Wild Book Club
We’re positive that Wild Book Club wins the most fun and enlightening book-discussion-group award. Once or twice a season, we read a nature-based work of fiction or non-fiction, and gather in the woods around a campfire to talk about it (except when the weather sends us inside). Wild Book Club is free, for women, 90 minutes on a weekday afternoon.
Wild Book Club: Wednesday May 17, 3:30-5:00pm
We’re reading The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, a short, exquisitely written natural history/memoir by Elisabeth Tova Bailey that recounts her year-long observations of a wild Maine woodland snail. You’ll fall in amazed love with snails, we promise.
As Bailey writes:
“A snail has an interesting life; its courtship is remarkable, its various natural abilities are astounding, it has a memory, and, just like humans, it likes a comfortable place to sleep and very good food.”
Location is Tes's house: 138 Calkins Cross Road, New Marlborough. Weather permitting, we'll walk 5 minutes down the road into the woods to meet around our campfire.
Wild Book Club is free. For women. Bring your friends.
Also bring paper and pen, and a camp chair or blanket to sit on.
And you’re welcome to bring food and drink.
Please RSVP to let us know you’re interested and we'll be in touch with any weather-related updates as May 17 approaches.
Previously read for Wild Book Club:
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis
Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
Wesley The Owl: The Remarkable Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacy O’Brien
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst by Catherine Reid
TESTIMONIALS
“Wild Book Club is a special gathering of women (often at the edge of the forest around a campfire with shared treats) who enjoy exploring together books related to the natural world. Every circle is a combination of new and old friends that adds variety, new insights, experiences and strengthens a powerful and growing network. The discussions are lively, thought-.provoking and always a time to reconnect to nature and our place in this magical world.”