Nature Literature discussion

Hello everyone,

Please list your suggestions for the September book of the month here. I'll be setting up the poll in the last week of August.

Thanks,
Becky

A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson. A British author. I started reading it and can't stop.
http://www.amazon.com/Sting-Tale-My-A...

Hi everyone,

I will be setting up the poll tomorrow for the September BOTM - since there's only one book nominated right now, I'll add one just so we can actually vote on something. :)

Since Farley Mowat passed away recently, I'll nominate the classic Never Cry Wolf in memorium.

"The Starling God". A member of The Aldo Leopold Foundation read it and has sent 4 copies to the foundation's board members because he felt the messages in it about nature were so in line with what Aldo Leopold was promoting and believed. It's had only 5 star reviews thus far as well.

I would love to read Never Cry Wolf but will nominate Life Everlasting by Bernd Heinrich and if I can nominate two...Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks

Walden by Thoreau...helped shape my worldview early in high school (30+ years ago)...visited Walden for the first time this Saturday with the ones I love and would love to spread Thoreau's experience and ideas far and wide...love this group!

Pam wrote: "I would love to read Never Cry Wolf but will nominate Life Everlasting by Bernd Heinrich and if I can nominate two...Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks"

Oxaca Journal sounds fascinating. Totally new to me, especially after having read several of Sacks's books.

Joe wrote: "Walden by Thoreau...helped shape my worldview early in high school (30+ years ago)...visited Walden for the first time this Saturday with the ones I love and would love to spread Thoreau's experien..."

Joe wrote: "Walden by Thoreau...helped shape my worldview early in high school (30+ years ago)...visited Walden for the first time this Saturday with the ones I love and would love to spread Thoreau's experien..."
It definitely should be the book of the month sometime soon. May be a tough vote this time!

Andree wrote: "Pam wrote: "I would love to read Never Cry Wolf but will nominate Life Everlasting by Bernd Heinrich and if I can nominate two...Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks"

Oxaca Journal sounds fascinating. T..."
I can quickly reread it and then lend it to you - or more probably just lend it since I doubt it will make the cut this month!

Interesting choices this month. Despite Walden being my all-time favorite book, I've read it 6 times and once took a seminar on it that met in Concord one evening per week for about seven or eight weeks. So I don't think I could vote for it this month (but anyone who has never read or re-read it should do so ASAP!)I'll browse some of these others I'm less familiar with and vote for one of them. (Also read Never Cry Wolf before-another classic!)

I have to confess, I've been to Walden once (that has to change again - SOON - I'm dying to go back) and if ever a "vacation" was a going-to-Mecca-like experience, that was it. When I got up to the area where the original cabin stood, I actually started crying. No idea why (well, at least that I could articulate at the time) but I was OVERCOME with emotion there. I felt Thoreau had given us this brilliant set of detailed instructions on how to live the "right" kind of life in Walden and all this time later, we're still not getting it. In fact, we've had a horrible backslide in some ways (especially when it comes to taking care of the planet) - it really bothered me how evident that was there. And yet, it was such a marvelously holy place. If I'll have my ashes scattered some day, that will be at the top of the list. :)

Thank you, everyone. The poll is now going up - this nomination thread is now closed for submissions.

What a powerful response… Thanks for sharing your story, Becky!


Becky wrote: "I have to confess, I've been to Walden once (that has to change again - SOON - I'm dying to go back) and if ever a "vacation" was a going-to-Mecca-like experience, that was it. When I got up to th..."

Thanks for the invitation to the poll (I'm new to Goodreads - just figuring out how it all works). I had no idea who Dave Goulson was, or that he'd written a book about Bumblebees (I love bee lit)... and spent the last little while falling down the rabbit hole of his selection of Youtube interviews. Another one for the list, for sure!

Walden is now on the list, too. Great recommendations.

Oh, and hi.

Hello and welcome "Anonymous Crow"!


Anonymous Crow wrote: "Thanks for the invitation to the poll (I'm new to Goodreads - just figuring out how it all works). I had no idea who Dave Goulson was, or that he'd written a book about Bumblebees (I love bee lit)..."

Welcome, Anonymous Crow. :) That Goulson book does sound very interesting. Unfortunately, my (very rural) library has a tough time picking up a lot of these selections. If the Goulson book is voted for September's BOTM I'll have to rely on the group to tell me if it's worth buying!

Becky wrote: "I have to confess, I've been to Walden once (that has to change again - SOON - I'm dying to go back) and if ever a "vacation" was a going-to-Mecca-like experience, that was it. When I got up to th..."
Makes me wonder now how many others have had their ashes spread on/around the pond! Maybe a lot. If you do visit the pond again in the future, don't go on a summer weekend!!!! Too crowded!!! You have been officially warned!