{"id":3046,"date":"2015-08-16T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdbgdocents.org\/?page_id=3046"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:51:14","slug":"book-buddies-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sdbgdocents.org\/?page_id=3046","title":{"rendered":"Book Buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Botanic Book Buddies:\u00a0<\/b>Book Buddies meet on the second Wednesday of even-numbered months\u00a0at n<\/a>oon<\/span>\u00a0in the Lawn House.
\n<\/span>All are welcome. No need to be a member of the book\u00a0<\/span>club or even have read the current book.<\/span><\/p>\n

2024 Books<\/h4>\n

Feb. \u00a0The Land Where the Lemons Grow by Helena Atlee
\nApr. \u00a0\u00a0Herbarium::The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants \u00a0by Barbara Theirs
\nJune \u00a0\u00a0Second Nature by Michael Pollan
\nAug. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart
\nOct. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
\nDec. \u00a0\u00a0Soil: the Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. by Camille Dungy<\/p>\n

2023 Books<\/h4>\n

April 12: What A Plant Knows: \u00a0\u00a0A Field Guide to the Senses by
\nDaniel Chamovitz
\nJune 14: The Plant Hunter by Cassandra Leah Quave<\/p>\n

August 9: The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most
\nEssential Native Trees \u00a0\u00a0by Douglas Tallamy<\/p>\n

October 11: The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone<\/p>\n

December 13: Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx<\/span><\/p>\n

2022 Books<\/h4>\n

February \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It’s A Jungle Up There: More tales from the treetops
\nBy Margaret Lowman
\nApril \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Private Life of Plants \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By \u00a0David Attenborough
\nJune \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great
\nconnectors \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By David George Haskell
\nAugust \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Upstream: Selected essays \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By Mary Oliver
\nOctober \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Entangled Life \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By \u00a0Merlin Sheldrake<\/p>\n

2021 Books<\/h4>\n

February\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Forgotten Peninsula by Joseph Wood Krutch
\nApril\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
\nJune\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Outermost House by Henry Beston
\nAugust\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
\nOctober\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Onwards and Upwards by Katherine S. White
\nDecember\u00a0 \u00a0Plant Portraits the Califonia Legacy by A. R. Valentien\u00a0 (Review by Mike Blanco)
\nDecember\u00a0 In December, we will review one of the following classics. Please let
\nme know what YOUR choice is:
\nMy First Summer In The Sierra \u00a0\u00a0by John Muir \u00a0\u00a0or
\nHenry David Thoreau: \u00a0Walden \u00a0or
\nCharles Darwin: \u00a0The Voyage Of The Beagle<\/p>\n

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2020 Books<\/h4>\n

The Botanic Book Buddies have chosen their books for 2020.
\nWe had a great response to our request for suggestions for books for next year.\u00a0 Several books had been read in recent years and because we only read 6 books each year, I have listed one other title which might interest some of you.<\/p>\n

February\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>Two for the Far North<\/a> by Margaret Murie<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0((biography\/novel)<\/p>\n

April\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The\u00a0Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California<\/a>\u00a0 by Joseph Wood Krutch<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(history)<\/p>\n

June\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Braiding Sweet Grass<\/a> by Robin Kimmerer<\/a><\/p>\n

August\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hippie Food<\/a> by Jonathan Kauffman<\/a><\/p>\n

October\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The King of California<\/a> by Mark Arax\u00a0 & Rick Wartzman (biography\/history)<\/p>\n

December\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Garden Spells<\/a> by Sarah Addison Allen<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(novel)<\/p>\n

The Fate of Food<\/a> by Amanda Little is highly recommended by Mike Blanco<\/p>\n

2019 Books<\/h4>\n

February 13\u00a0 \u00a0 Overstory by Richard Powers
\nApril 10\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Invention of Nature\u00a0 by Andrea Wulf
\nJune 12\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Forest Unseen\u00a0 by George Haskell
\nAugust 14\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Stranger in the Woods by Michael \u00a0Finkel<\/a> or Monk\u00a0of Mokha<\/a> by Dave Eggers
\nOctober 9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Choosing books for 2020.
\nDecember\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdelena
\nBooks for 2020 will be chosen at the December 2019 meeting<\/p>\n

<\/h4>\n

2018 Books<\/h4>\n

February \u00a0Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane \u00a0by Lisa See
\nApril \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Angle \u00a0of Repose \u00a0by Wallace Stegner
\nJune \u00a0\u00a0The Nature Fix \u00a0\u00a0by Florence Williams
\nAugust \u00a0Oaxaca Journal \u00a0by Oliver Sacks
\nOctober \u00a0The Hidden Life of Trees \u00a0by Peter Wohlleden<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2017 Books<\/h4>\n

February 8 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sowing Seeds of Wonder (History of Larabees) by Sally
\n<\/span>Sandler who will attend that meeting and let us know the details of
\n<\/span>writing and researching the book.
\n<\/span>April 12 \u00a0\u00a0Unstoppable \u00a0by Bill Nye
\n<\/span>June 14 \u00a0\u00a0Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver
\n<\/span>August 9 \u00a0\u00a0Stopping the Road \u00a0by Jack Fisher
\n<\/span>October 11 or possibly the 18 (because of plant sale) \u00a0West With the
\n<\/span>Night by Beryl Markham
\n<\/span>December 13 The Human Age by Dianne Ackerman<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h4>\n

2016 books<\/h4>\n
February\u00a0 Walk In The Woods\u00a0 by Bill Bryson<\/div>\n
April\u00a0\u00a0 Deep\u00a0\u00a0 by James Nestor<\/div>\n
June\u00a0\u00a0 Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard<\/div>\n
August\u00a0 The Snow Child\u00a0 by Eowyn Ivey<\/div>\n
October\u00a0 Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke<\/div>\n
December\u00a0 A Book Of Bees by Sue Hubbell<\/div>\n
Bring a bag lunch.<\/div>\n

Books that have been read.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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