We read:
Everyone is welcome! We’re so open to ideas for future selections. There are a lot of worlds out there!
Note: Copyright law allows us to share excerpts of works, so some readings are posted as .pdfs. If you’d like readings in a different file format, or for more information in general, contact Kris at freeman.ks [at] gmail.com
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé (PDF Intro and Chapt. 1)
The Overstory by Richard Powers (PDF first two chapters)
In Person (SJU conference room at 5515 Phinney Ave. N)
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88597002102?pwd=R1VGemgzYVp3M25xcEUzN1hxY2ZKQT09 Pass code 937916 (shouldn’t need it)
Homewaters by local author David Williams , Chapters 7-10. Presentation by the author at the Museum of History and Industry.
Restoring Kelp and Seagrass
Homewaters by local author David Williams , Chapters 1-6.( PDF of Preface and First Chapter)
Other Puget Sound Wonders:
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sections 4-5
Interviews with Robin Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sections 1-3
Non-Fiction
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer (PDF)
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, by Suzanne Simard (PDF)
“Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists, Itʼs in Dispute.” (PDF) Article in the New York Times with researchers debating the research on fungal networks described in Finding the Mother Tree and The Hidden Lives of Trees.
Fiction
Short Stories
Non-Fiction
A Prayer for the Crown Shy [novel] by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built Book [novel] by Becky Chambers
A Canticle for Leibowitz [novel] by Walter M. Miller Jr
Dune [novel] by Frank Herbert
The Parable of the Talents [novel] by Octavia Butler, sequel to The Parable of the Sower
Good Omens [novel] by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Good Omens has also been adapted in a mini-series, available on Amazon Prime and from the Seattle Public Library.
The Parable of the Sower [novel] by Octavia Butler
Wild Seed [novel] by Octavia Butler
The Lathe of Heaven [novel] by Ursula LeGuin
The Sparrow [novel] by Maria Doria Russell–second half
The Sparrow [novel] by Maria Doria Russell–first half