Our next Wild Book Club is Friday November 15, 3:30 to 5pm.
We’re reading Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler, which “is more than ‘a back to the land’ memoir; it is a spiritual autobiography of a women in relationship with the earth in all its power,” says Terry Tempest Williams (author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place).
The expression woodsqueer is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. In our book’s case, the author and her partner move from Alaska to create home in rural Maine.
Location is Tes's house: 138 Calkins Cross Road, New Marlborough. Most likely we’ll meet in Tes’s living room around her indoor fire. 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 if the weather is surprisingly warm.
Please RSVP to let us know you’re interested, and we'll be in touch with any updates as Nov 15 approaches.
“A gorgeous collection of essays about the author's relationships with wild and domesticated animals, plants, her partner, her family and her own deepest, rawest self. The writing is full of heart, curiosity, humility and humor. Highly recommended.” —KDS
“I learned so much about plants, animals, farming, hunting, growing, and many other aspects of the outdoors through Gretchen's first-hand life-long experience. I also learned about interpersonal relationships and being vulnerable in a way that allowed me to think deeply, which I was not expecting.”
