Leafing Through the Pages – 2007

What are your reading plans for 2007? Imagine a year filled with butterflies, the Limberlost, Teddy Roosevelt, Darwin, Katharine S. White, Leopold and Linnaeus! The Sterling Morton Library's book discussion group, Leafing Through the Pages, will be reading and discussing a host of authors, ideas and topics in the coming year.

• January 11, 2007 - Halpern, Sue. Four wings and a prayer : caught in the mystery of the monarch butterflies, 2001.
• February 8, 2007 - Blunt, Wilfrid. Linnaeus : the compleat naturalist, 1971.
• March 8, 2007 - Stratton-Porter, Gene. A girl of the Limberlost, first published in 1909 with a jillion reprints.
• April 12, 2007 - Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change, 2006.
• May 10, 2007 - Darwin, Charles. The voyage of the Beagle, first published in 1839.
• June 14, 2007- Louv, Richard. Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder, 2006.
• July 12, 2007 - White, Katharine S. and Elizabeth Lawrence. Two gardeners : Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence : a friendship in letters, 2002.
• August 9, 2007 - Newton, Julianne Lutz. Aldo Leopold's odyssey : rediscovering the author of a Sand County Almanac, 2006.
• September 13, 2007 - Millard, Candice. The river of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey, 2005.
• October 11, 2007 - Tudge, Colin. The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter, 2006.
• November 8, 2007 - Maloof, Joan. Teaching the trees : lessons from the forest, 2005.
• December 13, 2007 - Pollan, Michael. Second nature : a gardener's education, 1991.

The group meets the second Thursday of each month from 10-12 in the Sterling Morton Library. Join us at an upcoming gathering for a morning of spirited discussion and surprising ideas. Not able to join us? Please read along and participate in the Leafing Through the Pages wiki found at: http://leafingthroughthepages.pbwiki.com.

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Jorge Luis Borges