Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012
What: Book Club meeting
Where: Mississippi Market 1500 West 7th Street, St Paul, MN 55102
The book club will discuss Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-deficit Disorder.
RSVPs to Alison Rotel at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it are not required but are appreciated.. We expect that the event will last from one to one-and-a-half hours.
Please note we will skip the December meeting and start meeting the first Tuesday of every other month beginning in February. If you're interested in the rationale behind these decisions, call or email me for all the details. Also, for the most loyal attendees of the group St Paul is more convenient than Minneapolis, so we will hold the next meeting in St Paul. However, the group is open to meeting in Minneapolis if the St Paul location is preventing some people from attending. Please let me know what you think.
FUTURE BOOK SELECTIONS: Please bring suggestions to the meeting (non-fiction, ideally 300 pages or less). Please see the below list of books we're considering for future meetings, as well as books the group has already read. (Please send me corrections and/or additions.) I highlighted books we've read that are over 300 pages, and realized that among them are some of our favorites. We've had some trouble finding books we want to read that are 300 pages or less. Should we reconsider how important this "page limit" is to us?
Titles for future consideration (sorted by number of pages)
- Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, Vandana Shiva (158)
- Woman of the Boundary Waters: Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing, and Surviving (Minnesota), Justine Kerfoot (200)
- Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild (The World as Home), Paul Gruchow (232)
- Minnesota's St. Croix River Valley and Anoka Sandplain: A Guide to Native Habitats, Daniel S. Wovcha and Barbara Delaney (234)
- Coyote at Large: Humor in American Nature Writing, Katrina Schimmoeller Peiffer (240)
- Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota’s Wild Places, Daniel J. Phillipon (272)
- Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle, David Wann (282)
- Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, Douglas W. Tallamy (288)
- The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Songs, Jerry Dennis (320)
- A Plague of Frogs: Unraveling an Environmental Mystery, William Sonder (332)
- Mycelium Running Paul Stamets (356)
- Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists, Dyana Z. Furmansky (376)
- Streams and Rivers of Minnesota, Thomas F. Waters (384)
- Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, Scott Weidensaul (432)
- Summer World: A Season of Bounty, Bernd Heinrich (272)
- The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy, Bernd Heinrich (352)
- The Trees in My Forest Bernd Heinrich, (256)
- The Secret Language & Remarkable Behavior of Animals, Janine Benyus (464)
Books already selected/read by the group (sorted by chronological order; pages in parenthesis)
- Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival , Bernd Heinrich (400)
- A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold (194)
- An Unspoken Hunger, Terry Tempest Williams (160)
- Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (400)
- Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly, Sue Halpern (224)
- The Wolves of Minnesota, L. David Mech (128)
- Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds, Bernd Heinrich (432)
- Relections from the North Country, Sigurd Olson (192)
- The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America , Timothy Egan (352)
- Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature , Janine Benyus (320)
- Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv (390)