Virtual Book Club… next meeting January 19

by | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog | 14 comments

Blue Hills Book Club 

For our winter book, you have the opportunity to read and discuss All We Can Save, edited by Katharine K. Wilkinson and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.  For the discussion, you can read any of the provocative and illuminating essays in the book, written by women at the forefront of the climate movement.  Register for the virtual Book Club gathering.  

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, January 19, 4:30 pm
Register here

Description of: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on each other or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions, to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, this book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save.

Purchase the book at bookshop.org, borrow it from your local library, or look for it on Amazon or Audible.

To learn more about how climate is affecting us locally in Massachusetts and the Blue Hills, you can also join us for our winter lecture series, Our Climate Crisis: Research and Opportunities for Action.   

Questions?  Email us at info@FriendsoftheBlueHills.org.

Previously Read (and recommended!)

The Unlikely Thru-Hiker by Derick Lugo

Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land, by John Hanson Mitchell

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, by R. A. Scotti

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit, by Michael Finkel 

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

14 Comments

  1. Charlene Mac Donald on June 3, 2020 at 7:17 am

    Good afternoon,

    Happy June!

    May I attend the book club session on June 11th?

    Thanks so much!

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on June 3, 2020 at 11:46 am

      For sure! So glad you’d like to join us. I believe I just sent you the Zoom link via email. If you don’t receive it, let me know.

  2. Jane Taylor on June 3, 2020 at 6:53 am

    Read this some years back, it was a good read, worth the time.

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on June 3, 2020 at 11:47 am

      Jane,

      Thanks so much for the plug! Hope you can join us on the 11th!

      Judy

  3. Pat Yingling on May 11, 2020 at 7:39 am

    Can’t wait to read this — social isolation as a choice!

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on May 11, 2020 at 7:44 am

      Good point!

  4. Nancy Whyte Sherman on May 11, 2020 at 3:45 am

    Looking forward to the discussion.

  5. Abby on May 10, 2020 at 12:45 pm

    Just sent to two other friends with whom i had recently shared this book. My friend Susan said it had relevance to our current hibernation. Looking forward to it!

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on May 11, 2020 at 4:36 am

      Awesome! we’re looking forward to reading it too!

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on May 15, 2020 at 3:50 am

      Abby, Thanks for spreading the word! We weren’t thinking about the hibernation piece as similar to our current situation, but… good perspective!

  6. Jack Kennedy on April 13, 2020 at 7:11 am

    Looking forward to all things Blue Hills.

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on April 13, 2020 at 7:12 am

      Awesome! 😀

  7. Janine Mudge on April 12, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    Looking forward to this book group

    • Friends of the Blue Hills on April 12, 2020 at 1:11 pm

      We’re so glad you’re interested!