skills as a novelist, than her street cred.
Can't Miss It: Monday
. Casella, a physician, draws on her intimate knowledge of the health industry to construct a dramatic portrait of the subtleties and complexities of medical malpractice, when a child's death on the operating table sends an anesthesiologist's life into a tail-spin.
Racing in the Rain's Garth Stein Reads @ Elliott Bay
Tomorrow night, novelist Garth Stein (Raven Stole the Moon, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets) and his piercing eyes are making a crosstown trek from Stein's Mount Baker home to the Elliott Bay Book Company, where Stein will read from his latest book, The Art of Racing in the Rain (6/25, 7:30 p.m.).

